ScreenMeter

ScreenMeter is a small software application whose purpose is to help you measure distances on your desktop. It can be deployed on all Windows versions out there.

You can take advantage of the tool’s portability status and run it on the target system without administrative privileges. Plus, you may keep it stored on pen drives or other similar devices in order to have with you all the time. The program can be opened straight from the storage device on the target computer.

It does not add extra entries to your Windows registry and create additional configuration files so you can uninstall it by deleting the files that you have downloaded from the Internet.

ScreenMeter sports a plain and straightforward design that offers poor support for customization options. A help manual is not included in the package. However, you can decode the application’s dedicated parameters in a short amount of time because they look easy to work with.

The measurement tasks can be performed with the aid of a geometrical shape that is displayed as a rectangle (by default). You can drag its corners in order to make it a square or to fit the margins of the object that you want to measure. The results are automatically displayed in the main window and are expressed in pixels.

The tool lets you adjust the transparency of the geometrical shape and view the pixel measurements in the configuration panel as well. Tests have pointed out that ScreenMeter carries out a task quickly and without errors. It is not a resource hog so you do not have to worry that it burdens the overall performance of the computer.

The bottom line is that ScreenMeter proves to be nothing more than a simple application that can be used for measurements related to web designing purposes, and is suitable especially for less experienced users.