# Zoom for Safari — Zoom in and out with a slider

> Browser extension for adjusting web page zoom levels with a slider and buttons. (iPhone/iPad app by Stefan Van Damme.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zoom-for-safari/id1423085875 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Stefan Van Damme](https://appshunter.io/developer/1043724055)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.80/5 from 10 App Store ratings · 101 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2018-08-24
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zoom-for-safari/id1423085875/reviews.md

## What is Zoom for Safari?

Are you tired of struggling to zoom in and out of web pages? Look no further! The Zoom browser extension is the ultimate solution, featuring an intuitive slider and zoom buttons for effortless navigation. Ranked as the number one and best magnifying browser extension, it allows you to customize the zoom value of any webpage, enhancing readability and comfort.

Zoom is a lightweight and useful add-in designed to get a perfect zoom experience. Whether you are dealing with bad vision issues, myopia, lazy eye, or amblyopia, this extension can enhance your vision on any website. Simply increase the zoom slider to select your preferred scale. Additionally, you have the option to switch between the zoom engine, allowing you to zoom the entire page or only text zoom.

Browser extension features:
◆ Slider Zoom:
The slider offers a perfect zoom experience, allowing you to adjust the zoom factor from 1 up to 400.
◆ Scroll and Zoom:
Click the Z button and scroll up or down with your mouse to witness live changes in the webpage's zoom.
◆ Zoom All Together In/Out:
Enable this option to simultaneously zoom in/out on all open web pages.
◆ Save Website Zoom Value:
Automatically save the current zoom value of a website, ensuring it is restored when you return. Easily reset to default zoom with the "Reset" button.
◆ Zoom Engine Options:
Choose between the default browser zoom engine, the CSS website style zoom, or the font-size engine for text adjustment. The font-size engine will specifically increase or decrease the text on that website while preserving the page's layout and formatting.
◆ Manage Zoom for Each Website:
Edit or remove zoom values for specific websites in the options page. That according to the domain or web page level. By utilizing the web page level and the built-in zoom engine, it enables the browser's built-in zoom per tab.
◆ Display Options:
- Show Zoom value percent number in the Z button as a badge.
- Display right-click context menu with necessary zoom percentages.
- Display right-click context menu with your chosen zoom percentages.
- Hold mouse click and scroll to zoom in or out.
- Include visual cues, such as a circle or square magnifying glass around the cursor. Specify the magnifier glass size, and zoom scale to determine the degree of magnification.
◆ Set Default Zoom:
Choose default zoom ratio and zoom step for a personalized experience.
◆ Video and Web Enhancement:
Improve your video entertainment by enlarging web pages and increasing video player sizes on platforms like YouTube™ and HTML5 video. You can achieve this with the widely-used Turn Off the Lights browser extension, which dims the surrounding area around the video player, providing a more immersive viewing environment.
◆ Custom Zoom Keyboard Combinations:
- Shortcut to display the magnifying glass.
- Shortcut to zoom in.
- Shortcut to zoom out.
- Shortcut to reset zoom value.
◆ Zoom Popup Design Options:
- Choose between a minimalist popup design.
- Opt for a larger popup window for enhanced accessibility.
- Explore the new default modern panel with direct control of your magnifying glass.
◆ Support for Dark Mode

Project Information:
https://www.stefanvd.net/project/zoom/browser-extension/

Required Permissions:
◆ "contextMenus": Add Zoom percentage levels to the web browser context menu.
◆ "tabs": Manage zoom on open tabs, show welcome/guide page, and access Options page.
◆ "storage": Save settings locally and sync with your web browser account.
◆ "all_urls": Control the button on all websites, including http, https, ftp, and file.

Note: 
Windows: CTRL and + or CTRL and - 
Linux: CTRL and + or CTRL and - 
Mac: ⌘ and + or CTRL and - 
Performing the same action is possible with this browser extension. However, this extension enhances user experience by enabling you to adjust the zoom to a custom percentage with greater ease.

## Key features

- Intuitive slider for zoom adjustment
- Save website-specific zoom values
- Multiple zoom engine options
- Enhance video player sizes
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Magnifying glass cursor option

## What do users think of Zoom for Safari?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Works great
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Useful for online classes
- 👍 Precise zoom control
- 👍 Enhances MAC experience
- 👍 Necessary app
- 👍 Good for senior citizens
- 👍 Useful tool
- 👍 Well done
- 👍 Great for webtoon PDF conversion
- 👍 Perfect app
- 👍 Works perfectly
- 👍 Fabulous extension
- 👍 Light and simple
- 👍 Customized page zoom
- 👍 Wonderful app
- 👍 Works as expected
- 👍 Amazing plugin

**Cons**

- 🔒 Reads personal data
- 🐛 Doesn't load
- 🔋 Drains battery
- 🐛 Blanks out content
- 🐛 Problems with local camera club zoom meeting
- 🐛 Useless help site
- 🐛 LOATHE THIS!
- 🐛 Not very practical
- 🐛 Bad extension
- 🐛 Confusing and suspicious
- 🐛 Malware-like behavior
- 🐛 Settings do not persist
- 🐛 Slider and +/- buttons don't work
- 🐛 Problems with zoom settings
- 🐛 Cannot access side panels on Facebook
- 🐛 Typing scrolls page up
- 🐛 Lousy app, cannot enable extension
- 🐛 Tracks everything
- 🐛 Beware of this app
- 🐛 Slow to open
- 🐛 Magnifiers slow to open
- 🐛 Interferes with loading pictures
- 🐛 Keeps asking to be used on search page
- 🐛 Volatile behavior
- 🐛 Impossible to remove
- 🐛 Not intuitive
- 🐛 Hit & miss with this app
- 🐛 Cannot uninstall
- 🐛 Counter productive UI
- 🐛 Shocking scam
- 🐛 Not working on Mojave
- 🐛 Too difficult to use
- 🐛 Horrible, cannot uninstall
- 🐛 Demands access to all information
- 🐛 Useless now
- 🐛 Requires sketchy permissions
- 🐛 Waste of time
- 🐛 Piss poor instructions
- 🐛 Charged without permission
- 🐛 Nightmare to install
- 🐛 Mistakenly downloaded
- 🐛 Glitchy
- 🐛 Hacking passwords
- 🐛 Accesses sensitive Safari information
- 🐛 Does not work

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Extension doesn't load
- Draining battery life
- Content is blanked out
- Problems connecting to meetings
- Help site is a waste of time
- Zoom settings do not persist
- Slider and +/- buttons do not work
- Zoom changes are not applied immediately
- Cannot access Facebook side panels when zoomed
- Typing scrolls the page up
- Cannot enable extension
- Tracks user activity
- Difficult to uninstall
- Extension is volatile
- Extension is hit or miss
- Cannot uninstall the extension
- User interface is counter-productive
- Extension is not working on Mojave
- Extension is too difficult to use
- Cannot uninstall the app
- Extension demands access to all information
- Extension is useless after update
- Magnifiers are slow to open and block images
- Extension interferes with loading pictures
- Extension keeps asking to be used on search pages
- Extension is not friendly
- Extension is not the official Zoom app
- Instructions are unclear or too small
- Browser does not support the expansion
- Charged without permission
- Nightmare to install
- Mistakenly downloaded and cannot get rid of it
- Everything is glitchy
- Hacks passwords
- Accesses sensitive Safari information
- Does not work
- Zoom levels are not adjustable via scroll wheel
- Extension blanks out content
- Settings do not persist after closing Safari
- Slider and +/- buttons do not work
- Extension does not work on Mojave
- Extension is not user-friendly
- Extension is not intuitive
- Extension is volatile
- Extension is hit or miss
- Extension is counter-productive
- Extension is not the official Zoom app
- Extension is glitchy
- Extension accesses sensitive Safari information
- Extension does not work

**Most requested features**

- Add keyboard shortcuts
- Provide tutorials or step-by-step guides
- Improve user interface for easier understanding
- Make settings persist after closing Safari
- Allow disabling of the extension more easily
- Provide clear instructions on how to use the app

## Recent user reviews (10 of 101)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zoom-for-safari/id1423085875/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Great Hreat Great

*2026-04-11, version 2.8.25*

Recommend it but only for Safari. Y friends, the Hansel and grettal path is getting cluttered with bread pieces, better get yours before the Whitch does.

### 1/5 — FUIR : exporte des données sensibles

*2026-01-19*

C’ est indiqué dans les « pratiques en matière de confidentialité » , que j’ ai oublié de lire : Cette extension lit vos données personnelles , mots de passe etc . de plus elle se contente de faire un gros zoom (vectoriel) sur le texte présent sous le curseur, qui n’ est pas réglable à la molette . J’ AI DÉSINSTALLÉ L’ APP IMMÉDIATEMENT  !

### 5/5 — Friction like it

*2025-12-17, version 2.8.21*

Frickin works great

### 5/5 — ZOOM for Classes

*2025-03-05*

I have been using ZOOM since the pandemic, when nearly everything was closed down. Fortunately, classes that I attend at Renaissance Institute were quickly reordered to be provided on ZOOM, and I could attend class at home. It was a brilliant and fast transition.

### 1/5 — doesn’t load

*2025-02-26*

Useless

### 5/5 — Juste génial !

*2025-02-22*

Pouvoir paramétrer le zoom de façon aussi précise, c’est le top ! Merci !!!

### 1/5 — It's draining my battery

*2025-02-16*

I don't how I got this extension on nest to my search bar but it's making my computer slow and using up my battery. It also doesn't give instructions on how to disable it.

### 5/5 — What a RELIEF!

*2025-02-04*

Thank You! I have prayed for guidance and courage. I can see that by being a generous woman I begin to feel better each day. I am ready to continue making my life better by trying my best and never giving up on myself or my daughter, my mom, my Uncle Bryan, my sister, Mickey all of my family and loved ones. Mental health disorders are REAL! I can live alone and with my daughter. I am an AMAZING mother! I AM WORTHY! I LOVE JESUS CHRIST! AMEN!

### 1/5 — Sadly

*2024-10-10*

Having used an extention for firefox that remembers page zoom for a particular website even after clearing history and cookies, I thought, great, have this one for Safari.

Sadly, certainly with me, using Sonoma Safari 17.6, even after allowing all permissions, it did nothing. Had no problem removing it though.

### 3/5 — problems

*2024-08-06*

after replacing my desk imac and my email addresshaving problem getting on to my local camera club zooom meting

## Frequently asked questions about Zoom for Safari

### What does the Zoom for Safari extension do?

This extension allows you to easily zoom in and out of web pages using an intuitive slider and buttons. It's designed to enhance readability and comfort, especially for users with vision issues like myopia or amblyopia.

### What are the key features of this zoom extension?

Key features include a slider for adjusting zoom from 1x to 400x, the ability to save zoom levels for specific websites, and multiple zoom engine options (browser default, CSS style, or font-size). It also offers features like scroll-to-zoom, zooming all open pages simultaneously, and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

### Is this zoom extension free to use?

Yes, the application is completely free to use. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements mentioned, indicating a free monetization model.

### What are the compatibility requirements for this extension?

The description refers to it as a 'browser extension' and mentions features like 'Zoom for Safari' and 'Turn Off the Lights browser extension', suggesting it is compatible with web browsers that support extensions, likely including Safari.

### How can this extension help users with vision problems?

The extension directly addresses vision issues such as bad vision, myopia, lazy eye, and amblyopia by allowing users to significantly increase the zoom level of any webpage. This makes text and images larger and easier to see, improving the overall web browsing experience.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.8.27 — 2026-07-19

+ Security update

If you like Zoom, the best way to support the app is by sharing it with others, so please consider telling your friends and family about Zoom!

### 2.8.26 — 2026-06-25

+ Updated app with reduced minimum iOS version requirement

If you like Zoom, the best way to support the app is by sharing it with others, so please consider telling your friends and family about Zoom!

### 2.8.25 — 2025-12-27

+ Fixed help text

If you like Zoom, the best way to support the app is by sharing it with others, so please consider telling your friends and family about Zoom!

### 2.8.21 — 2025-11-23

+ Support iOS 26 and iPadOS 26
+ Improvement Zoom engine

If you like Zoom, the best way to support the app is by sharing it with others, so please consider telling your friends and family about Zoom!

To learn more about the Zoom for Safari or do you have any questions go to https://www.stefanvd.net/support

### 2.8.17 — 2025-05-19

No release notes.

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