Screen Ruler Alternatives and Similar Software

PicPick

PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want. It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely.......

Free Personal Windows PortableApps.com Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Meazure

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? These are just a few of the questions that kept coming up as I developed applications and web pages. Various tools are available to answer some of these questions but I could not find any that answered them all or that had a usable interface.

Free Open Source Windows

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Bluegrams Screen Ruler

Screen Ruler is a lightweight, but configurable ruler tool for Windows Desktop. It allows you to measure the size of elements on the screen in different units, including pixels, centimeters and inches. The ruler can be moved and resized precisely using either the mouse or the keyboard and custom marking lines can be added. Besides coming with a light and a dark theme, Screen Ruler also allows you to fully customize its appearance by changing all color settings.

Free Open Source Windows

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PMeter

PMeter is a very handy pixel meter. There are plenty of desktop rulers around, but it's hard to find a good one, which is free. PMeter is a simple to use desktop ruler allowing to switch between 3 user configurations easily. For each configuration you can set width and colors individually, choose to add a desktop magnifier to your ruler, and more.

Free Windows

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Pixus

Pixus is an AIR pixel ruler application, a handy tool for web and interface designers. It has a lot of features: 1) Measure the screen objects in pixels using both mouse and keyboard control. 2) Preview your design with skins and presets. 3) Multi-screen support. 4) Auto update. 5) Quick Guides . 6) Toggle guide color by pressing Spacebar.

• Discontinued
  The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0 R78, released in August 2009, can be still downloaded from Google Code.

Free Open Source Mac Windows

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On-Screen Ruler

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.

Free Windows

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PixelStick

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.

Commercial Mac

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Measure Schmeasure

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. It can be set to always appear on top of other windows and it can measure both horizontally and vertically. You can also fully customize the colors to suit your preference. Measure Schmeasure is free to use for personal and non-profit organizations.

Free Personal Windows

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JR Screen Ruler

JR Screen Ruler, also known as JRuler - Free virtual ruler for your computer screen. This Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters.

Free Windows

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A Ruler for Windows

Free on screen pixel ruler software for windows:The ruler easily measures objects on your screen. It's an ideal tool for designing web sites, working with graphics and perfecting the look of your digital products. The reading guide helps you read through text on your screen much like a ruler edge helps you read through lines of text on a printed page. This makes A Ruler for Windows an ideal tool for dealing with long e-mails, wide spreadsheets and fine print documents on your screen.

Free Windows

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