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Circle Lens
Circle twice for a lens. Twice more and it's gone.
Circle Lens is a free magnifier that opens where you look. Circle your mouse twice, or tap Shift twice, and a lens follows your pointer at up to 4×. Circle twice again to close it. It zooms only what you're reading, so your layout stays intact, and it eases back when you move fast. A 4.5 MB Windows app that installs without admin rights, plus a browser extension and a 7 KB script for your own site. Open source (MIT), no account, no tracking.
Hi! I didn't want to put on reading glasses or lean into the screen, and zooming the whole screen breaks a well-designed layout. So I built a lens that zooms only what you're reading.
Most of the work went into the details: a gesture that doesn't fire while you're just reading, a lens that eases out when you move fast, a setup that needs no admin rights, and updates you can turn off. Even the icon changed: a magnifying glass read as "search", so it became a ring with a glint of light.
It's free and MIT licensed. Two things to know: the Windows app isn't code-signed yet, so you'll see a SmartScreen warning the first time, and there's no Mac app yet (the browser extension works on a Mac).
Ask me about the 14 px rim on the glass.
About Circle Lens on Product Hunt
“Circle twice for a lens. Twice more and it's gone.”
Circle Lens was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #122 on the daily leaderboard. Circle Lens is a free magnifier that opens where you look. Circle your mouse twice, or tap Shift twice, and a lens follows your pointer at up to 4×. Circle twice again to close it. It zooms only what you're reading, so your layout stays intact, and it eases back when you move fast. A 4.5 MB Windows app that installs without admin rights, plus a browser extension and a 7 KB script for your own site. Open source (MIT), no account, no tracking.
On the analytics side, Circle Lens competes within Windows, Productivity, Open Source and GitHub — topics that collectively have 786.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Circle Lens performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Circle Lens?
Circle Lens was hunted by Fauzul Chowdhury. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Circle Lens including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Fauzul Chowdhury