Questions, answered

A free, real-time editor for documents made of pages: articles you write like a doc, slide decks you present, and infographics and posters for print or social. Every document is a stack of tabs, each holding its pages, and your team can work on any of them with you live.

No. Open the editor and start straight away, with no sign-up. Your work saves in your browser as you go, and pressing Share puts it online for others to join. Signing in (also free) keeps your documents with you across devices and unlocks teams, API tokens and the AI connection. See guest vs account.

Press Start and choose what you are making: an article, a slide deck or an infographic. Begin from a blank page or one of 23 templates, and a short tour offers to show you round.

It runs in any modern browser, with nothing to install. A laptop, desktop or tablet gives you the full editor. Small phone screens are best for reading, presenting and light edits. See supported devices.

Plenty. Cmd-Z (or Ctrl-Z) undoes and Cmd-Shift-Z redoes, Cmd-K opens the command palette for any action, and single keys pick tools. The keyboard essentials article lists them all.

Yes. The canvas is a stop in the Tab order: move through its elements and edit them with the keyboard, and screen readers announce what is selected. See accessibility.

Yes. Choose Light, Dark or System from the Appearance button, and one choice covers the editor and the help centre alike. See dark mode.

Yes. Every feature is free for everyone, with no paid tier, no trial and no plan to introduce one. If we ship it, every user gets it.

Yes. The whole codebase is MIT-licensed and public on GitHub. You can read it, fork it, or contribute.

No. There are no "Pro" features and no billing anywhere in the code. Every feature ships to every user.

Articles, project briefs and reports, slide decks and keynotes, posters, one-pagers and social posts, infographics and data stories, résumés and recipe cards, storyboards and a to-scale floor plan. Pages hold shapes, text, pictures, icons, tables and charts.

23 starter templates across 2 categories, and twenty-four themes that recolour every page in one click, including dark and multi-colour schemes. On top of the templates, a page starts from 92 infographic layouts or 61 slide layouts. You can also build and save a colour scheme of your own.

Yes. Write an article straight onto pages: Markdown shortcuts, a / menu for every block, and clean paste from web pages, Google Docs and Word. Writing flows onto new pages as it grows, pictures, charts and tables sit in the text, and teammates comment on the words themselves. Pick one of five looks, then export every page as a PDF. See Articles.

Yes. Add 16:9 or 4:3 slide pages, each started from one of 61 layouts, and present the deck full screen. Any page can join the deck, from any tab. Each slide can carry presenter notes and a time budget, and a laser pointer and spotlight help you guide the room. Presenting happens on your screen only, so collaborators carry on working. See slide pages.

Yes. Lay out pages in print sizes (A4, US Letter, A3) or social sizes, starting from one of 92 layouts, and export them print-ready as PDF, PNG or SVG. See working with pages.

Yes. A document holds as many tabs as you need, which you can group into folders, and a Contents sidebar lists every page with a picture of it. Your documents live in nested folders in the Explorer, shown as a list, as cards or as a sortable Details table, with favourites and tags to find them again. Drag a document onto a folder to file it.

Yes. Upload an image once and reuse it from your gallery, or search Openverse for an openly licensed photo or illustration without leaving the editor. See images.

Yes. Add a table and paste cells straight in from a spreadsheet, or place a pie, bar or line chart, a progress bar, a rating or a timeline on a page. See data elements.

Yes. Press Cmd-Z (or Ctrl-Z) to step back your recent edits and Cmd-Shift-Z to bring one back; the buttons also sit in the bottom-right corner. Undo is personal, so it rewinds your own changes, not a teammate’s; if you both changed the same element, it puts that element back as you had it.

Deleted documents wait in the Trash for 30 days before they are removed for good, so you can restore them from the Trash in the Explorer or in Settings › Account. Team documents go to their team’s Trash.

Yes, that is the point. Share a link and teammates join the same document in real time, with live cursors, selection rings, presence on each tab, comments and a laser pointer. If you have not signed in, a new document starts in your browser, and the first Share syncs it in one step.

Every change shows up for everyone live. Edits to different elements merge cleanly. If two people change the same element at the same moment, the most recent change is the one that sticks.

Yes. Comment on anything on a page, or on the words of an article, and reply in threads, then resolve them when they are done. You can also attach an action and assign it to a teammate, so the follow-ups stay with the document instead of getting lost.

Yes, once you sign in. Teams belong to your liveworkspace account: choose Manage Teams in the Explorer to make one and invite people by email, and every team gets a shared library of livedocuments documents in its own space. Admins manage the team, Members just get to work. See teams.

Yes. Open Collaborators from the avatars on the tab bar and press Follow beside a teammate: your view goes wherever theirs goes, until you move away yourself. See following along.

Yes. Lock it from the tab’s menu and every page on it becomes read-only until someone unlocks it, with a padlock beside its name. You can also lock single elements or whole layers. See locking a tab.

Your Inbox gathers the actions and comment threads waiting on you across every document, and Home shows what other people did while you were away. Once you sign in, emails can tell you too, and you choose which in Settings. See the Inbox.

From a document you own, create an editor link (full edit access) or a view-only link. Anyone with the link can join. Give a link an expiry of a week, a month or six months so it stops working on its own, or revoke it at any time and it stops working immediately.

Yes. Add a password in the Share dialog and every link to that document asks for it before opening.

Yes. When a document has more than one tab, the Share dialog lets a link open a single tab, as an editor or view-only link, and the rest of the document stays private. See sharing one tab.

Yes. Any share link can be embedded as a live-updating iframe: an editor link embeds an editable document, and a view-only link a read-only one. Copy the snippet from the Share dialog and paste it into Notion, Confluence, a wiki or any page that allows iframes; it always shows the current state of the pages.

Yes. A live image is a plain image URL that follows your document, redrawn after each save, so a GitHub README or a doc always shows the current version. See live images.

Yes. livedocuments runs an MCP server at mcp.livedocuments.app. Connect a compatible AI tool and, after a one-time authorisation, it can find, read, create and edit the documents in your account, including writing articles, building slide decks and laying out infographics. Its changes appear live for anyone on the tab, outlined so you can see them and undo them. Build with AI walks you through connecting Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more.

Yes. Once you sign in, make an API token from Settings › Account › API Tokens (tokens belong to your liveworkspace account) and call the livedocuments REST API to read and change your documents, tabs and pages from scripts, CI or anything that can send a header. See the API overview.

Yes. Install it from npm as @livedocuments/cli (or run it with npx). It signs in through your browser and can read, edit, create, share and export documents from your terminal, which makes it handy for scripts and coding agents.

Yes. Export pages as PNG, SVG, one print-ready PDF or an animated GIF, and any tab as a portable JSON file to import back with full fidelity. Hidden layers stay out of image exports unless you switch them on.

Yes. Paste into an article from web pages, Google Docs and Word and it keeps its headings, lists and links. Through the MCP server, the CLI or the API, an AI assistant or a script can write an article from Markdown.

Documents saved to your account are stored in our database on Cloudflare, and documents in This Browser stay in your browser. There are no tracking pixels, no advertising and no third-party analytics. We do record anonymous, first-party usage (which features get used, never your content or name) and show it openly on our telemetry page. See the privacy policy for the details.

Yes. Offline Mode saves a document only in your browser, never on our servers. Until you sign in, new documents start that way; after, you can choose it when you create one. Either way you can switch later. See Offline Mode.

A document kept only in your browser goes with it, so share it or sign in first. Share syncs a document online in one step, and after you sign in livedocuments offers to move every browser-only document into your account. Documents saved to your account are never touched. See Offline Mode.

Yes. Every change saves on its own, with a status that shows saving, saved or a problem. Close the tab and reload, and your document comes back exactly as you left it.

Delete any document you own at any time, and delete your account and everything in it yourself from your account settings. See deleting your data.

Try reloading first. If it still will not open, the editor offers to repair this browser’s saved state without touching your documents. The troubleshooting guide walks through every step.

The liveworkspace status page checks each of livedocuments’s services from your browser while you watch, beside the services every app shares.

It is built in the open by Tom McClean and Webber, with contributions welcome on GitHub.

Use the contact page, or send us a message through the contact form. Bug reports and ideas are welcome on GitHub too.