MacOS – Ways to highlight during a presentation

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I miss the old OmniDazzle product from The Omni Group that let us transform the mouse pointer in a variety of ways, some silly but some quite practical. Worked well for highlighting areas of the screen to focus the attention of the audience during a talk or presentation.

I'm looking to make the mouse pointer more obvious, or darken the screen while keeping one region bright, or drawing colored crayon/marker lines, and so on.

Accessibility features

I'm open to accessibility features in macOS that could work to focus the audience’s attention.

Keynote features

Mainly I use Apple Keynote for presentations. If Keynote has dynamic tools for focusing the audience’s attention, that would be helpful.

I also show other apps such as programmers’ IDEs during a talk, so using it outside of Kenote is ideal.

Other solutions

Are there other ways or other apps to accomplish this goal?

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Best Answer

Mouseposé

When turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audience‘s attention to an area of interest.

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Additionally, it has the mouse click visualization and typing visualization - both allowing your audience to see what you click and type.

They have a video on their site that shows the software in action.


Ink2Go

Ink2Go is an extremely simple and powerful screen annotation and recording software. Using Ink2Go you can easily write on top of any other application currently active on the desktop, even on a running video.

There is a 15 day free trail available at their website. They have both Windows and Mac versions. In addition, there is a number of YouTube videos showing the product in action

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This one may be a bit of overkill given all the features, but I have seen this at work in an education setting and it's excellent software.

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