Limelight

The Screen Recorder for Data Analysts Who Explain Numbers on Screen

Walk an exec through a Tableau dashboard or a Jupyter notebook async — and have the recording zoom into the exact chart, circle the key number, and make a dense data screen legible to people who will never read your code.

Your hardest deliverable is not the analysis — it is making it legible to someone who will not read the SQL. A finance VP wants the takeaway, not the join. A client wants to see why churn moved, not how you computed it. Limelight is a native macOS screen recorder built for exactly that handoff: hit record, walk through your Tableau, Looker, or Power BI dashboard, and the video automatically zooms into every chart and cell you click — so the one number that matters fills the frame instead of getting lost in a wall of tiles.

When you record a dashboard walkthrough, the cursor spotlight makes your pointer impossible to lose, so a stakeholder watching on Slack actually follows where you are looking. Freehand annotations let you circle the spike, underline the outlier, or box the cohort you want them to notice — baked straight into the video, no afterthought overlay. For the technical half of your audience, your keystrokes render on screen too, so when you record a Jupyter notebook or a SQL query, a teammate can see exactly which shortcut ran the cell or reshaped the dataframe and reproduce it themselves.

Most analyst walkthroughs happen async, and Limelight is built to ship clean. The built-in editor lets you trim the dead air where a query was loading, speed up the boring scroll, and render a tidy background so a packed BI screen does not look chaotic. Export to mp4 for a Loom-style link in Slack or email, or to 9:16 for a quick mobile clip a busy exec watches on their phone. No re-recording because someone could not tell which line of the chart you meant.

Because your screens carry confidential company data — unreleased revenue, customer PII, model results — Limelight records fully offline. Everything is captured and rendered locally on your Mac; nothing is uploaded to a cloud you did not vet. It is notarized by Apple and runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel, so a recording of next quarter's forecast never leaves your machine. That is the difference between a tool legal will approve and one IT quietly blocks.

Why Limelight

  • ▸Auto-zoom pushes into the exact chart, cell, or KPI tile you click, so the number that matters fills the screen instead of hiding in the dashboard
  • ▸Cursor spotlight keeps your pointer visible so non-technical stakeholders follow your walkthrough without losing the thread
  • ▸Freehand annotations circle the spike or outlier, and on-screen keystrokes show teammates exactly which command ran each Jupyter cell or query
  • ▸Fully offline: dashboards, notebooks, and model results are recorded and rendered locally, so confidential company data never leaves your Mac
  • ▸Built-in editor trims loading lag, speeds up scrolling, and exports clean mp4 or 9:16 for async sharing in Slack, Loom-style links, or email
Try it free — download

Cursor spotlight free · from $2.99/mo or $34 lifetime · macOS 14+

Or get Pro — from $2.99/mo · See how it works →

free to start, then go Pro from $2.99/mo or a $34 one-time lifetime license. macOS 14+, notarized by Apple.

FAQ

Can it record a Jupyter notebook or data analysis demo cleanly?
Yes. Limelight auto-zooms into the cell you run, renders your keystrokes on screen so viewers see which shortcut executed it, and lets you trim the seconds a long computation spends loading — so the final demo is tight and reproducible.
Will my confidential dashboards and data stay private?
Yes. Limelight records and renders entirely on your Mac and uploads nothing, so unreleased revenue, customer PII, and model results in your Tableau or Power BI screens never touch an external server.
How does this help me explain data to non-technical stakeholders?
Auto-zoom fills the frame with the chart that matters, the cursor spotlight makes your pointer easy to follow, and annotations let you circle the key number — so an exec gets the takeaway without reading a line of code.
What does it cost?
It is free to start with the cursor spotlight, and Pro unlocks the full toolkit — auto-zoom, keystrokes, annotations, and the editor — for $2.99/mo or $34 once for lifetime access.

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