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?

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.
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?

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.




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.
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.
Simple utility to analyze (with zoom) images of your screen, measure the dimensions of objects on the screen and determine pixels color.

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

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


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...

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.
Measure the pixel size of anything on your screen with orangePixelMeter, a nice, free Windows software utility.


Pixel Ruler is a handy, free Windows software to measure any object on your screen with a portable ruler.



