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24 alternatives to I made an open source desktop magnifier for demo and presentations
I wanted a cool magnifier for my presentations, but couldn't find one (the default windows one was not really usable for my case) So I built one using Vue and Tauri (weird stack for such a tool, huh?). It was a pretty fun little project, hope you guys can have some use. Here's how it works: - When you press the shortcut, it takes a screenshot and store it in a temp folder - It then displays an HTML window and passes the screenshot URL to it - The HTML window has no "decorations" (top bar) and only contains an empty div - This div uses the screenshot as a background and updates the background…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made an open source desktop magnifier for demo and presentations launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi, I'm a developer and first time i shipped the real product after observing the startups and indie hackers community for years. I had made so many useless apps [you should check my website https://ansh.life], but this time I built a very useful product that has a number of super easy-to-use tools in one app for video, music, and photo files. Users can compress, convert, resize, and do so much more with easy-to-use tools. Background: I developed a frame-by-frame video cropper to upload cropped landscape videos to Instagram Reels. However, it required FFmpeg, and as a noob video…
2025 · pimosa.app · its alternatives →
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Light and open source responsive lightbox plugin with focus on performance, for jQuery and Zepto.js. High-DPI (retina) display support, fast tap for touch devices.
2013 · dimsemenov.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Kiet – one half of the two-person team building Onlook (https://beta.onlook.com/), an open-source [https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook/] visual editor that lets you edit and create React apps live on an infinite canvas. We launched Onlook [1][2] as a local-first Electron app almost a year ago. Since then, “prompt-to-build” tools have blown up, but none let you design and iterate visually. We fixed that by taking a visual-first, AI-powered approach where you can prompt, style, and directly manipulate elements in your app like in a design…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vibrantsnap▲358Your product is good. Your demo should say so.
2024 · vibrantsnap.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I built a simple React/Python app that takes screenshots of websites and converts them to clean HTML/Tailwind code. It uses GPT-4 Vision to generate the code, and DALL-E 3 to create placeholder images. To run it, all you need is an OpenAI key with GPT vision access. I’m quite pleased with how well it works most of the time. Sometimes, the image generations can be hilariously off. See here for a replica of Taylor Swift’s Instagram page: https://streamable.com/70gow1 I initially had a hard time getting it to work on full page screenshots. GPT4 would code…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Once UI 1.5▲299When I started my career and built my first design system, I was beyond excited. It took a lot of iterations, learning and 6 months of work to launch it internally. In the next job, I did it again, then at the following job, again… And no matter which company I worked for, 80% of the design system was the same. I’ve decided to work full-time on the design system I’ve always wanted, and today I’m launching and open-sourcing it. You can use it to build Next.js apps faster, and I’ve designed it in a way that it’s hard to go wrong with it: you can choose any settings, and you’ll end up with a…
Dec 2025 · once-ui.com · its alternatives →
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ScreenSmooth▲226Automatically place text behind objects in images. Create POV-style YouTube thumbnails and viral social posts for free.
Apr 2026 · screensmooth.com · its alternatives →
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Screenshot Rocks▲193Beautiful browser & mobile mockups in one click
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve always seen talented designers and developers post their work, only for it to get lost in the noise. I realized a major reason is that they often just post a simple, unstyled screenshot. As a result, nobody pays attention. My solution is a tool where you can drop in a screenshot, pick from a collection of hand-picked gradients, style it, and export it—all in a few seconds. I’ve carefully designed every element of the app to be efficient, simple, and intuitive. On making it "Free, Forever": I don't plan on ever charging a subscription for Moocup. I dislike the subscription model as much…
2025 · moocup.jaydip.me · its alternatives →
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Keyviz▲118A free, open-source keypress and mouse visualizer
Jan 2026 · keyviz.org · its alternatives →
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Create mobile or browser mockups from screenshots in seconds. Screenshot.rocks turns ordinary browser screenshots into beautiful mockups
2023 · screenshot.rocks · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! We launched the first version of Cap earlier this year. It wasn't great. We had tons of feedback. A couple of months ago we started rebuilding Cap from the ground up (Tauri V2 + SolidJS). We're now focused on being local first. Cap is 100% free to use locally. New features include a powerful editor, screenshots, hotkeys and just overall a much better experience. Would love for you to test it out - appreciate you! Cheers, Richie
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ClickSay▲92Click any element and ClickSay instantly captures it
Mar 2026 · clicksay.net · its alternatives →
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Well, it's yet another screenshot-to-code tool. I use it daily. Of course, it sucks with complex designs, but it's still better than starting from scratch. It's a paid tool, but I've tried to be fair with the pricing at $9/month. However, I understand that times are tough. If you really want to keep using the tool and can't afford the $9, I get it. Just sign up and comment with your email, and I'll gift you three months of premium for free.
2024 · aiui.me · its alternatives →
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2011 · laserey.es · its alternatives →
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Simply upload a photo of your wall, upload the artwork images, position them, and download the result. It's very lightweight and nothing is uploaded to a server - everything runs directly in your browser. Why I made this: Existing apps (like Artrooms) fell short for me because they only offered stock wall images and limited 3D positioning, especially if your wall isn't perfectly frontal. I wanted something more flexible that would allow me to experiment with more scenarios, even when the photo is taken at a weird angle. The objective is to get a feel of how'd it look like, without the result…
2024 · wallartlovers.com · its alternatives →
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HAVE <this/>▲15Get an instant PNG of any HTML element using this Extension.
2018 · its alternatives →
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http://imagestash.org/ Kind of like Instapaper for images. While surfing at home one evening I found the perfect desktop background ... for my work machine. I got to pondering the quickest way to save a random image so I could get to it on all of my devices, got a wee bit carried away with the technical possibilities, and this was the result. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
2011 · imagestash.org · its alternatives →
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2021 · figma.com · its alternatives →
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Video uploaded to CleanShot Cloud
2021 · cln.sh · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, my friend and I created a GitHub Wrapped video for developers to showcase their activity on the platform in a more fun way. The implementation is open-source (https://github.com/rendleyhq/github-wrapped-2024) if you're interested in how it was built. To get a bit geeky, we used masks, keyframe animations, luma key shaders to remove the background from the confetti video, and some other techniques. Also, everything is rendered directly in the browser!! I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the rendering performance, especially if you're running this on your…
2024 · rendley.com · its alternatives →
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