Bring your mouse cursor to life with animated pixel art. It reacts to your clicks and the direction you move, with sparkle trails, click waves and sounds. Draw your own in the built-in pixel editor, effect editor and sound editor, or grab a Pack from the Workshop.

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About This Software

Your cursor, alive

Cutesor turns the mouse pointer into something you design, animate and show off — with particle effects, sounds, and a whole community Workshop behind it.

A real pixel art studio

Draw, animate and shade cursors in an editor built for pixel art: animation timeline, onion skin, symmetry, color ramps, smart transforms and sprite-sheet import. Your 32×32 stays perfectly crisp at any size, up to 256 px.

Cursors that react

Give each cursor its own animation for left-click, right-click and the direction you move. Swing east and your arrow leans with you.

Effects & sounds

Add sparkles, trails, ribbons and click waves that follow your pointer across every screen. Then layer in sounds — a soft pop on click, a whoosh that grows with your speed. Make your own in the built-in effect and sound editors.

Fuse — mix anything

Combine one creator's arrow, another's sparkle trail and a third's click sound into a single setup. Every cursor slot is yours to pick and mix.

Recolor anything

Love a cursor but not its color? Slide the hue and the whole design recolors — the creator's shading stays intact.

Steam Workshop

Browse, filter, subscribe and share cursors, effects and sounds. Updates arrive automatically when creators publish new versions.

Always on, never in the way

Cutesor starts with Windows and runs quietly in the background — reactive cursors, effects and sounds stay active without inflating your playtime. Effects and sounds step aside automatically in fullscreen games.

System Requirements

Windows
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Memory: 100 MB RAM
    • DirectX: Version 10
    • Storage: 30 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (64-bit) or newer, or equivalent: Linux Mint 22, Fedora 41+, Debian 13, Arch / CachyOS, SteamOS
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: Desktop: KDE Plasma, GNOME 46+, Cinnamon, Xfce or another X11 desktop. On Wayland, Cutesor asks once to join the "input" group (live click sounds, effects and variants); on GNOME it also installs a small GNOME extension. Use the Steam package from your distribution (not Flatpak/Snap).