A focused Mac menu bar app for screen annotation. Hold the Option key to draw over anything — let go, and your slides keep flowing. No permissions, no focus stolen. Made for the moment after "as you can see here."
Pick a tool from the menu bar — the glyphs below are exactly what you'll see there — or step through them without letting go of ⌥. Either way, every annotation is the same gesture: hold ⌥ and drag. Shapes auto-fade after a beat, or stay until you clear them. Nothing to memorize, no mode to leave.
Presenter Pointer lives in your menu bar, always ready. The Option key is the interface — no mode to enter, no window to open, no focus stolen from your slides.
From any app, on any display. While you hold the Option key, your cursor becomes a crosshair and the whole screen becomes your canvas. Your presentation app keeps focus.
Draw a rectangle, line, arrow, circle — or light a spotlight — whichever tool is currently selected. Shapes auto-fade after a beat, keeping your screen clean.
Let go, and you're instantly back — scroll the page, click the cell, advance the slide. Nothing lingers, nothing intercepts your keyboard.
Changing tools mid-sentence? Keep ⌥ down and tap ⇧. A panel appears and steps through the five tools; let go of ⌥ to keep the one you landed on. Tap ⌘ to step back. Nothing is typed, so the app underneath never sees a keystroke.
Need it fully out of the way? ⌘⇧X pauses and resumes — handy when another app wants ⌥ + drag for itself.
The overlay draws above any application, and Presenter Pointer never takes keyboard focus — slide advance keeps working in Keynote and PowerPoint, even in full-screen presentation mode. Whatever your screen-sharing software captures includes the annotations.
No subscription, no account, no upsell. Buy it, own it, use it as long as your Mac runs.
One-time purchase. Mac App Store.
Universal binary. macOS 13 Ventura or later. Refunds via Apple's standard process.
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