PixelStick for Android

I use the app very often, mostly for graphics design together with Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo. And it’s very helpfull for me in instances when perfect proportionate size, alignment, distance are not automatically (with snap function) achievable in complex situations without an additional tool such as PixelStick.

I bought this specifically for measuring color values. But when you are in that sampling mode, the cursor is still displayed, and in the magnified view box of this app you can see the problem, the "active" pixel on the cursor is the white outline of the cursor, so you always get #ffffff. And I DID check their help page. Note: I do use a larger than normal cursor, but I really need that, so I still think it's a bug. Since it's $7 and can't do the one thing I bought it for, giving it a 1 star. I'd have given 2 stars if it were at least free.

(NOTE: This is actually a review for Version 2.10.1, released June 4, 2017) I’ve been using Pixelstick for about four years now, and as it is an app with a singular purpose, you’d want it to do that job well. And iit has done its job well. The latest update (referenced above) also fixes a few nagging issues with Retina screens, such that the circular guidelines were drawn larger by mistake. In fact, the response from Plum Amazing was, well, rather amazing — within a day of reporting this core functionality error, I was in contact with their support team and the programmer to help hunt down the problem. The whole process from error detection to new version download was a mere three days. Truly, exceptional customer support!

This will only give you the pixels of the screen at the moment that you are looking at it. If you scroll or zoom in, the scale is changed and using a custom scale doesn’t help. Seriously a waste of money.

This inexpensive app is very useful for me. I am able to use it to accurately measure features on a product image. For example, I use SnagIt to copy an image of a product and enlarge it. Then I determine the length or width of the product in inches from the product description. Next I use PixelStick to measure the known dimension in pixels, and calculate the custom scale factor by dividing the width in inches by the number of pixels. This factor is entered into the Zoom box on PixelStick, and I change the Unit measure to “in”. Now everything I measure on the image is scaled by that zoom factor, and I can directly read the measurements in inches. This app is simple to use and never in the way. It’s simply an overlay for the screen, and its visibility can be toggled with Cmd + H. I wish I could get it to work when my browser is in full screen mode, but I haven’t figured that out. But by taking a screenshot using SnagIt, I can work around this limitation.