This is just a fun toy I coded up in a few hours. If I get more rude App Store reviews, I will just stop working on the app. There is a feedback button in the app.
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PointerFocus AlternativesCursor Highligters and other similar apps like PointerFocus
PointerFocus is described as 'Allows you to highlight the cursor using either the toolbar or hotkeys. Options include spotlight, highlight, drawing on the screen, magnifier or show keystrokes' and is a cursor highligter in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PointerFocus for Windows, Mac, Linux and GNOME. The best PointerFocus alternative is Googly Eyes, which is free. Other great apps like PointerFocus are Dockitty, Key'n'Stroke , SpotOnTheMouse and FocusCursor.
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Dockitty is a tiny animated cat that lives directly in your Mac Dock. The application is the Dock icon itself.
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14 Key'n'Stroke alternativesKey'n'Stroke (previously named PxKeystrokesForScreencasts) displays keystrokes and mouse clicks in an overlay window.
Key'n'Stroke vs PointerFocus Comments
neat small tool to keep track of your pointer as well as your keystrokes. I personally use it for screencasting.
- Key'n'Stroke is Free and Open Source
- Key'n'Stroke is Customizable and Lightweight
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
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- Windows
SpotOnTheMouse vs PointerFocus Comments
pointerfocus has not only highlight function. but spotonthemouse has only highlight function with worse graphic.
so it can't be alternative.
more function compare to pointerfocus
- SpotOnTheMouse is Freemium and Proprietary
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...
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10 Pen Attention alternativesA free program that places a highlighted circle or square around the cursor for use in a classroom or doing demonstrations.
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.
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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.
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13 Jiggle alternativesJiggle is a Gnome Shell extension that highlights the cursor position when the mouse is moved rapidly.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- GNOME
26 Mouseposé alternativesMouseposé 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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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.
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Great application for this purpose