# Sharing Designs

There are two ways to share your designs:

1. **Share** — Control who has access, get comments on your design, collaborate with teammates
2. **Publish** — The pure website without the Magic Patterns toolbar, mostly commonly used for use cases that require actual control of what’s “live”

**Best practice**: use the share link by default! The share link can be made public by clicking on “Who Has Access” > “Anyone with Link”.

Click on the Share button in the editor navbar when you want to control who has access, collaborate with teammates or get feedback. The share link supports [inline commenting](/content/docs/documentation/collaboration/inline-comments/index.html). To share, click **Share** in the editor navbar. The share panel lets you:

- Control who has access to the design
- Share the link with teammates
- Enable [inline commenting](/content/docs/documentation/collaboration/inline-comments/index.html)

## Publish

Use Publish when you want to control the version you are sharing. Publishing is often used in conjunction with [using a custom publish URL](/content/docs/documentation/publishing/publish-url/index.html) or [hosting on a custom domain](/content/docs/documentation/get-started/custom-domain/index.html).

1. Click **Publish** in the editor navbar. Here you can configure metadata (favicon, social preview) and enable password protection.
   
   
2. Grab the live link or create a custom publish link.

Copy the live link to share your published site, or set a custom website address and connect your own domain. Read more about [using a custom publish URL](/content/docs/documentation/publishing/publish-url/index.html) or [hosting on a custom domain](/content/docs/documentation/get-started/custom-domain/index.html).

### The Default “Live” URL

By default, every Magic Patterns design comes with a “live” URL. This is the URL that is always updated and does not include the Magic Patterns toolbar. You can get to this link by either going to:

- [The Publish panel](/content/docs/documentation/editor/sharing#publish/index.html)
- Clicking the “Open in new window” button in the editor navbar

## Collaborating on a Canvas

Read about sharing on the [Canvas](/content/docs/documentation/projects/how-to-share/index.html) for more information.

## Video Guide

This topic is covered in our video lesson [Figma Imports](/content/docs/documentation/guide/figma-imports/index.html).

[Import Existing Designs into this AI Design Tool  Magic Patterns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1lg-WHYwAc)

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