Where to Launch a Figma Plugin: Community, Private Sharing and Design Audiences
Publish a Figma plugin in the Figma Community, which is where designers search for and install plugins, after Figma reviews it. Submit from the desktop app, with a 128x128 icon and a 1920x1080 thumbnail ready, and expect an In review badge until Figma decides. Plugins you share inside your own organization skip that review. Beyond the gallery, reach designers through a design-focused launch community and a free public launch page.
What happens when you publish to Figma Community?
Everything below was read on Figma’s own help pages on 13 November 2026. Publishing is not a web form you can open from anywhere: Figma only accepts plugin submissions from its desktop app, and the plugin’s first publish goes through a review before it is listed.
- In the desktop app, open your plugin in the manage-plugins view and choose Publish.
- Fill in a name, a short tagline, a description and a category such as Design tools or Software development.
- Add an icon (128x128 is recommended) and a thumbnail image or video (1920x1080 is recommended). You may add up to nine more images or videos, and an optional playground file where people can try the plugin.
- Complete the data security disclosure if you want to; Figma reviews your answers, and its note says approval can take up to two weeks.
- Review the network-access label Figma shows for your plugin, choose whether you publish as yourself, a team or an organization, then press Publish to submit it for review.
While the review runs, the plugin sits in your Published section with an In review badge, and you can still push updates. Figma emails the decision, and a rejected plugin can be corrected and submitted again. The page states no fixed review time, only that approval times vary with volume.
Which places fit a Figma plugin?
A plugin’s audience is designers who already work in Figma, so the best places are the ones that reach them in or next to the tool.
01 Figma Community
Figma’s public gallery, with a listing page and an install button for every approved plugin.
- Review
- Required before listing; no fixed time stated on its page
- Where you submit
- Only from the Figma desktop app; the listing can be under you, a team or an organization
- Updates
- You can edit the listing at any time and publish code updates separately
Every plugin gets its own URL, listed in the Share section of its page, and a creator profile ties several plugins together. Share the profile link when you have more than one.
Reviews follow Figma’s published plugin review guidelines, and attempts to exploit the Plugin API cause immediate removal and a ban on future plugins. Read the guidelines before you write the first line of network code.
02 Private sharing inside an organization
On Organization and Enterprise plans you can publish a plugin to your own workspace instead of the public gallery.
- Review
- Figma does not review plugins you share privately within an organization
- Setting
- The Publish to option on the final details page
This is a good proving ground when your first users are colleagues. You get real usage and bug reports without waiting for a public review.
It is not a launch, though. Nobody outside the company can install it, so treat it as testing and plan the public listing separately.
Visit Private sharing inside an organization (help.figma.com) →
03 Figma paid plugins
A route for charging for a plugin through the Community, for approved creators.
- Needs
- Approval as a creator and an activated Stripe account
- Payment model
- One-time payments or a monthly subscription, fixed at publish time
- Irreversible
- A plugin published as paid cannot later be made free
Decide on price before you publish, because the model cannot be changed afterwards and the first publisher becomes the payee for good. If you are unsure, launch free and ship a separate paid plugin later.
We read that new sellers must be approved first; check Figma’s selling page to see whether it is accepting creators today.
04 Peerlist Launchpad
A weekly Launchpad inside a profile-based community for designers and developers.
- Needs
- A Peerlist profile
- Our check
- Its Launchpad page refused an automated fetch; read its rules before you plan
Peerlist describes itself as a community for tech professionals, especially designers and developers, which is the overlap a Figma plugin needs. Launches sit beside a profile, so people follow makers.
See the Peerlist alternatives page if its format does not suit your schedule.
05 Post your build ideas (our board)
Our free launch board: no account, no queue, no paid placement.
- Best use
- A public page you can link from the Figma listing, with comments underneath
- Not provided
- Images; the thumbnail and screenshots live in your Figma listing
Describe the job the plugin does in plain words, link the Community page as the product URL and say which Figma features it touches. Anyone can vote and comment without registering.
We are small, so treat it as a permanent page rather than a traffic source. The design tool ideas show what other builders are asking for.
06 Product Hunt
A large launch site with a daily ranking.
- Our check
- Its pages refused an automated fetch; limited to well-known basics
Plugins that save visible time do well in a short demo clip. Wait for the Community approval so the link installs on launch day.
The design tool alternatives to Product Hunt list quieter options.
How should you sequence a plugin launch?
Because review time is not fixed, submit the plugin before you promote anything. While it is In review, finish the demo clip and the launch page, and keep the plugin’s update channel open for fixes. When the Published badge appears, post the Community link on every place above in the same week.
If your plugin helps with a task designers already complain about, say that task in the tagline. “Rename layers from selected text” is a result; “a layer utility” is not. The Figma Community listing requirements list each field, and the Figma plugin playbook lays out the week.
Frequently asked questions
Does Figma review every plugin?
Figma reviews a plugin before it is listed in the public Community, and its help page says it does not review plugins you share privately within an organization. A new submission shows an In review badge until a decision arrives by email. If it is rejected you can fix the feedback and submit again.
Can I publish a Figma plugin from a browser?
No. Figma’s help page says you can only submit plugins from the Figma desktop app. You start from the plugin’s menu in the manage-plugins view, choose Publish, and complete the modal. Updates to the listing’s text can be made later without publishing new code.
How big should a plugin’s icon and thumbnail be?
Figma’s publishing page recommends a 128x128 pixel icon and a 1920x1080 pixel thumbnail image or video, plus up to nine more images or videos in the carousel. These are recommendations rather than hard limits, so check the modal on the day you publish, since Figma can change it.
Post your build ideas publishes this page and runs a free launch board that competes with some of the sites it names. Facts about other sites came from their own pages on the date shown above; terms, queues and prices change, so confirm on their sites before you decide. About the publisher.