Everything we've shipped in Kolab, newest first. 204 updates since March 2025.
Tools · Sep 25
Facilitators can upload a video from the tools menu and play it on the board or as a tool. Everyone watches in sync, or you can unlink it so people watch at their own pace.
Facilitation · Sep 25
Turn on "Show everyone my view" for the active tool, and the room follows as you open it in a panel, maximized, or in focus. Anyone can still resize it for themselves.
Read the guide →Interactives · Sep 16
Let an interactive fill your whole browser window, with video and your mic and camera controls floating alongside. Only your view changes.
Read the guide →Interactives · Sep 15
Interactives are now open to every team. Ask Kola or your AI assistant to build live mini-apps like polls, sorters and games right inside your session.
Read the guide →Canvas · Sep 11
Open a photo round and everyone sees a QR code. Scan it, snap a sketch or worksheet, and the photo lands on the canvas where you were looking.
Spaces & sharing · Sep 3
You can now schedule sessions from the Sessions tab. Home shows an "Up next" block with a live countdown and a Join button, and space cards show when each space meets next.
Tools · Sep 25
Slides, videos, embeds, and card decks can now fill your screen too. Faces stay hidden until you press the people button, which lights up with the name of whoever is speaking.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Sep 25
The avatar rail next to a tool now fits as many people as your window allows, and faces stay put while people talk. Someone new only swaps in after speaking for a moment.
Facilitation · Sep 25
Saving an agenda as a template now keeps its timers, prompts, breakouts, card decks, and interactives. They arrive fresh and ready in the space where you use the template.
AI & Kola · Sep 25
Kola now looks up how Kolab actually works before answering a how-to question, and can highlight the right control on screen instead of answering from memory.
Canvas · Sep 25
Find me now centers on where you actually are, instead of jumping back to the board's starting view.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Sep 25
Fixed-size canvases no longer overshoot their edges when you zoom or follow someone, pressing Enter submits forms in interactives, slide and card changes no longer pop a "Tool updated" notice, and interactive sync is a clear on/off switch.
Tools · Sep 24
Google Docs and Sheets embeds open in the editor again and keep the tab you linked. If your browser blocks in-frame editing, use "Open in Google".
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Sep 24
Locked elements now select in gray. Sharper spatial avatars. Moved breakout participants show up right away. Ambient audio fades with distance again. Renaming an agenda no longer crashes the space.
Recording & transcripts · Sep 19
Cloud recordings no longer stop early when a few people briefly lose their connection.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Sep 15
Every team now gets a history of past sessions, plus session analytics for owners and admins, from the Sessions tab.
Interactives · Sep 15
When two people change an interactive at the same moment, neither change is lost, and a slow connection can no longer roll it back to an older state.
Read the guide →Tools · Sep 13
In spatial and sidebar modes, maximize a tool to fill your screen. Only your view changes; press Esc to go back to the room.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Sep 12
Collapse the video column to a slim rail of round live avatars, giving tools and the canvas more room. Only your view changes, and audio keeps playing.
Canvas · Sep 11
Content pasted from Miro now keeps its stacking order, rotation, borders, corner rounding and text alignment.
Canvas · Sep 10
SVG files you upload or drop on the canvas now appear properly, at the right size, instead of as blank elements.
Read the guide →Interactives · Sep 9
A tool whose interactive is no longer linked now shows a "Not linked" badge in the Library and the agenda, and renaming the tool no longer breaks the link.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Sep 9
Pick a color for each space card from its menu, and rename any session from your dashboard.
Read the guide →Integrations & MCP · Sep 9
AI assistants connected through MCP can now see and reuse images you've uploaded to a board, and add new images, instead of falling back to placeholders.
Read the guide →Interactives · Sep 9
Kola and connected AI assistants can now read an interactive and make small edits, pre-fill its starting content, and change live values without wiping the room's work.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Sep 8
People no longer get stuck on "Asking to join" after a network blip, show up twice in the queue, or get let in after being declined.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Sep 8
Cursors, avatars and dragged elements now travel on a faster path, so large sessions feel more responsive and moving many elements at once stays in sync for everyone.
Facilitation · Sep 6
A soft chime plays when someone arrives at the waiting room (you can turn it off), a "Waiting room on" chip shows the door is guarded, and hold music is one click away in the queue.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Sep 6
Opening a space in a second tab no longer kicks you out of the first. If the other tab is stuck or hidden, choose "Use this tab instead" to move the session here.
Performance & reliability · Sep 6
Kolab now tells you when your connection has gone quiet, catches your canvas up on anything you missed after a reconnect, and rejoins on its own after a long drop.
Facilitation · Sep 4
Facilitators can now send announcements to people still in the waiting room, like "running ten minutes behind". Latecomers see the latest message when they arrive.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Sep 3
When someone @mentions you, the chat badge shows a count and a toast stays until you look. Drafts now survive closing chat, and Tab picks a mention.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Sep 1
If your connection drops briefly, Kolab rejoins you automatically. When your connection struggles, it offers Data Saver and pauses video you can't see.
Facilitation · Aug 28
Save an agenda as a template, reuse it in any space, and switch between several agendas in one space from the new agenda picker.
Facilitation · Aug 21
Turn on Follow me and the whole room moves with you around the canvas, gathered in a ring around you, until you or another facilitator turns it off.
Read the guide →Interactives · Aug 20
Save an interactive to your library, share it with your team, and place it on a board or open it for everyone from the Templates tab, with automatic thumbnails.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Aug 29
A failed space load now offers Try again, avatars stay on the canvas during connection hiccups, participants see Leave session, and noise suppression stays on.
Audio & video · Aug 27
Facilitators can press Play for everyone to start an audio source for the whole room. Sources that can't load now show a clear warning icon.
Read the guide →Integrations & MCP · Aug 26
Kola and connected assistants can now browse your interactives library, place a saved interactive, and save a new one for next time.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Aug 26
The Templates page now shows board and interactive templates side by side, with one library for browsing, previewing and filtering.
Read the guide →Interactives · Aug 19
Interactives now come along when you use a board template or copy a space, starting fresh without the original's votes or answers.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Aug 19
Template owners can pin a hand-picked thumbnail so it won't be replaced by an automatic snapshot.
Read the guide →Integrations & MCP · Aug 19
Assistants connected through MCP can read an interactive's live results, import images to Kolab, and get clearer warnings when a background image won't load.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Aug 17
Choose how people reach their rooms: shuffle everyone randomly, place them yourself from the lobby, or let people pick their own room.
Read the guide →Interactives · Aug 12
Every host and facilitator can now control a running interactive. Interactives also recover on their own when slow to load, and updates reach everyone right away.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Aug 12
Participants can open the live transcript during a zoned session and see only the conversations they could hear.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Aug 12
Transcripts from zoned sessions are now grouped under each zone's name. Side conversations are captured even if you open zones after transcription starts.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Aug 12
See where every breakout group is in its agenda, spot who's ahead or behind, and steer a room without entering it.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Aug 6
Any facilitator can now stop a live broadcast, not just the person who started it. Broadcasts also reach everyone in zoned audio, whatever zone they're in.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jul 26
Give each breakout room its own tools, boards and agenda, or apply one to every room at once. Groups can pace their own agenda while you keep an eye on everyone.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Jul 16
Turn on captions to see what people are saying as they speak. Each line shows a color chip that matches the speaker's avatar, so you can tell who's talking at a glance.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Jul 14
Browse, search and read transcripts right in Kolab, with talk-time insights for each speaker. A new Captures page on your dashboard brings recordings, transcripts and summaries from all your spaces together.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Jul 10
Every transcribed session gets an AI summary shaped to the kind of session you ran, like a workshop, training or brainstorm. Copy it, download it, or find it at the top of your transcript files.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jul 9
Set how participants can work on each board: Collaborate, Present (view-only), Brainstorm (stickies only, with an optional blind mode that hides others' notes until you reveal them), or Custom tool sets.
Read the guide →Integrations & MCP · Jul 3
Connect Claude or another AI assistant to Kolab with your Kolab login. Then list, create, copy, and update spaces, set access, and pull session insights, all from your assistant.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Jul 31
Recordings of private and password-protected spaces now show the canvas, follow the person being recorded around the board, and follow them into breakout rooms.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Jul 30
Large images no longer disappear at full zoom, the settings menu scrolls on short screens, and Kolab recovers from dropped connections without a page reload.
Accounts & billing · Jul 29
Team Settings now shows Essentials and Pro side by side, with monthly or annual billing and promo codes on every plan. You can manage any subscription from the app.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Jul 25
Transcription is more reliable in large and busy sessions, Send to Back now works on template backgrounds, clicking your reaction removes it, and Kola no longer turns thinking-out-loud into stickies.
Recording & transcripts · Jul 25
Live captions now work in spatial and zoned audio, not just global. Each person sees captions only for the people they can actually hear.
Read the guide →Accounts & billing · Jul 25
Kolab Pro now supports sessions of up to 100 participants, with cloud recording included.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Jul 24
Facilitators can choose to include audio zone conversations in the transcript. Everyone is told when it's on.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Jul 23
Hosts and facilitators can open the transcript during a session and watch it fill in as people speak.
Read the guide →Tools · Jul 22
Anyone can minimize an open tool, such as an embed or interactive, to get it off their own screen. Hosts and facilitators can close it for everyone. You can also ask Kola to minimize it.
Read the guide →Integrations & MCP · Jul 22
Long builds from outside AI assistants no longer time out or get duplicated. The assistant gets a run it can check on, and font sizes and board views now come out as intended.
Read the guide →AI & Kola · Jul 21
When Kola or a connected AI assistant builds a board, it now checks the template library first and adapts a matching design instead of starting from scratch.
Read the guide →Interactives · Jul 18
Interactives arrive: live mini-apps, like polls and presentations, that run inside your space. Show one full-screen or place it on the canvas as a station everyone plays together. Building them opened to a small group first.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jul 17
Copy a selection in Mural and paste it onto your canvas. It arrives as native Kolab elements, just like pasting from Miro.
Recording & transcripts · Jul 15
Turn a session summary into a hand-drawn style recap image. You preview it privately first, then add it to the board, regenerate it, or download it later.
Performance & reliability · Jul 15
Kolab now spots when someone's audio or video silently stops arriving and reconnects it automatically, so you're less likely to end up with a frozen face or a silent speaker.
Audio & video · Jul 14
On a slow connection? Turn on Data saver from the video controls menu to stop receiving other people's video. Audio and screen shares keep flowing, and nobody else's camera is turned off.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jul 10
Facilitators can choose square or rectangle stickies for a whole board. Stickies with lots of text now grow to fit instead of cutting it off.
Recording & transcripts · Jul 9
Recording and transcription now each have their own clear row and Stop button, and you can start recording while a transcription is already running.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jul 9
When a facilitator mutes someone's mic or turns off their camera, that person now sees a notice either way. The participant list is a little tidier too.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Jul 8
In sidebar mode, drag the video stack anywhere on screen, or pop it out into its own browser window. Kolab remembers where you put it in each space.
Performance & reliability · Jul 8
Zooming and panning feel smoother on busy boards, and trackpad pinch and two-finger scrolling no longer stutter or flip between pan and zoom mid-gesture.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jul 6
Select several elements and change their fill color, border and corner radius in one go from the selection toolbar.
Canvas · Jul 5
Copy elements in Miro and paste them onto your canvas. Stickies, shapes, text and frames arrive as native Kolab elements, keeping their layout. You can paste images and text too.
Canvas · Jul 3
Pinch-zooming on a trackpad no longer jumps the wrong way, and zooming out now feels steady.
Audio & video · Jun 24
Hosts can broadcast to everyone in the space at once, whatever their zone or distance. A banner shows everyone you're live, and your screen-share audio comes through too.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Jun 24
Play sound effects everyone hears instantly from the new Audio menu, upload your own, and run space-wide music with a queue, a saved library, and your own uploaded tracks.
Read the guide →AI & Kola · Jun 18
Ask Kola, by text or voice, to plan and build activities in your space: boards, prompts, and agenda sections. It asks a quick question on bigger requests and shows progress while it builds.
Spaces & sharing · Jun 5
Add a password to a space so only people who have it can join. The saved password stays masked in the share dialog, with show and copy buttons.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jun 30
Build a playlist that plays for people held in the waiting room, from YouTube, SoundCloud, or your own uploads, so early arrivals aren't left in silence.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jun 24
Turn it on per space and avatars stay readable at any zoom and glow when someone speaks, even across the room. You can pin faces, and facilitators can feature someone for everyone.
Read the guide →Accounts & billing · Jun 22
Share your referral link. People you refer get a longer free trial, and you earn a cash reward when they upgrade to a paid plan.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jun 21
Facilitators can now turn off a participant's camera from the participants list, just like muting. The participant gets a notice and can turn it back on themselves.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jun 21
Align and distribute work repeatedly, images show on first load, circles resize smoothly, mic and camera shortcuts work on Mac, and people stay on the participants list through brief blips.
Audio & video · Jun 19
Fixed a bug where someone could show as speaking but you couldn't hear them until you refreshed. Spatial audio now fades naturally with distance in every direction.
Performance & reliability · Jun 19
Refreshing the page now brings you straight back into the space, the browser Back button asks before you leave, and Stop recording stops the recording on the first click.
AI & Kola · Jun 18
Kola now starts in text and only listens when you tap to talk. In voice, only the facilitator who opened Kola hears her, and you can turn her spoken replies off.
Canvas · Jun 6
Drag images or SVGs from your desktop straight onto the canvas, or pick several files at once. Each lands as its own element where you dropped it.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jun 6
Your cursor now shows a crosshair while Shift or Ctrl is held for box select. Alt-click (Option-click on Mac) cycles through overlapping elements, and Shift+Alt-click adds the hidden one to your selection.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jun 6
Pop the chat, participants, or agenda panel into its own window. It's handy for two monitors, and keeps panels from covering the canvas.
Performance & reliability · May 28
Switching boards is quicker, with images loaded ahead of time, and canvases stay smooth when lots of people add elements at once or you select and zoom on large boards.
Audio & video · May 9
Having trouble with your camera or mic? A "Test your setup" link now sits on the pre-join screen and in device error messages, opening the system check in a new tab.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · May 4
An oversized element can no longer freeze a space, audio mode switches no longer glitch, transcription is more dependable, and cloud recordings follow the host's view again.
Recording & transcripts · Apr 16
Record your session in the cloud, capturing the canvas, video, and spatial and zone audio the way participants experienced it, including breakouts.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Apr 22
Hosts and facilitators of a team's space can now browse and use that team's board templates, even if they aren't on the team. Template previews work inside a space again, too.
Read the guide →Canvas · Apr 19
You can now resize an element larger than your current view, so big backgrounds and frames no longer stop growing at the edge of your screen.
AI & Kola · Apr 15
Team owners and admins can now hide Kola in every space the team owns, with a single switch in team settings.
Canvas · Apr 13
Shift-resize no longer blows up element sizes, auto-zoom follows your current audio zone, color swatches close after you pick, and chat stays stable when you switch languages.
Accounts & billing · Apr 7
Running a one-off event? Buy an Event Pass: a one-time purchase that covers a single space for your event, with no subscription.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Mar 12
Turn on the waiting room and let people in yourself. Participants wait for a host or facilitator to approve them before they join the space.
Read the guide →Accounts & billing · Mar 7
Upgrade your team to Pro from team settings, starting with a 14-day free trial. Manage your subscription and billing yourself.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Mar 5
The redesigned dashboard puts your spaces, teams, and templates in one place, with quick actions to rename, duplicate, share, or delete a space.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Mar 27
If a space is already open in another tab, you can move your session over in one click. A banner also helps you turn sound on if your browser blocks it.
Performance & reliability · Mar 27
Board switches are faster and show a loading state, clicking Start on an agenda section twice no longer jumps between boards, and cursors and avatars lag less in busy spaces.
Facilitation · Mar 27
Hosts and facilitators can now clear all chat messages or export the chat as a CSV. Conference view gets a soft frosted backdrop, and the sidebar spotlights the main speaker without jumpy swaps.
Accounts & billing · Mar 25
Enter a promo code when you upgrade. If it covers the full price, you won't be asked for a card.
Read the guide →Canvas · Mar 23
Give shapes solid, dashed, or dotted borders, and adjust border width, color, and opacity.
Read the guide →Accounts & billing · Mar 5
Invite teammates by email or with a shareable join link, reset the link any time, and change roles or remove members from the team panel.
Read the guide →Tools · Feb 18
Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or SoundCloud link and keep everyone's playback in sync. Turn on spatial sound so an embed gets louder as people walk closer.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Feb 26
Sidebar mode now shows video in a tidy grid that fits the sidebar, with the most recent speakers first and a count of anyone who doesn't fit.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Feb 25
Participants can now flip through card decks on locked elements, boards added from an agenda section stay in that section, and audio and video recover more reliably after joining or switching modes.
Audio & video · Feb 19
In spaces with audio zones, people standing outside every zone can now hear each other, instead of silence.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Feb 13
Peek at any board from the agenda sidebar before you switch everyone to it.
Spaces & sharing · Feb 12
New chat messages now pop up briefly so you don't miss them, and you can type :shortcodes: to add emoji. Messages also no longer go missing after a reconnect.
Read the guide →AI & Kola · Feb 12
Kola can now create card decks with generated artwork and place them on the canvas, and move participants' avatars to where an activity happens.
AI & Kola · Jan 30
Ask Kola to design boards and activities for your session. It proposes a plan first, then builds it on the canvas when you click Build This.
Read the guide →Tools · Jan 30
Drop ready-made stacks of sticky notes onto the canvas, in one color or a grid, with presets for brainstorms, retros, SWOT, voting, and more.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jan 30
Set the mood with looping GIFs and videos on the canvas, plus ambient sound that can fill the whole space, fade with distance, or stay inside an audio zone.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jan 12
Made a mistake? Undo and redo your moves, edits, and deletions with the buttons in the zoom control bar or with Ctrl/Cmd + Z. Each person has their own undo history.
Read the guide →Tools · Jan 30
Build card decks step by step with a clearer editor, pick a card shape and format (including text and image), and reuse decks you've already made in the space.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jan 30
Plan your session in collapsible agenda sections, attach boards and tools to each one, edit titles and times inline, and pause or resume a section's timer.
Canvas · Jan 30
Give a board a set size and a background image. Participants stay within the canvas edges, so everyone sees the same scene.
Facilitation · Jan 30
Select multiple templates in the library and add them all as boards in one go.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Jan 30
Search keyboard shortcuts and help articles without leaving your space.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Jan 30
On phones and tablets, Kolab now keeps your screen on while you're in a space, so you don't drop out of the call mid-session.
Canvas · Jan 30
Images load sharper as you zoom in, audio zones now respect rounded corners, you keep your spot when the board changes, and two people dragging the same element no longer makes it jump.
Facilitation · Jan 16
Find the right board faster: search templates, filter by category, tags, and group size, and see what each template is best for before you use it.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jan 16
Panning and zooming with a trackpad now feels steadier and more responsive, including in Firefox and on Mac trackpads.
Tools · Jan 10
Participants can minimize a prompt or drag it out of the way, and it pops back open when the facilitator changes the prompt.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jan 7
Browse templates with thumbnail previews and a live look at each board before you add it. The template library also loads much faster.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jan 7
With a shape or text tool selected, you can now click and drag right on top of existing elements to create a new one.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Jan 6
Images load at the right size for your zoom level: lighter when you're zoomed out, crisper when you zoom in.
Canvas · Jan 2
Images now respect stacking order, so you can place stickies and text above or below them as you'd expect.
Canvas · Dec 6
Fill elements and board backgrounds with linear or radial gradients, pick from presets or describe one and let AI build it, and drag to round the corners of shapes, stickies, and text.
Read the guide →Tools · Dec 31
The timer shows seconds correctly, the Activities tab opens on Boards, zoom no longer jumps on your first scroll, and changing scroll settings no longer triggers a flood of notifications.
Canvas · Dec 9
Drag an element or your avatar toward the edge of the screen and the canvas pans with you, so you can move things further in one go.
Read the guide →Canvas · Nov 24
Kolab now adapts to small screens, with a compact toolbar menu, touch-friendly buttons, and steadier pinch-to-zoom on Android.
Spaces & sharing · Nov 18
Send messages to everyone in the space from the chat panel, without leaving the canvas. Unread messages are flagged so you don't miss anything.
Read the guide →Canvas · Nov 18
When you step into an audio zone, your view can zoom to fit it, then return to where you were when you leave. It's opt-in, and you can turn it on or off anytime.
Read the guide →Canvas · Nov 30
The multi-select toolbar no longer hides behind elements, links open in a new tab, you can pick a board background color again, scroll-wheel zoom works reliably, and the agenda notices when you switch boards yourself.
Canvas · Nov 18
While someone is editing an element, others can't change it at the same time, and you'll see a note saying who's editing. Busy canvases with lots of text also feel faster.
Performance & reliability · Nov 18
Avatars, cursors, and audio zones update faster and use less bandwidth, so large sessions feel smoother. Audio zones now work correctly when rotated or when someone is moved by a facilitator.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Nov 17
Pin the agenda or chat panel to keep it open while you work, or close it with a click outside.
Audio & video · Nov 7
The system check now tests your network and firewall, shows detailed connection stats, and always starts with your mic on, so you can find and fix audio or video problems before you join.
Read the guide →Accounts & billing · Oct 16
You can now sign in with your Google or LinkedIn account, or get a one-click login link by email. No password to remember.
Audio & video · Oct 31
Switching your mic, camera, or speakers during a session now takes effect right away. Noise filtering starts more reliably, the mic toggle stays in sync, and switching modes in breakout rooms works as expected.
Facilitation · Oct 23
Facilitators can now drag participants' avatars to a new spot on the canvas, and bring people into a group or audio zone. You can turn this on or off in space settings.
Read the guide →Canvas · Oct 21
Facilitators can save a board's starting zoom and position, so everyone lands on the same view when they arrive. It now holds steady across different screen sizes, and you can set it from the template editor too.
Read the guide →Accounts & billing · Oct 8
You'll stay signed in as long as you use Kolab regularly. Only two weeks without activity signs you out, and expired sessions no longer leave you stuck.
Facilitation · Oct 6
Facilitators can now change a participant's display name, and the new name updates for everyone right away.
Read the guide →Canvas · Oct 3
Download a board's content as a CSV file from the board menu, ready for a spreadsheet.
Canvas · Sep 3
Elements snap into place with alignment guides, text supports rich formatting that others see as you type, and pinch-to-zoom works smoothly on trackpads and touch screens.
Read the guide →Canvas · Sep 29
You can now select locked elements, including with Shift-click, to unlock them in bulk. Locked elements are left out of copy, duplicate, and align.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Sep 26
Facilitators can close a session for all participants in one click. Anyone who's disconnected sees a screen to rejoin, or goes back home after 60 seconds.
Read the guide →Canvas · Sep 24
The mute button is now labeled "Mute participants" and only mutes participants. Text no longer shows through overlapping elements, and sticky notes resize their text properly.
Spaces & sharing · Sep 23
Guests can tick "Remember my name" so they skip retyping it next time, and can sign in at any point to turn their invite into a full account.
Read the guide →Canvas · Sep 23
Add emoji reactions to stickies and other elements, and hover to see who reacted.
Read the guide →Recording & transcripts · Aug 21
Facilitators can start and stop a transcript of the conversation in a space.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Jul 25
React with emoji from the new video control bar. Facilitators can choose a focused set of 8 reactions or the full extended set, per agenda item or for the whole space.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jul 15
Participants can raise a hand to ask to speak. Facilitators get a notification and can see raised hands on participant tiles.
Read the guide →AI & Kola · Jul 11
The agenda builder now draws on your templates and the boards and tools already in your space, creates new ones when needed, and lets you refine the agenda through back-and-forth chat.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jul 28
Breakout rooms now show their real titles, fit the lobby better, and keep everyone's room assignment and audio in sync, including when you first join.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jul 7
Audio zones on ovals kick in once your avatar is inside, screen shares no longer appear twice, and keyboard shortcuts, pasting, and chat notifications work reliably again.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Jun 13
Choose who can get into your space and at what level from a new Share button. The space's creator and team get host access automatically.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jun 5
Save any board as a template, browse the template library, and start new boards from it. Your templates live in a Personal tab, next to shared Community templates.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jun 25
Audio zones on circles now work across the whole shape, image uploads work in breakout rooms, and selecting text in stickies and shapes feels smoother.
Read the guide →Spaces & sharing · Jun 24
Search your team members right from the share dialog to give them access to a space.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Jun 23
Kolab now filters out background noise like typing and chatter from your mic, on by default. You can switch it off and pick your devices in the new audio and video settings.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jun 12
Guide lines help you line up elements as you drag. Press Backspace to delete a selection, and use keyboard shortcuts to switch cursor modes.
Read the guide →Tools · Jun 12
Embeds now resize properly, and you can pick an aspect ratio (16:9, 4:3, 1:1, portrait or custom) from the element toolbar.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Jun 11
Video quality now adjusts to each person's connection, so calls hold up better on weaker networks.
Canvas · Jun 11
Pinching on a trackpad now zooms the way you'd expect, and it feels smoother.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Jun 9
Choose your speaker or headphones before you join and from the call controls, alongside your mic and camera.
Read the guide →Canvas · Jun 5
Board backgrounds can now be up to 6000px wide, and the view refits as soon as you save.
Facilitation · Jun 5
Participants are now sorted alphabetically, you can edit your display name in place, and the chat box is ready to type in as soon as you open it.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Jun 5
Assign people to breakout rooms at random or from a lobby, rename rooms, and add or remove rooms while they're running. Rooms keep their state if you reconnect.
Read the guide →Accounts & billing · May 27
Create teams, invite people with a link, set their roles, and create spaces inside a team.
Read the guide →Facilitation · May 6
Facilitators can remove someone from the space. The change shows up for everyone right away.
Read the guide →Facilitation · May 6
When you start an activity, its agenda section becomes active too, so the agenda always shows where you are.
Canvas · May 6
Facilitators can hide everyone's live cursors when they'd be a distraction, and turn them back on anytime.
Read the guide →Tools · May 5
Remove boards and tools you no longer need from your space.
Audio & video · Apr 28
Blur your background or pick a virtual one, in Chrome and Firefox. You can set it up before you join, and it stays on when you close the panel.
Read the guide →Audio & video · Apr 9
Chat with everyone in the space from a sidebar, without leaving the canvas. New messages scroll into view automatically.
Read the guide →Performance & reliability · Apr 30
Copy and paste now works on Mac, new arrivals land where they can see the canvas, the timer's length stays hidden from participants, and editing the agenda no longer resets its timer.
Canvas · Apr 29
Lost on a big canvas? Click Find me in the zoom control bar to glide back to your avatar, with a quick highlight so you spot yourself.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Apr 28
Facilitators can mute a participant from the participants list, or mute all participants at once.
Read the guide →Facilitation · Apr 25
Facilitators can promote or demote anyone from the participants list. Roles for signed-in users stick across sessions.
Read the guide →Canvas · Apr 16
Images on the canvas now load through a new media service, so they resize cleanly and no longer flicker while loading.
Facilitation · Apr 9
Open the participants list to see everyone in the space at a glance.
Read the guide →Accounts & billing · Apr 8
You can now sign up, log in, and log out of Kolab, so your role and settings follow you between sessions.
AI & Kola · Mar 17
Describe your session in a single prompt and Kolab drafts a timed agenda for you to preview, tweak, and use.
Read the guide →Canvas · Mar 21
See your current zoom level on the canvas and reset it with one click. Trackpad zooming feels smoother too.
Audio & video · Mar 20
In video mode, videos move to a sidebar while a tool is active, so the tool gets the room it needs.
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