xScope 4

xScope 4

By The Iconfactory

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2014-06-26
  • Current Version: 4.7.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 28.41 MB
  • Developer: The Iconfactory
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 12.3 or later.
$49.99 On itunes

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)

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Reviews

  • Great app, with obnoxios dialog every time you open it

    2
    By jcao
    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 ...

  • It'll pay off many times over

    5
    By Chris Pt
    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.

  • Nice set of tools but expensive

    3
    By Bikrrr
    Overall xScope is well done and offers some useful tools for designers. But $50 is a bit steep for what you get. While it includes 10 different tools, many are being incorporated into modern design apps. The one tool I use regularly, rulers, doesn’t let you measure below 9 pixels. Hard to pay this price for a utility when full-featured design apps like Affinity Designer only costs $40.

  • Awesome designer and developer tool!

    5
    By gchriswill
    With this tool, I’m more productive for verifying my measurement's calculations for my designs.

  • Super-handy app for designers.

    5
    By troutbum61
    xScope is simply a great app for designers, photographers, or anyone else doing pixel-perfect work. Like a good color-picker (and one is included in xScope's Loupe tool), having a utility to measure dimensions is vital for people working in graphics, or at least it is to me. Now instead of exporting and switching to Photoshop to get dimensions, I just use xScope, which has been running quietly in the corner of my iMac since I purchased it. So much cool stuff here. Worth every penny. (And for just 199 more pennies you can get the xScope Mirror app for iOS to preview graphics in real time on your iOS device or Apple Watch. I don't even do iOS development and bought it just to play around.) Do make sure though to read the note about Retina displays that Iconfactory provides, since that obvioulsy complicates measuring pixels. xScope still works perfectly, but you may need to change a preference depending on your usage.

  • essential tool for professional designers

    5
    By Mike Bradshaw (bmike)
    I haven’t found anything as capable as this tool for checking apps for color blindness and other visual impairments. The design and measurement tools are also top-notch, fluid, useful and powerful. A great tool that is made even better with the xScope mirror functionality on iOS. Well worth the $$ - great value - awesome support and continued development of the tool. Rock solid product.

  • Buggy

    4
    By wraithequestrain
    Update: The new version, 4.1, fixes most of the bugs that were present in the initial release, plus it fixes the "guide not being present in the loupe” regression from the previous version. There are however still a couple of bugs: guides are now 2 pixels wide on Retina screens, while in previous version they were 1 pixel wide. I still prefer 3.0 because it feels more solid and reliable compared to this version. I’ll keep using 3.0 until the 4.2 update. This version has bugs and reduced functionalty, that I’ve reported, that haven’t been fixed since the release. The response I got was "just use the old version." If I should use the old version they why did I pay for it?

  • very buggy; features do not work; hard crashed my mac

    1
    By Perspicacious
    I have not had any software hard crash my computer like this in years. Avoid it at all costs. I almost lost hours and hours of work, but fortunately had saved just before installing xscope. The program is a complete mess. The idea is good, but that doesn’t make up for the horrible operation. The overlay feature is a joke. It doesn’t work. It complains that a normally sized browser window is too large, and it wants you to resize it down to a tiny square. That means that the overlay has to be placed on a completely useless, tiny web page. It’s idiotic. The auto-measure feature is very glitchy. It has a really hard time figuring out the boundary of the image you’re trying to measure. It would be much more useful if it had intuitive manual controls. The on-screen help is also very badly designed. It was nearly impossible to understand the installation instructions for the overlay feature. The help screen also opens unexpectedly and blocks what you’re working on. How am I supposed to measure things on my screen with the “help” screen covering 2/3 of it? The installation of the dysfunctional overlay feature is a complete kludge. You have to open Security and Privacy settings and give the program control over operations of the computer! You’re breaking the sandboxing that is a key security mechanism on the Mac, and this is likely why the crash of xscope brought down the entire computer. Avoid this thing unless you enjoy losing data, corrupting your storage, and wasting a lot of time.

  • Thank you for listening

    5
    By Holosynthetic
    My last review mentioned the lack of support for manually entering measurements for the ruler tool, but with 4.1 that is no longer an issue. Thank you for listening to my feature request and adding the option to enter in exact measurements for the ruler. I've updated my rating of this app from 4 to 5 stars.

  • Amazing Functionality

    5
    By JamWils
    I was skeptical about getting this application, but I am so glad that I did. I just started a new job working for an agency and am working with a lot of PSDs compared to what I used to as a developer. This tool makes it so easy to measure and get the right colors between images and XCode. I recommend that if you are new to the application that you read through their instructions and tutorials provided with the app. You will be up and running quickly and will be able to use the tools to their fullest extent. Great work!

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