Simple Mouse Locator at Mac App Store analyse

These comments are based on using the app on a Mid 2012 MacBook Air with 10.10.5 Yosemite. I tried a few Mouse Locator app but it would not respond to activation keys and you had to enable it every time you logged on (something to watch for) so I decided to splurge on Simple Mouse Locator. It works very well. Mouse highlighting is enabled using one or more of keystrokes, mouse waving, moving the mouse after a period of inactivity, and crossing between screens. The latter is great because I have a Dell U3415 connected to my MBA. The screen resolutions are very different and the mouse jumps vertically when crossing between them so it readily disappears from view. The keystroke options include 1-3 taps of the modifier keys (e.g. Shift) as well as hotkey combo’s. I prefer the former because (1) they’re simpler than finger-stretching hotkey combo’s, (2) they normally have no function so you won’t accidentally do something silly, and (3) there’s less chance of overwriting standard hotkey combo’s. I had trouble testing hotkey combo’s as it appears only some modifier keys can be used (e.g. Fn/F6 would work but not Control/F6); the default is all 4 modifier keys plus the Space bar. The mouse waving options include 1-6 waves either vertically or horizontally (who’d want 1???) The highlighting options include the diameter and thickness of the ring, it’s inner and outer colours, and some animation options. The latter don’t seem very important but the colours are because you wouldn’t likely want the highlighting to be the same colour as your screen background. Having two colours helps ensure highlighting works with different backgrounds, which is good design. I tested the app with the MBA’s keyboard and mouse pad as well as an old Logitech keyboard and mouse connected via a hub and everything still worked, i.e. double Shift key taps and mouse waving still highlighted the mouse pointer. So, overall it works very well with the only quirk being the acceptable hotkey combo’s are a mystery. Not bad for $1.39 CAD.

Simple, easy to use, and exactly what I needed to work with two screens and a vision impairment. Thank you.

Simple. Effective. Well done.

Been looking for something like this for awhile. Just wiggle the mouse to locate it. That’s it! Its changed my work life.

This is my first ever review…this app fit my need so perfectly and easily that I thought it was time to break that trend. It just works! Even though I see there are settings to be messed with, I have no need. It just works! If my mouse sits for awhile, or if my mouse crosses the plane between my two new 34” ultra-wide displays (the reason I was having a hard time locating my mouse) the cursor highlights wonderfully and I can go about my business…it just works…and that makes it perfect…well done…well done...