iPointer

iPointer

Hold a key, get a laser pointer.
Release, it's gone. That simple.

Download for macOS All versions

Requires macOS 13.0 or later. ⚠ Read before first launch

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Laser Pointer
Signing Pen
Attention Is All You Need.pdf
Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin
Abstract
The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train.
Hold ⌥ Option to activate
Press and hold ⌥ Option then move your mouse to try it
Trigger key is customizable in the app's settings

How it works

  1. 1iPointer lives in your menu bar. No dock icon, no clutter.
  2. 2Hold Option — a laser pointer appears at your cursor with a smooth trailing glow.
  3. 3Release the key — it vanishes instantly. No windows to close, nothing to clean up.

Two modes

Laser Pointer

Point at things during screen sharing. A glowing dot follows your cursor with a fading comet tail.

Signing Pen

Draw on screen by holding click. Annotate while reading papers together. Release the hotkey to clear.


Details

  1. Customizable trigger keys, colors, and stroke width.
  2. No special permissions required. Zero background CPU when idle.
  3. Lightweight — under 2 MB, no dependencies.
⚠ Important: First Launch on macOS

iPointer is not yet signed with an Apple Developer certificate. macOS Gatekeeper will block it from opening after download.

To fix this, open Terminal and run:

xattr -cr /Applications/iPointer.app

Then double-click iPointer to launch normally.

Why is this needed?

macOS marks files downloaded from the internet with a quarantine flag. Without an Apple Developer ID signature ($99/year), the system blocks the app from running. The xattr -cr command removes this quarantine flag. This is safe — it only tells macOS you trust this specific app.