PainterMouse AlternativesCursor Highligters and other similar apps like PainterMouse

PainterMouse is described as 'Painter Mouse allows you to make demos and presentations easier to follow for your customers. Enhance the mouse cursor, control the colors, transparency and much more' and is a cursor highligter in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PainterMouse for Windows, Mac and Linux. The best PainterMouse alternative is Key'n'Stroke , which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PainterMouse are FocusCursor, SpotOnTheMouse, KeyLimePie and Pen Attention.

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  1. Key'n'Stroke  icon
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    Key'n'Stroke (previously named PxKeystrokesForScreencasts) displays keystrokes and mouse clicks in an overlay window.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Key'n'Stroke is the most popular Windows alternative to PainterMouse.

    • Key'n'Stroke is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PainterMouse.

    • Key'n'Stroke is Free and Open SourcePainterMouse is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • Key'n'Stroke is Customizable and LightweightPainterMouse is not according to our users
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    This tool clearly highlights the cursor’s position, making its movement and clicks easily visible. It is particularly suitable for use in conferences, teaching, or video tutorial production, helping the audience follow your actions and ideas more easily, thereby attracting their...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • FocusCursor is the most popular Mac alternative to PainterMouse.

    • FocusCursor is Freemium and ProprietaryPainterMouse is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • FocusCursor is Privacy focused and LightweightPainterMouse is not according to our users
  3. SpotOnTheMouse icon
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    SpotOnTheMouse is a mouse pointer and keyboard action visualization software. It makes mouse clicks visible, it improves the perceptibility of the mouse pointer & it shows the special keys and combinations of keys pressed on the keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Demo your keyboard shortcuts, easy as pie.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Kokomite icon
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    Kokomite is a software that draws semi-transparent circles (or rings) around the mouse cursor to make the focus easier to understand in a presentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    The highlight feature creates a spotlight-effect on your screen, so you can point, click, and rest assured that your audience is following along.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Mouseposé icon
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    Mouseposé is the indispensible mouse pointer highlighting tool (aka "virtual laserpointer") for everyone doing demos at tradeshows, presentations and trainings, or those individuals with huge and high resolution displays.

    25 Mouseposé alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Mouseposé is the most popular commercial alternative to PainterMouse.

    • Mouseposé is Paid and ProprietaryPainterMouse is Free Personal and Proprietary
  8. KeyPosé icon
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    A Little utility that implements a global key logger which displays all shortcuts & keystrokes as you type on screen and with a semi-transparent overlay. This makes it very easy to show any shortcuts you use if you for example record a software demo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Projecteur icon
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    Projecteur is a virtual laser pointer for use with inertial pointers such as the Logitech Spotlight. Projecteur can show a colored dot, a highlighted circle or a zoom effect to act as a pointer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • Projecteur is the most popular Linux alternative to PainterMouse.

    • Projecteur is Free and Open SourcePainterMouse is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    This is an agent application that highlights the mouse as a pointer.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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