xScope

xScope is powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting, and testing on-screen graphics and layouts. Its tools float above your desktop windows and can be accessed via a toolbar, menubar, and/or hot keys.

Mirror

• Remote Viewing - Easily view Photoshop, files or windows on your iOS or AirPlay device
• Templates - Automatically shows icon or wallpaper mockup on iOS
• Chromeless UI - No overlaid chrome to get in the way while you work
• Security - Toggle user authentication requests on/off via Preferences
• Download the xScope Mirror App for iOS at http://xscopeapp.com/ios

Text

• Powerful Search - For name or tag in any of the 100,000+ Unicode characters
• Decipher Text - Deciphers text entities, encodings, constants, and more!
• Convert Format - Output text as a string, entities, URL encoding, and more!
• Measure Glyphs - Shows line, character or web layout: including font metrics and CSS
• Character Palette - A handy place to collect commonly used Unicode characters

Dimensions

• Find the dimensions of anything on screen instantly
• Find distance between objects quickly and easily
• Create screen shots of any measured element

Rulers

• Powerful on-screen rulers for pixel measurements
• Two rulers with synchronization for easy on-screen comparison
• Hold down control to snap to edges of onscreen content
• Fully adjustable horizontal and vertical lengths
• Full 360 degree rotation range
• Displays deltas for rotated rulers

Overlay

• Enhances Your Web Browser - Attaches to window to make development easier
• Alignment Marks - Check positioning and distances in px/em/pt and percentages
• Mockup Image - A transparent design comp over your HTML and CSS code
• Grids with Breakpoints - Grid systems that stay in sync with your media queries
• Cycle Breakpoints - Quickly check your design at all sizes used in your CSS
• Full-page Screenshot - Get a picture of your whole web page
• Works with iOS Simulator - Great for testing in Safari or developing native apps

Screens

• Easily see the usable real estate for any screen size
• Organized by platform including iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and TV
• Pre-defined screen templates or create your own
• Displays title and game safe areas for 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio TVs.
• Simulate user vision problems including color blindness and presbyopia (old age)
• De-retinizer to simulate normal display when using Retina display
• Define custom area settings for any OS or browser

Loupe

• Magnify any portion of the screen under your mouse
• Displays color under your cursor in RGB, HSB, HEX, CSS3 rgb() and HTML
• Quick measurement of magnified image using Dimensions
• Reference color format: work with a hex color while viewing RGB format
• Collect a running list of color swatches with Shift-Cmd-C
• Save out or import .ACO color swatch files for easy reference
• Simulate user vision problems including color blindness and presbyopia (old age)
• Displays co-ordinates of mouse cursor for reference
• The content of the window or the mouse position can be locked

Guides

• Vertical and horizontal guides that float on top of all else on the screen
• Displays guide position in pixels when placed
• Displays distance between guides in pixels
• Save and load guide positions for later reference
• Supports multiple monitors

Frames

• Adjustable marker boxes float on top of the screen
• Hold down control to snap to edges of onscreen content
• Cmd-Shift-5 to shrink a selection around on screen content and create a frame
• Display preset grids to help compose frame layouts
• Create, move, duplicate and edit frames at will
• Save and load frame positions for later reference

Crosshair

• Reports the coordinate position of the mouse cursor
• Change origin from the upper-left (design work) to lower-left (development work)

New Features:

• A new setting in General preferences makes tool windows stay in the Space where they were activated. If you do design or development in one space and email or chat in another, try it out!

Improvements:

• The new eyedropper icon can be used to quickly switch the working color space
• Added a Loupe preference to highlight colors that are out of gamut

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a problem where some colors in the palette would shift between launches
• Color values in the Loupe are no longer truncated
• Fixed issues which caused Rulers to not activate correctly
• Layout of controls in Dimensions preferences now look better on El Capitan