AirMeasure - AR Tape & Ruler 4+

Best app!!!

Best app ever. I am totally clueless when it comes to any kind of measuring, I don’t own a measuring tape..not even a ruler. So as one can imagine when I needed to measure stuff, I was in trouble!! I went looking online and found recommendations for this app, thank god because it’s amazing. There’s nothing I’ve come across that it can’t do and ITS SO EASY!!! It makes it all so so easy! It keeps the history for things too which has helped me tremendously at times where I needed the measurements or the photo of the item measured as I have an online store and was so bummed that I didn’t take a photo of the measurements! Well, came back onto the app just to check and hope, what do you know!? History! Of all I’ve measured so I could get the photos I needed as my items are stored else where this has saved me a few times!! Awesome app! I recommend it 110%!

Great for students!

It is an AR measuring toolkit that contains a variety of modes to accurately create measurements. This app is a great tool for the classroom for individual or collaborative activities when learning geometry, interior design, sewing, carpentry, and other ways an educator or anyone else sees fit. I measured a couple of objects and then used a tape measure to test for accuracy. The app was pretty accurate. There are modes that offer short tutorial videos where you can watch demonstrations. The vertical height mode allows the user to measure tall buildings and trees as well as others. Younger students would enjoy using this in school as a fun assignment to find the tallest tree or building on campus.

Great Look, Doesn’t Really Measure Up

I’ve tried this App since the first version and I’ve had mixed results. While I like a lot about the design, usability is still too complex to understand. Accuracy seems questionable in most cases.

For instance, I was testing the “measure a human” function, and my 5’1” subject was consistently measured below his height. The App would say, “Point to the Floor” and I would, then no further direction. So I would move the phone up and it would detect a face. Intuitively, once it detects the face you would think that’s the measurement. Not only was it inconsistent, but I was getting measurements of 3’9”, 4’6”, and others below 5’. I was in a well lit space with plenty of contrast.

Other features, like hanging a picture on the wall, never worked for me. Detecting a plane (the wall) seemed challenging for the App, so it never really saw the wall.

All the different modes are cool. Some are easy to understand and some are impossible to comprehend because the interface doesn’t give you feedback about what it’s doing. Many of the modes seem redundant as far as function, but they have completely different methods of getting to the function. I’m not sure what the purpose of one measurement mode is over another in a lot of cases.

All in all I think the App has promise, but it’s no replacement for a quality laser measurement tool or a good ol’ tape measure. Until it’s somewhat accurate, I see no point using it.

Developer Response ,

Since your review we have added lots of tutorial videos, and revamped many of the tools to be easier to use and more accurate. Please try the updated version and let us know if it's easier for you.