Screen magnification software enlarges the information on the screen by a pre-determined incremental factor (for example, twice normal size, three times normal size, etc.). Magnification programs run simultaneously and seamlessly with the computer's operating system and applications. Most screen magnification software has the flexibility to magnify the full screen, parts of the screen or provide a magnifying glass view of the area around the cursor or pointer. These programs also often allow for inverted colors, enhanced pointer viewing and tracking options.
Windows Professional software
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- Lunar - Lunar for Windows from Dolphin Computer Access, is a professional screen magnifier, that magnifies all your Windows applications from 2 to 32 times in any display resolution and color depth. magnification mode.
Features: color filtering, edge smoothing, line view to easily read documents, event tracking and different magnification modes. - LunarPlus - LunarPlus is a professional screen magnifier with restrictive speech support, that magnifies your Windows applications from 2 to 32 times in any display resolution and color depth.
LunarPlus combines the Dolphin products Lunar (screen magnifier) and Orpheus (software speech synthesizer).
This is a good solution for those who need screen magnification and only need speech for reading documents, e-mail and web pages. - Magic for Windows - Information about the professional screen magnifier with speech support Magic for Windows 95/98/ME from Freedom Scientific.
Magic magnifies all Windows applications from 2 to 16 times in any display resolution up to 32-bit color depth and provides full speech support including reading aloud entire documents.
Magic is designed to be compatible with the screen reader Jaws. - Magic for Windows NT - Magic for Windows NT, is a professional screen magnifier that magnifies all your Windows NT applications from 2 to 20 times.
It is highly compatible with the screen reader Jaws for Windows, has different magnification modes like full screen, split screen, lens and overview, independent mouse magnification, font smoothing, color filtering and much more. - Magnum - Magnum from Artic Technology, is a professional screen magnifier for Windows 95/98, that magnifies all your windows applications from 2 to 32 times in any display resolution and color depth.
Magnum only magnifies in full screen mode and has less features, but it is the cheapest professional screen magnifier running on Windows 95/98. - ProVision - ProVision for Windows NT/2000 from (A HREF="http://www.biolink.bc.ca">BioLink, is a professional screen magnifier that magnifies all your Windows NT applications from 1.25 to 16 times in small steps of 0.25 below 4x.
Where orther professional screen magnifiers only support magnification increments of 2, ProVision supports increments of 0.25.
ProVision support multiple zoom windows, font smoothing, color filtering, auto-tracking and auto-scrolling. - Supernova - Supernova is a combined product including the screen reader Hal (speech and braille support) and the screen magnifier Lunar.
Features 2 to 32 times magnification, Virtual Focus, Document read and much more. - Zoomtext magnifier - Magnifies from 2x to 16x, enlarges and enhances everything on the screen.
Features: all-color smoothing, pointer and cursor enhancements, 7 zoom window types including full screen magnification. Tracks all window activities like menus and controls. - ZoomText Magnifier / Screen Reader - Screen magnifier plus screen reader. Inludes all the features of ZoomText Magnifier plus speech features like typing echo, and mouse echo. The AppReader feature let you read all you documents, web pages and email.
Windows Freeware/Shareware
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- DesktopZoom 3.0 - This small but powerful screen magnification utility with basic speech support, is unique, because of the full screen magnification mode, tracking of windows objects and caret. Other features include magnification around the mouse, magnification in a fixed window, caret tracking, font smoothing, save settings and different zoom options.
OS Windows 2000 / XP
File size 328 KB
License Free - Magnifying Glass Pro 1.7 - Magnifying Glass Pro 1.5 is an intermediate screen magnifier, with support for full-screen magnification and tracking of mouse cursor and input caret. Included are some unique features like targets and mouse shaking.
OS Windows All
File size 1.4 MB
license shareware $24.95 (free 30 day trial available
company Workers Collection - !VisToolBox - An interesting product which will be of real interest to anyone using graphics on a PC
- Aldo's Magnifier - Aldo's magnifier is a freeware clone of the Windows 98 Magnifier.
Because of the auto-reposition feature, it is one of the best freeware screen magnifier utilities for Windows, that magnifies the area around your mouse cursor up to 4 times.
Features: auto reposition, copy magnified view to clipboard or printer.
File sie 14k
OS Windows 95/98/NT
License FREE - Dragnifier - Dragnifier is one of the better simple FREE screen magnifier for Windows utities, that is written by Ed Halley.
Dragnifier magnifies all Windows applications 2, 4 or 8 times in a small area around the mouse cursor.
OS Windows All
Lisence FREE
File size 124k
Author Ed Halley - Fatbits 2.0 - Fatbits is useful as an accessibility tool. It magnifies an area around the mouse cursor, it can perform text smoothing and can modify the colors it displays to help those with color vision deficiency.
Works well with multiple monitors, magnification up to 20x, shows color and position information.
File size 32 KB
OS Windows 95 and higher
License FREE
Company Digital Mantra - FREE SCREEN MAGNIFY v2 - A fully featured screen magnifying program to assist those with low vision using computers FEATURES FREE Easy to use Full screen automatic scrolling or User configurable size Adjust to any practical magnification Dynamic cursor indicating screen position Auto-Move giving you access to the full screen without fuss File Size 2.40mb REQUIREMENTS - Windows '95 or later
- iZoom Web - iZoom Web is a Free professional Web-based screen magnifier with speech support for Windows 2000, XP and Vista from Issist Inc.
Features: Full screen magnification and other zoom types, different color schemes and mouse pointers, font smoothing, focus and caret tracking, speech support and more.
OS Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
License Free
Company Issist Inc - Lens - Lens is a simple screen magnifier utility, that magnifies an area around the mouse cursor
OS Windows 3.1/95/98
License Free - Lens - magnifying glass - Lens is a very simple magnification utility, that magnifies a small area of your Windows desktop.
After you start the program you see a lens on your desktop. You can zoom up to 64 times.
You can change teh level of magnification and move the lens with your keyboard.
File size 560k
OS Windows 95/98/NT/2000
License Free - Lupa for Windows 95/98/NT - Simple free screen magnifier written by Zbyszek Swirski, that magnifies the area around the mouse cursor in a window.
File size 156k
OS Windows 95/98/NT
License Free - Zoom+ - Zoom+ is a simple but good screen magnifier utility for Windows, that magnifies any portion of your screen up to 32 times.
You can copy the magnified view to the Windows Clipboard or save it as bitmap image file.
You can zoomin and zoomout by using your mouse wheel and activate all Zoom+ menu options with your keyboard.
File size 56k
OS Windows 95/98/NT
License Free - ABF Magnifying Tools - A set of useful graphics tools for viewing the screen area in different zooms. The set contains Cursor Eye, Lens and magnifier.
OS Windows 98 and higher
Size 2096 KB
License Shareware 30 day trial
Price $14.95 - Big-w - Very simple screen magnifier utility for Windows 3.1/95/98 that, magnifies a a amsall area around the mouse cursor from 2 to 10 times in a small box at the right down corner of your computer screen
OS Windows 3.1/95/98
License DEMO
File size 8k
Read review - Coloristic - Simple magnifier utility, that magnifies the area around the mouse cursor 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32 times.
Features: copy color value, that is under the cursor to the clipboard, measure distance between 2 pixels, save magnified image to disk or clipboard.
File size 85 KB
OS Windows
License Shareware
Price $12
More Info - DeskLens - DeskLensPro is a useful application which comes with highly customized magnifiers. There are four types of lens mode: DeskLens, MouseLens, Surveillance, MouseCamera. DeskLens is a lens which magnifies under that lens. MouseLens is under mouse pointer so you can work freely. Surveillance lens watches area around previously determinated pixel. MouseCamera magnifies everything below the mouse and it is always at the same position.
- Desktop Magnifier - Screen Magnifier utility for Windows, that magnifies an area on your screen from 2 to 32 times.
Features: adjustable refresh rage, precise or smooth magnification, shows mouse position on magnified image, copying magnified image to clipboard and save to file.
OS Windows
License Shareware
Price $14.95 - Greatis Screen Beagle - Screen Utilities Pack with advanced magnifier, that magnifies the area around the mouse cursor from2 to 10 times.
You can resize magnification window and can magnify the mouse as a cross or arrow.
File size 517 KB
OS Windows
License Shareware
Price $19.95
More Info Greatis - Jans Magnifier - Magnifier is a simple screen magnifier written by my brother Jan Verhoeven, that magnifies the area around the mouse cursor.
Features: adjustable magnification; docking; resample, draft and smooth magnification styles.
File size 150 KB
OS Windows
License FREE
Company Jans Freeware Collection Home - Loupe for Windows - Simple screen magnifier utility, that magnifies an area around the mouse cursor from 2 to 8 times.
File size 123k
OS Windows 95/98/NT
License Shareware - Loupe for Windows 3.1 - Simple screen magnifier utility, that magnifies an area around the mouse cursor from 2 to 8 times.
File size 47k
OS Windows 3.1
License Free - Lunar lite for Windows 3.1 - Lunar lite is the only FREE professional screen magnifier only running on Windows 3.1 in standard VGA 16 color depth.
Features full screen magnification, invert colors and mouse and manual scrolling.
File size 159k
OS Windows 3.1
License Free - Magic Lens Max - Feature-rich screen magnifier utility for Windows 2000 and higher. Magnifies the area around the mouse cursor up to 32 times.
Features: 3 lens shapes, magnification from 1/4x to 32, built-in 6 real-time resampling filters for zoming, viewing in 4 color modes.
File size 1.6 MB
OS Windows 2000 and later
License shareware $29.95 - Magnifier 1.0 - Magnifier 1.0 is a very simple magnification utility for Windows, that magnifies the area around the mouse cursor from 1 to 20 times in a fixed window on the screen.
You can resize and move the magnification window. You can zoom in and out by pressing the + and - keys on the numpad.
File size 10k
OS Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
License FREE
Company RavenBlack - Magnifixer - Magnifixer is a screen magnifier utility. You can place it anywhere on your screen, make it any size you want and select a zoom level (up to 15x). Magnifixer will always show the area of your screen where the mouse cursor resides.
- Magnify - This very simple screen magnifier utility magnifies a small area around the mouse cursor.
File size 8k
OS Windows 3.1/95/98
License Free - Magnifying Glass Free - This is a nice screen magnifier utility with a lot of options, including enlarge the mouse cursor. It supports full screen magnification for Windows 2000 and XP users.
File size 550 KB
OS Windows 9x and higher
License Free - Magwind - Simple magnification utility for Windows 3.1.
File size 13k
OS Windows 3.1
License Free - MB-Ruler - the transparent screen ruler and screen loupe - MB-Ruler helps you to measure distances and angles on the screen. The ruler is almost transparent, so you can have it on the screen, while you are working with the applications below. Additionally it has a screen loupe function, a RGB value window and you can place temporary points and lines as markers on the screen.
- NLarge - NLarge is a little utility developed for technical presentations, but also useful as full screen magnifier.
Zoom in and out with the wheel of your mouse, activate magnification by pressing ALT + 1.
Limitation: only reading is possible with magnification enabled.
File size 100 KB
OS Windows XP / Vista
License Free - The Magnifier - Screen magnifier for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista, that magnifies from 1 to 40 times with support for full screen magnification.
Good and simple user-interface and good keyboard support.
OS Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
File size 1.5 MB
License Shareware
Price $29.95 / $49.95
Company Innovation Management Group - Virtual Magnifying Glass - Virtual Magnifying Glass is a free open source screen magnification tool for Windows. The program shows a magnifying glass lens that follows the mouse movement.
File size 3349 KB
OS Windows all
License Open SourceZoomAView - The Computer Magnifying Lens! - ZoomAView is a powerful, easy to use desktop screen magnifier. Featuring zoom levels up to 32x within a fully moveable and sizeable lens window, ZoomAView helps you see web pages, e-mail, pictures, and more without having to strain your eyes. Choose to have the lens show what's under your mouse, or use "locked" mode to keep the magnified area in place. ZoomAView lets you pick from 3 pointer styles, and it can also reverse colors within the lens view (negative). - Zoomer - Simple screen magnifier utility for Windows 95/98/NT, that magnifies the area around the mouse cursor from 2 to 4 times.
File size 38k
OS Windows 95/98/NT
License Free - Zoomin - Simple screen magnifier utility for Windows 95/98/NT, that magnifies a small area around the mouse cursor from 2 to 6 times.
You can activate and deactivate the magnifier by pressing a hotkey combination and resize the magnification window to a maximum of 60 pixels.
File size 126k
OS Windows 95/98/NT
License Free A free - Zoommy - Zoommy is a replacement for Microsoft Magnifier. Magnify and measure a selected area of the screen . Magnification from -4x to 30x. The lens window is easily controlled : a click on the Zoommy icon in the tray shows the lens, another click hides it. A right click on the same icon opens a menu with parameters.
File size 1846 KB
OS Windows 95 and higher
License 30 day trial
Price 511.95 - ZoomTools - Because ZoomTools can magnify 8 times under itself, it is one of the best shareware magnifier utility for Windows available.
It's a collection of high quality graphics tools (screen capture, tape measure, color analyzer, etc) with built-in magnifiers.
it's mouse pointer (cursor) can be controlled by key strokes as well as the mouse, reducing the need for a steady hand.
File size 458k
OS Windows 3.x/95/98
License Shareware 30 days trial
Screen Magnifiers for Mobile Phones
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- Mobile Magnifier - Enlarges and enhances all items of the mobile phone display, automatically detecting and magnifying the area of interest as you navigate through the phone's user interface.
Runs on Mobile Phones running the symbian Operating System, including Nokia 3620, 3650, 3660, 62260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 7610, 7650, N Gage, N Gage QD adn Siemens SX!.
A free 30 days trial is available - Nuance ZOOMS™ - magnifies the content of mobile handset displays so that low-vision users can navigate through the screen and make use of all the functionality their mobile phones have to offer. The first full-screen magnification tool for Symbian Series 60 handsets, Nuance ZOOMS uses the complete screen area for magnification.
- The Phone Monocle cell phone magnifying lens - The Phone Monocle cell phone magnifying lens allows your phone display to be read with ease and will look great in an Array of colors. Magnific's cell phone magnifying lens allows magnification of characters up to 2 times. In the dark your cell phone magnifying lens along with the back light will incredibly enhance your display. Wrap around design keeps the cell phone magnifier securely on your phone, and will stop the phone from sliding around in your car.
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