A tiny hand on a stick that points at things on your Mac screen.
macOS 13 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel.
Open TinyHand.dmg, drag TinyHand to Applications and allow Accessibility when asked. It needs that to turn your clicks into taps. TinyHand updates itself.
| Click the menu bar icon, or ⌃⌥H | Turn the pointer on or off |
| Right-click the menu bar icon | Menu and Settings |
| Click | Tap (nothing underneath gets clicked) |
| Hold and drag | Draw on the screen |
| Hold ⌘ while drawing | Add an arrowhead to the end of the line |
| ⌃⌥X | Clear the drawing |
| Esc | Clear everything and turn the pointer off |
While the pointer is on, a small toolbar at the bottom of the screen lets you pick one of 36 hands or a laser dot, mute the tap sound, or exit.
Launchers like Raycast or Alfred, and shell scripts, can control TinyHand with
tinyhand:// links. Use open -g so TinyHand doesn't take focus:
open -g tinyhand://toggle| Link | Action |
|---|---|
tinyhand://on, tinyhand://off, tinyhand://toggle |
Turn the pointer on, off, or flip it |
tinyhand://clear |
Clear the drawing |
tinyhand://style/<id> |
Switch to a hand (or laser) and turn the pointer on |
tinyhand://sound/on, /off, /toggle |
Tap sound for the current pointer |
While TinyHand runs, it keeps its current state in
~/Library/Application Support/TinyHand/state.json: whether the pointer is on, the
selected style, whether sound is on, and every style with its id, name and type
(hand, custom or laser). The file is removed when TinyHand quits. It also
records the app's pid, so a file left behind by a crash can be detected.
If TinyHand isn't running, opening any link launches it and then runs the command.
MIT. See LICENSE.