Mouseposé App Reviews

I really like this App for teaching others how to do something on the computer. I use it in conjunction with ScreenFlow and make videos to help people learn how to learn a new software feature. Great little app - especially for the 99 cent sale price!

I wanted to buy a screen recorder for some video tutorials that I wanted to make. I was looking at professional screen recording software, but then I read online that Quicktime Player has a built-in screen recorder. If you use the Universal Access feature to turn on zoom, then you are have a fairly complete solution for screen recording except for one major omission: Quicktime Player does not visually highlight the mouse movements, clicks, and keyboard strokes; Enter Mouseposé. It does exactly that and very elegantly. If you add Mouseposé to the screen recording capability of Quicktime Player, then you will have a robust screen recorder and presentation software for next to nothing! The software works well and as the previous review said, it even works with Windows under Parallels. I highly recommend it to anyone that presents to others or records the screen for video tutorials.

Its a very useful app with a nice features. I enjoy I guess you will also.

The first and obvious bug is that as soon as it launches, it tells me it needs Quartz Extreme and that my MacBook Pro 17" 2011 isnt compatible with Quartz Extreme - yet it is top of the line as of last year. What the ...? Otherwise, this is very useful software.

I am doing some video tutorials on digital music production software, including Logic Pro 9 (Apple), and after watching some professional video tutorials I noticed that some of the video tutorirlals done by the folks at Groove 3 Inc. feature a mouse pointer that has a highlighted circle around it, which looks very nice and helps to make it clear what the presenter is doing with the mouse, so I did a bit of research and found Mouseposé, which I purchased earlier today . . . Mouseposé works wonderfully on the 2.8-GHz 8-core Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.8.1 (Mountain Lion) here in the sound isolation studio, and I already have used it on one video tutorial . . . You can adjust the diameter and coloration of the circle around the mouse pointer, and there also are additional options, where for example you can have a darker or lighter smaller diameter inner circle to indicate when and where you actually click the mouse, and there are animations that provide a more obvious indication of mouse click events, where in addition to all this stuff, you also can have distinct colors for different types of mouse clicks (left, right, and other) . . . The larger diameter outer circle follows the mouse pointer like a spotlight or flashlight beam, but the optional smaller diameter inner circle becomes visible when you actually click the mouse, and it can be a different color for each type of mouse click (left, right, and other), which is simply amazing with respect to making it abundantly clear exactly what you are doing with the mouse . . . You also can customize the hotkey which is used to activate and to deactivate the circle highlighting, where for example I like using the combination of the "control" key and the "asterisk" key in the numeric pad, since this combination of two keys describes a diagonal line from the bottom left of the keyboard to the top right of the keyboard, hence is easy to remember and not so difficult to find when you are running various applications and doing voiceovers in real-time on the fly, especially if you have an Apple Mighty Mouse (USB) connected to the Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad using the USB port at the top right of the keyboard, since you can find the "asterisk" key by feeling the right edge of the keyboard and then moving upward to where the USB cable is located, and it is easy to find the "control" key at the lower left of the keyboard using a similar "by feel" strategy, which for me is helpful, since I try to avoid needing to do a lot of video editing or pausing because I am trying to do too many things simultaneously . . . And there are other very useful features, including the ability to highlight windows and to indicate keystrokes . . . For reference, I use Screenflow (Telestream, Inc.) to capture the screen and computer audio, and Mouseposé works wonderfully with Screenflow 3.0.6, which is very important for what I am doing here in the sound isolation studio . . . The installation from the Mac App Store was automatic, and everything works without requiring me to do anything other than to set the various options for such things as the diameter of the circles; the color of the circles; the colors of the mouse clicks; the contrast of the background; and so forth and so on, all of which are easy to configure, since you see the feature change as you vary the parameters via sliders or whatever, and there are default settings if you do not want to do any customizing . . . Mouseposé is excellent in every respect!

I like what this app does. But unfortunately, most of my presentations are done through Webex. When I do these, although I can see the affects of this app on my mouse, those Im presenting to just see my regular mouse. For some reason, it doesnt translate across using Webex.

All I really wanted was an app to help me locate the pointer. This program does that plus more. Seems very stable and have not had problems.

Looks like a good app; but why do you need the contacts on my Mac!!

Nice app, and Boinx is a great developer, but the App Store version trails behind the version on the developers site. And the price? It was once 99-cents. Then went to $16.99 (still that on the MacUpdate site), now $4.99. Its a good app even at that price, but hasnt been updated in forever.

Does what it says on the box — and then some. Great price. Recommended.

This app makes my laptop switch to the high performance graphics card for the entire period while it is on, irrespective of whether I am actually using it or not. This can cut down battery life by an entire hour. Otherwise, a solid app that does what the developer claims it does.

I’m altering this review since Boinx posted an update that fixes a nasty issue: The app’s highlight effect worked only once, but on the next try, it crashed. I considered this app indispensible for classroom use, but then it was useless. Now, only a few days since the last update, 3.2.6 is out and fixes the issue. I’m giving only 4 stars since the folks at Boinx didn’t seem to test their releases before subjecting us to them. Still, the app (when it works) is great for presenters.

3.2.6 seems to have fixed the 3.2.5 update. App is running normally. But why Boinx did not check 3.2.5 before release remains a mystery. Anyway, thanks for the quick fix.

For the most part it does what it says. The highlight on/off toggle feature has an annoying bug where it automatically switches back on, but it’s a minor annoyance and it gets the job done.

The shoftware don’t show the resulting keys wich is important for punctuations and symbols like (§$%;: etc.) in an international setting. If you use a different keybord layout than your audience, it is not possible for them to follow the keystrokes. E.g. in order to get an =‘ on a German keyboard one need to press shift + 0 where on an US keyboard one can press the =‘ key directly. If some one with an US keyboard would press the German combination Shift + 0, they would get a ) which would be wrong! So only buy this if you need to show the keys in a homogeneous group where everybody has the same keyboard.

For some reason, the folks at Boinx thought it would be useful for this otherwise nice little app to deliver a full-volume spoken tutorial the first time you launch it. Needless to say, launching for the first time in a setting where quiet and discretion are expected can be a bit embarassing. Not sure why the app couldn’t ask you if you want this odd and nconventional feature to initiate after a prompt or something like that, but sure wish they did.

It was unique and invaluable for locating my cursor in a multi-monitor setup. But it’s not working. When I try it in the preferences, it works. But as soon a the preference are closed, it stops working, I am running Yosemite. Hasn’t worked for me since Mavericks. Any known conflicts?

This does exactly what I need: I can quickly find my mouse pointer amongst all of my screens. The only issue I had was that Mouseposé wouldn’t startup on login. I solved that by going into Login Items on the Users System Preferences and adding Mouseposé manually. I haven’t used Mouseposé’s other features. Yes, this software costs a few pennies, but if we like something, we should be willing to pay for it. We want to encourage people to write software like this. I’m now on 3.2.6, and it’s still good.

Doesn’t seem to load on 10.10.2

There was a hiccup in 10.2, but in 10.10.3 it works perfectly. This app is fundamental to my work as a Professor. If you need to teach a grop this is the best app out there.