Meander Alternatives

Meander is described as 'An original way to measure routes, shapes, areas, anything that you can see on your screen' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Meander for Windows, Mac, Linux and Web-based. The best Meander alternative is Meazure, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Meander are Measure Schmeasure, ScreenRuler, On-Screen Ruler and PixelStick.

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  1. Meazure icon
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    What are the dimensions of that image? How big is this window? Does this layout fit on an NTSC display? What color are these pixels? What does this icon look like close up? How can I capture an arbitrary portion of the screen?

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Meazure is the most popular Windows alternative to Meander.

    • Meazure is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Meander.

    • Meazure is Free and Open SourceMeander is Free and Proprietary
    • Meazure is LightweightMeander is not according to our users
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    Measure Schmeasure is a simple screen ruler for measuring the width or height between pixels in any application. Just load it up and measure away.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. ScreenRuler icon
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    ScreenRuler lets you measure objects on your Ubuntu desktop using six different metrics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • ScreenRuler is the most popular Linux alternative to Meander.

    • ScreenRuler is Free and Open SourceMeander is Free and Proprietary
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    On-screen Ruler is a lightweight, free, semi-transparent ruler to measure portions of the screen. It has a lot of features (and related keys shortcuts) and several language translations are available too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. PixelStick icon
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    PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen. Excellent for designers or anyone who wants to measure a distance on their screen in any window or application.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • PixelStick is the most popular Mac alternative to Meander.

    • PixelStick is the most popular commercial alternative to Meander.

    • PixelStick is Paid and ProprietaryMeander is Free and Proprietary
  6. GizmoLoupe icon
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    Simple utility to analyze (with zoom) images of your screen, measure the dimensions of objects on the screen and determine pixels color.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. Yardstick+ icon
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    Yardstick is a small Utility, which helps you to measure anything, you can display on your screen. You draw a line or a polygon across the document to measure and Yardstick tells you the overall leng

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    MezerTools is a simple toolkit for UI designers & programmers to measure screen elements in pixels. It also lets you grab screenshots and more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    PixelRuler is a free only for private use software for measuring horizontal and vertical distances on the entire screen, and is ideal for web designers and graphic artists. It has additional functions like a adjustable zoom window and a color value determination (RGB, HTML and...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    MB-Ruler measures distances and angles on the screen and distances on a map.

    It has a screen loupe function, a RGB value window and you can place temporary points, lines, rectangles, ellipses, polylines, texts and bitmaps as markers on the screen.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
    • MB-Ruler is the most popular Web-based alternative to Meander.

    • MB-Ruler is Freemium and ProprietaryMeander is Free and Proprietary
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    Pixel Ruler is a handy, free Windows software to measure any object on your screen with a portable ruler.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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