Beautiful glowing particle trails that follow your mouse cursor. Available for Windows and Linux. Lightweight, customizable, and runs quietly in your system tray.
BriteMouse is designed to be simple, fast, and stay out of your way.
Beautiful radial particle bursts with fade and glow that follow your cursor smoothly across the entire desktop.
Toggle rainbow mode for a continuously shifting spectrum of colors that cycle through the entire color wheel.
Adjust size, trail length, particle density, opacity, fade speed, glow intensity, and motion smoothing to your liking.
Runs at 60 FPS with minimal CPU usage. Performance mode available for older hardware. Frozen brushes and optimized particle pools prevent memory leaks.
Runs quietly in your system tray. Right-click to toggle effects, open settings, or exit. No window clutter.
Works perfectly across multiple monitors. Scales smoothly with your display at any resolution or DPI setting.
Windows .exe or Linux installer. Minimal setup, runs in your system tray. No bloat.
Optional startup integration on both Windows and Linux. Enable it once and BriteMouse starts automatically every time you log in.
No accounts, no sign-ups, no configuration required.
Get the installer for your platform. Windows .exe or Linux shell script.
Launch the app. A glowing trail immediately appears behind your cursor.
Right-click the tray icon to open settings. Tweak colors, size, density, and more.
Free, portable, and lightweight. Pick your platform.
One-click installer. Sets up .NET runtime, installs to Program Files, and creates shortcuts.
Download Installer or download portable .zipSelf-contained installer. Handles dependencies automatically. Native GTK3 tray app.
Download Installersudo bash BriteMouse-linux.sh