Limelight
Make your recorded lectures easy to follow
Students rewatch recorded lectures on laptops and phones, where a tiny cursor and invisible shortcuts lose them fast. Limelight records your lecture with a cursor spotlight, on-screen keystrokes, and live drawing baked into the video.
A recording removes every live cue: students cannot ask "where are you?", cannot see your hands, and cannot tell which shortcut produced a result. The default cursor and silent keystrokes make dense material — code, spreadsheets, design tools — hard to follow on replay.
Limelight gives a recording the cues a live class would have. Spotlight your cursor with ⌃⌥1 so eyes track you, show the keys you press with ⌃⌥2 so every shortcut is teachable, and circle the important part with ⌃⌥3.
Limelight records the lecture itself — hit record and the spotlight, keystrokes, and your annotations are baked straight into the video, with auto-zoom into each click and no extra editing step. Prefer your own system like Panopto or OBS? It also runs as a live overlay they can capture.
Why Limelight
- ▸Records cursor spotlight, on-screen keystrokes, and drawing into the video
- ▸Auto-zoom into clicks — or overlay your own system (Panopto, OBS)
- ▸No post-editing — the cues are baked into the recording
- ▸One-time purchase, free to start, native and notarized
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
- Do I need a separate lecture recorder?
- No — Limelight records the lecture itself, with the spotlight and keystrokes baked in. If you already use Panopto, OBS, or QuickTime, it can also run as a live overlay they capture.
- Do I have to edit the cues in afterward?
- No. Everything happens live as you record, so there is no post-production step.
- Is it a subscription?
- No — a one-time purchase free to start.