Quite Handy 1.6.5

• Settings: The Toolbar page is now called Interface, with a group for the toolbar and one for the whiteboard
• The whiteboard sheets in the bottom-right corner can be hidden; the Settings cog then moves down into the corner
• Reset Position in Settings puts the toolbar back at the bottom middle of the screen; right-clicking its handle no longer does

Quite Handy 1.6.1

• The flashlight and the zoom loupe run much more smoothly: the darkening is no longer redrawn on every move
• Changing the size or zoom of the flashlight no longer makes everything stutter
• Dragging the opacity and size knobs in the toolbar is smoother

Quite Handy 1.6.0

• Hand Pointer is now called Quite Handy. It is a new app on your Mac: allow Accessibility once more in System Settings, and Open at login is now on by default
• Whiteboards: Click the sheet in the bottom-right corner, or drag one out to the size you want. Draw on several boards at once, move and resize them, switch light and dark, copy or save each one as a PNG
• One undo history for everything: lines, stamps and whiteboards
• Screenshots: ⌘C copies and ⌘S saves the screen, or the whiteboard under the pointer, without the hand
• Flashlight: Hold Tab for a spotlight that darkens the rest of the screen; turn on Zoom to magnify inside it. Swipe to change its size and zoom, or hold ⌥ and move the mouse
• Space and Tab can now be used as hold keys, like ⇧ ⌃ ⌥ ⌘
• Opacity and size knobs in the toolbar, and keys to step through the ink colours (V and C)
• The glove draws in black and white so its lines show on any background
• Number stamps use a rounder font, grow while you hold, and go up to 9
• New defaults: R clears, ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z undo and redo, ⇧ stamps, T shows the toolbar
• Settings are reorganised with a new Toolbar page, and Esc always ends the session

Hand Pointer 1.5.0

• Tiny Pointer is now called Hand Pointer
• Hand Pointer is a new app on your Mac: allow Accessibility once more in System Settings, and turn on Open at login again if you use it

Tiny Pointer 1.4.0

• Undo and redo: Press U to take back the last line or number stamp, I to bring it back; hold to keep going
• Moving or removing a number stamp can be undone too
• The green "Allowed" in General is easier to read in light mode
• New installs start with the zoom loupe at 3×
• New app icon, and the name is now written as two words: Tiny Pointer
• New pointer: Christmas tree. The Cloud and Neon hands are gone

TinyPointer 1.3.1

• TinyPointer is now signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without the security warning
• After this update, allow Accessibility once more in System Settings, because the app's signature changed

TinyPointer 1.3.0

• Arrows: Hold ⌃ while you draw and the line gets an open arrowhead pointing the way you drew, shown live
• Number stamps: Hold ⌥ and click to place numbered circles 1, 2, 3 … in your ink colour; drag one to move it, click it to remove it
• Smoothing: Lines are smoothed while you draw and still end right at the pointer, in four steps from off to medium; arrows always use the strongest
• New hold keys: ⇧ zoom, ⌃ arrows, ⌥ number stamps, ⌘ click your Mac for real
• Clicks and drags do nothing while you hold the zoom key
• The zoom loupe goes from 200 to 800 pt, and its Liquid Glass ring grows with it
• The skeleton hand no longer has a stray highlight
• New defaults for a fresh install: 600 pt loupe at 4×, sound on, light smoothing

Install

Download TinyPointer.dmg, open it and drag TinyPointer to Applications. macOS 13 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel.

The app is not notarized yet: the first time you open it, macOS blocks it. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

TinyPointer 1.2.0

• Color pointer: A dot in your stroke's size, colour and opacity instead of a hand, always last in the toolbar
• The toolbar, its tooltips and the zoom loupe use Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and later
• Tooltips and a hover state for everything in the toolbar
• Drawings stay below the toolbar
• The drag handle is easier to grab; right-click it to put the toolbar back
• Right-clicking the toolbar ends the session too, if that option is on
• Rainbow: The tap circle uses the colour where your last line ended, and with a 0° shift the next line carries on from it
• Next and previous pointer stop at the first and last one; hold the key to step through quickly
• ⌘, opens Settings while the pointer is on
• Automatic colour has its own "A" icon and comes first; the white glove draws in white
• New defaults for a fresh install

Install

Download TinyPointer.dmg, open it and drag TinyPointer to Applications. macOS 13 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel.

The app is not notarized yet: the first time you open it, macOS blocks it. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

TinyPointer 1.1.0

First release of TinyPointer, based on TinyHand 1.0.2 by Kamran Ahmed.

• Rainbow ink: Lines run through every colour, with adjustable speed and a hue shift for each new line
• Stroke size and line opacity can be set separately from the pointer size
• Tap circle: A circle grows and fades out where you tap
• Tap sound plays on tap only, or on tap and draw
• Zoom loupe: Hold a key to magnify the screen around the pointer
• Ink colours sit right in the toolbar
• The toolbar can be moved with the handle on its left; right-click the handle to put it back
• The toolbar can be shown or hidden, and gets out of the way while you interact with your Mac
• New shortcuts for clearing, colours, switching pointers, sound and the toolbar; single keys work while the pointer is on
• Optional: Right-click turns the pointer off
• Settings reorganised into General, Shortcuts, Draw, Zoom, Pointers, Sound and About
• Updates are checked and installed automatically

Install

Download TinyPointer.dmg, open it and drag TinyPointer to Applications. macOS 13 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel.

The app is not notarized yet: the first time you open it, macOS blocks it. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.