Magnifier

1.47K reviews
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PEGI 3
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About this app

Use your camera to magnify small text, see object details, or zoom in on faraway text like street signs or restaurant menus behind a service counter. Search for words before or after you take a picture to find what you need on a menu, a departure board, or anything containing text. Apply visual effects to make low contrast text more visible. In low light environments brightness is automatically adjusted. You can also take photos and zoom in as much as you need.
Get started:
1. Download Magnifier from the Play Store.
2. (Optional) Set up Magnifier to easily open via Quick tap:
a. Open your phone's Settings app.
b. Go to System > Gestures > Quick tap.
c. Turn on Use Quick tap.
d. Choose open app. Next to "Open app," tap Settings. Then select Magnifier.
e. To open Magnifier, tap twice on the back of your phone.



Magnifier requires Pixel 5 or later model.
Zoom in, brighten, and find words to aid your vision when you need it.
Updated on
Sep 3, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    Learn more about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

1.47K reviews
Jeremy Matthews
September 11, 2026
A good basic magifying glass app, but it would be nice to be able to manually control the focus. Edit: After reading your reply, tapping the screen to adjust focus doesn't give the fine grained manual focus adjustment that I would like. I often use my phone's camera as a magnifying glass and use the manual focus adjustment in the options to change the depth of focus, but don't like the peaking active highlights and inability to use the light while simply viewing the camera feed
6 people found this review helpful
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Google LLC
September 11, 2026
Hi, thanks for your feedback! You can actually touch the screen to manually focus. Please let us know if this is what you were looking for."
Kyesha
September 21, 2026
you won't be able to focus the camera after a while, and it's super hard to steady. honestly this app is a bit disappointing, might as well just use your pixel camera bc you end up getting better shots anyway. Also the app will freeze for a split second here and there as if it's taking snapshots while you're trying to magnify something. it's unnerving and I don't trust that it's not actually capturing private moments.
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Kieron “KieSeyHow” Seymour-Howell
August 18, 2026
Extremely useful app. I have this on my Pixel lock screen. This little app has so many uses!
9 people found this review helpful
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What’s new

Foldable device expansion:
You can now take advantage of the bigger unfolded screen to view the world around you in even more detail.