What’s New

Listing overlays & free-tier expansion Latest

The late-April wave focused on two things: making Ultra Zoom genuinely useful for real-estate workflows, and removing paywalls from review surfaces that should never have had them.

Listing-aware overlays for real estate

• Redfin, Zillow, Realtor.com, Crexi — the hover overlay now renders a structured caption with the listing’s status (NEW / OPEN / SOLD), price, address, and beds / baths / sqft line.
• Full gallery on Redfin — arrow-key navigation now resolves every photo in a listing, not just the thumbnails rendered in the page DOM. Walk a 40-photo listing without leaving the search-results view.
• Shift+L opens the underlying listing page from the overlay; A copies the address to the clipboard.
• K toggles the listing-detail caption strip on demand without changing the global setting.
• Theater-mode fix — scroll-zoom past the original image bounds no longer clips when theater mode is active.

Free for everyone (with a small Ultra Zoom watermark)

• Region copy (Shift+C) — crop and copy any sub-region of the zoomed image; free exports carry an attribution watermark.
• Batch download (Shift+D) — pull up to five images per session as a zip, each watermarked, with a README pointing back to Ultra Zoom.
• EXIF panel (I) — camera, lens, ISO, shutter, and GPS for any image that carries the metadata.
• Color-palette tool (P) — click a swatch to copy hex to clipboard.
• Windowed gallery filmstrip — eight thumbnails centered on the active photo, plus a +N Pro tile that opens the full strip after upgrade.

Pro removes the watermark and the cap

• Region copy and batch download export without the Ultra Zoom watermark, with no per-session image cap.
• EXIF panel adds Copy as JSON and Export GPX.
• Color palette adds Copy CSS (:root { --color-N }) and Export PNG.
• Filmstrip shows every gallery thumb, not a windowed view.

Quality-of-life

• [ / ] cycle overlay size presets (small → medium → large → fullscreen) and persist the choice.
• + / − nudge the active overlay 5% without writing to settings.
• New Capture region setting decides whether Save dumps the full image or just the visible viewport.
• Logo-skip heuristic prevents the overlay from triggering on header / nav site logos.
• Imgur thumbnail-suffix bug fixed so 7-character IDs ending in s/m/t/b/l/h no longer 404.

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AI upscaling release

Ultra Zoom enhances the photo as you zoom — not just enlarge it. The model runs entirely on your device, so no image leaves the browser.

New Pro feature

• On-device AI upscaling — Real-ESRGAN (general x4v3) reconstructs detail in low-resolution images at hover time, with Lanczos resampling as an automatic fallback when the model isn’t available. Useful for MLS thumbnails, compressed product photos, and any tiny preview that used to go pixelated when you zoomed in.
• Per-site toggle — turn AI upscaling on only where you need it; the popup remembers your choice per domain.
• Zero network calls. The model is bundled with the extension. Like everything else in Ultra Zoom, no image data is sent to a server.

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Imagus-parity release

The big one: every staple of the legacy hover-zoom tools is now in Ultra Zoom, plus a dozen new site plugins and a power-user upgrade path.

Free for everyone

• Theater mode — press Z to expand any zoomed image to a full-window view.
• Reverse image search shortcuts — G / T / N / Y / Q / J kick off a search on Google, TinEye, Yandex, and other engines without leaving the page.
• Keyboard shortcut help overlay — press ? over any zoom to see every binding.
• Premium site plugins are now free — Instagram, Amazon, Pinterest, Reddit, eBay, and the rest of the catalogue ship for everyone.
• Basic gallery navigation — ← / → through any gallery while the overlay is open.
• Hover history — the last 50 images you hovered are saved locally so you can re-open one you scrolled past.
• Community URL rules pack — pull the latest sieve from the popup to unlock new sites without waiting for a release.

New Pro power features

• Video playback controls — M mutes, ↑/↓ tweak volume, ,/. step frames.
• Advanced gallery — filmstrip view, slideshow, and batch-download of every image in the active gallery.
• Hover history power-ups — capacity bumped to 1,000 entries with full-text search and CSV export.
• Custom & extended URL rules — teach Ultra Zoom about your private CDN or any site we don’t cover yet.

Twelve new site plugins

Out-of-the-box hover-zoom for Unsplash, Pexels, Wikimedia, Alamy, AP News, Getty, Bilibili, Weibo, 9GAG, AliExpress, Avito, and more — on top of the existing 60+ supported sites.

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