HotMouse Alternatives
HotMouse is described as 'brings high fidelity screen effects to your desktop. With a graphics engine specially designed to take advantage of your multicore Mac, HotMouse renders silky smooth, lag-free special effects around on your mouse pointer' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are four alternatives to HotMouse for Mac and Windows. The best HotMouse alternative is PointerStick, which is free. Other great apps like HotMouse are myPoint Light, Mouse Locator and iCursor.
PointerStick
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo6 PointerStick alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
PointerStick is a portable tool that presents on the Windows Desktop a virtual pointer stick, for example for Presentations!
- - PointerStick is the most popular Windows alternative to HotMouse.
- - PointerStick is the most popular free alternative to HotMouse.
PointerStick Features
myPoint Light
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo6 myPoint Light alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
Stop hunting for your cursor! Modern computers with multiple high resolution displays present us with the "where is my mouse" problem. myPoint solves it using three different techniques - a momentary or permanent mouse locator, a crosshair and a permanent mouse halo. •.
- - myPoint Light is the most popular Mac alternative to HotMouse.
- - myPoint Light is the most popular commercial alternative to HotMouse.
Mouse Locator
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo7 Mouse Locator alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
Highly visible locator instantly reveals your mouse position. Controllable trigger time period, from 1 second to 30 minutes. Eliminates the frustrating search of your screen.
DiscontinuediCursor is a funny and useless app for Mac OS X, it attaches to your cursor pointer a lot of particles. There are many customizable effects and you can also create and share new effects with other users.