Window Ruler Alternatives

Window Ruler is described as 'Move the ruler by dragging it and measure any window' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Window Ruler for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Flathub and PortableApps.com apps. The best Window Ruler alternative is PicPick. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try PicPick or Meazure. Other great apps like Window Ruler are Bluegrams Screen Ruler, EpicRuler, Screen Ruler and PMeter.

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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
     
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    JR Screen Ruler Pro (aka JRuler Pro) is a great tool 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    A simple ruler for your desktop

    Virtual ruler cm is a lightweight and easy to use application that will place a simple ruler on your desktop.

    You can use it to measure window dimensions in centimeters or milimeters, but also other items, such as banners or pictures.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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
     
  5. Meander icon
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    An original way to measure routes, shapes, areas, anything that you can see on your screen

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
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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 Window Ruler.

    • MB-Ruler is Freemium and ProprietaryWindow Ruler is Free and Proprietary
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    Measure anything on your computer screen with accuracy with the Screen Calipers. More accurate than a ruler and available for Windows and Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. Ruler icon
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    It's a screen ruler for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    When you read a book, don´t you use your finger or a ruler to follow the line? ReadingRuler does the same thing on your desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Know the exact size and position of any element with this screen ruler.

    Pixel Ruler features horizontal and vertical orientation, dynamic mouse measurement tracking in pixels, cool design.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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