A mouse movement, not a robot

Up to 1.7.7, AutoMouseMove moved the cursor down by ten pixels, then moved it back up on the next run, always at the same pace. On my Windows 11, Teams still ended up showing me as away. Since 1.7.12, the cursor makes a small curve of a few pixels, in around fifteen small steps, then returns exactly to where it was. The delay between two gestures changes each time, and it never exceeds 4 minutes, while Teams declares you away after 5. No clicking, no keyboard typing, no macro that would go clicking in your windows while your back is turned.

As well as moving the cursor, the application asks the system not to go to sleep and to keep the screen on as long as it is active, on Windows as on macOS. You switch it off, and everything goes back to normal.

The movement goes through SharpHook and its SimulateMouseMovementRelative call, which addresses each system's event injection interface, the same one used by accessibility tools. Nothing exotic, nothing that goes poking around in another program's memory.

• Adjustable interval from 1 to 4 minutes, 3 minutes by default, with a delay that varies with each gesture.
• A timer displays the time elapsed since the last movement.
• A switch turns everything off without quitting the application, and the setting is saved immediately.
• On Windows, if you have just touched the mouse or keyboard, the gesture is skipped: it never gets in your way while you are working.
• The movement is relative: your cursor never jumps to the other side of the screen.

Windows 10 and 11, x64 and ARM

Nothing special to do. You unzip it, launch it, and the icon appears next to the clock. The only extra step concerns the SmartScreen warning, explained just below.

macOS 15 and later

The first time it moves, macOS asks for Accessibility permission. You have to grant it in System Settings, otherwise the software does not move anything at all, and it does so silently. The packages are signed and notarized by Apple, so there is no warning screen at launch.

Linux x64 and ARM64

Works under X11 and under XWayland, so on Ubuntu and Fedora desktops as they are shipped. A strict Wayland session, on the other hand, forbids event injection for every application: this is not a software defect, it is a limitation of the system layer, and no tool of this kind gets around it. Under Linux, the movement is enough to keep the session awake: the application does not add any sleep blocking there.

An icon, not a window

The application starts directly in the notification area. Closing the window puts it away instead of quitting the program.

Start with the session

One checkbox, and the software launches at login, using the native mechanism of each of the three systems.

Updates flagged

At launch and then once a day, the application checks whether a newer version exists and tells you, even when tucked away in the notification area. It never installs anything behind your back.

No advertising, no tracking

No banner, nothing to resell. Your settings fit in a readable file, %APPDATA%/AutoMouseMove/preferences.json.

Install on Windows without fighting SmartScreen

I don't pay for a Windows signing certificate, which costs several hundred euros a year for software at this price. Result: Windows displays a warning on the first launch, as it does for any unsigned program. Here's what to do, it takes ten seconds.

1. Download the archive AutoMouseMove-v1.7.13-win-x64.zip with the button at the bottom of this page (or the win-arm64 version for an ARM PC).
2. Before extracting it, right-click the ZIP file, then Properties.
3. At the very bottom of the window, check Unblock, then confirm.
4. Extract it, launch AutoMouseMove.exe, that's it.

If you extract it before unblocking, the mark ends up on every extracted file. In that case, delete the folder and start again from the second step: it's faster than unblocking the files one by one.

There is nothing else to install

The archives already contain everything needed to run the program: no .NET environment to download alongside it, no library to add. That's also why the files weigh around fifty megabytes. If an older version of this page asked you to install .NET 9, forget it, that's no longer true.

Teams keeps you available

The curved movement, the varying delay and the 4-minute ceiling solve the status problem. The PC and the screen no longer go to sleep either while the application is active.

Your settings stick

Before, checking “Active” without clicking Save did nothing on the next restart. Each setting is now saved the instant you change it.

A new look

A dark theme, a new icon, and a window that clearly shows whether everything is running or whether the system refused a movement.