ZoomText Magnifier/Reader is a fully integrated magnification and reading program tailored for low-vision users. Magnifier/Reader enlarges and enhances everything on your computer screen, echoes your typing and essential program activity, and automatically reads documents, web pages, email.
Trusted by users worldwide, this all-in-one tool transforms the computing experience by making documents, emails, websites, and applications easier to see and hear.
ZoomText allows you to magnify on-screen content from 1.25× to 60× with excellent clarity, using multiple viewing modes, including:
- Full screen
- Lens (moveable magnifier)
- Docked and split screen views
- Multi-monitor support
Using advanced xFont technology, ZoomText keeps text sharp and smooth at any magnification level. This helps reduce eye strain and maintain reading comfort throughout the day.
ZoomText Magnifier/Reader includes a built-in screen reader that reads text aloud as you navigate, type, or browse content. It provides:
- High-quality speech synthesis using Vocalizer Expressive
- Instant feedback as you type or move the cursor
- Spoken announcements of menus, links, and tooltips
- Support for document reading, email, websites, and file navigation
- Adjustable voice rate, pitch, and verbosity to suit your preferences.
This dual-modality approach is ideal for users who require a mix of visual and auditory reinforcement to efficiently access digital content.
ZoomText Magnifier/Reader offers smart enhancements to help you stay oriented on the screen:
- Focus enhancements that highlight menus, buttons, and text fields
- Mouse and cursor enhancements to improve visibility and tracking
- Colour filters, inversion, and screen tinting for improved contrast
- Customisable zoom windows for flexible screen layouts
- Reading zones and text highlighting for easier comprehension
Personalise your ZoomText experience with per-app settings, custom profiles, and fast-access productivity tools:
- Application-specific preferences (e.g. different magnification in Word vs Chrome)
- Smart Invert – invert screen colours while preserving images and video clarity
- Quick Zoom – temporarily zoom in on detail, then return
- Edge smoothing – improves appearance of outlines, borders, and text
- Freeze View and Locator tools – monitor or return to marked screen areas
- AppReader and ZoomText Camera support (for reading printed materials via connected camera)
Available as a one-year, two-year, or three-year subscription. Subscriptions are supplied as a license key with a download link, making setup quick and convenient.
The subscription system means that you’re always up to date with the latest version of ZoomText Magnifier/Reader and will automatically qualify for updates and technical support throughout your subscription term.
Important
- Software is non-returnable once downloaded, unless faulty.
- This product is only available to buy in the UK.
Requirements
To use ZoomText for Windows, we recommend a personal computer running Microsoft Windows with the following:
- Operating system: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows Server 2025, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016. (ZoomText supports the x64 architecture for all operating systems. ZoomText provides additional support for the ARM64 architecture on Windows 11 operating systems.)
- Recommended processor speed: 2.0 GHz i7 dual-core processor.
- Recommended Memory (RAM): 16 GB.
- Required hard disk space: 2 GB with more space required for additional voices.
- Recommended: SSD drive.
- Video/Graphics card with support for DirectX 11 or later.
- Windows-compatible sound card (for speech).
- Five-point multi-touch display for touch screen support.
- USB 2.0 for ZoomText Camera support.
Special order
We work with partners to deliver products on our behalf. If you’re buying a special order product, we will pass on your contact information to our partners to enable delivery. We may also quote extended delivery times, outside of our standard terms and condition for these products.
Important – order cancellations and returns
We are unable to cancel your order once it has been placed should you change your mind.
