Magnifica
★ Added a button to share the frozen image (without any metadata).
New in 1.3.5
★ Added Czech translation.
★ Updated translations.
New in 1.3.4
★ Fix: zoom level is now restored when returning to the app after switching away.
★ Add Estonian translation. Thank you very much, tlend!
New in 1.3.3
★ Bring back some languages I accidentally removed 😅
New in 1.3.2
★ Updated translations.
New in 1.3.1
★ Fix crash while opening 'Licenses' menu item.
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The name is a little bilingual joke, born of a glorious act of linguistic optimism. I'm Spanish, and "Magnifica" sounds a bit like "magnify" in English. At the same time it brings to mind magnífica in Spanish, which means "magnificent." So the goal was obvious: build a magnifier app that's, well... magnificent.
Features
▸ Magnifies stuff. The tiny print on a medicine box, the impossible serial number on a router, the ingredients list written by someone who clearly hates you — or that suspicious little dot on your kid's leg that you really, really need to know is a freckle and not a tick. Point, zoom, see.
▸ Freeze. Tap to hold a full-resolution still. While frozen, zoom in further and pan around to examine detail you couldn't see in the live view. Tap again to unfreeze. The volume buttons work too — either one freezes or unfreezes without touching the screen.
▸ Share. While frozen, tap to send the image to any app — the file is a plain JPEG with the active colour effect applied and no EXIF, no GPS, no timestamps, no device information.
▸ Sensible zoom. Tap plus and minus to snap through powers of two (1×, 2×, 4×, 8×…), or pinch to zoom smoothly anywhere in between. Zoom level is remembered when you switch away and come back.
▸ Tap to focus. See a blurry thing, tap it, it becomes a readable thing.
▸ A torch. On the back camera it's your real flashlight. The front camera has no flash, so it turns the whole screen blindingly white and calls that a "flash." It's a hack. It works.
▸ Front and back cameras, one button to flip between them.
▸ Color effects. Six filters applied live — negative, grayscale, high contrast, yellow on black, color-blind assist, or none. Tap to toggle; long-press to preview all six on a live thumbnail of your current view.
▸ Screen stays on. The display doesn't dim while the app is open.
No accounts. No ads. No mysterious permissions. It wants the camera, because it's a camera app, and then it would like to be left alone to do its job.
Magnifica is open source and released under the GPLv3 license[1]. Check out the code[2] if you like.
Get it
You can download it for free in F-Droid[3].
Translations are always welcome! :)
The app is available for translation on Transifex[4].
Magnifica: a magnificent way to make small things bigger.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
[2] https://gitlab.com/juanitobananas/magnifica
[3] com.jarsilio.android.magnifica
[4] https://explore.transifex.com/juanitobananas/magnifica
- Author: juanitobananas
- License: GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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★ Added Czech translation.
★ Updated translations.
New in 1.3.4
★ Fix: zoom level is now restored when returning to the app after switching away.
★ Add Estonian translation. Thank you very much, tlend!
New in 1.3.3
★ Bring back some languages I accidentally removed 😅
New in 1.3.2
★ Updated translations.
New in 1.3.1
★ Fix crash while opening 'Licenses' menu item.
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★ Fix: zoom level is now restored when returning to the app after switching away.
★ Add Estonian translation. Thank you very much, tlend!
New in 1.3.3
★ Bring back some languages I accidentally removed 😅
New in 1.3.2
★ Updated translations.
New in 1.3.1
★ Fix crash while opening 'Licenses' menu item.
New in 1.3.0
★ Add some shiny new effects: grayscale, high contrast, yellow on black and color blind assist.
★ Other small fixes.
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