Google tests Tabletop, an AI tool for custom group apps

Tabletop has visual similarities to workplace coordination apps such as Asana and Monday, but adds an AI feature for creating personalized tools by describing what users need. Examples include savings trackers, chore charts, event plans and tournament brackets.

“Just add in your links, files and ideas, then prompt @tabletop — or pick a starter template — to generate custom interactive trip itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters and tournament brackets,” Google Labs design and engineering lead Roman Nurik said in a blog post. Once a space is ready, he said, users can share an invite link in a group chat so everyone can work in it at the same time, as they would in a Google Doc.

Access to the beta is rolling out through a waitlist and is currently limited to people over 18 in the US. Some examples in Nurik’s video appear to involve children or teenagers, though the source gives no indication that they can currently join. The age restriction may apply only during public testing. Tabletop’s family-planning uses could offer an alternative to workplace-oriented software, the article suggests.