Share a scene with a link
Send a live, interactive scene and choose exactly what viewers can do with it.
Turn a scene into a link anyone can open. Whoever opens it sees the scene playing live — not the editor — and can only do the things you allowed.
Share a scene
- Open the scene you want to share.
- Click Share in the toolbar, next to Render.
- Tick the things visitors are allowed to do (see the table below).
- Optionally add numbers visitors can change.
- Click Create link, then use the copy button to put the link on your clipboard.
Nothing is published until you create the link. Once it exists, paste it into a lesson page, a chat message, or an email — no account is needed to open it.
What visitors can do
| Option | What it gives them |
|---|---|
| Play the animation | Press play, pause, and scrub the timeline |
| Turn 3D scenes around | Drag to orbit — only affects 3D scenes |
| Zoom and pan | Look closer at part of the scene |
| Open their own copy | Lets them edit a duplicate — your scene is untouched |
| See the Manim code | The Python this scene compiles to |
Only the options you tick show up. If you allow nothing at all, the link is a still picture of your scene — which is sometimes exactly what you want for a slide or a printed handout.
The page also shows your name and profile photo beside the scene's title, so people know whose work they're looking at. A visitor who isn't signed in sees the Manim Studio logo in the top-left and a sign-up button in the top-right.
Let visitors change numbers
You can pick specific numbers out of your scene and expose them as sliders on the share page — a circle's radius, an angle, a graph's coefficient. Each one you add becomes a control the visitor can drag, and the scene responds live as they drag it.
- In the Share dialog, find Numbers they can change and click Add.
- Choose an object, then tick the numbers you want to expose. You can tick several at once.
- Each number arrives with a sensible range around its current value; adjust that range in the list afterwards.
This is the part that turns a shared scene into something a student can actually explore: instead of watching a fixed animation, they push a value and watch the geometry answer back.
What visitors cannot do
Visitors can only change numbers you deliberately exposed. They can never move, restyle, or delete anything in the scene — there is no dragging a shape out of place, no recolouring, no adding or removing objects, even by accident. Everything you didn't hand over stays exactly as you built it.
They also never get the editor itself: no insert library, no timeline tracks, no inspector full of properties. The only panel on the share page is the small one carrying the controls you granted.
It's a frozen copy
Creating a link takes a snapshot of the scene as it is at that moment. Editing your project afterwards does not change what visitors see, so you can keep working — or make a mess — without touching a link you've already handed out.
The same applies to the permission options: they're baked into the link. To change what visitors are allowed to do, or to share your newer edits, create a new link.