Smart Zoom

Smart Zoom is a lightweight desktop enhancement application whose purpose is to help you analyze documents, images, or other screen areas with the aid of a magnifier.

After a fast and simple installation process where you only need to press on a few ‘Next’ buttons in order to accomplish the task, you can find Smart Zoom running quietly in the system tray.

By default, it places a small panel on your desktop which is automatically positioned where you place your mouse cursor. The minimalist window is borderless and provides a magnified version of the current screen region.

Getting access to the application’s configuration parameters can be done via the system tray. You can show or hide the magnifying window.

Several tweaking options are hidden under the hood for helping you adjust the zoom level and transparency with the aid of two built-in sliders. The magnifying window can be resized according to your preferences.

What’s more, you can make Smart Zoom automatically move the magnifying panel where you place your mouse cursor or show a fixed panel which can be moved anywhere on the screen using drag-and-drop actions.

Other notable configuration features worth being mentioned enable you to reveal or conceal crosshair, show or hide the border of the window, keep the main panel on top of other utilities, as well as show mouse position. You may also take a screenshot of the magnified desktop region and save the image to the clipboard or export it to GIF, JPEG, BMP, ICO, EMF, or WMF file format.

Last but not least, you are allowed to reassign shortcuts for opening the setup dialog, displaying or hiding zoom options, changing the zoom, adjusting the transparency, saving images to the clipboard, and exporting photos to a file on your computer.

Tests have shown that Smart Zoom carries out a task quickly and without errors. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

Smart Zoom comes packed with several useful functions for helping you work with a desktop magnifier, and can be mastered by beginners and professionals alike.