RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple small application that is replaced by AI

Sometimes it's nice to have a simple application that is doing well without a lot of confusion.

Microsoft The lens was the type of application: a scanner of mobile documents that turned paper documents, business cards, revenues and everything else into easily legible digital files. Microsoft says that the application is interrupted, because instead it directs its users to the Copilot Ai Chat application.

According to new support documentThe lens will be withdrawn from devices with iOS and Android, from September 15, 2025, and then removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play on November 15, 2025. Current users will be able to continue to use the possibility of scanning the application on the user's device to the user's device.

The first time launched in 2015, Microsoft Lens (then known as the Office lens) has evolved from the application originally designed for Windows Phone devices. Although its basic functionality was similar to other mobile scanning applications, it did not try to increase the number of users to some functionality or push them to subscription – rare in today's application store.

Instead, he completed the task of twisting any note or separate or otherwise – a document, reception, business card and even a plaque scribble in the file format of your choice, such as PDF, WORD, PowerPoint, Excel or images. He also offered a variety of built-in filters to improve the resulting image, brighten the document, turn it into a sharper black and white copy and much more.

Then you can save the file in one of the Microsoft applications, other online services or camera throw. It was simple and it worked well.

The upcoming closing of the application was first noticed by the website Bleeping Computerwhich indicates that users are directed to the Microsoft 365 Copilot application, which lacks all functionality in the lenses. One sec Copilot He can cope with scanning, does not support saving these scans directly on ONENOT, WORD or PowerPoint, or not saves a business card scans. There is also a lack of lens availability function, such as reading loudly and Addictive reader Integration, the site notes.

Despite its age, the lens remains quite popular, after the introduction of over 322,000 downloads on App Store AND Google Play According to APP Configures in the last 30 days. The company's data show that from January 2017 it has been downloaded 92.3 million times.

Microsoft has not yet answered to comment on the decision to close the lens.