xScope for Mac
Onscreen graphic measurement tools.
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xScope overview
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 https://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)
What’s new in version 4.7
New Features
- Internal changes for capturing screen:
- Implemented with modern framework that's faster and more reliable
- Increased the refresh rate of the Loupe, Dimensions, and Screens
- Better performance of automatic contrast adjustment at crosshairs
- Screen recording indicator in Sonoma will appear when in use
- Clear Guides at Mouse:
- Hover over a guide and remove it with Shift-Cmd-D [Yay Adrianna!]
- Add new guides with Shift-Cmd-H & V respectively
- Works best with "Create new guides at current mouse position" setting
- Use shortcut at guide intersection to clear both horizontal & vertical
- Added options for reticles on Loupe centerline:
- Open Settings to add tick marks or grid crosses at 10 or 8 unit intervals
- Spacing matches display measurement setting (points or pixels)
- Use for quick alignment or spacing checks
Improvements
- Improved detection with Dimensions tool:
- Works better on subtle patterns, gradients, and materials
- Separate detection for solid colors, gradients, and photos
- New controls in Settings to adjust sensitivity of detected background types
- Lets you sample your design and adjust accuracy of measurement
- Shrinking a frame via Dimensions uses gradient sensitivity
- Better support for Dark Mode with settings adapting for:
- Default colors for Guides, Frames, and Overlay
- Overlay for creating frames interactively (e.g. shrinking a frame)
- Crosshair cursor for maximum contrast
- Loupe now uses setting for Dimensions measurement color
- Default hotkey for creating frame from Dimensions is now Shift-Cmd-0 (conflicted with system shortcut)
- Updated xScope's in-app Help
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug in Loupe that degraded contrast detection in some cases
- Fixed a bug that ignored setting for dark icon in Dock
- Updated labels in color space menus
xScope for Mac
$49.99
In English
Version 4.7
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Oct 20 2018
Version: 4.3.3
There's an issue in OS 10.9 where the prefs won't display. (v4.3 was ok)
Jun 3 2018
Version: 4.3.1
On the other hand, between xScope with its "cool" techy interface and Art Director's Toolkit, I've always preferred the latter. Unfortunately I own xScope in a current version while ADT pricing and upgrade policy have always been pretty dodgy. So I'm pretty happy someone is offering a competitively priced alternative. xScope does turn up on promotions, including at Macupdate, which is why I mentioned pricing positively. Retail is too much, unless you really like techy interfaces.
Mar 23 2017
Version: 4.3
Pricy, but better than you think it is...
I've been looking for alternatives to this for years now, but finally bit the bullet and purchased xScope. NO regrets -- and now that I know I'll keep it around, I find I use it much more than I actually thought I would. The Guides and Dimensions panels save SOOOO much time when laying out UI components.
My only gripe is the annoyance of its always-present Dock and Task Switcher icons. I prefer system-wide utilities to sit quietly in the background until I conjure them via keyboard shortcut or menubar icon; otherwise, it's yet another thing competing for my attention on a developer's already-crowded Dock . Not sure why IconFactory developers insist that this is "the only way to do it," when Apple clearly documents how to make menubar-based applications that don't require the Dock icon (a la Annotate/Glui, for instance).
Apr 2 2016
Version: 4.2
Great program but kind of a memory hog. Haven't touched it in a few hours and it's sitting on over 500Mb.
