A professional, reliable software environment is essential when working with computer equipment like an USB microscope. All Dino-Lite USB products are equiped with an in-house developed software suite. The DinoXcope software is continuously developed, is free of charge for Dino-Lite users and has an automatic update feature. DinoXcope software is intuitive, user-friendly and can be used with hardly any training. Free online & e-mail software support is available.

Download your Dino Lite software today! Our usb microscope software makes for easy user experience on both Windows and Mac interfaces. Find your microscope software here. These include Windows, MAC, OS X, and even Linux. For optimal performance, use it with Linux Distros with kernel 2.6.26 and above as they have a built-in UVC support. It also works well on Raspberri PI with Raspbian Jessie which is a stable version of Debian.

Free download Leica Acquire Leica Acquire for Mac OS X. Leica Acquire is a software environment which allows the acquisition, analysis and processing of high quality digital images using Leica cameras and stereo-microscopes. As it is to be expected from a model showcased in this list, the M837ZL-C140U comes with complimentary software compatible with Mac OS X. This is a very powerful microscope that has a magnification range between 40x and 2500x, and you can adjust that as you wish. From the drop down menu, select the MD series under Select Camera and Mac OS under Select Operating System (see below). Once you see the ProScope software table pop up, click on the download link on the right to begin the download. The file will be downloaded. Look for the file once it's finished downloading.

Main Software Features

Languages

The DinoXcope software is available in many languages, such as: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch. More languages will be added in the future.

Please note that not all Dino-Lite models are compatible with all versions of MacOS. Please refer to the Mac OS compatibility chart for more information.

Since our microscopes use a standard webcam chipset, they will automatically install default webcam (UVC) drivers when plugged in to a host device. They can be used with any webcam app, including the ones built-in to most operating systems.

Some features of our microscopes aren’t available in some webcam applications. We designed our USB microscope software package, Plugable Digital Viewer, specifically for use with our microscopes. This enables features such as resolution switching, video processing amplifier control, and the capture button to be utilized.

Setup Instructions

Windows

macOS

Chrome OS

Linux

Android

iOS (Not supported)

Windows

Plugable Digital Viewer is designed specifically to work with the microscope. This package works with the following Windows releases (Windows 10 S mode and Windows RT not supported).

• Windows 10
• Windows 8/8.1
• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP SP3

Note: Windows versions 8, 8.1, 10, and 10 in S Mode include a built-in camera application that works well with the microscope.

Mac

Plugable Digital Viewer is available for macOS/Mac OS X. There are two different versions depending on what OS version you are running.

macOS 10.13.4 and above

Mac OS X 10.5.x to macOS 10.13.3

Note: The built-in Photo Booth application works well with the microscope, though images are mirrored left-to-right.

Chrome OS

Our microscopes can be used with the default Camera app that comes with Chrome. Google provides an excellent usage guide, linked below.

In the Camera app, you may need to select the ‘Switch Camera’ button next to the red ‘Capture’ button. Some Chrome machines with built-in cameras may need to have the device pointer changed. This can be done by going to Settings > Advanced Settings > Privacy > Content Settings > Camera, and change the device in the dropdown to “USB Microscope”.

Linux

We have tested our microscope with many Linux distros utilizing either the Cheese app or GTK+ UVC Viewer. These can either be installed by searching by app name through the app store in your Linux distro (if available), or by using the following terminal commands.

GTK+ UVC Viewer

“sudo apt-get install guvcview”

Cheese

“sudo apt-get install cheese”

Android

Using the microscope on an Android device requires an OTG cable. We recommend the app CameraFi 2, available on Google Play.

Note: Android support is on a case-by-case basis. Device manufacturers must have support for USB Video Class devices built-in or this will not work.

iOS

Macroscope For Mac Os 10.10

iOS is not supported. iOS hosts specifically do not work with standard external USB Video Class devices.