A crosshair that never washes out.In any game, without a config file or a mod.
Four styles, eight colours, nine controls and eighteen presets — tuned live, while it is on screen, in whatever you are actually playing.
Windows 10 and 11 · portable, no installer · 7-day refunds
The crosshair holding against a bright wall and a dark corridor in the same round, and the threat ring picking up a bearing without a glance away.
The game's reticle disappears against a bright wall at exactly the moment it matters.
Some games give you a colour picker. Some give you nothing. Almost none let you set thickness, or centre gap, or make it vanish while you are aiming — and the ones that do make you restart to see what you changed. So you learn to live with a reticle that is wrong in half the map.
Crosshair, in detail
Nine controls, live
Style, size, thickness, centre gap, opacity, colour, and whether it hides while you are aiming. Every measurement changes while it is on screen, so you tune it against the game rather than against a preview.
Colours chosen to stay visible
Eight presets picked for being rare in rendered scenes, an R/G/B mixer with a hex box, and eight slots for the ones you make. Paste a hex straight out of a game's own config and it matches exactly.
Eighteen presets
Start from one that already looks right instead of from a dot. Each drives every measurement at once, so it is a starting point you then nudge rather than a lock.
The threat ring
The sound radar's bearings, drawn around your own crosshair instead of on a dial you have to look away to read. Damped like the arrows are, so it glides rather than snaps — and it has its own aiming switch, because it is the one mark worth keeping up while you shoot.
Share it as one line
A crosshair travels as a short CF1- code you can paste into a message. Whoever pastes it back gets exactly what you were using.
It knows when to disappear
Hide it while you are aiming so it never fights the game's own sights, and put it away entirely with a key without touching any of your settings.
This is the settings window, running here
Not a screenshot and not a mock-up — the same window the app opens, on this page. Click anything.
A live copy of the app’s own settings window, seeded with the defaults a new install has. Nothing here changes anything — there is no app behind it.
Three steps, then stop thinking about it
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Run one file
No installer. It lives in the tray.
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Pick a preset
Eighteen of them. Nudge anything you want; it changes on screen as you drag.
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Play
It stays where it is, in every game, until you change it.
Before you download it
Will this get me banned?
CtrlFlick Recon runs beside your game rather than inside it. It reads what is already on your screen and listens to what your speakers are already playing — nothing is injected, no game file is touched, and no other program's memory is ever read. The sound radar and a pinned region can sit entirely on a second monitor, so you can have both without anything drawn over the game at all. Whether a game permits an overlay is that game's call rather than ours, and the rules differ between titles, so it is worth a look at the policy of anything you play competitively. We would rather say that than imply a promise we cannot make on another publisher's behalf.
Does it work in games that already have a crosshair?
Yes — it draws on top. That is usually the point: yours stays visible where the game's own reticle washes out. It can also hide while you are aiming so the two never fight.
Will it work with my game?
It never touches a game, so there is no support list. Windowed or borderless fullscreen; exclusive fullscreen is the one mode an overlay cannot draw over, and the built-in test tells you which one you are in before the match.
Can I move it off centre?
It sits at the centre of the screen, which is where a game puts its own. If what you want is a copy of some other part of the screen somewhere else, that is the pinned region rather than the crosshair.
What does it install?
One executable and a folder beside it. Nothing in the registry, nothing in AppData, nothing outside its own directory — it runs from a USB stick and uninstalls by being deleted. The optional audio effect is the single exception, and it removes itself from the same button that installed it.
Is there a free trial?
Yes — the full software, nothing held back, no card.
Something else? The support page goes further, or write to support@ctrlflick.com.
Put a crosshair you can actually see on it.
Crosshair is one of five overlays in CtrlFlick Recon — one licence covers all of them, on one PC at a time, moveable.