Cursor Pro 2.4 — Mac version

The highlight ring — what’s it for?

The highlight is a bright circle that follows your pointer everywhere. Change its colour so it never blends into your background. It’s built for screen-sharing whole desktops, not recording a single window, so your audience always knows where to look.

How does the magnifier help?

Tap a hotkey and a lens pops up around the pointer, zooming in on whatever’s underneath. You set the zoom factor to suit your eyes or your viewers’ screens. No fiddly full-screen capture tools — just a quick, moveable close-up.

Can I keep it out of the way when I’m not sharing?

Yes. The auto-hide behaviour tucks the highlight away during normal use. It lives quietly in the macOS menu bar and springs back when you need to present, demo, or record a tutorial.

Toggles with any screen-share tool via one hotkey

It works with any screen-sharing tool that broadcasts your entire desktop — think video calls, lecture capture, or remote walkthroughs. A single global hotkey toggles the magnifier, so there’s no reaching for a menu mid-sentence.

Lightweight overlay that won’t choke an older Mac

Does it slow down an older Mac during a screen share? Not in any way you'd notice. The highlight is a lightweight overlay and the magnifier only draws a small portion of the screen. If your machine can run the call itself, Cursor Pro won't push it over the edge.

What if I use two monitors? The highlight travels with the pointer across both displays just as you'd hope. The magnifier follows too, so you can zoom into a detail on either screen without touching a setting.

Is this one of those apps that phones home? It sits in the menu bar and minds its own business. No accounts, no analytics pop-ups, no internet connection needed once it's installed.

Hybrid teachers gain a coloured pulse that cuts confusion

Teachers running hybrid classrooms get a lot of mileage here. When half the room is watching on a projector and the other half is on laptops at home, a coloured pulse around the pointer cuts through the confusion of "now click here" faster than any laser pointer ever could.

Anyone who records screencasts for a living will appreciate the magnifier. Instead of cutting to a zoomed-in clip in the edit, you simply hold the hotkey and the lens reveals the tiny dropdown or slider your viewers need to see. That alone can save a dozen edits per video.

Remote support volunteers — the kind who guide neighbours through printer settings over a video call — will find the shape options genuinely useful. Switch to the diamond highlight and say "follow the diamond" and suddenly the person on the other end stops clicking the wrong button.

What version 2.4 tidied up

The biggest practical shift in recent releases was better behaviour with macOS Stage Manager and Spaces. Earlier versions sometimes lost track of which space the pointer was on; now the highlight stays glued to the active desktop.

The magnifier picked up a smoother zoom transition so the jump from 1x to your set factor feels less jarring. Small thing, but if you're recording, it makes the final video look more polished.

Under the hood, the app moved to a cleaner ARM-native build alongside the existing Intel one. On Apple Silicon Macs, the highlight draws with slightly lower energy use — handy when you're already running a screen recorder, a browser full of tabs, and a video call all at once.

• macOS 11 or later
• Runs native on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs