Plugin for viewers

I have a plugin that turns spec layer info on and off which is useful for developers who want to see the design with and without it but not possible without access to this plugin 😑

I’m in a similar position, using a plugin to toggle layer visibility to show and hide specs to have one design source of truth. Viewers need to be able to toggle layer visibility.

I need to create a plugin that works only in view mode!!! please allow us to do this 👏

This would be great!

I can’t believe this is not an option already. I want to have a plugin where engineers can see the components used in a frame and code snippets based on our repository.

Is there any way to get traction on this? This would be invaluable for designers to effectively communicate with engineers that should only have view access. For example, using the Figma Tokens plugin.

We are also looking for a “viewer role” search function on text. Plugins are not available for viewers… Any update?

We are finally writing guidines, but without ctrl+f, its annoying for our readers.

Same here! I would love to use a plugin like Frontitude to push text changes in view-only mode. This feature would help so much! I’m a product designer looking for a way where other teams like sales/delivery can easily edit texts in Figma screens and add those to their client presentations.

Both developers and designers need search some text or color in a design file. I believe Figma own implementation is better than plugins.

Hi Figma team,

Any update on this matter? it seems a common need to have plugins available for viewers. It would be very appreciated to have an answer.

Title says it all really, as it stands you need to have edit access to a file to run plugins. However there are tons of useful plugins like Contrast, which don’t modify anything in the user’s files, and would be useful to users with read-only access.

With widgets having just been introduce in Figma, I’ve come across the Navigate widget which helps users move around your file. This would also be useful to read-only users. And in this case the widget developer would presumably want to make it so only editors can set up the navigation, but anyone can click the button to be taken to the corresponding section of the file. In fact it’s likely to be more useful for stakeholders who are a bit less familiar with the file, who you might not want to give edit access in the first place.