Google Labs opens a US waitlist for Tabletop

Tabletop is Google Labs’ newest experiment: a shared space where a group can plan, vote and build simple tools together. You drop links, files and ideas into a space, ask @tabletop (or pick a starter template) to build the interactive bits, then send an invite link so everyone can use the same space at once, the way they would a Google Doc.

Tabletop is an invite-only Google Labs experiment, rolling out in the United States to people aged 18 or over through a waitlist at labs.google/tabletop. The product site says new tables are opening every week. A later post from Google Labs on X puts the same waitlist details next to a few of the tools it has in mind: interactive road-trip maps, dinner-decider wheels, live pickleball brackets, merch voting boards and drag-and-drop seating charts.

🚨 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 spaces on the fly:

🗺️ Interactive road trip maps & dinner-decider wheels
🏆 Live pickleball brackets & merch voting boards
🪑 Drag-and-drop seating charts (so you don’t get stuck next to your boss)

Pull up a chair and join the waitlist (US, 18+): labs.google/tabletop
— Google Labs (@GoogleLabs) November 11, 2026

How a space is put together

The official Tabletop FAQ describes each space as a project: a trip, an event, a house share, a study group, or some other shared effort. Inside it are three parts. Chat is a live thread where the group can talk, send voice notes and mention @tabletop. Tabs are small interactive apps, generated by the assistant, that everyone in the space can use at the same time. Space Context is a shared pile of files, links and the assistant’s memories for that space, so the group and the model are working from the same details.

Once your space is ready, drop the invite link in your group chat to let everyone jump in and use it at the same time, like in a Google Doc.
Roman Nurik, Google Labs

Roman Nurik, design and engineering lead at Google Labs, writes in the 11 November launch blog that you can start from a prompt or a template, then generate custom trip itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters and tournament brackets. On the product page, that same path is three steps: tell @tabletop what the group is trying to do, drop a link into the chat, then vote, plan and track the details in one place. Nothing has to stay as it was first built. The page says you can ask @tabletop “to tweak a rule, reshape a tab, or build something new on the spot.”

Tabs are more than a fixed list of widgets. The FAQ says they can be polls, checklists, countdown timers, games, soundboards or prediction markets, and that you can change them by asking the assistant, using Edit Tab, or editing the code directly. @tabletop is also there as a general assistant: it can answer questions, brainstorm, summarise a conversation, or generate and edit tabs.

The examples Google is showing

The Tabletop site groups those starting points into a few familiar messes. Under trip planning, a Santa Fe road-trip demo maps a route, collects votes on roadside stops, splits a shared budget and adds a dinner-decider wheel. For clubs and leagues, a Mid-City Pickleball Club space is shown with a live roster, a tournament bracket, a shirt poll and a custom mini-game; Google Labs’ launch video also walks through snack duty, a gear swap and a training schedule in that same club space. Parties and events get venue voting, catering trackers and interactive seating charts. Home and family examples include weekly meals, a chore chart that can be turned into a game, school pick-up schedules and shared research on a big purchase. For projects and study, the site points to exam prep, a volunteer cleanup and a workplace launch plan.

Who can get in, and what stays in the space

The FAQ says Tabletop is currently available to users in the United States. The blog, the waitlist page and the sign-in screens are more specific: it is a US, 18-and-over waitlist. Work and school Google accounts are not accepted yet; you have to sign in with a personal account. If someone already in a space shares an invite, accepting it can skip the waitlist. You can’t use your own invite link to get yourself off the list, and an invite can fail if the sender is out of invites or the space is full. Spaces can also be locked with a password.

By default, a space is visible only to the person who created it. It stays limited to people who have actually joined, though admins can change the invitation settings. You can also make private tabs and side threads for a subset of members. Tabletop AI’s memory is scoped to that space, and does not build a profile of you across spaces. Any member can view, edit or clear those memories from the Space Context panel. If you leave, or an admin removes you, you lose access straight away; messages, tabs and files you added, and have not deleted, stay behind for everyone else. If you are the last person to leave, the space is deleted. Admins can also delete a space and everything in it at any time. The FAQ’s advice is to use Tabletop with people you know and trust, and not to put sensitive information into a space unless you trust the other members. A manual export of your data can be requested at [email protected].

Settings in the product include a control for AI model training. The copy says that, unless you turn it off, Google may use your future Tabletop conversations and data to train its generative AI models. Switching it off excludes your current spaces and any you join while it remains off; turning it back on later can put new spaces you join into training, while spaces from the off period stay excluded. One person opting out is enough: training then stops for the whole space. Those notices also warn that Tabletop can get things wrong, so its answers shouldn’t be treated as medical, legal, financial or other professional advice. It may also connect to external services or products when you ask it to.