Magnifica

about

description

_Magnifica_ 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. **Features** ▸ **Magnifies stuff.** 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. ▸ **Freeze.** 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. The volume buttons work too — either one freezes or unfreezes without touching the screen. ▸ **Sensible zoom.** Tap plus and minus to snap through powers of two (1×, 2×, 4×, 8×…), or pinch to zoom smoothly anywhere in between. Zoom level is remembered when you switch away and come back. ▸ **Tap to focus.** See a blurry thing, tap it, it becomes a readable thing. ▸ **A torch.** 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. ▸ **Front and back cameras**, one button to flip between them. ▸ **Color effects.** Six filters applied live — negative, grayscale, high contrast, yellow on black, color-blind assist, or none. Tap to toggle; long-press to preview all six on a live thumbnail of your current view. ▸ **Screen stays on.** The display doesn't dim while the app is open. 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. _Magnifica_ is open source and released under the GPLv3 license[1]. Check out the code[2] if you like. **Get it** You can download it for free in F-Droid[3]. Translations are always welcome! :) The app is available for translation on Transifex[4]. _Magnifica:_ a magnificent way to make small things bigger. [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html [2] https://gitlab.com/juanitobananas/magnifica [3] [com.jarsilio.android.magnifica](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jarsilio.android.magnifica/) [4] https://explore.transifex.com/juanitobananas/magnifica

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-09-21T21:11:55.155939+00:00

last event

2026-10-16 04:55 UTC

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#camera #graphics

source & build

repository

https://gitlab.com/juanitobananas/magnifica

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a android-armeabi-v7a android-x86 android-x86_64

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

8 releases indexed; latest 1.4.

version	channel	released	event
1.4	main	2026-10-16 04:55 UTC	378c7d5f…
1.3.5	main	2026-10-14 02:38 UTC	c25690ce…
1.3.4	main	2026-10-07 04:37 UTC	a82e6e38…
1.2.6	main	2026-10-01 03:40 UTC	5b0b087b…
1.3.3	main	2026-09-28 08:44 UTC	7e097adb…
1.3.2	main	2026-09-24 21:13 UTC	9bb8a0fd…
1.3.1	main	2026-09-23 21:36 UTC	daafaef4…
1.3.0	main	2026-09-21 18:09 UTC	ceebf75c…

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

1.4 — magnifica-release-1.4.apk

sha256

6d3d56a42c31198a3e6591c6870aa21cde0af36c3f97154f026d297a2396b4fc

size

2.8 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

32

apk cert sha256

2406cad983b1c5a1d99c5cd5064fd3d783e985027a1c4ce9ce879b50ed3c08b6

download

magnifica-release-1.4.apk

1.3.5 — com.jarsilio.android.magnifica_31.apk

sha256

5e8ce21d6c17b279eafa1303cabde2932719e1d6b1167cf8200239aa4d2e9269

size

2.7 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

31

apk cert sha256

2406cad983b1c5a1d99c5cd5064fd3d783e985027a1c4ce9ce879b50ed3c08b6

download

com.jarsilio.android.magnifica_31.apk

1.3.4 — magnifica-release-1.3.4.apk

sha256

b1580a286b94370376ca200d39edf3792b84ce33ef4b46cdfaf57ff704a76747

size

2.7 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

30

apk cert sha256

2406cad983b1c5a1d99c5cd5064fd3d783e985027a1c4ce9ce879b50ed3c08b6

download

magnifica-release-1.3.4.apk

1.2.6 — magnifica-release-1.2.6.apk

sha256

5f27f829bb3fc7eeaeddcb69698871e20486bdf083f1ee4fa24d00120f15f6e9

size

2.5 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

25

apk cert sha256

2406cad983b1c5a1d99c5cd5064fd3d783e985027a1c4ce9ce879b50ed3c08b6

download

magnifica-release-1.2.6.apk

1.3.3 — magnifica-release-1.3.3.apk

sha256

120e34c895181e4668f19acfbe7d1b2e17fe2fe350ec3183b094378fffe81a99

size

2.8 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

29

apk cert sha256

2406cad983b1c5a1d99c5cd5064fd3d783e985027a1c4ce9ce879b50ed3c08b6

download

magnifica-release-1.3.3.apk

1.3.2 — magnifica-release-1.3.2.apk

sha256

0d91a9a13a27b423cf8b11656cdd16ce23a9c094acdbee01555b2bca11b2d3b6

size

2.6 MB

archs

android-x86, android-x86_64, android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a

version code

28

apk cert sha256

2406cad983b1c5a1d99c5cd5064fd3d783e985027a1c4ce9ce879b50ed3c08b6

download

magnifica-release-1.3.2.apk

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