Everyone has watched a screen share where the presenter tries to point at something by shaking the cursor around it. "It's here, no, up here, this button." The audience is a beat behind the whole time, hunting for whatever the mouse is supposedly circling.
The cursor is a terrible pointer. It's tiny, it moves fast, and it looks the same whether you're pointing at something or just moving to the next click.
Draw on the screen while you talk
The moment you can actually mark the screen — circle a field, underline a number, drop an arrow — the confusion goes away. The audience sees exactly what you mean because you drew it, right there, over the live app. No guessing which of the six buttons you meant.
Capnot gives you annotation and pointer tools that sit on top of whatever's running, so you can draw during a live presentation or a recording without switching to some separate whiteboard app. You stay in your actual product; the marks go straight on top of it.
A bigger, clearer pointer helps too
For the times you do want to point rather than draw, a proper pointer highlight beats the system cursor by a wide margin. It's larger, it stands out, and it tells the audience "look here" in a way a normal arrow never does. On a shared screen compressed into a video call, that difference is the whole game. For a rundown of the options, see the best cursor highlighter apps for Mac.
When this matters most
Live demos to customers, teaching a tool to a new hire, walking a client through a design — anywhere someone has to follow your screen in real time and can't rewind. In those moments the few seconds people spend finding what you're pointing at add up, and they quietly erode how much of your message actually lands.
If you present or demo on a Mac and you're tired of shaking the cursor around, the drawing and pointer tools in Capnot are built for this.