Magnifica
★ You can now freeze/unfreeze the image using either volume button, without touching the screen.
★ Added Catalan and Italian translations.
New in 1.1.5
★ Added Russian translation. Thanks to @RogerRY!
New in 1.1.4
★ Fixed the flashlight button sometimes showing the wrong state.
New in 1.1.3
★ The flashlight stays on while the image is frozen.
★ The flashlight turns back on when you return to the app.
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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.
▸ Sensible zoom. It steps in powers of two (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x…) and tops out at whatever your camera can actually do. Tap plus and minus, no fiddly pinching.
▸ 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.
▸ Negative mode. Invert the colors with one tap — handy for low-contrast or light-on-dark text. The button even previews what you're about to switch to.
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 Russian translation. Thanks to @RogerRY!
New in 1.1.4
★ Fixed the flashlight button sometimes showing the wrong state.
New in 1.1.3
★ The flashlight stays on while the image is frozen.
★ The flashlight turns back on when you return to the app.
New in 1.1.2
★ Add German and Spanish translations.
★ Allow frozen image to be zoomed up to 3x max zoom.
New in 1.1.1
★ Updated translations.
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★ Fixed the flashlight button sometimes showing the wrong state.
New in 1.1.3
★ The flashlight stays on while the image is frozen.
★ The flashlight turns back on when you return to the app.
New in 1.1.2
★ Add German and Spanish translations.
★ Allow frozen image to be zoomed up to 3x max zoom.
New in 1.1.1
★ Updated translations.
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