- Group Planning: Google’s Tabletop experiment uses AI to build interactive tools that groups can use together.
- Tool Changes: A request makes a seating chart’s guest badges movable between tables in Google’s demo.
- Access Limits: Google plans weekly admissions through a waitlist for U.S. adults.
- App Alternative: Google’s Gemini Canvas also generates shareable apps and games in countries and languages supported by Gemini.
Google is testing Tabletop, an AI experiment that builds interactive planning tools from a group’s links, files and ideas. Friends, families and clubs can use those tools together in one online space, whether they are choosing dinner or organizing a trip.
The Google Labs project was introduced on November 11 and is rolling out through a waitlist for U.S. users aged 18 and older.
How Groups Build and Change Tools
Inside a Tabletop space, a request to the built-in @tabletop assistant, or a choice from its starter templates, generates the tool. Google’s examples include dinner polls, expense splitters and tournament brackets.
A space’s invitation link can be dropped into an existing group chat, bringing participants into the same tool for simultaneous use.
In Google’s office-party demonstration, a guest ends up seated next to the boss. A request to the assistant changes the seating chart so name badges can be dragged between tables.
🚨 NEW LABS EXPERIMENT 🚨
Introducing Tabletop 🎲— our newest experiment built to get your crew from “we should totally do that” to “we’re actually doing this.”
Drop links and files into one shared space, add your crew, and ask @Tabletop for whatever you need to create custom… pic.twitter.com/yuCuntt4Pu
— Google Labs (@GoogleLabs) November 11, 2026
From Prompt-Built Apps to Shared Planning
In December 2025, GenTabs, a feature in Google’s Disco browser experiment, built interactive web apps from open tabs and chat history. Tabletop applies that sort of tool-building to material collected for a group and gives the group a shared place to use the result.
For people who want to create and share a lightweight app, Gemini Canvas generates apps and games from a description. Its examples include a quiz shared with friends and family by link. Canvas is available to Gemini users across the service’s supported countries and languages, while Tabletop begins with restricted waitlist access.
Who Can Request Access
Joining the Tabletop waitlist requires a personal Gmail address. Google plans to admit more people each week. Google has not announced pricing or a timetable for access outside the U.S.
