Guides

Guides

Step-by-step how-tos for highlighting your cursor, showing the keys you press, and annotating your screen on a Mac — so your tutorials, demos, and screencasts are always easy to follow.

• Annotate during a software demo on a MacDuring a live software demo, pointing with words alone is hard to follow. Limelight lets you draw freehand right over any app to show people exactly where to look.
• Annotate your screen for webinars on a MacIn a webinar your audience only has your screen to follow, so clear visual cues matter. Limelight lets you draw on screen and spotlight your cursor while you share in any webinar tool.
• Annotate your screen while teaching onlineThe fastest way to direct a student to the right place is to draw on it. Zoom annotation only works inside a Zoom share, and Google Meet has none — Limelight lets you draw over any app, in any call or recording.
• Annotate your slides while presenting on a MacA live circle or underline makes a slide land harder than words alone. Limelight lets you draw straight over your slides while you present, with no extra setup in your deck.
• Draw and annotate on your screen on a MacExplaining a detail by waving the cursor in circles never lands. Limelight lets you freehand-draw directly over any app — circle it, underline it, point at it — while you present.
• Draw on your screen during a video call on a MacSometimes pointing is not enough and you need to circle, underline, or sketch on what you are sharing. Limelight lets you draw freehand right on your screen during any video call.
• Draw over Figma while screen sharing on a MacSometimes you need to sketch directly on a design while sharing your screen. Limelight lets you draw freehand over Figma and clear it with one shortcut.
• Highlight your cursor for online classes on a MacWhen you share your screen to teach, students often lose track of where your pointer is. Limelight puts a soft glowing spotlight around your cursor so the whole class can follow it.
• Highlight your cursor for webinars on a MacOn a shared webinar screen, attendees lose your tiny pointer in a sea of content. Limelight adds a glowing spotlight so everyone can follow where you are pointing.
• Highlight your cursor in a design review call on a MacDuring a design review over Zoom or Meet, reviewers lose your small cursor as you move across the screen. Limelight spotlights your pointer so everyone follows your point.
• Highlight your cursor in a screen recording on a MacIn a screen recording, the default Mac pointer is tiny and easy to lose. Limelight adds a glowing spotlight that follows your cursor so every move is easy to track.
• Highlight your cursor in Google Meet on a MacUnlike Zoom, Google Meet has no built-in cursor highlight or annotation. When you share your screen to teach, students just see the tiny default pointer. Limelight adds a glowing spotlight that follows your cursor over Meet.
• Highlight your cursor in Microsoft Teams on a MacWhen you share your screen in Microsoft Teams, viewers often lose track of your mouse pointer. Limelight puts a live spotlight around your cursor so it stands out in the call.
• Highlight your mouse cursor on a MacOn a shared screen or a 1080p recording, the macOS cursor is a tiny arrow nobody can follow. Limelight wraps it in a glowing spotlight that follows your mouse — so your audience always knows where you are.
• Make coding tutorials easy to follow on a MacIn a coding tutorial, viewers lose track of your cursor and miss the shortcuts you press. Limelight highlights your pointer and shows your keystrokes right over your IDE.
• Make your cursor easier to see when sharing your screen on a MacThe Mac pointer is small, and it gets lost when you share your screen. Limelight spotlights your cursor so viewers can always tell where you are pointing.
• Make your mouse easier to see for students on a MacA small arrow cursor is hard for students to spot on a shared screen. Limelight wraps your pointer in a soft glow so it stands out and is easy to follow.
• Make your recorded lectures easy to followStudents rewatch recorded lectures on laptops and phones, where a tiny cursor and invisible shortcuts lose them fast. Limelight adds a cursor spotlight, on-screen keystrokes, and live drawing to any recording.
• Make your Zoom and Meet presentations easy to followPresenting to a remote team is harder than presenting in a room — they can only see your screen. Limelight spotlights your cursor, shows your keystrokes, and lets you draw on anything, live, during any call.
• Point at things while presenting a Figma design on a MacWhen you walk a client through a Figma file, a plain cursor makes it hard for them to see what you mean. Limelight spotlights your pointer and lets you draw right over the design.
• Present product demos on a MacA live product demo is hard to follow when the audience cannot see where you are pointing or what you pressed. Limelight gives you a spotlight, keystrokes, and drawing in one overlay.
• Show keyboard shortcuts while teaching on a MacWhen you teach a shortcut, students see the result but not the keys you pressed. Limelight shows your shortcut keystrokes as on-screen badges so learners can follow along.
• Show keystrokes in OBS on a MacOBS captures your screen but not your keyboard, so viewers cannot see the shortcuts you press. Limelight shows your keystrokes on screen so OBS records them too.
• Show your keystrokes on screen on a MacIf you make tutorials or screencasts, viewers constantly wonder "what did you just press?" Limelight shows the keys you press on screen, live, with one hotkey — so every shortcut is visible.
• Spotlight your cursor during a presentation on a MacDuring a presentation your audience needs to know exactly where you are pointing. Limelight spotlights your cursor so the right spot is always obvious.