Cursor Highlight in Presentify: Make Your Pointer Easy to Follow

Presentify includes a Cursor Highlight feature that makes your pointer easy to follow during presentations, screen shares, tutorials, live demos, and recordings. It adds a visible halo around your cursor, so viewers can track where you are moving, what you are about to click, and which part of the screen matters.

This is especially useful on busy screens, large displays, shared Zoom or Google Meet calls, and recorded tutorials where the cursor can disappear against toolbars, code editors, dashboards, design files, or slide content.

What Cursor Highlight does

Cursor Highlight adds a customizable shape around your pointer. As you move the cursor, the highlight follows, helping your audience stay oriented without needing a verbal cue for every button, menu item, field, or control.

It is a simple visual layer, but it changes the feel of a presentation quickly. Instead of making people search for a tiny pointer, you give them a clear moving target that shows where your attention is.

Start Cursor Highlight with a shortcut

The fastest way to start Cursor Highlight is with the default global shortcut: ⌃ + S (Control + S). Press it once to turn the highlight on, move your cursor as usual, then press it again to turn the highlight off.

This shortcut is useful during live presentations because you can make the pointer visible without leaving your current app, opening another window, or slowing down your explanation.

Start Cursor Highlight from the menu bar

You can also start Cursor Highlight from the Presentify menu bar icon. This is helpful when you are learning the app, switching modes between sessions, or showing someone else how your presenting setup works.

Presentify is a menu bar app, so it stays out of the way until you need it. Once Cursor Highlight is running, you can keep working in Keynote, PowerPoint, Safari, VS Code, Figma, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, OBS, or any other app.

Adjust the highlight color and size

Different screens need different cursor visibility. Use a brighter color when your background is dark or visually busy. Use a softer color when you want the highlight to remain visible without taking attention away from the content.

While Cursor Highlight is active, the default size shortcuts are:

• ⌃ + - to decrease the Cursor Highlight size
• ⌃ + = to increase the Cursor Highlight size

You can also change these key shortcuts from Settings... > Shortcuts > Cursor Shortcuts.

For visual settings, open Settings... > Cursor. From there, adjust the highlight color, border, opacity, size, click animation, and other details so the cursor feels clear without becoming distracting.

Choose the highlight shape

Cursor Highlight supports different shapes, so you can match the pointer style to the work you are showing. A ring works well for most demos and tutorials. Other shapes can make the pointer easier to see on dense interfaces, presentation slides, or bright backgrounds.

The goal is not to make the cursor flashy. The best highlight setup is the one that lets viewers follow your pointer naturally while still paying attention to what you are explaining.

Customize shortcuts and settings

Presentify lets you adapt Cursor Highlight to your workflow. Open Settings... > Shortcuts to change the Cursor Highlight shortcut if ⌃ + S conflicts with another app or if you want to map it to a Stream Deck, presenter remote, macro pad, or keyboard shortcut you already use.

You can also change other cursor key shortcuts from Settings... > Shortcuts > Cursor Shortcuts. And if, for any reason, you do not want to set a keyboard shortcut for an action, just click the cross icon next to the shortcut.

Why Cursor Highlight improves presentations

Cursor Highlight makes presentations easier to follow because it gives your audience a reliable visual anchor. When the pointer is visible, viewers understand what you are referring to before you click, draw, zoom, or move to the next step.

It helps you:

• Keep the cursor visible during live demos, tutorials, and recordings
• Make clicks and movements easier to follow on video calls
• Guide attention through settings panels, forms, code editors, and design files
• Reduce confusion when moving quickly between tools, tabs, and menus
• Keep your explanation moving without repeatedly telling people where to look

Useful Cursor Highlight workflows

Use Cursor Highlight when you are teaching from a slide deck, presenting a product demo, reviewing code, explaining a design, onboarding a teammate, recording a tutorial, or helping someone troubleshoot remotely.

A few practical examples:

• In a product demo, keep Cursor Highlight on so every click is easy to follow.
• In a coding tutorial, use it while moving between files, errors, terminals, and browser previews.
• In a design review, make the pointer visible while discussing spacing, components, and interaction states.
• In a training session, help learners track the next field, button, or menu item.
• In a support call, use it so the other person can mirror your steps without losing the cursor.

Best practices

Choose a highlight color that contrasts with your content, and keep the size large enough for people watching on smaller screens. If the effect feels too strong while you are paused, use the inactive behavior in Cursor settings so the highlight can get out of the way when the mouse stops moving.

For longer walkthroughs, pair Cursor Highlight with Presentify's Spotlight, Zoom, or annotation tools. Cursor Highlight helps people track movement, Spotlight helps them know where to look, Zoom helps them read tiny details, and annotations help you leave a mark on the screen when a point needs to remain visible.

Quick checklist

1. Press ⌃ + S to toggle Cursor Highlight.
2. Use ⌃ + - and ⌃ + = to adjust the size while presenting.
3. Choose a color that contrasts with your screen content.
4. Pick a shape that feels clear without pulling too much attention.
5. Customize shortcuts in Settings... > Shortcuts.
6. Tune color, border, opacity, size, click animation, and inactive behavior in Settings... > Cursor.

Cursor Highlight is a small feature that makes a big difference: it keeps your pointer visible, helps your audience follow each step, and makes every demo, lesson, meeting, or recording feel easier to understand.