Crosshair X news & patch notes

• Fixed an issue where the "Show only in-game" setting wasn't reliably detecting certain games.
• Resolved a visual layering quirk in the Designer when using the Draw tool. Your new brush strokes will no longer temporarily hide behind previous ones while you hold down the mouse!
• Fixed bugs related to animating arm visibility with color changes.
• Various under-the-hood internal fixes to keep everything running smoothly.
• Fixed a bug regarding the Mouse X popup

• Community-Driven Designs: Ditch the standard Windows cursor and explore thousands of unique, creative designs shared directly by the community.
• Super Lightweight: We optimized Mouse X purely for custom cursors, ensuring it runs seamlessly in the background without impacting your PC's performance.
• Launch Offer: Available right now with a limited-time introductory discount!
• Get It Now: Check out Mouse X on Steam Here!

✨ Crosshair X: QoL Updates & Fixes

🎮 Only Show In-Game

• Manually toggle this new setting on, and Crosshair X will only display your custom crosshair when you are actively in-game.
• Easily add your own games and processes to control exactly when the app is visible.
• You can find the new setting on the Settings page under the Display category.

🔓 Seamless Steam Sharing & Login

• We want to make it as frictionless as possible to interact with the community.{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38447446/f67210c8e894bd072cf406fe059b3ceb2ef5165a.gif

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Added UI sounds when swiping the carousel on the home page.
  • Added UI sounds when clicking the toggles on the settings page.
  • Fixed an issue where reverse animations weren't playing while working on a design.
  • Fixed Center Dot Ring animations from being clipped.
  • Squashed a visual UI bug when opening the share modal.
  Thank you for all your support over the years. Your feedback drives Crosshair X forward, and we can’t wait to see what you create with Mouse X! 🦆❤️

🌟 Discover Page

• Added a highlights carousel for trending crosshairs, featured picks, upcoming apps, community stats, and more.
• Added Today's Pick — a daily crosshair selected for the community to try.
• You can now vote up or down on Today's Pick.
• Added Jump Back In to quickly access your 5 most recently used crosshairs.
• Added game-based recommendations when community tags are available for the game you are playing.
• Added a Discover Feed to browse trending, newest, and most downloaded community crosshairs.

👥 Your Squad

• Connect Crosshair X with Discord.
• Share crosshairs with your squad in one click.
• See which crosshairs your squad is using.

🌸 Anime Collection

• Browse anime-inspired crosshairs in one place.
• Discover new community designs with a themed collection.
• Check back for more collections as we continue expanding Browse.

🎮 Position Keybinds Are Back

• Brought back the Position Keybinds.
• Move and adjust your crosshair position faster using keybinds.

🛠️ Designer & Sharing Improvements

• Monitor bounds are now shown in the Designer canvas.
• Removed unnecessary limits to crosshair design values. (Length, Thickness, Gap, etc.)
• Share codes and crosshair exports now support the new layer types.
• Designs that cannot be encoded into a Share code now show clearer messaging and sharing alternatives.
• Designer and Settings position values can now go beyond the previous hard caps.
• Improved handling of special characters in mod.io titles.

🎨 The new Canvas

• Scroll to zoom, middle-click to pan, and click to select layers directly on the canvas.
• Drag to move and resize layers. Click and drag an empty area to marquee select multiple layers.
• Drag and drop images onto the canvas to add them as layers.
• Right-click context menu and full keyboard shortcut support.

✏️ Freehand Drawing + New Layer types

• Draw — Interact directly with the canvas and draw
• Shape — Rectangles, ellipses, and triangles can now independently be added to your design with animation support
• Text — Finally you can also add text to your design with animation support

🆕 Line Shapes & Arm Rendering

• New arm renderer supporting 3–8 evenly-spaced arms with per-arm visibility toggles.
• Two new arm shapes: Image and Text (Yes you can make crosshairs out of images now)
• Supported line shapes:
  • Rectangle
  • Triangle
  • Chevron In
  • Chevron Out
  • Arc
  • T-Shape
  • Image (new)
  • Text (new)

⚡Animation Changes

• Multi-stage animations — chain multiple stages together to create more dynamic and complex animations.
• Image layers can now be animated — animate width, height, opacity, rotation, and position on fire, aim, or autoplay.
• Shape and text layers are fully animatable too — each with their own set of properties.

📋 Design Quick Actions

• New summary view showing common properties across all layers in your design.
• Change colors, outlines, and opacity globally — no need to edit each layer individually.
• Get to the look you want faster by iterating on the whole design at once.

👋 Until next time

🌐 A Connected Browse Experience

• Discover the latest and most popular crosshairs across more games than ever before — no account or login needed.
• Preview any crosshair before deciding to save it -- just like before.
• Search can now filter by game, style, or tags to find exactly what you're looking for.
• Search works across both mod.io and Steam with new sorting and filtering options
• Want to get featured? Publish your crosshairs to mod.io and they could show up on the home page. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38447446/c4a03d128158de382329809afeb059e0bf3b2a06.gif

📡 Offline Mode

• Don't want the connected experience? Toggle offline mode to restore the legacy Browse page.
• Crosshair X detects connection issues automatically and will offer users to switch to offline mode for a better experience. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38447446/357e8de9317b8081eef5332d2329be93b667b5b3.gif

🗂️ My Workshop

• Push updates to your published crosshairs on Steam Workshop and mod.io — subscribers are notified when a new version drops.
• See all your subscriptions and uploads across both platforms in a single view.
• Track downloads, subscriber counts, and other stats on your published crosshairs.
• Edit names, tags, and visibility on existing items in app without creating a new listing.
• Manage subscriptions and uploads in app. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38447446/d845577036283d6b1318c0c961e35e626899abb4.gif

📢 Workshop Items can now be UPDATED!

• Creators can now share revisions and updates to their designs with all of their subscribers
• Simply update your subscribed crosshairs with a single click {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38447446/0fc649987b9919c51bc3d302c5353ebae845c07a.gif

🛠️ Other Changes

• Better guidance when Game Bar isn't installed — a dedicated modal now explains what to do.
• Added Ukrainian language support.
• Minor FAQ text updates.
• Internal stability and performance improvements.
• The "Saved" tab now remembers your last active category.

🚀 Big Update for 02/04/2026

📁 Saved Page Organization Revamp!

This is to the power users with too many crosshairs to count. You know who you are.

• Re-arrangeable crosshairs

• Folder management

• Search, Favorites

• Faster loading in Saved page, Designer Save and Importing!

📏 1px thick rendering is now possible!

If we broke your crosshair in this update, we're sorry, but it had to be done.

This is a long requested bug fix people wanted for years and we kept putting it off we didn't want to risk making people adapt to new changes in the designer. Prior to this update, you could never make truly 1px thick crosshairs in the designer without really pushing the designer to it's limits.

⚖️ Thickness and Gap Parity Syncing in the Designer

Now that Crosshairs can be extremely thin, crosshairs have the ability to not be symmetric. That is why we made an option to always keep the gap and thickness to maintain being odd or even.

🖥️ Ignore DPI Scaling turned on by default!

Example: 225% Display Scaling will look the same as 100% Display Scaling.

Your crosshair will now look the same on every Windows scaling option unless you turn it off this setting. This will prevent users from complaining their crosshair looks too blurry when it just had to do with them having Windows Display Scaling set to anything other then 100%.

✂️ Shape Cut Tool UI/UX clean up!

If you enjoy making meme crosshairs, this one's for you.

We forgot to update the UI in the previous UI update so we gave it a fresh look this update. Check it out!

📰 News page in-app now available!

You can now read our news and updates from within the app.

🛠️ Other small fixes

Nothing huge but honorable mentions:

• Fixed Display Mode selection toast, it was navigating users to the wrong page.

• Re-arranged sidebar icons and fixed padding.

• Fixed a ton of translations throughout the app.

• Added glow to Display modes info tooltip and added more information.

🪴 Patch Notes

• Expanded keybind support to include F13–F24 keys.
• Fixed an issue where the Reload keybind was not working as expected.
• The sidebar now remembers your expanded/collapsed preference.
• Fixed an issue where some Designer settings wouldn’t save properly.

🗂️ Navigation & Layout Changes

• Consolidated the Featured, Community, and Search tabs into a single page called Browse.
• Updated the sidebar layout and moved the previous Options page into a new Settings button at the bottom. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38447446/fe2c8c81866eb159b9dafa42e3a12a11c50ef5ec.png
• Relocated both Display Modes and Position & Size into the Settings page. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38447446/0b7f1ebaf6422db390ed6e83640e9223757b3504.png
• Added a larger Profile Quick Select at the top of the app.
• Removed “Profiles” from the sidebar — accessible through the quick select instead.
• Added profile filters, search, and a table view for profile management.
• Updated the visibility indicator for Crosshair Visibility Status in the top bar. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38447446/ce3688d9c33ebdc1c369ff85c2c469d34530a08a.png

🪴 Patch Notes

• Removed the 2025 holiday theme.
• Fixed a sizing issue when exporting crosshairs as PNGs.
• Fixed a major issue where crosshairs could remain visible or hidden when using aim actions in-game (reported by multiple users).
• Fixed unnecessary CPU usage while idle.
• Fixed Drag & Drop not working for Image layers in the Designer.
• Additional internal optimizations — performance improvements will continue to be a major focus this year.

🎄 Happy Holidays from Crosshair X!

✨ What’s New

• Improved the Game Bar status warning tooltip to clearly show which setup steps are missing.
• Added a festive holiday theme across the app.
• UI improvements and refinements in the Designer.
• Fixed a memory leak related to animated crosshairs.
• Fixed Global Toggle tooltip showing the wrong profile keybind.
• Added Share to the Crosshair Actions dropdown.
• Added a brand-new event: Randomizer.

🎁 Introducing the Crosshair X: Randomizer

• Spin through a mix of randomly generated crosshairs and hand-picked community favorites.
• Discover hidden rare crosshairs along the way.
• Play games with the Randomizer running in the background.
• Press R (Reload key) to spin — the Randomizer page must be active for this to work.
• Customize settings like keybinds, auto-spin, and sound effects.
• Full CS2 integration — randomize crosshairs on kill, death, or new round.

❤️ Thank You

• Fixed a bug where launch preferences were not being respected.
• Fixed an issue where the Display Selector appeared blank.
• Increased Custom Image size limit from 5MB → 8MB.
• Corrected text in Windows notifications when triggering Global Toggle.
• Updated social icons in the app sidebar.
• Added new Rust Crosshairs:
  • Kickz (Twitch) → Crosshair
  • Vaybae (Twitch) → Crosshair
• Internal stability and performance improvements.

Crosshair X and Scope X are now both 50% off!

Ask yourself the following questions:

• Do my friends have perfect aim?

• Do they have loads of money?

• Are they using a custom crosshair yet?

If the answers are no, let your friends know about this special deal that won’t last forever.

Good luck, have fun, and thank you for your support over the years!

• Minor UI bug fixes
• Improved the out-of-box-experience
• Fixed streamer server pop up experience

• Reduce input latency on some systems.
• Introduce a new out-of-box-experience.
• Remove the Scope X Pixel Hunt game.
• Address a bug that sometimes caused the wrong display to be selected at startup.
• Address a rare bug where the Streamer Server does not throw an error when experiencing a port conflict.

• Fix a bug wherein a user's "Minimize on Launch" preferences would be ignored. We're very sorry for any inconvenience.
• Update some creator crosshairs.

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

• Task Manager Startup Fix: Crosshair X will now properly respect your Task Manager startup settings. If you disable auto-launch via Task Manager, Crosshair X will no longer override that choice on launch.
• Streamer Asset Fix: Fixed an issue where Streamer Assets were not downloading properly.

🎥 Are You a Creator? We’re Looking For You!

🚀 Thanks for the Support!

📁 What is a Profile?

• Default crosshair (used when the profile loads)
• Keybinds
• Position and size settings

✨ New Profiles Page

• Create new profiles for each game or app
• Attach profiles to apps for automatic switching
• Manage all your saved profiles in one place

🎯 App-Specific Crosshairs

🔍 Profile Detection

🛠️ Additional Changes

• Added an indicator for the current profile in the top bar.
• Added Profile selector to the "Keybinds" page.
• Added Profile selector to the "Positon & Size" page.
• Added global setting for "Profile Detection".

👋 That's everything

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue where small crosshairs appeared blurry for some users when using Simple Overlay.
• Fixed animations not triggering when switching crosshairs via keybind while aim/fire was held.
• Fixed UI sync issues in the Game Bar Status.
• Layer highlighting is now off by default (toggle available in the Crosshair Preview panel).
• Clicking on the Streamer Server indicator now navigates you to the Streamer Server Settings
• Fixed CTRL/Shift in the Color Picker triggering layer multi-select.
• Fixed color autocomplete in the Color Picker input.

👀 Crosshair Visibility on Launch

• Added a setting to control if the crosshair is visible when Crosshair X launches — a highly requested feature!

🎮 New Animation Controls

• Added Autoplay trigger — animations will now play automatically when the crosshair loads.
• Added Press and Hold trigger press types for more flexible animation control.
• Added Normal and Alternate animation timing directions.
• Added Trigger Release behavior — control what happens when the animation key is released.
• Added a Reload Keybind to reset paused animations.

👋 That's everything

🔤 Rename Your Layers

• You can now rename a layer by clicking the name of the layer you have selected.
• To remove a name, simply delete the text and click outside the input box.
• Layers now highlight on hover without needing to select, making it easier to know what you're about to click.

🎬 Animate Everything

• Full Animation Control: You can now animate every setting in Line, Center Dot, Outline, and Layer Settings.
• Find Everything in One Place: All new animation options are available in the Animations tab in the Designer.

• Bug fixes for some users experiencing a crash on start, or a crash when saving a crosshair.
• Improvements to error collection and telemetry.

Create Designs with Custom Images!

• You can now add custom images directly in the Designer.
• The old "Images" page has been removed.
• Combine images with crosshairs to create unique designs.
• A new "Layer Type" setting is available in the Designer.

Saved Crosshairs Changes

• Removed the old popup for editing saved cards.
• Added an actions dropdown with shortcuts to Edit in Designer, Create a Keybind, and Delete.
• You can now rename a saved crosshair by clicking its name.

Crosshair Consistency

• Crosshairs now have unique IDs.
• Deleting a crosshair used in a Keybind will remove it from the Keybind.
• Updating a crosshair used in a Keybind will automatically update the Keybind to use the latest version.

New Import/Share Experience

• Added Share and Import buttons to the right of the tabs on the "Crosshairs" page.
• Removed the "Share Crosshairs" tab.
• New experience for importing share codes.
• The Share button now opens a "Share" experience similar to the Designer.

Quality of Life Improvements

• Faster Load Times: The "Crosshairs" page now loads quicker.
• Sharper Crosshairs: Improved rendering for smaller crosshairs -- no more blurriness!
• Other minor bug fixes

• Remove holiday theme.
• Fix some bugs and inaccuracies in German and Russian translations.
• Minor changes to diagnostic tools.
• Minor GUI touchups for first time users.

• Don't automatically open the Happy Holidays modal.
• Fix a minor bug when using the app in French.
• Fix some crashes that were released in the last update.

🎄Holiday Theme

✨ More Featured Crosshairs!

🎮 Game Bar Health Check Revamp

🎥 Calling all Streamers!

🔍 Search

🎨 New Designer 2

Layout

• Improved Performance: Sliders now respond instantly, and lag issues have been eliminated.
• Resizable Zones: Adjust the size of the preview and layer manager sections to create a layout that works best for you.
• Tabbed Settings: Design settings are now grouped into easy-to-navigate tabs, making it faster to find and adjust settings like layers, animations, and visual properties.
• Tab Component Preview: Quickly see a visual representation of each layer component—lines, outlines, dots, animations, and more—directly within the settings tabs.

Live Preview

• Layer Highlighting: Easily identify the active layer you're working on with visual highlights.
• Animation Preview: See how your crosshair animations look inside the designer. To activate just click and hold your Aim / Fire key while in the designer.
• Zoom / Pan Controls: Easily adjust your view inside the designer by scrolling with your mouse mouse wheel to zoom or drag with left click to pan.

Features

• Undo / Redo - Easily step back or forward through your design changes with a full edit history.
• Multi-Layer Selection - Quickly Select all, specific, or a range of layers
• Multi-Layer Edits - Apply color changes or adjust settings across multiple selected layers in one go
• Import Crosshairs: You can now combine designs effortlessly by importing another crosshair into your current project to create unique, customized masterpieces.
• Color Removal: Remove color from the center dot, outline, or lines to create unique effects, like fade-in animations or outline-only crosshairs.
• Save & Replace: Easily replace existing crosshairs when saving to keep your library clean and organized.

Shortcuts

• Added a search feature to index local crosshairs, Steam Workshop, etc.

• Added some more information in the Help page for users struggling with bugs that are still a WIP.
• Added EHarvey and Toddynho crosshairs.
• Minor visual bugfixes.

• Stability fixes.