Ruler Alternatives

Ruler is described as 'It's a screen ruler for Windows' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Ruler for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best 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 Ruler are Bluegrams Screen Ruler, EpicRuler, Screen Ruler and PMeter.

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  1. 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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  2. KRuler icon
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    KRuler is an on-screen ruler for measuring pixels. Position the 0 at your starting point and measure the precise pixel distance between the starting point and your cursor.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • KDE
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  3. 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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  4. 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.

    16 Virtual ruler cm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. PixelStick icon
     4 likes

    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
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  6. Meander icon
     1 like

    An original way to measure routes, shapes, areas, anything that you can see on your screen

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. GizmoLoupe icon
     1 like

    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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  8. Yardstick+ icon
     1 like

    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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  9.  Like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Move the ruler by dragging it and measure any window.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Essential tool for every Android, iOS and web developer. Measure the size of each element in your app directly on your Android or iOS device. No more screenshots to find out the size of button or margin.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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