Lasso

Lasso 1.9.2

Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:27:58 +0000

Added

Settings → General now explains how Lasso’s $4.99 one-time price supports ongoing development.
Use Buy Lasso in Settings to open the purchase page.

Lasso 1.9.1

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:37:58 +0000

Fixed

Pin — Keep Marks is now on the default toolbar. Draw a mark, then click the pushpin to keep your annotations visible while you work in the apps underneath.

Lasso 1.9.0

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 21:07:28 +0000

Changed

Screenshots close on their own. Each one waits in the corner for five seconds, then goes, and it's copied as you take it, so it's still on the clipboard to paste. Pointing at the stack keeps them open, and so does editing, saving or sharing one.
Choose 10 seconds, or Never to keep them until you close them, in Settings → General → Close screenshot previews. Thanks for asking through Request a Feature.

Lasso 1.8.0

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:11:15 +0000

Added

Answer your agent on the screen. When an agent connected to Lasso needs you to decide something (which of these did you mean? go ahead with this?), it writes the question in Lasso's ink right on the window it's about, with the choices as numbered steps, on the things themselves where it points. Click a number, click reply to type an answer, or show me to talk while you draw. Skip it, or clear it, to pass. The question moves with its window and goes when you answer.
Agents aim at words. They can put a mark on the words they name, like "Save", instead of guessing where they are: Lasso reads the screen on your Mac to find them.
Agents see your marks numbered, with the words each one circles or points at, and can tick each one off in green as they deal with it.

Fixed

A voice brief that picked up no words now says why, such as the microphone not being allowed.
Agents' marks no longer vanish behind see-through overlays some apps keep on screen.

Lasso 1.7.0

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:21:17 +0000

Added

Hold to sketch. Hold the drawing shortcut (or any tool's shortcut) down, draw, and let go: your marks stay on screen and clicks go through them again, with no drawing mode to leave. A quick tap still starts drawing as before. In Settings → General, choose whether letting go keeps the marks, clears them, or does nothing different from a tap.
Request a Feature… in the menu bar menu. It opens a short form on trylasso.online where you can say what you wish Lasso did, and leave an email if you'd like a reply. The form shows the Lasso and macOS versions that go with it, and nothing is sent until you press Send request.

Lasso 1.6.0

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:33:30 +0000

Added

Lasso now counts which features get used, anonymously. Once a day it sends a tally of the day before: how many drawings you started, which tools you drew with, how many screenshots, links and briefs you made, and which tools agents called, with the app and macOS versions. Never what's on your screen, what you type or say, which apps you draw over, or anything that tells your Mac apart from someone else's. Turn it off in Settings → General, where Show What's Sent shows the report exactly as it will go out.

Lasso 1.5.0

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:09:07 +0000

Added

Talk it through for your agent. While drawing, press V (or the waveform button) and say what you mean as you draw and point; press V again when you're done. Lasso writes it up as a brief your agent can act on — what you said, with each mark placed at the words you were saying as you drew it, the screen with your marks and a close-up of each — and copies it, ready to paste. Agents connected to Lasso read it themselves with get_brief. What you say is turned into text on your Mac.

Lasso 1.4.0

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:44:29 +0000

Added

Endless whiteboards. Scroll with two fingers (or hold space and drag) to move around a whiteboard or blackboard, pinch or ⌘-scroll to zoom, ⇧1 to fit everything in view and ⇧0 to go back to 100%. What you draw is the size you picked whatever the zoom, and text stays sharp.

Agents can sketch on a whiteboard: they open one as a new page, draw a diagram on it, and move around or zoom to fit when they're done.

An agent's marks stick to the window they point at. Move the window and they come along; bring another window in front and it covers them, like it would anything in that window; minimize it or switch Spaces and they hide; close it and they're gone.

A bar for pinned marks. While marks are pinned — an agent's or your own — a small glass bar at the bottom of the display says whose they are and lets you draw on them, hide them for a look underneath, screenshot them or clear them.

Changed

When an agent draws, Lasso opens as if you'd started drawing: the toolbar and page tabs are there, you can add to the agent's marks or switch pages, and esc clears it all. Prefer them pinned with clicks going through? Settings → Agents → When an agent draws.

Lasso 1.3.0

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:11:53 +0000

Added

Share a link. Hover a screenshot card and click the link button (or Share Link in the editor): a link is copied that anyone can open in a browser for 24 hours — no account, no app needed. The screenshot is encrypted on your Mac before it's uploaded and the key lives only in the link, so not even Lasso can see it. The card shows how long the link has left and has Stop Sharing; the menu bar's Shared Links lists every live link, even after its card is gone or Lasso was relaunched.

Blur (B): drag over anything you'd rather not show — an email, a password, a chat — to blur it on screen, in your screenshots and in what agents see. The stroke size sets how strong it is, and it works in the screenshot editor too. Like screenshots, it needs Screen Recording.

AI agents can use Lasso. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and other agents on your Mac connect over MCP to see your screen with your drawing on it, read the screenshots you take, and draw arrows, boxes, highlights and numbered steps to show you where to click. Lasso asks before the first one does; Settings → Agents has the switch and the setup to copy.

Changed

Every drawing starts in red, instead of whatever color you used last. And the selected color is always one of the dots on the toolbar: switching to the simple toolbar, or switching the whiteboard, never leaves you on a color it doesn't show.

Lasso 1.2.1

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:28:08 +0000

Fixed

After you copy or save from the screenshot editor, Lasso now hands focus back to the app you were using instead of staying in front.

Lasso 1.2.0

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:39:28 +0000

Changed

Screenshots no longer copy and save themselves. Each one lands in a stack at the bottom-right of the screen: hover a card for Copy or Save… (which asks where to save it), click it to edit, or drag it straight into another app.
S takes the whole screen again; ⇧S lets you drag out just an area.

Added

Edit a screenshot after taking it: crop it and draw on it with every Lasso tool, then copy or save the result. Closing the editor keeps your edits on the card.

Lasso 1.1.0

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:12:09 +0000

Added

Screenshot just part of the screen: press S (or the camera button) and drag over the area you want. Click instead of dragging, or press ⇧S, for the whole screen.
Open Screenshots Folder in the menu bar menu opens the folder in Finder with your latest screenshot selected.
The screenshot thumbnail now shows which folder the file went to. Click it to see the file in Finder.

Lasso 1.0.0

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:12:28 +0000

The first public release.

Added

Draw over anything on any display: pen, highlighter, arrow, line, rectangle, ellipse, text, numbered steps, a fading laser pointer and an eraser.
Global shortcuts: ⌥⇧A starts and stops drawing from any app, and ⌃⌥⌘ + a tool's letter starts drawing with that tool. Every shortcut can be changed in Settings.
A glass toolbar on the screen edge, in a Simple or Detailed layout, that you can drag to either side of any display.
Pages: swipe with two fingers for a fresh page, with a tab strip of live previews.
Whiteboard and blackboard pages with hand-drawn shapes.
Numbered steps with labels.
One-click screenshots of your display with the drawing on it, copied and saved.
Pin: keep annotations on screen while you use other apps.
Keeps drawing when you switch apps with ⌘-Tab.
Trackpad haptics, Launch at Login, and a welcome window on first launch.
Automatic updates: Lasso checks for a new version about once a day and asks before installing it (Settings → General to turn this off; Check for Updates… in the menu bar menu checks right away).