Lovable Adds Custom Publish Audiences
LovableOn Business and Enterprise plans, publishing a Lovable app now supports a Custom audience option: builders can combine specific workspace groups, individual members, and people outside the workspace invited by email, instead of choosing only between "whole workspace" and "public." The feature builds on Lovable's existing Groups feature, including SCIM sync from identity providers.
Key Takeaways
- A new Custom publish audience option lets builders combine workspace groups, individual members, and outside emails into one access list.
- Available on Business and Enterprise plans, replacing the previous all-or-nothing whole-workspace/public choice for those teams.
- Audience changes are saved as a draft and only take effect, including sending invite emails, when the app is actually published.
- The feature builds on Lovable's Groups capability, including SCIM-based group sync from identity providers like Okta and Azure AD.
- It pairs with the same-window workspace identity reuse update: one feature gates who can access an app, the other removes friction once they're let in.
- Targets apps meant for a specific slice of stakeholders, such as internal tools, client portals, and partner-only apps.
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Publishing Gets Precise Access Control
When publishing an app on a Business or Enterprise plan, you can now choose Custom to compose the exact audience allowed to access it: workspace groups, individual members, and people outside your workspace invited by email, all in one publish action. Previously, publish access was largely an all-or-nothing choice between the whole workspace and public visibility.
How It Works
Audience edits save as a draft first and only take effect once you hit Publish (or Publish changes on an already-published project), at which point Lovable updates access and sends any invite emails to newly added people.
Why It Matters
This gives teams finer-grained control over who can see a published app: a private internal tool can stay scoped to one department's group plus a couple of named individuals, while an external client or contractor can be added by email without being invited into the workspace itself. It builds directly on Lovable's Groups feature, which already lets admins organize members and sync group membership from identity providers like Okta or Azure AD via SCIM, letting that same group structure gate app-level access.