xScope 4 4+

Measure, inspect, and test

The Iconfactory

    • 4.8 • 25 Ratings
    • $49.99

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Description

Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts. xScope’s tools float above your desktop windows and can be accessed via a toolbar, menubar and/or hot keys.

The ten tools that will help you do your job faster and more accurately include:

• Mirror
- Remote Viewing – Easily view Photoshop, files or windows on your iOS device, AirPlay, or your wrist.
- 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 http://xscopeapp.com/ios

• Text - New!
- 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 & 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 & 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 & vertical lengths
- Full 360 degree rotation range
- Displays deltas for rotated rulers

• Overlay - New!
- Enhances Your Web Browser – Attaches to window to make development easier
- Alignment Marks – Check positioning & 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 & 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 & 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() & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & create a frame
- Display preset grids to help compose frame layouts
- Create, move, duplicate & edit frames at will
- Save & 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

Version 4.7.1

NEW FEATURES

• Added color space warnings in Loupe:
- A warning icon is placed over the color sample
- A short message is displayed next to the formatted color name
- Invalid color values are displayed with an exclamation mark (!)
- If you sample an on-screen color that can't be displayed correctly in the current color space, an "Out of gamut" warning is displayed
- For example, if you set the Loupe to display hex colors while working in sRGB, and sample a bright red on a Display P3 image
- If you use an output format that is incompatible with the current color space, a "Format unavailable" warning is displayed
- For example, if you use hex colors while working in a Display P3 color space
- Can be disabled in Loupe settings


IMPROVEMENTS

• Added "color(display-p3)" web color as an output format
• Developer formats, such as UIColor in Swift, now include a color space when copied to the clipboard
• Added 33% and 66% scaling factors in Overlay (for @3x screenshots)


BUG FIXES

• Loupe can magnify Guides, Frames, and Rulers again
• Fixed issues with Display P3 images appearing incorrectly in Loupe
• Fixed vision simulations when using Display P3 images
• Fixed the output of some color values on Display P3 screens
• Fixed UI redraw problems with Overlay and Loupe on Sonoma
• Fixed the minimum system version check when updating with Sparkle

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
25 Ratings

25 Ratings

Chris Pt ,

It'll pay off many times over

I've often wondered how other engineers have so much trouble delivering pixel-perfect UIs. It seems so easy – the pixels are right there! But I realized the reason the pixels are right there is that I've been using xScope my whole career. Everyone balks at the price. You have no idea how many hours the Dimensions tool alone has saved me. And my work stands out. It shouldn't (the pixels are right there!), but it does. Thanks to this team for making the perfect tool and letting it stay perfect for so many years.

Crazy Horses that run fast ,

Fantastic

If you are coding or creating UI this little tool is indispensable. It is really amazing what it can do. I use it when i am coding in Xcode and it shines.

jcao ,

Great app, with obnoxios dialog every time you open it

This is a great app. I would give it five stars except for the obnoxious request to enable screen recording every single time it starts up

I'm never going to enable screen recording for xScope. The app works fine for my needs without it, and it is annoying that you ask each and every time the app starts up. A "never ask again" checkbox in this dialog would go a long way towards turning this into a five-star review ...

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Data Not Collected

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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