Lasso for Mac
Circle, highlight and point at anything on your Mac while you present, teach or explain. Press esc and it’s gone.
The problem
Whether you’re presenting, teaching or helping a teammate, pointing with a cursor only gets you so far.
A small arrow is easy to miss on a shared screen, so “this one, here” lands on no one.
Capture first, then open an editor, find the pen, export, paste. By the time it’s sent, the conversation has moved on.
Extra windows, stolen focus, and ink that stays behind after you’re done.
How it works
Lasso puts a transparent canvas over everything on your Mac — only while you need it.
Over any app, on any display.
Circle, highlight, point or number what matters.
Your drawing disappears and your screen is back to normal.
Great for
A circle on the screen says more than a paragraph of directions — whoever, or whatever, is on the other end.
Make this card match the other two — same padding, same number size.
With AI agents
Circle the part of a web page, design or doc you’re talking about, press S, and paste the screenshot into Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT. The agent sees exactly what you see.
In meetings, online or in the room
Circle, highlight and point while you talk — on a call, in a demo, in front of a class. No one has to hunt for your cursor.
this one — can it go out Thursday?
On it.
With a colleague or friend
Mark the exact spot, press S, and drop it in Slack or Messages. “The second one in the list, the one that says…” becomes a circle.
Screenshots
Screenshot tools capture first and leave you to annotate afterwards, in an editor. Lasso turns that around: mark up the live screen, press S, and the shot — ink and all — is already on your clipboard.
Saved to your screenshots folder as well. The toolbar never shows up in the shot — just your screen and your drawing.
Drawing tools
Draw freehand around anything — your strokes come out smooth.
Mark a line without covering it up.
Arrows and lines that land exactly where you aim.
Numbered steps that count up as you click.
Also included: text, rectangles and ellipses, a laser pointer, an eraser, and eight colors.
Pages & whiteboards
Start a fresh page — or a whiteboard — without losing what you drew. Swipe back and it’s all still there.
Drag the page or click a tab.
Thoughtful details
Slides, code, video calls and full-screen apps.
No Dock icon and no windows to manage.
Press esc and your screen is exactly as it was.
Press S after drawing. It’s on your clipboard and in your screenshots folder.
Leave a drawing up while you keep working.
A native app that feels at home on macOS.
Free. Opens from your menu bar and stays out of the way until you need it.
Yes. Download it, drag it to Applications, done. No account, no trial, no card.
Any Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon or Intel. The Liquid Glass toolbar needs macOS 26; everything else is the same on macOS 14 and 15.
Lasso is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other Mac app — no warnings, no workarounds.
Drawing needs none. Screenshots read the pixels on your screen, so the first one asks for Screen Recording. You can skip it and keep drawing.
Quit Lasso from the menu bar, then drag it from Applications to the Trash. That’s all of it.
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