Collaborate live

Once a project is published, you can bring other people in. Editing is genuinely simultaneous: two people (or ten) can work on the same canvas at once and see each other move.

Inviting people

You invite from Settings, in the Sharing tab, under Access. Only the owner can invite.

• Who: an email address or a Brilliant @handle.

• As what: a viewer (can look, inspect, and copy things out) or an editor (can change the design).

A pending invite expires after 14 days if it is not accepted. Invites are bound to the person you sent them to, so forwarding one to someone else grants them nothing. Role changes take effect right away.

Editing together

Everyone edits at the same time. Changes land element by element, so two people touching different parts of the canvas never block each other, and when two edits race on the same element, the last one wins.

You can see who else is around:

• Presence avatars show who is in the project.

• Colored cursors show where each person is working.

• Presence sharing is on by default for editors and owners. Toggle it off if you would rather not broadcast your cursor, and set yourself Away to drop off the roster entirely.

Collaborating on private projects

On a public project, collaboration has no strings: invite anyone as an editor and they can edit.

On a private project, editing is a paid capability on the invitee's side too. If you invite someone to edit private work and they are on the Free plan, they get view-only access plus a hint to upgrade, until they do. This keeps the private-work-is-paid line consistent for everyone involved, not just the owner. See Plans and billing.

Share links vs. invites

Invites are for named people with roles. Share links are for showing private work to someone without inviting them.

A share link is a short, read-only brilliant.design/s/… URL that anyone can open, no account needed. It works only on private projects, since a public project is already open to anyone with its link. The link stays live until you revoke it. Creating share links is a paid feature. Use one for a quick look; use an invite when you want someone to keep coming back or to edit.

Sharing a drop

A drop is a snapshot, not a live canvas, so its sharing is simpler than a project's. You reach it from the drop's Settings tab, under Sharing.

• Roles are viewer only. Invite people by email and they can open the drop and read its comments, but a drop has no editor role at all: nobody but you can change it. This is the one place drops differ from projects, which do have editors.

• Share links are for private drops only. A drop's share link is the same view-only brilliant.design/s/… URL a project uses, for showing a private drop to someone without an account. On a public drop it is refused, because a public drop's own address already opens for everyone. Minting share links is a paid feature, exactly as it is on projects.

• Private drops are Pro. Making a drop private is part of a paid plan, the same private-work-is-paid line as projects. See Plans and billing.

• Renaming redirects the old address. Changing a drop's name moves its address; links to the old one keep redirecting until you reuse that name.

Watching a public project

Anyone can open a public project and watch it live, even signed out. If the owner or a collaborator is editing, an anonymous visitor sees the changes stream in and shows up in presence with a friendly auto-generated name. Guests can watch but never write. People who arrive through a read-only share link watch invisibly, with no presence.

When someone is inside a project, its card carries a small live badge with a count of who is there, so you can tell at a glance which projects have activity right now.

Next

• Understand what streams and when: How sync works.

• Set who can see the project at all: Publish a project.

• See why private collaboration is paid: Plans and billing.