For Blender · Excel · Resolve · Fusion 360 · anything with a deep menu
Ask what you're trying to do. Overshoulder reads your screen and draws a ring on the exact control — then watches you click it, and moves the ring to the next one.
Free for 5 tasks a month · Windows 10 (2004+) and 11 · No account to try it
A recreation of the overlay, running on a mock application.
How it works
Every "how do I" answer today makes you do the translation: read the words, hunt the interface, guess whether the thing you found is the thing they meant. This skips that.
Hit Ctrl+Shift+Space and describe the outcome, not the menu path. It already knows which application you're in and what's on screen.
Not "go to File › Export." A ring, on your File menu, on your screen, at your resolution — with the step written beside it.
When the screen changes it looks again and works out where you actually are. Skip ahead, undo something, hit a dialog — the ring follows.
Overshoulder sets WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE on its windows, so the operating system leaves them out of the frames it hands to any capture API. The ring stays perfectly visible to you and simply isn't in the stream.
Because it works at the OS layer rather than per-app, one flag covers all of them at once.
The app prints its verdict at launch and the shield in the bar turns amber if your OS won't honour the exclusion — on Windows builds before 19041, or on Linux, where no equivalent exists. It never claims cover it doesn't have.
This defeats screen capture, not cameras. A phone pointed at your monitor still sees everything.
Pricing
A task is one question and every look it takes to walk you through it — however many steps that turns out to be.
5 tasks a month. Everything works; nothing is crippled.
150 tasks a month. For anyone who lives in one deep application all day.
500 tasks a month, and seats you can hand to a team.
Unused tasks do not roll over. Cancel whenever; the free tier stays.
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The capture-exclusion and window-detection paths exist but aren't verified on macOS yet. It ships when they are.