Highlight your mouse and your clicks

Pointer highlight makes your mouse easy to follow in a recording. It can show a glow around the pointer when it moves, a ring when you click, or both.

Choose a highlight style

1. Click the Rekorder icon in your toolbar to open the popup.
2. Click the Settings icon.
3. On the General tab, open Pointer highlight.
4. Pick one of the options below.

Your choice is saved and used for your next recordings. Set it before you start. It isn't applied to a recording that's already running.

Pointer highlight is available on every plan.

What you'll see in the recording

• On move: the yellow glow fades out a moment after you stop moving the mouse, so it doesn't sit over your content.
• On click: the red circle appears at the click and fades away almost at once.
• The highlight is not drawn over the camera bubble or the recording controls, and clicks on Rekorder's own controls don't get a click circle.

When the highlight doesn't appear

The highlight is drawn on the page you're recording, together with the camera bubble and the recording controls. It only works when you record a tab and the Interface setting is UI in tab. See "UI in tab" vs "Only in preview tab".

• If you set Interface to Only in preview tab, no highlight is added.
• If you record a window or your whole screen, no highlight is added.
• Some pages can't be modified by the extension, such as browser-internal pages and the Chrome Web Store. Rekorder can't add a highlight there. See "The current tab is a protected tab".

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• "UI in tab" vs "Only in preview tab"
• Extension settings, tab by tab
• Record a product demo of a web app
• The control bar on the page you are recording