Take the screenshot
Crop it, find where it saved, and hope the part you needed is inside the frame.
Screen Assist
Ask the screen. Keep your place.
Select the part you do not follow and ask about it right there. No screenshot, no upload, no explaining the context to a window that has never met you.
The detour
Four steps to ask one question.
This is what asking about something on your screen normally costs. Not one of these steps is the question itself.
Open the other tool
A new tab, a new window, a fresh conversation that knows nothing about you.
Upload and explain
Attach the image, then type the context the picture cannot carry on its own.
Carry the answer back
Read it there, hold it in your head, and return to find your place gone.
Select it. Ask it. That is the whole gesture.
What you can ask about
If you can see it, you can ask.
Screen Assist reads what is on the screen rather than what the application is willing to hand over, so the question does not have to be about text.
A chart you do not follow
Axes, a trend line, an outlier. Pixels, not text, and still a fair question.
An acronym in a deck
The three letters everyone else in the meeting appears to already know.
A clause in a contract
Select the paragraph and ask what it commits you to, in plain words.
A stack trace
Ask what broke and what to inspect next, beside the code that threw it.
A corner of an interface
The setting with no label, in software whose documentation you cannot find.
A page that will not copy
A scanned PDF, a locked viewer, a video frame. If you can see it, you can ask.
It arrives informed
A question that starts warm.
The context is already there.
A fresh chat window knows nothing about you, so half of every question is the setup. Screen Assist runs inside the profile you are already working in, carried by the same memory, permissions, and chosen intelligence as everything else Attyn does.
It knows the profile you are in
The same workspace rules, memory, and permissions carried by every other surface.
You pick the intelligence
Screen Assist runs on the model you selected, including your own key.
It looks only when you ask
Nothing is captured until you press the key. There is no always-on watching to switch off.
The answer comes to you
It arrives beside the work, so the thing you were reading never scrolls away.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Is Attyn watching my screen all the time?
No. Nothing is captured until you press the key, and it happens only in that moment, for the question you asked. There is no background recording to find and switch off.
How do I start it?
Tap Right Command, circle the thing you are asking about, and type the question. Holding the same key instead of tapping it opens Blackboard, so one key covers both. If Right Command already means something on your Mac, you can move Screen Assist onto a different modifier.
What exactly gets sent?
The region you circled, a view of the full screen so the region has something to sit in, and a short list of the interface elements underneath it. Attyn reads the app that owns the window you circled rather than whatever happens to be in front, so a notification sliding past does not become the subject of your question.
Does it work on things I cannot select or copy?
Yes, and that is most of the point. A chart, a scanned PDF, a video frame, a dialog box, a stretch of an interface with no accessible text. Screen Assist reads what is on the screen rather than what the application is willing to hand over.
Where does the selection go?
To the intelligence you chose in your AI source settings, which is the same choice every other Attyn surface uses. That means you decide which provider sees it, and you can bring your own key so the request runs on your own account.
How is this different from taking a screenshot and pasting it into a chatbot?
It removes the trip. There is no file to save, nothing to upload, and no context to retype, because Attyn already knows which profile you are working in. The answer also arrives beside the work instead of in another window, so you do not lose your place to go and read it.
Which plan includes it?
Screen Assist is part of the $15 monthly tier, which carries all four features. The $5 tier is Realtime Dictation and Inline Assist. Owning Attyn outright is a single $100 payment and includes everything.
Get Attyn
Stop screenshotting your own screen to ask about it.
Select the part you do not follow, ask, and carry on reading.
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