Workspace chat
Reply in the project folder where your team is working. Use ⌘K to find a conversation or file, and pick it up later on the web.
The Mac beta
A chat and email client for Mac. Pick up the conversation beside the file, see which emails need a reply, and follow up on the next task.
Apple Silicon · macOS 12+ · Chrome for workspace sign-in
Small on disk, light in memory. Smol uses the WebKit already on your Mac and loads heavier tools only when you open them.

Reply in the project folder where your team is working. Use ⌘K to find a conversation or file, and pick it up later on the web.
The read-only Personal Gmail pilot brings together messages that need your attention and links each suggested follow-up to its original email.

Optional Mac launcher
Enable the launcher in Desktop Settings, then press ⌘Space to mark up a screenshot, sketch in Draw, or find something you copied. Clipboard history is opt-in and stays on your Mac.
To bring a capture into Smol, paste it into a workspace chat. Or pick a clipboard item and choose Attach to AI to ask about it with Quick AI.
See the launcher walkthrough ↗
Smol checks at startup and every four hours while it’s running. Open Software updates from the Smol menu to see your version, the latest release and what changed. Updates download and verify in the background. Choose Restart to update when you’re ready.
The hosted workspace updates automatically. Older betas need one manual replacement to enable automatic updates.
Apple Silicon only today. Intel Mac, Windows and Linux builds are not available yet.
Why we built Smol ↗
Five minutes before your next video meeting, its Join button appears in the launcher and Personal Calendar.
Rejoin current call stays available until the earlier meeting ends. Meetings that use the same link share one Join button.

Open the mailbox that needs attention and pick up the same search when you return.
Mailboxes lets you choose Search and read or Draft and send for an existing Gmail connection. Changing access keeps synced mail.

Type once to find an app and matching items in Calendar, Recent files, or Clipboard history.
Return opens the selected app. Press F6 to reach matching widget items and Escape to return to your query. Clipboard history searches only the clip type, copy time, and pin status.

Type “mail ” followed by a sender or subject to find a message in your connected Gmail accounts.
Recent messages filter as you type. Open a result in its own Gmail account, or search that mailbox for older messages. Returning to Apps restores your previous query.

See the guests, their replies and a short line from the invitation beside your next meeting.
Look up visible guests by name or email in both the launcher and Personal Calendar. For email-only invitations, you can enable Google contact names in Calendar account settings.

Click a meeting to see its location, guests, notes, and attachments in the launcher.
Open a resource link directly, or press Escape to return to the meeting. On writable calendars, the event menu lets you edit or delete one occurrence. You can set a connected account to read-only in Launcher Settings.

Hide one occurrence on this Mac and restore it whenever you need it.
Use Undo immediately or restore a meeting from that day’s Dismissed list. Dismissed meetings still count toward conflicts. To hide a whole calendar, change its visibility in the event menu or Calendar accounts.

Pick an answer in a blind comparison to see which model wrote each response.
Open the saved answer later to see the model you continued with and the other model it faced.

See which Arena answer Haiku recommends and why. You choose which model gets your follow-up.
Give Haiku feedback for future comparisons, or choose Rejudge this pair to apply your revised criteria. Rejudging uses two additional Haiku calls and keeps the original verdict.

Switch from Personal to a team channel and back with the same light or dark mode and sidebar width.
Choose Dark, Light, or System in Settings → App appearance. Choose Workspace default if you want each workspace to select its own appearance.
Hold either arrow to jump straight to an earlier or later workspace view.
Click an arrow or use the View menu for one step. Hold or right-click an arrow to choose a channel, file, or view by name. Returning to a Calendar event restores the selected day and its details.

Switch from Calendar to Clipboard history to copy a recent item while keeping its contents off screen.
The widget shows each clip’s type, copy time and pin status. Click to copy, or right-click to copy or pin. Only Open history with previews shows the contents in the separate Clipboard pane. Clipboard capture is opt-in.

Up Next shows the countdown and Join button. Scroll past it to see today, tomorrow and the following day in one agenda.
Choose which Google calendars appear in Launcher and Personal → Calendar. Your choices follow your Smol sign-in. You can also connect a work account to include appointments only that account can see.


Queue a question in Launcher, expand to Chat, and send it to the answer you choose.
The chosen answer and queued question stay together while the conversation loads. You can continue as soon as either model has answered.

The window buttons, Smol egg, Launcher title and search field share a centerline. Search starts directly above the app results.
At standard zoom the first result sits six points higher, with room for the full search prompt at the smallest Mac window size. At narrower layouts, search moves to its own row.

Start two models together, read the first answer as it arrives, and continue with either one.
Choose Arena in the Workspace model picker. Both models see the same conversation and can search the web. Voting after both finish reveals their names. Queued follow-ups go to the answer you choose. The picker also links to the public Arena leaderboard.

Read finish time and web search counts alongside TTFT and token delivery speed.
Expand a reply’s footer for stream pauses, token usage, provider and reported cost when available. Hosted attempts contribute timing and usage data to the public aggregates. On-device inference statistics stay on this Mac.

See today and the next two days beside your apps. Check the countdown to your next meeting and join the call from its card.
Connect Google Calendar in Chrome and approve read-only access. Choose which calendars to show. Click a meeting for details, double-click to open it in Google Calendar, or use Actions for its call link and directions.

Switch the launcher’s side panel to Recent files & folders to reopen something you used in Smol.
Open an item’s Actions menu to reveal it in Finder, copy its path, or pin it to Quicklinks.

The menu bar egg hatches while Caffeinate keeps your Mac awake. Choose a monochrome, golden or full-color Hatchling in Launcher Settings.
Open the Smol egg’s menu and choose Start Caffeinate to keep your Mac and display awake. Choose Stop Caffeinate from the same menu, or type “caffeinate 30m” in the launcher for a timer.

Find Software updates, Start at login and Screen Recording access together. Open Keyboard shortcuts to see your assigned keys first.
Expand the unassigned shortcuts to add one. Select an assigned shortcut to change, clear or reset it. The same list opens from Launcher Settings.

Recognize each window by the Smol egg and its name, with tabs or app search beside the window controls.
Workspace uses a 42-point title bar and Launcher uses 45 points. Typing a new app query ranks matching apps and returns the selection to the top.

See your draft, attachments, selected skill and Send button together.
History and Skills open when you need them. You can still choose a model, queue a follow-up and expand a conversation.

Check where an item will paste before pressing Return.
Use the arrow keys to preview entries. More actions keeps copying and managing entries available.

Choose a capture mode immediately, with previous screenshots underneath.
The editor explains how to crop beside Select, shows the configured Copy and close shortcut and supports Backspace to return to Apps.

Find channels from your local Slack history and open them in Slack.
Suggestions include the workspace name and use channel frequency to order matches.

Start a drawing with a person, architecture icon, labeled axis, matrix or tier list.
Draw includes 13 starter shapes and preserves custom library items when it replaces stock shapes.

Compare how quickly each model answers a question with web search, then pick one for your next reply.
The picker sorts models by median finish time across five runs with one basic web search. Claude Haiku 5.5 is the default, and all 14 models can search the web.

Type your next question while an answer is arriving, or steer the current reply with it.
Press Return to queue a follow-up or Command-Return to steer. Reply footers show time to first token and output speed when usage is available.

Search for “monitor” to find Displays or “text rep” to find Text Replacements.
Press Return to open the selected setting. When macOS opens a parent pane, the result tells you what to click next.

Drag an arrow or click its two ends. The arrowhead follows your pointer and stays fully visible on Retina displays.
Screenshot returns to the selection tool after each arrow unless you lock the tool. Press Esc to cancel an unfinished arrow, or click the background to deselect a finished one.

Pick a folder for screenshots and screen recordings. Press ⌘S in the editor to save an edited PNG beside the original.
Open Screenshot settings from Launcher Settings or the Mac menu bar. Save to folder writes the file locally even when cloud sharing is enabled. You can change its keyboard shortcut.

Click one of your last 12 screenshots to keep editing its crop and marks in Draw, even after a restart.
Choose Reopen Last Screenshot from the menu bar or launcher search to jump to the newest capture. Use Previous and Next in the editor to move between screenshots.

Type “caffeinate 30m” in the launcher to keep your Mac and display awake for half an hour.
Use Caffeinate without a timer to stay awake until you stop it. Search for “coffee” to check or end the session. Disabling the launcher or quitting Smol ends it too.

Search for words in your last 12 screenshots, then choose Copy Text to put the recognized text on your clipboard.
Smol uses Apple Vision on your Mac to read each available capture. Search matches filenames and recognized text.

Type “slack #speakers” in the launcher and press Return to open that channel.
Slack opens the channel in its default workspace. To choose a specific workspace, save its Slack link as a Quicklink and include its name, or enter the Slack team ID.

Type “port 3000” to see which process is listening there, along with its PID, CPU use and memory.
Kill Process also searches by name or PID. On supported Macs, select one of your processes to review it before requesting Quit or Force quit.

Give a clipboard entry a name, then find it in the launcher whenever you need that text again.
Choose Save as Snippet on a text item in Clipboard History. Snippets stay on this Mac when you clear history and can be copied, pasted or deleted from Snippets.

Choose Continue as in Chrome to connect Smol on this Mac without typing a code.
If the browser cannot return to Smol, choose Use a code instead. Smol can copy the six digits before opening Chrome so you can paste them into the approval page.

Recover a missing preview right in the update window.
Smol retries once after five seconds and again when the connection returns or the window regains focus. You can also choose Retry image for an individual screenshot.

Start a capture from the Smol menu bar, then crop it before you copy it.
In Screenshot, press V, drag from the background and press Enter to crop. Escape cancels the selection. Click an arrow or rectangle to edit it. For a video, Stop and Save Recording appears in the menu bar while Smol is recording.

See startup, clipboard, workspace and shortcut settings together, even in the smallest launcher window.
Open Keyboard shortcuts to edit an assigned command or expand the unassigned list. When you change a startup setting, choose Apply to save it.

See the first page of a PDF attachment before opening it in Preview or reading it inside Smol.
On Mac, clicking a mail PDF opens it in Preview by default. Choose the inline option on the attachment to read future PDFs inside Smol.

See what changed in a Mac update while scanning its release notes.
Click a screenshot beside a release note to enlarge it. Press Escape to return to the list.

Look for the striped egg in your Dock or menu bar. Open the Smol menu to turn Start Smol at Login on or off.
The menu bar uses a monochrome icon that follows the system appearance. Both menus and Desktop Settings reflect the same login preference.

Read the answer without scrolling past every step Smol took on your Mac.
Open the checklist to inspect completed actions. Requests for approval, errors and screenshots stay visible in the conversation.

The welcome tour introduces the launcher with a command key and an illustrated shortcut guide.
The welcome window and Quick AI use compact illustrations. Your recent workspace and desktop settings are still accessible from the welcome screen.
Smol uses less memory after startup by loading the launcher the first time you open it.
Your shortcuts work from startup. After the first use, the launcher stays ready with your draft.
Choose an answer or fill in a form directly in a conversation.
Smol renders supported A2UI fields and sends your completed form as one follow-up when you submit it.
Attach a PDF and open a cited page from the answer, including when you revisit the chat on this Mac.
Smol keeps the original PDF on this Mac. The attachment tells you which model will receive its extracted text.
See images and SVG illustrations in answers, run a self-contained HTML preview, or choose to load an HTTPS embed.
The interactive preview runs in an isolated web view. Remote images and embeds show their destination before you load them.
Use Excalidraw or connect an MCP server, review its tools, and open the resulting app inside your conversation.
AI → Chat apps shows the server, tool and arguments for approval. Expand a running app and return to chat without losing its editor state.

Draw Chinese, Japanese and Korean text offline using the fonts already on your Mac.
Smol uses installed macOS fallback fonts and keeps debug symbols outside the app. Older drawings can have slightly different letterforms.
Browse and search long clipboard entries without loading their full contents into the launcher.
The history list reads a bounded text preview from SQLite. Copying or pasting a selected entry still uses the original text.
Open and annotate 4K screenshots with less memory while keeping full-resolution exports.
The editor displays a scaled preview. When you save, it composites the annotations onto the original pixels and preserves transparency.

Choose a Notes window and a Reminders list, then ask Workspace or On this Mac to turn an action item into a reminder.
Each message has access to the windows you select. Smol asks before changing an app and asks separately before bringing Reminders forward to save a draft.
Follow a desktop task as it happens and open a larger image of the window at each step.
Automatic window screenshots stay on your Mac. When the model explicitly requests a screenshot, Smol sends that selected window to the model for the current chat.
Open Details on an illustrated update to see what changed. Click its thumbnail for a closer look.
The expanded image opens inside Software updates. Close it with Escape or the Close button to return to the same release note.

Type a question in Apps and press Tab once to send it in a fresh chat.
Smol clears the previous conversation ID and queues the question while the workspace reconnects or the local model loads. Editing the draft during that wait cancels the queued send.
Paste a titled PNG into a document or copy the chart’s data as CSV, including from saved local chats offline.
PNG export rebuilds the saved Vega-Lite chart on a 720-pixel-wide canvas and renders it at 2× resolution. CSV uses the original data rows and prefixes formula-like strings with an apostrophe so spreadsheets treat them as text.

Scan what changed and why it matters before you restart. Open Details for a closer look.
Each change has a bold title and a short benefit. Click Details, focus it and press Enter, or hover over its label to read the implementation note.
Ask AI to draw a workflow or show who sends what to whom, in a workspace or on this Mac.
Both chat modes ask the model for a Mermaid flowchart for steps and branches, or a sequence diagram for ordered messages between participants.

Find Smol on a connected display after a restart, an update or a monitor change.
Before showing a saved window, Smol checks its frame against the visible area macOS reports for connected displays.
Make a rectangle stand out or point an arrow precisely. Your color and stroke choices are there when you reopen the screenshot.
The capture editor sets the initial stroke width using the fitted zoom and saves the selected drawing styles with the draft.
See whether Smol already has Screen Recording access and when freeing disk space will let you save a capture.
Smol checks the macOS Screen Recording permission and recognizes both out-of-space and disk-quota errors.
Preview a personal or project skill and apply its instructions to your next workspace or local message.
Smol reads the selected SKILL.md file. Its Markdown instructions go with the next message. Scripts and linked files stay on this Mac.

See everything you’ll get before restarting, even if you skipped a few versions.
The updater selects published releases newer than your installed version through the offered version, then lists them newest first.
Look up a previous change after updating without leaving Smol.
The latest release stays expanded. Older versions share a disclosure, and the notes scroll independently of the footer controls.
Pick up your edits where you left off, at the same zoom level.
Captured screenshots open with Draw’s tool palette. Reopening the same screenshot restores its draft and zoom.

See the chart even when AI labels it as JSON. Open Chart JSON to inspect or copy the specification.
Smol checks JSON code blocks for a supported chart specification before rendering them.
Match a chart or diagram back to the names in your source data.
The prompts for local and workspace models now include diagram examples and instructions to preserve supplied labels.

Point to a mark to read its value, or switch to the table to see all the numbers.
Smol renders supported Vega-Lite charts as SVG. The chart and its data table use the same inline values.
Follow a flowchart or sequence diagram one connection at a time, and revisit it in a saved local chat.
Smol renders Mermaid flowcharts and sequence diagrams. Saved on-device replies can render their charts and diagrams again.

See a badge in the launcher when a newer version is available, even if you leave Smol running.
Smol checks at launch and every four hours while it’s open.
Compare versions and decide whether to restart after reading what changed.
Software updates shows the installed and latest public versions side by side when an upgrade is available.

Capture part of your screen to mark it up in Draw, or record the display from the Screenshot pane.
A region capture opens as an image in Draw. Display recording is a separate action in the Screenshot pane.
Choose keys that fit your workflow for taking screenshots and opening Draw.
The capture and drawing bindings are configurable in Keyboard shortcuts.
Reopen a workspace conversation or return to a local chat saved on this Mac.
The On this Mac option uses a local model and stores its conversation history on the device.

Return to workspace AI after a restart or update without signing in again while your session is valid.
Opening AI reads the saved macOS Keychain item without prompting and checks workspace access with Smol.
Get back to folders you use often. Pin the ones you want to keep or hide a suggestion.
Smol uses Spotlight activity to find candidate folders. Pinning a suggestion saves it as a Quicklink.
Return to your app list without reaching for the mouse.
Press Backspace when the launcher’s search field is empty.

Keep the launcher in view while your workspace opens.
Smol waits for the workspace page to load before hiding the launcher.
Keep working while an update downloads, then restart when you’re ready.
Smol verifies the signed update archive before offering to install it. The Mac release is also notarized by Apple.
See which files are ready and jump to them in Finder.
Press ⇧⌘J to open Downloads. Smol chooses a new filename if a download would overwrite an existing file.
Drag a file or paste a screenshot into the conversation where you need it.
Dropped files and pasted screenshots are staged as attachments before you send the message.

Connect your account and learn how to zoom or reload just the window you’re using.
Zoom is tracked per window. The View menu supports 50% to 200% zoom and can reset the focused window to actual size.
Find an app, run a calculation, open a Quicklink or ask AI without leaving your current task.
You can enable the optional launcher during the welcome tour or in Desktop Settings.
Find something you copied earlier and use it again.
Clipboard capture is opt-in. Captured items are stored on this Mac.

Keep your workspace in its own window and sign in with the account you already use in Chrome.
The Mac app shows a six-digit pairing code. Approving it in Chrome gives the desktop workspace its own session.
Find out whether a newer Mac build is available from the Smol menu.
The native app compares its installed version with the Mac release metadata published by smol.ai.
