It's right there. It's enormous now.
Make your Mac's pointer up to 30× bigger, in any color, from the menu bar.
No more “Can you see my mouse?”
Download for MacFree & open source · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
Same screen, same spreadsheet. Pick a situation and compare.
One sheet, split down the middle. Left is the pointer you have now; right is ours at 15×.
Drag the handle. What your viewers squint at on the left, what they actually see on the right.
The same shared screen, twice. One of them makes everyone on the call hunt.
On a projector, yours needs a magnifying glass. Ours doesn’t.
Flip between them, or let it flip itself. Which one can the back row see?
Every screen share, ever. The default pointer is about 16 points tall, and it vanishes the moment your screen gets compressed, projected or watched on a phone.
Everyone says “just shake it.” And sure, shake your mouse and the pointer briefly balloons so you can spot it. Then it shrinks right back, and you're hunting again.
What if you never had to shake it to find it? Where's My Mouse? keeps your pointer big all the time: 15× for real, or 30× with a pointer it draws itself, in a color nobody can miss. It shows up in your screen recordings too (tested in OBS).
A pointer only has to be findable by you. Until someone else is looking at your screen.
The problem: your viewers watch on phones. After compression, a 16-point pointer is a smudge, and the comments fill up with “where did you click?”
The fix: pin a big blue “Recording” preset to OBS or Loom. Open the app and the pointer grows on its own; quit it and you're back to normal.
The problem: step-by-step tutorials live or die on “click here.” When viewers can't follow the pointer, they pause, rewind, and give up.
The fix: a bright, oversized pointer is your built-in highlighter. Every click is obvious, with no zoom effects or editing tricks afterward.
The problem: from the back row, a projected pointer disappears, and students on a shared screen at home see even less.
The fix: one click to a huge, high-contrast pointer for class, one click back to Default after. It helps low-vision students too.
The problem: you say “right over here” on a conference screen and three hundred people look everywhere except where you're pointing.
The fix: give Keynote or your browser a big red “Presenting” preset. It switches on automatically whenever that app is in front.
Pin a preset to an app. Switch to Claude and your pointer turns big and blue. Click into Google Sheets and it goes red. Quit them and it's back to Default. Follow the app you're using, or the last one you opened.
Tue 10:411–10× on the slider, 15× with the real pointer, and up to 30× when you need it seen from space.
Hot pink with a black edge? Yellow on white? Pick a swatch or any color you like.
Changes apply instantly from the menu bar. No digging through Accessibility.
Save "Recording", "Presenting", "Big Green". Switch in one click, update them anytime.
Pin a preset to an app: OBS goes blue, Loom goes orange. Follows the active app or the last one you opened.
No Dock icon, launches at login, stays out of your way until you need it.
New name: Where's My Mouse? App rules (per-app presets, active app or last opened), extra-large sizes to 30×, easier preset updates, rainbow menu bar icon.
First release as BetterPointer: size up to 10×, fill and outline colors, presets, launch at login.
Yes. Free and open source under the MIT license. The code is on GitHub.
The app isn't notarized by Apple yet. After the first launch attempt, open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Where's My Mouse.app" once.
Only for colors. macOS keeps pointer colors in its accessibility settings and only lets apps with Full Disk Access change them. Size works without it. The app reads nothing else.
Yes. We tested it in OBS. Plain screenshots are the exception: macOS draws the pointer at normal size in still screenshots.
The window server accepts sizes up to just under 16× through an undocumented call, so that's the real pointer up to 15×. From 16× to 30× the app hides the real pointer and draws its own arrow that follows your mouse. That one is always an arrow (no hand or text cursor).
It uses private macOS APIs and changes system accessibility settings, which App Store apps aren't allowed to do. So it's a direct download, like most pointer tools.
Quit it from the menu, then drag it from Applications to the Trash. Your pointer goes back to whatever you last set; pick Default first if you want the normal pointer.
