Suppose you have to make presentations regularly for study or professional reasons. In that case, you will know that if you have to show the movements of the laptop cursor, it is difficult for everyone to follow it. This has to do with the fact that the initial purpose of the cursor is to go almost unnoticed, a situation that, in some instances, does not serve us very well and that we should change.

Fortunately, there is no reason to be alarmed since some applications have been specially developed to have a more visible cursor on our screen, as is the case for example of SpotOnTheMouse.

Operation

As we explained, SpotOnTheMouse is a small paid program with a trial period that has been developed for computers with the Windows operating system. Thanks to this, we can make the mouse cursor more visible than usual. This is a handy function in some specific cases, and as it hardly consumes system resources, if you know that you may need it, it is better to have it installed from the very beginning.

An interesting detail about this service is that we can customize the elements that make the computer cursor more visible, mentioning among them the possibility of establishing something like a colored halo, the mouse image but more extensive, and even a sniper-style cross. Here everything will depend on your taste, but the important thing is that, whoever sees the presentation, will know perfectly where the cursor is.

Beyond that, while we are using this mechanism to make our cursor more visible, we will not lose any of the usual functions that are part of our computer and mouse, such as scrolling through the screen and scrolling if necessary, accessing different links, or running some of the options of the browser we use.

At the same time, always thinking that our user experience is entirely adjustable to what we are looking for, it is possible to set parameters of all kinds, such as determining a particular transparency, choosing the color of the accompanying elements, etc. And if you wish, you can make it when the cursor is inactive; it simply disappears from the screen to avoid disturbing the content.

If you are trying to teach a tutorial to someone else, one of the qualities that you should not lose sight of in this program is that it allows you to add, next to the more visible cursor, the key combinations that you are pressing for specific tasks. This is essential so that people watching the presentation or our navigation on a website know precisely every step we take, keyboard combinations included.

Another use that the creators of this platform recommend for it has to do directly with those who have deficiencies or disorders in their vision because, thanks to it, they can follow the cursor with less difficulty. As you can see, this is an application that, although it has a particular objective, opens an endless range of uses that we can find.

To take into account.

SpotOnTheMouse is a paid application that offers an extensive trial period so that we can be sure if it is the type of service we need when expanding the space occupied by the cursor on the screen.

As for its user interface, we must say that we found it a bit confusing, partly thanks to the vast amount of customization options that the program has. While it is true that we are mostly going to be focused on having it active to take advantage of it, when we go to its Settings, it is possible that we get a little confused.

The best thing to do

This software has several positive points that we would like to review, but that can be summarized in a large number of functions we did not expect to find when testing it, yet they have been there. Adjusting a good part of the cursor display options and making it disappear after a few seconds when we stop moving seemed to be two of its best features.

The worst

There are only two significant criticisms that we can make of this service. Firstly, it does not have a free version, even if that means that we cannot access some specific functions. And on the other hand, as we mentioned before, its user interface when accessing the configuration aspects can be a bit confusing, and it could use a modernization of the aesthetics.

Rating

Generally speaking, we believe that since other programs perform the same amount of tasks as this one but for free, we should only recommend its download to those who really need an intensive use of this kind of tool. If this is your case, you can be sure that the investment will be worth it, considering that it has all sorts of exciting and not-so-usual features for applications of this segment.