Google Tabletop Offers Shared AI Planning Tools for Collaborative Groups

Gadgets & Devices


TL;DR

  • 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.

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.