Free Ruler
2.0.5
Free Ruler for Mac
Screen ruler with many features.
What is Free Ruler for Mac
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 Free Ruler
Version 2.0.5:
- Optimized for Apple Silicon
- Added menu item and keyboard shortcut U for cycling through units
- Fixed issue with ruler scale changing when ruler is partially off-screen
- Improvements to ruler drawing code
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Dec 6 2019
Version: 2.0.3
What happened to "Change Ruler Length" It'S a pain to get it to lenght I need.
Dec 5 2019
Version: 2.0.3
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.
Nov 12 2018
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!
Jan 14 2015
Version: 1.7b5
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.
Oct 29 2014
Version: 1.7b5
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.
Jul 7 2013
Version: 1.7b5
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!
Sep 21 2011
Version: 1.7b5
I use Free Ruler a lot when I am working on websites and graphics.
Really good app, and you can't beat FREE!
Free
App requirements:
- Intel 64
- ARM
- macOS 10.12.0 or later
License:
Free • Absolutely Free
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