A click highlighter for recordings, demos and teaching
A viewer watching your screen sees the menu open but never sees the click that opened it. Mouse Click Indicator is a click highlighter that fixes that. Every time a mouse button goes down, a mark appears at that exact point, on whichever monitor it happened, and then fades.
Because the marks are drawn on the desktop itself, any screen recorder, meeting app or projector picks them up with no plug-in and no setting to find in the recorder. Turn it on before you start, and switch it off with Ctrl+Shift+H when you are done.
It also suits live work. On a projector or a video call, a ring that appears where you clicked does the pointing for you, so you can talk about the result instead of describing where to look.
How to show mouse clicks on screen in Windows 11
Windows has no built-in option that draws your clicks, and most recorders that offer one only add it to their own output. A separate overlay works with all of them. With this one:
- Launch it. It goes straight to the notification area; there is no main window.
- Click the tray icon and make sure Show my clicks is on, or press Ctrl+Shift+H.
- Open Settings and pick a Style: Ripple, Filled circle or Hollow ring.
- Set Size between 30 and 240 px and How long it lasts between 150 and 1500 ms. Below about a third of a second, a mark is easy to miss on video.
- Start your recorder or share your screen. Every click now shows up in it.
Mouse click effect with a different color for each button
A right click that looks identical to a left click is the usual reason a tutorial viewer gets lost. Under A color for each button you give the left, right and middle buttons their own colors, and the two side buttons share a fourth. Each row offers eight preset swatches, from yellow and orange to white and black, plus a custom color.
Turn on Name the button and the mark spells out Left, Right, Middle or Side inside itself, with its own Label color, which helps viewers who cannot rely on color. Strength sets how much of the screen shows through the mark, from barely there to nearly solid.
Keep the pointer visible between clicks
Clicks are only half of following someone. Ring the pointer all the time keeps a soft circle, 24 to 200 px across, on the cursor whether you click or not. Hide it when the pointer stops fades it after 0.5 to 10 seconds of stillness, so it gets out of the way while you talk.
For a tighter focus, Dim the rest of the screen darkens everything outside a circle around the pointer while a button is held, and How dark sets the depth. Follow a drag makes the mark travel with the cursor until you let go, which makes drag-and-drop steps readable.
