Your partner is at work, your contractor is across town, and the design is on your screen. Invite them into it: they watch every change as you make it, point at what they mean and talk it through on a call — and nobody overwrites anybody.
Most kitchen designs are argued over in screenshots. One person draws, takes a picture and sends it to a group chat, and by the time the contractor replies “move the one on the left” the design has moved on and nobody is sure which left they meant. There is a better way: put both of you in the same design at the same time. One of you drives, everyone else watches the changes land as they are made, and the conversation happens on top of the drawing instead of around it.
Save the design, click 👥 Contacts on the 2D tool strip and press Invite beside the person. They get a message with an Open the design button and arrive as a watcher: they see every change you make, live, with your mouse on their screen. Hand over lets them drive, and as the owner you can Take back at any time. Chat, voice messages and a voice call for up to six people sit in the same panel. You both need a free account — guests cannot invite or be invited — and the invite link works for thirty minutes.
Every saved design has an ID and a share link, and it is natural to paste the link into a message and assume the other person will see what you see. Usually they will not. A design is private to the account that saved it, and the link opens only for people who are allowed in:
Everyone else is stopped at the door. Someone who is not signed in is asked to sign in, and a signed-in stranger sees Not authorized to view this project. That is deliberate: a kitchen plan is the layout of your home, and a link that has been forwarded twice should not open it. So when the link fails for your contractor, nothing is broken — they need an invitation, or a PDF.
Only the owner of a design can invite people into it. If you opened a design someone else owns, the panel tells you so instead of listing your contacts.
With the design open in 2D, click 👥 on the tool strip, next to the 📍 comment button. The left panel opens with three tabs — 💬 Chat, 👥 Contacts and 🖼 Album — and the Contacts tab lists your book. Press Invite beside a name.
The same live session switches on by itself whenever two people who already have access open the same saved design — you and a designer you hired, or simply you on a laptop and a tablet at once. No invitation is needed for that.
Two people dragging the same cabinet in different directions is how designs get wrecked, so there is always exactly one operator. Whoever opened the design first operates; everyone who arrives later watches. A bar across the top says who is doing what: You’re operating with the names of the people watching on the operator’s screen, and the operator’s name on everyone else’s.
While other people are in the design, a few things belong to the operator alone: saving, rendering photos, and running AI Design or AI Suggestion. Anything that rewrites the whole design or spends coins has one person’s name on it.
Half of every design conversation is pointing. The operator’s mouse appears on everyone’s screen as an open hand that closes into a fist while it drags. It is placed in the design’s own coordinates rather than the screen’s, so it sits on the same cabinet whatever each person’s zoom — in the plan, in 3D and in the elevations.
Watchers get a pointer of their own. Press 🔦 Point and the operator is asked to allow it; the owner does not have to ask. Then click to drop a “look here” ripple, or drag to circle something — the mark fades after a few seconds. A pointer only points. It cannot move or change anything.
Let the person who knows the room best drive. A contractor who has been on site will spot the wall that is really 3/4″ shorter, the vent where an upper is meant to go, the dishwasher with no room for its door. Hand them control, watch, and point; take it back when it is your turn to decide.
A call ends; the list of things to change should not. The 📍 button in 2D, 3D and the elevations pins a comment — typed, or a voice note with Hold to talk — to the exact spot it is about, and every pin goes on the design’s shared Comments & to-do list.
The 🖼 Album tab collects every render of the design, whoever made it, for everyone in the design to see and download. Whoever renders uses their own coins, and the album keeps the latest 300.
A live session saves the operator’s work for you — whenever control changes hands, and thirty seconds after the last change. While two or more people are in a design, nobody can overwrite it from a separate copy; that save is refused with a note to ask for control in the bar at the top. Two moments still need a decision from you:
When the last other person leaves, the bar says Everyone else left — back to editing on your own, and the planner behaves exactly as it did before.
Not everyone wants an account to look at a kitchen — a parent, a countertop shop, a condo board. Two things work for them:
The chat belongs to the design: it is kept for up to a year after its last message and deleted with the design. Voice calls are not recorded. Chat lines are translated by an AI translation service and the result is cached, so the same line is not sent twice; the privacy policy lists the services involved. Your mouse and pointer are shown only to the people in the design while you are in it.
Yes. In the Flip Kitchen planner, open a saved design, click the Contacts button on the 2D tool strip and invite someone from your contacts. They see every change live, with your mouse on their screen. One person operates at a time and the others watch; the owner can hand over control or take it back whenever they like.
Add them as a contact in Community, then open the saved design, click Contacts on the 2D tool strip and press Invite next to their name. They get a message with an Open the design button and watch your changes live. If they do not want an account, export a PDF of the drawings and send that instead.
Because a saved design is private. The share link only opens for you, a pro you hired through Community, a contact you invited into the design, or anyone once the design is published to the gallery. Invite them from the Contacts panel, or send them the PDF from Export.
Yes, a free one: Google, Apple or a code sent to their email. Guest sessions have no contacts book, so a guest can neither invite nor be invited. They also need to accept your contact request and to have signed in to Flip Kitchen once.
Only if you let them. Invited people arrive as watchers: they can look around in 2D, 3D and the elevations, but any change they try is put back. If you hand them control they can edit, and their changes are saved to your design; as the owner you can take control back at any moment.
You cannot: there is one operator and everyone else watches. If you had made changes on your own before someone else opened the design, the planner asks whether to save yours as a copy or drop them and join. The session saves when control changes hands and thirty seconds after the last change.
Yes. The chat panel inside the design takes text and voice messages of up to two minutes, and during a live session a voice call lets up to six people talk while they look. The browser asks for the microphone only when you join the call, and calls are not recorded.
Yes. Each person reads other people’s messages in the language their planner is set to, English, Chinese or French, with Original and Translation buttons to flip between them.
No. Inviting, watching, chat, voice messages, calls and comment pins are free for every account. The only thing that uses coins is rendering photos, and whoever renders uses their own.
Ten minutes in the same design replaces a week of screenshots — and the decisions end up in the drawing, not in a chat thread nobody can find.
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