---
title: "Code Lens"
description: "Select part of your app on screen and open the file and line that renders it."
url: https://www.bigshot.pics/how-to-use/code-lens
---
[How to use](https://www.bigshot.pics/how-to-use) › Code Lens

Code LensPro

# Find the code behind any part of your app.

Select part of your app on screen. Code Lens labels each component with the file and line that renders it. Click a label and your editor opens at that line.

[Download for macOS](https://www.bigshot.pics/download)Part of Bigshot Pro · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon

## Works on every app you build

Code Lens reads what is on screen, so it doesn't care what drew it. The same selection works on a web page, a Mac app, an iPhone app in the Simulator, or a script in Terminal.

## Works with your stack

The Code map reads most languages, templates, and translation files, so translated apps work too. Code Lens is tested on these:

-   React
-   Next.js
-   Vue
-   Svelte
-   Astro
-   Angular
-   React Native
-   SwiftUI
-   UIKit
-   Jetpack Compose
-   Flutter
-   Django
-   Rails
-   Laravel
-   Go
-   Rust
-   WPF
-   Python
-   Shell scripts
-   HTML

[Everything the Code map reads](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/code-lens#what-the-code-map-reads)

## More in Code Lens

-   ### [Opens where the text is shown](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/code-lens#text-kept-somewhere-else)
    
    Copy kept in a translation or data file opens at the component that puts it on screen. The file that holds the text is a right-click away.
    
-   ### [Copy for your agent](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/code-lens#the-result-card)
    
    One click puts the matches, with their files and lines, on the clipboard for Claude Code or Codex.
    
-   ### [Opens in your editor](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/code-lens#choosing-the-editor)
    
    Cursor, VS Code, Zed, or Xcode, at the line.
    
-   ### [Icons and charts too](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/code-lens#matching-on-looks)
    
    Add the optional image model and Code Lens also finds parts with no text. It is a 390 MB download you choose to install.
    
-   ### [Runs on your Mac](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/code-lens#privacy)
    
    The Code map is built from your repo on your Mac. What you select is read in memory and discarded. Nothing is uploaded.
    
-   ### [For your own code](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/code-lens#it-only-knows-your-own-code)
    
    Code Lens matches against the source in your Project, so it works on the apps you build, not on other people's sites and apps.
    

## Try Code Lens on your app.

[Download Bigshot](https://www.bigshot.pics/download)

Code Lens needs [Bigshot Pro](https://www.bigshot.pics/pricing) and a Project with your app's source.

[Code Lens in the user guide](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/code-lens)[Projects](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/projects)[The island](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/island)[Code map settings](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/settings#code-map)

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