diff --git a/backend/src/viewports.zig b/backend/src/viewports.zig
index 12f6b2169..112faa6fb 100644
--- a/backend/src/viewports.zig
+++ b/backend/src/viewports.zig
@@ -297,6 +297,13 @@ pub const Picture = struct {
     /// `target` cleared, and drawn into from now as `part` of the frame (physical).
     pub fn begin(target: dvui.Texture.Target, part: Rect) Picture {
         target.clear();
+        return again(target, part);
+    }
+
+    /// `target` drawn into again as `part` of the frame, what is in it kept: more for a picture
+    /// begun and ended earlier this frame. A window handed its picture (`present`) copies it only
+    /// when the frame ends, so what goes over it last — a demo's pointer — can still go in.
+    pub fn again(target: dvui.Texture.Target, part: Rect) Picture {
         var rt = dvui.currentWindow().render_target;
         rt.texture = target;
         rt.offset = .{ .x = part.x, .y = part.y };
diff --git a/backend/src/viewports_none.zig b/backend/src/viewports_none.zig
index d7ebb2b45..e7c85a64c 100644
--- a/backend/src/viewports_none.zig
+++ b/backend/src/viewports_none.zig
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ pub const Picture = struct {
     pub fn begin(_: dvui.Texture.Target, _: Rect) Picture {
         return .{};
     }
+    pub fn again(_: dvui.Texture.Target, _: Rect) Picture {
+        return .{};
+    }
     pub fn moveTo(_: *Picture, _: dvui.Point.Physical) void {}
     pub fn subwindow(_: Picture, _: *dvui.Subwindows.Subwindow, _: bool) void {}
     pub fn end(_: Picture) void {}
diff --git a/sdk/replay/overlay.zig b/sdk/replay/overlay.zig
index 5459cc340..b92f61ec9 100644
--- a/sdk/replay/overlay.zig
+++ b/sdk/replay/overlay.zig
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ pub const Options = struct {
 /// (`LiveDriver.Hand`).
 pub fn drawLive(driver: *const LiveDriver, opts: Options) void {
     if (!driver.playing()) return;
-    const fw = layer(@src(), .{ .rect = .cast(dvui.windowRect()), .name = "LivePointer" }, .{});
+    const fw = layer(@src(), .{ .rect = pointerRect(driver.seq.pointer), .name = "LivePointer" }, .{});
     defer fw.deinit();
 
     const now = dvui.frameTimeNS();
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pub fn drawLive(driver: *const LiveDriver, opts: Options) void {
 /// A demo's pointer, while it drives, timed in demo time: a seek shows what playing showed.
 pub fn drawPlayer(player: *Player, opts: Options) void {
     if (!player.driving()) return;
-    const fw = layer(@src(), .{ .rect = .cast(dvui.windowRect()), .name = "DemoPointer" }, .{});
+    const fw = layer(@src(), .{ .rect = pointerRect(player.seq.pointer), .name = "DemoPointer" }, .{});
     defer fw.deinit();
     const ripple: ?Ripple = if (player.last_press) |press| .{ .pt = press.pt, .age_ms = player.seq.now - press.at } else null;
     // Out of the way of the words while the tape types, as a desktop's pointer is.
@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@ pub fn drawPlayer(player: *Player, opts: Options) void {
     paintPointer(player.seq.pointer, ripple, shown, player.input.held.count() > 0);
 }
 
+/// The pointer's layer: round its tip, natural, so its middle is where the pointer is. An app that
+/// shows parts of its frame in OS windows of their own (fizzy's floats, menus and dialogs) gives
+/// each window the layers whose middle is in it, and the pointer is then drawn on whatever window
+/// it is over. What it draws is clipped to the screen it is on (`dvui.screenFor`), not to this.
+fn pointerRect(p: Sequencer.Point) dvui.Rect {
+    const s = dvui.windowNaturalScale();
+    return .{ .x = p.x / s - 16, .y = p.y / s - 16, .w = 32, .h = 32 };
+}
+
 /// A floating widget that takes no input, raised to the top. A floating widget otherwise stays
 /// just above the window it was made in, under anything opened after it; re-added as a subwindow
 /// of its own it can be raised, and each call puts the new one above the last.
diff --git a/src/editor/Popout.zig b/src/editor/Popout.zig
index 53e60c231..4b94a0a9c 100644
--- a/src/editor/Popout.zig
+++ b/src/editor/Popout.zig
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ const MenuOut = struct {
     id: dvui.Id,
     viewport: *viewports.Viewport,
     target: ?dvui.Texture.Target = null,
+    /// The part of the frame its picture shows this frame, once drawn (`overlaysFrame`).
+    part: ?viewports.Rect = null,
     /// Drawn this frame: a menu not drawn has closed, and its window goes.
     seen: bool = false,
     /// On Liquid Glass (`viewports.windowGlass`), else vibrancy with the menu's colour drawn over it.
@@ -98,6 +100,8 @@ const Out = struct {
     /// the texture is kept larger through a fullscreen transition (`keepTarget`).
     target: ?dvui.Texture.Target = null,
     drawn: [2]u32 = .{ 0, 0 },
+    /// The part of the frame its picture shows this frame, once drawn (`overlaysFrame`).
+    part: ?viewports.Rect = null,
     /// What its window is called now: the float's title, as its header says (`Floats.Float.titleText`).
     title_buf: [96]u8 = undefined,
     title_len: u8 = 0,
@@ -327,6 +331,12 @@ fn release(o: *Out) void {
 pub fn endFrame(state: *State) void {
     if (!enabled()) return;
     cover_count = 0;
+    for (&outs) |*slot| if (slot.*) |*o| {
+        o.part = null;
+    };
+    for (&menus) |*slot| if (slot.*) |*m| {
+        m.part = null;
+    };
     for (&outs) |*slot| {
         if (slot.*) |*o| windowFrame(state, o);
     }
@@ -340,6 +350,7 @@ pub fn endFrame(state: *State) void {
     }
     carryFrame(state);
     menuFrame();
+    overlaysFrame();
     // A drag's carry window no float grew out of in the frame after the drag: gone.
     if (spare) |*sp| {
         if (spare_kept) {
@@ -1081,6 +1092,7 @@ fn windowFrame(state: *State, o: *Out) void {
     // Transparent where the float is not: past its corners.
     const picture: viewports.Picture = .begin(target, shown);
     defer picture.end();
+    o.part = shown;
     // Zoomed or full screen there is no desktop behind it: opaque, eased there and back with the
     // OS's transitions as the main window's base is. Where it has no material it is opaque
     // throughout.
@@ -1101,6 +1113,8 @@ fn windowFrame(state: *State, o: *Out) void {
         // A carried view is its carry window's (`carryFrame`); a menu, its own (`menuFrame`).
         if (fizzy.core.screens.isCarried(sw.id)) continue;
         if (fizzy.core.screens.isMenu(sw.id) and nativeMenus()) continue;
+        // What takes no input goes over everything, last (`overlaysFrame`).
+        if (!sw.mouse_events and !fizzy.core.screens.isEverywhere(sw.id)) continue;
         const mine = area.contains(sw.rect_pixels.center());
         if (mine or fizzy.core.screens.isEverywhere(sw.id)) picture.subwindow(sw, mine);
     }
@@ -1273,7 +1287,8 @@ fn menuFrame() void {
         const w: u32 = @intFromFloat(@max(1, @round(shown.w)));
         const h: u32 = @intFromFloat(@max(1, @round(shown.h)));
         const target = viewports.sizedTarget(&m.target, w, h) orelse continue;
-        const picture: viewports.Picture = .begin(target, .{ .x = shown.x, .y = shown.y, .w = shown.w, .h = shown.h });
+        m.part = .{ .x = shown.x, .y = shown.y, .w = shown.w, .h = shown.h };
+        const picture: viewports.Picture = .begin(target, m.part.?);
         if (!m.glass) {
             const prev_clip = dvui.clipGet();
             defer dvui.clipSet(prev_clip);
@@ -1321,6 +1336,35 @@ fn dialogsRide() void {
     };
 }
 
+/// What takes no input, drawn last: a demo's pointer and the ripple of its click
+/// (`replay.overlay`, its layer round the pointer's tip), a tooltip. Each goes into the topmost of
+/// the app's windows over its middle — a menu's or a dialog's, else a float's — over all that
+/// window shows, so the pointer is seen on whatever it is over; over none of them it is left to
+/// the main window. Those windows' pictures are handed over already (`windowFrame`, `menuFrame`):
+/// a window copies its picture only when the frame ends, so this still goes in.
+fn overlaysFrame() void {
+    const cw = dvui.currentWindow();
+    for (cw.subwindows.stack.items) |*sw| {
+        if (sw.mouse_events) continue;
+        if (fizzy.core.screens.isCarried(sw.id) or fizzy.core.screens.isEverywhere(sw.id)) continue;
+        const mid = sw.rect_pixels.center();
+        const Into = struct { target: dvui.Texture.Target, part: viewports.Rect };
+        const into: ?Into = blk: {
+            for (menus) |slot| if (slot) |m| if (m.part) |p| if (m.target) |t| {
+                if ((dvui.Rect.Physical{ .x = p.x, .y = p.y, .w = p.w, .h = p.h }).contains(mid)) break :blk .{ .target = t, .part = p };
+            };
+            for (outs) |slot| if (slot) |o| if (o.part) |p| if (o.target) |t| {
+                if ((dvui.Rect.Physical{ .x = p.x, .y = p.y, .w = p.w, .h = p.h }).contains(mid)) break :blk .{ .target = t, .part = p };
+            };
+            break :blk null;
+        };
+        const w = into orelse continue;
+        const picture: viewports.Picture = .again(w.target, w.part);
+        picture.subwindow(sw, true);
+        picture.end();
+    }
+}
+
 /// Menu `id`'s window (`menuFrame`), opened at `place` (physical, in the main window's frame) where
 /// it has none yet — riding on `ride`; a dialog's (`dialog`) in that window's stacking. Null where
 /// no more windows can be opened: the menu is drawn in its window then.