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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Free PointerFocus AlternativesCursor Highligters & Keystroke Visualizers like PointerFocus
The best free alternative to PointerFocus is Googly Eyes. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to PointerFocus and 16 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to PointerFocus are Dockitty, Key'n'Stroke , Spot on the Mouse and FocusCursor.
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18 Googly Eyes alternatives
19 Dockitty alternativesDockitty is a tiny animated cat that lives directly in your Mac Dock. The application is the Dock icon itself.
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Displays keystrokes, mouse clicks, cursor position, shortcuts, and special keys in a fully customizable overlay. Offers click-through mode, opacity, resizable window, history of pressed keys, high-dpi and multi-dpi screen support, and notification area icon.
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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
Displays pointer location, click events, wheel rotation, and keypresses using halos, crosshair, animated rings, and keyboard indicators. All elements are highly adjustable in size, color, shape, and transparency, supporting clear on-screen demonstrations and tutorials.
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- Freemium
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Windows
Spot on the Mouse 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
- Spot on the Mouse is Freemium and Proprietary
Highlights the pointer with a moving ring, animates mouse clicks for emphasis, dims surroundings to focus attention, and enables real-time screen drawing—ideal for teaching, video tutorials, presentations, or demonstrations requiring clear visual cues and explanations.
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11 PenAttention alternativesDisplays a visible highlight, pencil, or pointer at the pen's location on Windows devices, enhancing audience visibility during presentations and screen sharing, with customizable styles, low resource usage, real-time on/off toggling, and compatibility for teachers and presenters.
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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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.
8 Projecteur alternativesProjecteur 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.
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Great application for this purpose