Check out a dashboard-based screen ruler for measuring various objects and areas. Analyze individual elements or entire environments and adjust horizontal and vertical placement. Switch between different units of measurement to compare the relevant results.
Free Ruler is a screen ruler for OS X with many intuitive features. Great for Web developers, graphic designers and programmers.
Features:
- A horizontal and vertical ruler which can be used independently or simultaneously.
- Measurement in pixels, inches, picas, or centimeters.
- Automatic alignment of rulers.
- The ability to group rulers and move them around as a unit.
- Shadowless rulers with customizable transparency.
- Interactive tick marks which follow the mouse location for more precise measurement.
- Independent resizing of rulers, from 200 pixels to 5000 pixels in length.
- Single key shortcuts for most ruler functions.
- Conversion assistant to set ruler resolution based on screen size and resolution.
- Unit converter utility for converting numbers between different units of measure.
v2.0
- Updated with support for macOS 10.12 Sierra and macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
- Fixed bug with checkmark on ruler shadow menu item.