# Public projects

## Share progress with the right audience

A project's visibility controls who can see it. Use **Private** for your own work, **Shared** for invited members, or **Public** when anyone signed in should be able to view it.

A team publishing a roadmap can make its project public and separately choose which content people without an account may read.

## Change visibility

1. As the owner, open the project's **Settings**, then **General**.
2. Under **Visibility**, choose **Private**, **Shared** or **Public**.
3. Read the confirmation and confirm the change. Visibility saves separately from the other project fields.

![General settings with the Visibility choices highlighted](https://sprintree.com/docs-media/public-visibility-light-2006d3ac.webp)

## Choose guest access

Guest access means access for people without an account. It is available for public projects.

1. Find **Guest access** below Visibility.
2. Enable **Pages** or **Issues and board** for the content guests may read.
3. Choose whether guests can read **Comments** and **People's names**.
4. Enable **Let search engines index it** only if you want that guest-readable content to appear in search results.

![Guest access switches for pages, issues, comments and names](https://sprintree.com/docs-media/public-guests-light-a0569fe8.webp)

## Tips and common mistakes

- Public visibility and guest access are separate choices. Check both before sharing a link with someone who has no account.
- Rules and decisions remain restricted. See [Memory Drawer](https://sprintree.com/docs/memory-drawer).
- A signed-in visitor can click **Join project** on an ordinary public project to become a viewer. Joining does not give editor access.
- Featured projects are read-only showcases and have no Join button.
- Guest switches save immediately. Comments and indexing need readable pages or issues to be useful.

## Related pages

- [Members and roles](https://sprintree.com/docs/members-and-roles) for editing access.
- [Invitations](https://sprintree.com/docs/invitations) for sharing privately with teammates.
- [Pages](https://sprintree.com/docs/pages) for your project knowledge base.