List Of Best Free Screen Rulers

Here is a list of best free screen rulers. These screen rulers let you measure screen objects easily. All these screen rulers are completely free and can be downloaded to Windows PC. These screen ruler software offer various features, like: measure the distance between two points on screen, can measure the angle, measure value of x-y coordinates, various measurement units such as pixels, points, millimeters, centimeters, inches etc. both horizontally and vertically, set transparency of ruler, change ruler background color. These screen rulers are helpful for web designers and others. So, go through this list of free screen rulers and see which ones you like the most.

MB-Ruler

MB-Ruler is a tool to measure distances and angles on the desktop. It measures the distances in pixel, cm, inch, points, or twips and the angle in radiant or degree. It is almost transparent and you can have it on the screen, while you are working with the applications below. It also has a screen loupe (magnifying glass) and a RGB value window. You can draw circles, lines, rectangles, bitmaps and text as temporary objects on the screen.

Pixel Ruler

Pixel Ruler is a free ruler application. It shows the measurements in pixels up to 2500 pixels in width (horizontally) or 1500 pixels in height (vertically). It is very easy to use. It floats above the desktop and you can drag and drop it anywhere on the screen. To switch between horizontal and vertical position of ruler, just click or double click on the ruler. Right clicking will close the ruler.

A Ruler for Windows

A Ruler for Windows is a free on-screen ruler and reading guide for your PC. It measure the distance in pixels. It has four default skins and you can design your own too. You can use it horizontally or vertically. You can set the ruler length manually. You can set its magnification level from 1x to 4x so you can measure the distance more accurately.

On-screen Ruler

On-screen Ruler is a simple program to measure the distance between two points on the desktop in various measurement units. You can set the units by mouser scroll wheel. You can easily drag and drop the ruler to the screen to measure. Right clicking on ruler popup options dialog box where you can set the appearance and units of measurement and also can set the transparency of the ruler.

WonderWebware Screen Ruler

WonderWebware Screen Ruler is a free tool to measure the distance between two points on your screen. You can measure in pixels, inches, centimeters, millimeters; both horizontally and vertically. You can set the transparency of the ruler from 0% to 60%. You can make it on top of the other applications. It is easy to use.

Pixel Ruler

Pixel Ruler is a free Windows application that lets you measure the distance on your screen. Users can check the measurement of the window or graphics. You can drag and drop the rules with left click anywhere around the screen. You can double click it to change its orientation, and right click to access color settings and to close the application. It is small in size and easy to install.

JR Screen Ruler

JR Screen Ruler is a free tool that lets you measure accurately anything on your computer screen. It offers four different measuring units; they are: pixels, inches, picas, and centimeters. You can resize it with the help of slider. You can flip it from horizontal to vertical position. You can also use various keyboard shortcuts. It comes in zip file and doesn’t require installation.

Perfect Screen Ruler

Perfect Screen Ruler is a free screen ruler software. It is easy-to-use program and lets you analyze the size, color, and angle of particular elements on the screen. It captures the screenshot of the active window when you click the update screen button. Now you have to click start and end point; it then calculates the length in pixels. It can also calculate the color and angle.

ScreenRuler

ScreenRuler is a tool to measure the distance between two points on the screen in pixels. You can change its orientation by clicking horizontal or vertical on its context menu. You can change its background color and transparency. You can make it to stay on top of other applications. It can be freely moved around the screen. It comes in zip format and doesn’t require installation.

Pixel Ruler

Pixel Ruler is a free tool to measure the distance between two points on the screen (it has same name as the software I mentioned above, but it is a different software). You can measure the length of a graphic or object on your computer screen either horizontally or vertically. Its measurement units are pixels. You can make it to stay on top of other applications. To measure the distance between two points, just place the zero of the scale at the first point and move your mouse over the second point and it will show you the distance in pixels on the ruler. It doesn’t require installation.

Ruler Bars

Ruler Bars is a screen measuring tool. It is a set of vertical and horizontal rulers. You can drag it to any position on your screen. You can set the measuring units in pixels, inches, or centimeters by clicking the top left corner of the ruler. It installs and uninstalls easily.

Able Opus Ruler

Able Opus Ruler is an application to measure screen. You can measure any window in pixels. You can find height, width, and size by moving your mouse cursor. You can copy the results to clipboard. It comes as a single executable and requires no installation. You can make it transparent and can resize to any screen size.

Pixel Ace

Pixel Ace is a free screen ruler utility. It measures the size of objects in pixels on your computer screen. It is resizable and has various color themes. You can adjust its transparency by scroll wheel of your mouse. To measure the height and width at same time, you need to drag the bottom right corner of the ruler.

Netzwelt Webtools

Netzwelt Webtools is a simple ruler with two more small programs: color picker and screen magnifier. It measures the distance in pixels on your computer screen. You can double click on it to change its orientation. You can resize to any size. It is very small in size and comes as single executable and doesn’t require installation.

Pmeter

PMeter is a free desktop ruler. It has three predefined configurations. You can switch between them easily. You can set width and colors for each configuration individually. You can set measurement units in pixel, point, inch or centimeter. You can flip, turn and rotate it easily. It also has a desktop magnifier. You can make it stay on top of other applications. You can install it even on your USB drive.

Measure Schmeasure

Measure Schmeasure is a free screen ruler for Windows. It measures the width or height between pixels in any application. You can make it to always appear on top of other windows. You can measure both horizontally and vertically. You can customize its colors and opacity of your choice. It supports keyboard hotkey also.

Measure Me

Measure Me is a little and handy tool which can measure things displayed on your screen. It is a very helpful program when you want to know the exact dimensions of various elements. Just drag the borders around the object and you will get the vertical and horizontal size. The found size can be copied to the clipboard.

SmallMeasure

SmallMeasure is a free screen ruler software. It can measure anything on your computer screen. It has two movable handles in Blue and Red color and you can put them anywhere on your screen to measure the distance between any two points. You can put Blue at top left corner and Red at bottom right corner of any part of the screen and it will measure the distance in pixels and shows the actual length between these two points.

MEHZ!

MEHZ! is a free screen ruler software for Windows. It allows you to measure pixels on screen of any object along with X-Y coordinates. You can measure any object’s height & width and coordinates values. It is helpful for web designers. You can place it around the object whose measurement is required and then it will show you the exact height & width in pixels.