circle-lens
A free screen magnifier that opens where you're looking: draw a circle twice with the mouse. For Windows, your browser, and your website (npm circle-lens).
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Details
- External ID
- 1413860244
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- circle-lens
- Website domain
- fauzul.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 23
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.48
- Tags
- a11y, accessibility, browser-extension, chrome-extension, firefox-addon, golang, javascript, low-vision, magnifier, magnifying-glass, npm-package, screen-magnifier, screen-zoom, windows, zoom
Enrichment
- Niche
- screen accessibility and annotation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- gesture-activated screen magnifier for desktop and web
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building a mouse-gesture listener that detects circular motions and displays a canvas-based magnifier lens is a straightforward frontend and desktop utility task.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 76 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #32 of 77 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- Circle Lens · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.81
- Lenses Magnifier · ph · 2026-10-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Cursor Glass · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Circle Crop Image · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Topkit · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- MouseKit · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Change Image Shape · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- openink · github · 2026-09-30 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.