Magnifica

<i>Magnifica</i> is a magnifier app I built because sometimes text is tiny, labels are impossible to read, and product designers apparently enjoy using microscopic fonts.

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.

<b>Features</b>

▸ <b>Magnifies stuff.</b> 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.

▸ <b>Freeze.</b> 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.

▸ <b>Sensible zoom.</b> 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.

▸ <b>Tap to focus.</b> See a blurry thing, tap it, it becomes a readable thing.

▸ <b>A torch.</b> 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.

▸ <b>Front and back cameras</b>, one button to flip between them.

▸ <b>Negative mode.</b> 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.

<i>Magnifica</i> is open source and released under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html">GPLv3 license</a>. Check out the <a href="https://gitlab.com/juanitobananas/magnifica">code</a> if you like.

<b>Get it</b>
You can download it for free in <a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.magnifica/">F-Droid</a>.

<i>Magnifica:</i> a magnificent way to make small things bigger.