Screen Presenter Utility for macOSMake your cursor impossible to miss.
Stop hearing "wait, where's your cursor?" and "what did you just press?" Limelight spotlights your cursor, shows your keystrokes on screen, and lets you draw on anything — so every demo, tutorial, and call is dead simple to follow.
7-day free trial · no credit card · then $9 once
Looks great over anything you present, record, or stream with
The Problem
Your audience can't follow along.
On a shared screen or a recording, a tiny cursor and invisible shortcuts leave viewers lost. They miss what you clicked and what you pressed.
Nobody can find your cursor.
On a Zoom call or a 1080p recording, the cursor is a 12px arrow. Viewers spend half the demo just hunting for where you are.
Your shortcuts are invisible.
You press ⌘⇧P and something happens — but nobody watching knows what you hit. Tutorials become "wait, what key was that?"
You can't point at anything.
Explaining a detail means waving the cursor in circles. No way to circle, underline, or draw attention to the thing that matters.
Screen recorders are overkill.
You just want to highlight and annotate live — not learn a heavy editor or pay a monthly subscription to do it.
Sound familiar? Keep scrolling.
Three Hotkeys
Three tools. One keypress each.
Turn each tool on or off instantly with a global shortcut — without leaving your presentation, demo, or call.
Works over any app — browser, terminal, Keynote, Zoom. Nothing to set up.
Features
Everything you need to present clearly.
A focused overlay that makes your cursor, your keys, and your point easy to follow.
Draw on screen
Circle it. Underline it. Make your point — live.
Hit ⌃⌥3 and draw directly over any app. Highlight the exact number, the exact button, the exact line of code — while you present. Clear it all with one shortcut.
Cursor Spotlight
A glowing highlight follows your mouse so viewers always know exactly where you are on screen.
Keystroke Display
Every shortcut you press appears on screen in big, clean type — perfect for tutorials and walkthroughs.
Menu Bar Native
Lives quietly in your menu bar. No dock clutter, no heavy window — just instant overlays on demand.
Nothing Recorded
A pure live overlay. Your screen is never captured or uploaded — pairs with any recorder or call app.
Fully Offline
No account. No cloud. No subscription. Limelight runs entirely on your Mac.
Why Limelight
A presenter tool that respects your Mac and your data.
No accounts. No cloud. No monthly fees. Just an instant, native overlay that makes every demo easier to follow.
Nothing Is Recorded
Limelight is a live overlay — it never captures, uploads, or stores your screen. What's on your Mac stays on your Mac.
One-Time Payment
Pay once. Use forever. All future updates included. No subscriptions, no recurring fees, no auto-renewal traps.
Truly Native macOS
Built with SwiftUI. A lightweight menu bar app with system-wide hotkeys that draw instantly over everything — Apple Silicon & Intel.
How It Works
From cluttered demo to clear in 3 steps.
Launch & allow
Limelight lives in your menu bar. Grant Accessibility permission once so it can draw over other apps and see your hotkeys.
Hit a hotkey
Press ⌃⌥1 for the cursor spotlight, ⌃⌥2 to show keystrokes, or ⌃⌥3 to draw — any time, in any app.
Present clearly
Your cursor glows, your shortcuts appear on screen, and you can circle anything. Toggle tools off just as fast.
Full guide
From install to your first demo, step by step.
Install Limelight
- 1Open the downloaded .dmg file.
- 2Drag Limelight into your Applications folder.
- 3Launch it from Applications or Spotlight — it lives in the menu bar (no dock icon).
Limelight is notarized by Apple, so it opens with no Gatekeeper warning.
Use Cases
Made for the moments you present.
Anywhere a tiny cursor and invisible shortcuts lose your audience, Limelight makes you easy to follow.
Online teaching & lectures
Keep students locked onto your cursor and show every shortcut as you teach — in class or over video.
Tutorials & course videos
Record walkthroughs where viewers can actually see which keys you press and where you click.
Product demos & sales calls
Guide a prospect's eyes to exactly the feature you're showing, live on a screen share.
Remote meetings (Zoom, Meet, Teams)
Point, circle, and highlight while presenting to a remote team — no "where's your cursor?" moments.
Live coding & dev screencasts
Show the shortcut behind every action so your audience can keep up while you code.
Design & doc walkthroughs
Circle and annotate directly on screen to give feedback or explain a layout in real time.
Compare
How Limelight is different.
Recorders capture. Editors post-process. Limelight makes your demo clear live — while you present — for a one-time price.
Categories shown are general tool types, not specific products.
| Feature | OURSLimelight | Annotate Apps | Stream Tools | macOS Zoom | None |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $9 once | $20/yr | Free | Free | Free |
| Cursor spotlight | |||||
| Keystroke display | |||||
| Draw on screen | |||||
| Global hotkeys | |||||
| Fully offline | |||||
| Native macOS | |||||
| No subscription |
Make your next demo easy to follow.
Get Limelight for $9 $15 — one-time, yours forever.
Pricing
One-time payment. Lifetime access.
No subscriptions, ever. Buy Limelight once and own it for life — including every future update.
Limelight License
SAVE 40%Everything, for your Macs.
- Full native macOS app
- Activate on up to 3 Macs
- Spotlight · keystrokes · draw
- Instant global hotkeys
- Lifetime updates
- License key by email
License key delivered instantly — in your email + Polar receipt.
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