Guides
How to zoom, magnify, highlight and annotate on a Mac – for presenting, screen sharing and recording. Built-in methods first, because most of the time they are enough. Where they are not, we say exactly why.
Mac zoom not showing in your screen recording
Why every recorder on macOS captures the unzoomed screen, and five ways to get magnification into the file.
02How to zoom in during a screen share
What viewers in Zoom, Google Meet and Teams actually see, and four ways to make a shared Mac screen readable.
03ZoomIt for Mac: what to use instead
Every feature of the Windows presenter tool mapped to a macOS equivalent, including the one that is hard to replace.
04How to zoom in on a Mac screen
Accessibility Zoom, the scroll gesture, Hover Text, display scaling and app zoom – shortcuts and limits of each.
05Choosing a screen magnifier for a Mac
Display zoom, floating lens or frame-level. Three kinds that behave completely differently in recordings.
06How to highlight the mouse cursor
Pointer size and colour, shake to locate, showing clicks in recordings, and spotlight tools that dim the rest.
07How to freeze and annotate your screen
Markup, call-app annotation, the iPad route, and what a dedicated freeze-frame tool adds on top.
Using a Mac with low vision? There is a separate page on what macOS gives you for free, where its zoom runs out and what Gaze adds – including what Gaze deliberately does not do.
Gaze
A native screen magnifier for Mac presentations, screen sharing and recordings. Zoom to your cursor inside the captured frame, freeze and annotate, pin a lens, spotlight the pointer. Free core, $19 once for Pro.
Notarized by Apple · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel