Free Ruler

Name: Free Ruler
Rating: 4.5526 (26 reviews)

Version 2.0.6

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Free Ruler overview

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 only for now. Support for inches, picas, and centimeters is on the roadmap.
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.
Single key shortcuts for most ruler functions.

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

What’s new in version 2.0.6

Updated on Mar 23 2023

Adds Simplified Chinese translation

View older Free Ruler updates

Information

License

Free

Size

614 KB

Developer’s website

http://www.pascal.com/software/freeruler/

Downloads

71238

App requirements

Intel 64
Apple Silicon
macOS 10.14.6 or later

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indoraptorvulpecfox

Jun 8 2022

2.0.5

Version: 2.0.5

So cool not a virus recommend you get 100%

handwerksschule

Dec 6 2019

2.0.3

Version: 2.0.3

What happened to "Change Ruler Length" It'S a pain to get it to lenght I need.

dianewestdesign

Dec 5 2019

I have loved it for many years. Thank you so much! It is one of my favorite Mac utilities. Any designer worth her salt should have one.

albertop9

Nov 8 2019

5.0

Dear Pascal Balthrop, you rock!

schmelding

Oct 16 2019

2.0.1

Version: 2.0.1

Free Ruler, will you marry me?

davidinracine

Nov 12 2018

1.7b5

Version: 1.7b5

Still works perfectly in OSX 10.14.1 Mojave. Amazing that this 2007 software still runs fine despite all the OS changes!

orlandojen

Jan 14 2015

Been using this for several years. It's simple but it's so useful. Love it! Glad it continues to work through the OS's.

dummyD5893

Oct 29 2014

4.0

Still works on 10.9.5, although one has to make the rulers visible with cmd-1 and cmd-2 sometimes. Have not figured out the exact behaviour. A great enhancement would be an Always-on-Top option, for e.g, aligning or positioning selections in a graphics program.

Turn-5

Jul 7 2013

Obviously a lot of thought went into this little app. It does what it's supposed to do extremely well. I works so well, I'd have a hard time making any useful suggestion to it!

macola2

May 30 2012

Does exactly what I need, simple as that!

AndrewK714

Sep 21 2011

I use Free Ruler a lot when I am working on websites and graphics. Really good app, and you can't beat FREE!

Drdul

Jan 12 2010

Works fine on 10.6.2. Unfortunately, as the notes for the latest release (over two years ago) state, the transparency feature has been removed (although the commands are still available in the menu).

Tapper

Aug 23 2009

This application has been around for many years and still works well.

Pxl

Mar 8 2007

Finally... I can put down my makeshift paper ruler. A perfect asset for web designers!

Crow

Feb 13 2007

I don't know what I'd do without this app. As a web designer, it's invaluable for determining available screen real estate. Thanks so much for this - I've been using it since the first version.

SawtoothRising

Jan 3 2007

in the next release can we have an angle measure pleeeeeease

Jetfiredx

Jul 29 2006

1.7b4

Version: 1.7b4

Great tool. Very easy to use. Came in handy for me just after this version was released. Thanks for the work in making this! Just need a universal version now.

Amake

Jul 19 2006

Thank you so much for making a ruler app that actually gets physical measurements (in, cm, etc.) correct. I tried to get the author of G-Ruler to implement this feature, but he didn't seem to understand the issue.

Shock-J

This is "THE" Ruler appliation. PERIOD. I've been using this since time began. It continues to be the premeire ruler app even though it hasn't been updated in over three years..until now. I figured it wouldn't be updated again, but praise Allah, it lives on! Now, if we can get a Universal version for Intel machines, then the universe will be at peace.

Guest

May 1 2005

1.6

Version: 1.6

I hate to knock a free application, but Free Ruler has two big problems: 1. It uses way more CPU cycles than it should have to, causing my fan to come on full blast. 2. The drop shadow sometimes makes it very difficult to see details on the screen you're trying to measure. (You can work around this by moving the ruler and using the cursor, but still, the drop shadow needs to go.) I've used Free ruler for a couple of years now, and I'm very grateful to the author, but I've just tried out a program called PixelStick that I'm finding more useful. It's not as intuitive as Free Ruler, but it's worth taking the time to learn it.