Open Magnifier

Links

• General Info: Open Magnifier
• Source Code: GitHub Repository (opens in a new tab)
• Google Play Store: App store listing (opens in a new tab)

Release Notes

• 1.19.1: October 27, 2026. Fixes for pause.
• 1.19.0: October 1, 2026. Added aperture window options to change the opacity of the aperture window to reduce brightness.
• 1.18.0: September 24, 2026. Added options to change the color of the speech highlight rectangle used for visual text tracking.
• 1.17.2: September 8, 2026. Minor updates to help screen text.
• 1.17.1: September 4, 2026. Updated help screen text.
• 1.17.0: August 31, 2026. Added Text to Speech options to change the speech rate and pitch.
• 1.16.1: August 26, 2026. Updated help overlay text to include keyboard commands.
• 1.16.0: August 23, 2026. Added help overlay options to change the text size, text color, text font, and clear timeout.
• 1.15.0: August 20, 2026. Added help overlay which provides temporary on-screen help for first-time users. Can be permanently disabled or enabled in Preferences.
• 1.14.0: August 16, 2026. Reorganized Preferences into categories.
• 1.13.1: August 13, 2026. Set clipboard sensitive data flag and updated splash screen text.
• 1.13.0: August 10, 2026. Added clipboard option to save OCR or language translation output.
• 1.12.1: July 27, 2026. Updated to latest packages. Bug fixes.
• 1.12.0: July 24, 2026. Added options to highlight the currently speaking word in the banner.
• 1.11.1: July 22, 2026. Bug fix for color options. Applied font options to the help screen.
• 1.11.0: July 21, 2026. Added font options for the banner (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Open Dyslexic, Lexend Deca/Giga/Petra/Zetta). Added more color options.
• 1.10.0: July 15, 2026. Added text and background color options for the banner.
• 1.9.1: July 10, 2026. Fixes for text-to-speech element navigation.
• 1.9.0: July 6, 2026. Allow the text banner to display one, two, or three lines of text.
• 1.8.0: July 2, 2026. Added Arabic and Urdu destination/output translation support.
• 1.7.0: July 1, 2026. Use volume keys to control speaking (volume up = repeat current item, volume down = speak next item, double volume up = speak previous item). Added Tagalog and Vietnamese. Added banner size preference.
• 1.6.3: June 29, 2026. Fix word break iteration. Make TTS flow across lines.
• 1.6.2: June 25, 2026. Toast messages for model download. Display text uses system font setting. Bug fixes for display not being cleared.
• 1.6.1: June 24, 2026. Bug fixes for the highlight rectangle.
• 1.6.0: June 23, 2026. Display recognized or translated text as it is spoken.
• 1.5.0: June 18, 2026. Added share image support. Receive shared images from Google Photos or Messages or any other app. Bug fixes for speech.
• 1.4.0: June 11, 2026. Translate spoken text in images into ten different languages: Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Marathi, Portuguese, or Spanish. This is only supported on Google Play devices and will download the translation model.
• 1.3.0: June 8, 2026. Added support for Chinese, Devanagari, and Japanese OCR.
• 1.2.0: June 4, 2026. Added speak image support. Uses on-device OCR (optical character recognition) for Latin characters to speak the image. Next release will support Chinese and Devanagari.
• 1.1.0: May 27, 2026. Added flashlight support.
• 1.0.1: May 20, 2026. Upgraded CameraX from 1.3.0 to 1.6.1. Changed edge-to-edge implementation.
• 1.0.0: May 16, 2026. Initial release.

Current Prebuild (English Only)

• 1.19.1: 1.19.1 Debug APK | 1.19.1 Release APK

Previous Prebuilds (English Only)

Notes

• Downloading the app through the Google Play Store results in smaller app sizes and additional localizations. English only apks are provided here for devices that do not have the Google Play Store.

Git Clone

• https://github.com/MarkT1789/OpenMagnifier.git
• git clone git@github.com:MarkT1789/OpenMagnifier.git