Measure 4+

The key seems to be to take your time, make sure you have a good direct angle on what you are measuring. The biggest key is to be sure you have laid out an accurate starting point and termination point, avoid taking curvature etc into the measurement. This is an app best used with solid angle items, like boxed packages for mailing, picture framing etc. avoid curved or funky shaped items. Those would be better measured with a soft measuring tape, like the ones used to measure your waist, etc. Kind of bare-bones app but it’s free. The more feature-laden apps out there are also subscription based and can cost up to $100 a year to use. Well worth it for the professional who would use it many times a day for mission critical stuff, but if you only need an app to take an occasional measurement here and there this is a perfectly adequate app for most instances.

I bought a stand with holes for dog food bowls; then I lost one of the bowls while traveling. The seller didn’t sell replacement bowls, and the holes turned out to be of an unusual size, for which I couldn’t find any bowls online that wouldn’t stand too high or fall through. After measuring the remaining bowl, I went to the store and used the Measure app on bowls and containers until I found one that seemed the right size. When I took the container home it fit perfectly!

The only reason I gave Measure 4/5 stars is I had a little trouble figuring out how to use it. Only took me about 1 minute right there in the store though.

So when I used the app it was good but then I used it one day and got curious and pulled out my real tape measure measuring something, when I used the tape measure it was 12 ft and 1 inch but when I used the app it was 12 ft 5 inch so the app isn’t perfect but it still gets the job done for a sloppy measurement just… don’t use it for actual construction work or anything that you need to measure that’s important.