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Rooms are like persistent calls with names. They can be useful for recurring events (standups, social time, etc.) or specific teams (engineering touchbase, design reviews, leadership, etc.). Rooms live in their own tab: Rooms tab showing the list of shared team rooms Rooms are owned collectively by the whole team, meaning:
  • Everyone in your team can see all rooms and who is in them
  • Everyone in your team can create, rename, or delete rooms

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Your personal room

The Rooms tab also includes a “Your personal room” card pinned at the top of the list. Clicking the card does two things at once: it joins your personal room and copies your personal-room link to your clipboard, so you can paste it into a chat or calendar invite. The card reuses your existing personal-room link — the same one already in your calendar invites or recurring events — rather than minting a new URL each time. Links you’ve previously shared keep working, and any open/closed change you make below applies to those same links.

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Open vs closed (door control)

While you’re in your personal room, a door control row sits just below the call controls. Use it to change who can join, mid-call:
  • Open — your contacts and teammates can join freely.
  • Closed — joining requires your approval. Visitors see “Room closed · request to join” and you’ll be prompted to admit them.
Toggling open/closed writes through to your personal-room link immediately, so anyone using a previously shared link will get the new permission the next time they try to join. The door control is owner-only: it appears for personal rooms you own. Visitors to someone else’s personal room and participants in team rooms don’t see it. If your team enforces approval through the call-link settings, the door is locked to Closed and can’t be toggled from the call.

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Joining a room

To enter a room, simply click on it. You can only be in a single room (or call) at once: if you enter a room while you’re already in another call, you’ll get prompted for a confirmation that you want to leave it. Confirmation dialog asking whether you want to leave your current call and join a room Like any other call, rooms have a capacity of 10 participants.

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Viewing and updating room info

To copy a room’s link, click the dropdown menu icon in its top-right corner and select the “Copy Room Link” action. If you want to rename or delete a room, you can find those actions in the “More” submenu.

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Creating a room

To create a new room, click on the + icon in the top-right corner of the app. You’ll be prompted to pick a name for the room, and that’s it! Note that duplicate names are not allowed: you can’t create a room (or rename an existing one) with a name that’s already in use. Dialog for creating a new room by name Rooms are ordered alphabetically. If you want to enforce a custom ordering, you can use leading numbers or letters, like for instance “1. Engineering”, “2. Support”, and “3. Marketing”. We currently support up to 40 rooms per team.

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Favoriting rooms

You can favorite rooms by selecting the “Favorite Room” action in the room’s dropdown menu. Favorited rooms stay pinned to the top of the Rooms tab. Room dropdown menu with Favorite Room selected

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Subscribing to rooms (macOS only)

You can subscribe to rooms to get notified when your teammates are in a given room. Using the “Subscribe” submenu in the room’s dropdown, you can select whether you want to show a badge on the Tuple menu bar icon, receive a push notification, or both. Room dropdown menu showing subscription notification options

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Auto-removal of inactive rooms

To keep your team’s room list manageable, Tuple automatically removes rooms that haven’t been used in a while.

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Removal criteria

  • Rooms that haven’t had any calls for 180 days are automatically removed
  • Rooms created within the last 30 days are never removed, even if unused
  • Rooms with an active call are never removed

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What removal means

  • Rooms are removed permanently. If a room is removed and you’d like to use it again, you’ll need to create one with that name again.

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Adjusting or disabling auto-removal

Team owners and managers can configure this in Team Settings → Room Settings:
  • Change the inactivity period (30 to 365 days)
  • Disable auto-removal entirely

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Managing rooms from the CLI

The Tuple CLI can list, join, favorite, and create rooms. The MCP server exposes the same actions to AI coding agents.
We’re still exploring ways to make Rooms more valuable. If you have any feedback that would make this feature more useful to your team, let us know!