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

Modernized and improved performance with Loupe, Dimensions, Guides, and Crosshair. Full support for the latest version of macOS.

NEW FEATURES

Internal changes for capturing screen:

• Implemented with modern framework that's faster and more reliable
• Increased the refresh rate of the Loupe, Dimensions, and Screens
• Better performance of automatic contrast adjustment at crosshairs
• Screen recording indicator in Sonoma will appear when in use

Clear Guides at Mouse:

• Hover over a guide and remove it with Shift-Cmd-D [Yay Adrianna!]
• Add new guides with Shift-Cmd-H & V respectively
• Works best with "Create new guides at current mouse position" setting
• Use shortcut at guide intersection to clear both horizontal & vertical

Added options for reticles on Loupe centerline:

• Open Settings to add tick marks or grid crosses at 10 or 8 unit intervals
• Spacing matches display measurement setting (points or pixels)
• Use for quick alignment or spacing checks

IMPROVEMENTS

Improved detection with Dimensions tool:

• Works better on subtle patterns, gradients, and materials
• Separate detection for solid colors, gradients, and photos
• New controls in Settings to adjust sensitivity of detected background types
• Lets you sample your design and adjust accuracy of measurement
• Shrinking a frame via Dimensions uses gradient sensitivity

Better support for Dark Mode with settings adapting for:

• Default colors for Guides, Frames, and Overlay
• Overlay for creating frames interactively (e.g. shrinking a frame)
• Crosshair cursor for maximum contrast

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug in Loupe that degraded contrast detection in some cases
• Fixed a bug that ignored setting for dark icon in Dock
• Updated labels in color space menus

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