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  • Create your first mascot/docs/tutorials/first-mascot
  • Create an animated character/docs/tutorials/first-animation
  • Make a character talk/docs/tutorials/make-it-talk
  • Put your mascot on your website/docs/tutorials/mascot-on-your-website
  • Guide onboarding with a talking mascot/docs/tutorials/web-onboarding-mascot
  • Add a mascot that celebrates progress and welcomes users back/docs/tutorials/web-progress-companion
  • Add a talking support mascot in the bottom right/docs/tutorials/web-support-mascot
  • Show a mascot while your AI thinks/docs/tutorials/ai-loading-mascot
  • Give your AI agent a face/docs/tutorials/ai-agent-face
  • Animate the mascot you already have/docs/tutorials/animate-your-mascot
  • How to make Telegram stickers/docs/tutorials/telegram-stickers
  • How to make Discord stickers/docs/tutorials/discord-stickers
  • Quickstart: your first animation/docs/quickstart
  • Terminal quickstart/docs/terminal
  • API keys and workspaces/docs/authentication
  • CLI browser login/docs/authentication/cli
  • How mascots work/docs/how-mascots-work
  • Credits and costs/docs/credits
  • From text/docs/create/from-text
  • From an image/docs/create/from-image
  • From a website/docs/create/from-website
  • From a brand book/docs/create/from-brand-book
  • Reference images/docs/manage/references
  • What you can generate/docs/generation
  • Pose-to-animation walkthrough/docs/generate/workflow
  • Images and poses/docs/generate/images
  • Animations/docs/generate/animations
  • Talking animations/docs/generate/talking
  • Logos, backgrounds and stickers/docs/generate/design-assets
  • Cursor follower/docs/generate/cursor-follower
  • Batch generation/docs/generate/batch
  • Image and video exports/docs/manage/media-exports
  • Canvases and releases/docs/canvas
  • Build a canvas/docs/canvas/build
  • Canvas templates/docs/canvas/templates
  • Generate canvas assets/docs/canvas/generate-all
  • Export a canvas/docs/canvas/export
  • Overview and demo/docs/player
  • Play one animation/docs/player/one-animation
  • Play a canvas/docs/player/canvas
  • Hosting and file formats/docs/generate/cdn
  • File sizes/docs/generate/file-sizes
  • Float a mascot on your Mac/docs/integrations/desktop
  • Jobs and polling/docs/manage/jobs
  • Webhooks/docs/manage/webhooks
  • Manage mascots and assets/docs/manage/collections
  • All endpoints/docs/reference
  • Requests and responses/docs/reference/conventions
  • Errors and recovery/docs/reference/errors
  • Command line reference/docs/terminal/commands
  • TypeScript SDK/docs/sdk/typescript
  • Changelog/docs/reference/changelog
  • Migrate to mascots and canvases/docs/manage/studio-migration
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Float a mascot on your Mac

Masko Desktop shows a mascot as a floating overlay on your Mac. The mascot stays above your windows and reacts to the state it is in. Desktop places and shows the mascot. The API and the command line manage its content.

Install a mascot

  1. Install Masko Desktop for macOS 14 or later from masko.ai/download.
  2. Open a mascot's marketplace page on masko.ai and install it. The browser opens Desktop through a masko://install/marketplace link, and Desktop adds the mascot to your library.
  3. Desktop floats the mascot. Ko is the default mascot, so a new install shows him until you choose another.

Make your own mascot

Create and animate a mascot with the quickstart or the command line. To install it in Desktop, publish it to the marketplace. Listings are reviewed before others can install them.

What the API controls and what Desktop controls

TaskDone with
Create the character and its poses and animationsAPI, Studio or the command line
Download the finished filesAPI or the command line
Install a mascot and choose which one floatsMasko Desktop
Place, drag, resize and hide the mascot on screenMasko Desktop

No public API call shows a mascot on your Mac today. Desktop's local interface is for Desktop itself and uses a per-user token, so apps should not rely on it.