Magnifying Glass

David Parry

About this app

The Magnifying Glass it does what it claims to do - it magnifies what one is looking at through the camera. This simple Magnifying Glass will magnify anything you want just launch it and point at the item. It now will freeze the item you are viewing.
If you have a camera or tablet and it does not have a flash on it then the light on the application will not work.
A Mirror option has been added for anyone needing a quick mirror to check out makeup or just admire yourself using the front camera of your phone. Hope you like the new mirror if you have a front camera.


This application is now open sourced looking for other developers and testers for all the platforms to help out.
If you want go to http://code.google.com/p/magnifying-glass/ and contact me to start contributing.

Ratings and reviews

Great does what it says and no ads. I have tried this and other magnifiers on various phones. It is important to have a reasonable camera, because if you have a big screen but a low resolution fixed focus camera it will blur if you get too close or up the magnification too high. It does allow you to zoom the magnification. It has a freeze feature, i. e. It takes a snapshot handy in a confined space or if you wish to record what is seen. Assuming your hav a led it may illuminate the target.

Great app, no ads, does the job. 4.8 stars though because the app forces landscape mode and in my experience handling the phone with one hand with the thing being viewed in the other is better done in portrait mode. Will happily update to 5 stars once this usability issue is fixed.

I have no idea why this is 4★'s and not 5‽‽ It's completely free...absolutely ad free...no in app purchases, surprise's, time limits, or trials!!! And the image quality is 👌🏻. Thank you for making and offering an amazing app free of ads & free of charge to us!!! DEFINITELY A ★★★★★★★★★★ APP!!