Screen Recording Click Highlighter

Screen Recording Click Highlighter draws a visible ripple or spotlight around your cursor at the exact moments you clicked, so viewers of a tutorial or bug report can actually see what you did instead of guessing where your mouse went. Upload a recording, the tool detects click events (or lets you mark them manually if none are embedded), and re-exports the video with the highlight burned in — nothing about the footage leaves your machine to do this, which matters since real workflow recordings routinely capture internal tools, account names, or client data in the background. It’s the kind of tool that gets used constantly for internal how-to docs, QA bug reproduction steps, or a quick product walkthrough where “click here” needs to be visible, not just narrated.

FAQ

Why don’t my clicks show up automatically?

Most screen recordings (especially ones from OS-level capture tools rather than dedicated screen-recording software) don’t embed click metadata in the file — the video is just pixels, with no record of where or when you clicked. When that’s the case, the tool switches to manual mode: scrub through, drop a marker at each moment, and it handles the highlight animation from there.

Can I change how the highlight looks?

Yes — ring color, size, and whether it’s a pulse, a spotlight dim-around-cursor, or a simple dot are all adjustable before export, so it can match a brand style or just be more visible on a busy screen.

Will this work on a 4K recording?

It will, though very high-resolution files take longer to process locally since your browser is doing the video decoding and re-encoding instead of a server. For long 4K recordings, expect the export step to take a noticeable amount of time.

Once you’ve got the highlighted version, if you only need one frame of it — say, a single annotated screenshot for a doc instead of the full clip — Video Frame Extractor can pull that exact moment out as a still image.