Overlays‪!‬ 4+

Abbie Gonzalez

    • 3.3 • 15 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

If you are anything like me, sometimes you need to follow a line of text in a book with a bookmark or index card. Sometimes, you can even find a colored overlay to help you keep your focus while reading.

Try to use a bookmark on your monitor and it's awkward. Until now. Overlays! displays a translucent bar on your screen that's controlled by the mouse.

Use to help with reading, or sometimes to help following large tables and lists of data. Battle the wall of text, eyestrain and distractions with this on screen overlay to help you keep your place!

- Keep your place in huge walls of text, tables and lists.
- Pick the color, height and transparency that helps you read better.
- Use a lightly colored overlay, or a completely solid line to help you keep focused. Pick what works for you!
- Easily access preferences from the menu bar icon.
- Works in full screen applications, and even over virtual machines.

What’s New

Version 1.5.5.3.36

Dock icon hidden by default again
Updated color picker

Ratings and Reviews

3.3 out of 5
15 Ratings

15 Ratings

anapauo ,

Great free app, but needs a few tweaks

This is brilliant. I used to use Claro View, which worked well, but I lost the programme when my Mac had an issue a year or so ago. I’m dyslexic but have good and bad days with it - today is a bad day, which is why I came looking!

My issue is that it would be really useful to have the options of the ‘letterbox’ style overlay, full-screen overlay (that doesn’t move with the mouse) and off - and also a quick way of toggling between them. That would absolutely warrant 5 stars!

Thank you for your efforts so far, and I really hope to see this develop over time.

jonlewin ,

Good start...

A good start and potentially very useful, but needs to have some way to quickly switch the overlay on and off via the menubar item and/or a shortcut key. At present you just have to quit and then launch each time you need it (and I personally don’t want it on screen all the time).

mln98 ,

Great! (& 1 request)

Does exactly what is says and is great because you can choose any colour you want so the colours aren’t limited to a few preset choices. I also like how you can choose the distance of the bar from the mouse.
Would be amazing and literally everything I need all in one app if the overlay could be applied to the whole screen (to tint the whole screen) as a white background on the rest of the screen can still be quite harsh/ stressful on the eyes.

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