Control project access
You can control who sees and works on your Lovable projects in the editor, separate from who can see your published app. By default, new projects are only visible to people in your workspace, but you can make them more private or share them with specific individuals.
Anyone building a project who needs to decide who can see, edit, or copy their work.
Do this, in order
- 1
When creating a new project, choose 'Restricted' access if you only want yourself and invited people to see it initially.
This keeps your project private for early work or personal experiments before sharing it more widely.
- 2
For an existing project, click the 'Share' button in the top bar.
This opens the settings where you can change who has access to your project.
- 3
Invite specific people or groups and assign them roles (like 'can view' or 'can edit').
This lets you precisely control who can do what with your project in the editor.
- 4
To let others make their own copy of your project, go to 'Project settings' then 'Sharing' and enable 'Public remixing'.
This allows anyone with the project link to create their own version without changing your original project.
Paste this into your project
I want to control who can see and edit my Lovable project. How do I change the project access settings for an existing project, and how can I allow others to make their own copy of it?
Words decoded
- Project access (editor access)
- This controls who can see and change your project files, chat history, and work-in-progress inside the Lovable editor.
- Website access (published URL access)
- This controls who can visit your app once it's published and live on the internet.
- Workspace
- A shared area where a team or group of people can collaborate on projects.
- Remix
- To make a copy of someone else's project so you can change it and make it your own, without affecting their original project.
Where people get stuck
- Don't confuse project access (who can edit your project) with website access (who can see your live app); they are separate settings.
- Remember that workspace owners can always see and edit all projects within their workspace, regardless of individual project settings.
- If you enable public remixing, anyone can see your project's source code in their copy, so don't include sensitive information like passwords or API keys.
- Changing project access does not automatically change who can visit your published app, and vice versa.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.