Magnifying Glass Pro is a flexible zoom-utility that magnifies portions of the screen under your mouse cursor or caret. A magnifier is useful to designers, engineers, visually impaired users, PC-to-TV connections, multi-monitor systems. It contains a unique set of features: many visual options, auto-change Glass settings upon application detection, easy-to-control Glass with on-screen HUD. Languages: English, Russian.

Version 1.4 improves Windows Vista compatibility.

Editor's review of Magnifying Glass Pro

This great tool stays true to its name, offering a resizable window that magnifies whatever your cursor rolls over.

Magnifying Glass Pro is easy to set up and use. Once it launches, you can roll your cursor over anything on the screen and get a resizable frame that zooms in on the area, just like a magnifying glass. By right-clicking on the system tray icon, we opened the Options dialog box, from which we easily were able to set the size of the magnifying pane, adjust the thickness and color of its frame, set the amount of zoom (from 0.7 to 16), and configure some effects, such as managing the contrast of the magnified area. We were especially pleased to see that we could even enlarge the size of the tool's pop-up menu and dialog boxes; clearly some real thought went into the needs of the tool's users.

The tool worked great and responded quickly in all our tests, both on browser windows and in applications. The mouse gesture commands feature was stellar. However, you may want to change the predefined hot key for launching and closing the tool, because in Word it simultaneously launched the Go To dialog box and Magnifying Glass Pro.

We recommend this shareware to anyone needing vision help while working on his or her computer.