Limelight
Highlight your cursor for online classes on a Mac
When 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.
On a shared screen, a small arrow cursor disappears against busy slides, code, or a website. Students keep asking "where are you pointing?" and your explanation stalls while they hunt for the mouse.
Limelight is a macOS menu-bar overlay. Press ⌃⌥1 to turn on the cursor spotlight and a gentle glow follows your pointer wherever it goes. Because Limelight draws on top of everything, it works the same whether you are in Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, a slide deck, or a browser. Press ⌃⌥1 again to turn it off.
Turn the spotlight on before you start sharing so students see it from the first slide. It shows live alongside your meeting app, and Limelight can also record the lesson itself — exporting a finished, cinematic video with the highlight baked in.
Why Limelight
- ▸Cursor spotlight toggles with ⌃⌥1
- ▸Works over Zoom, Meet, Teams, slides, and browsers
- ▸Records the lesson to a cinematic video itself, with the spotlight baked in
- ▸free to start, then one-time purchase for macOS 14+
Cursor spotlight free · from $2.99/mo or $34 lifetime · macOS 14+
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free to start, then go Pro from $2.99/mo or a $34 one-time lifetime license. macOS 14+, notarized by Apple.
FAQ
- Does it work inside Zoom and Google Meet?
- Yes. The spotlight appears on top of whatever you share, including Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams.
- Will students see the spotlight in a recording?
- Yes. Limelight records the screen itself, so the glow is baked straight into the cinematic video it exports.