xScope 4 App Reviews

Great update. Fair price. A very good app for designers. Pixel perfect designs are even more important with the flat UI wave. This tool helps to align everything without leaving your desired Browser/IDE. The mirroring on the iOS Device is working and easily set up.

This is an absolutely essential tool for any one doing work in design or development. Just the guides and rules justify the cost, but there’s so much more depth to this app like mirroring part of your screen to an iOS device, the new text tool, the loop with many handy color copying options and many other amazing features. Probably the only criticism is that it’s hard to remember all its features as there are so many.

I used Xscope3 daily to place guides above mock artwork and to then use the loupe to compare with the iOS simulator and make sure that everything was retina-pixel perfect. Sadly, the first version of this new Xscope wouldn’t let me see placed guides within the loupe. This was a very frustrating design decision/defect that kept me from using Xscope 4. (Thankfully I could still use Xscope 3.) As of today the loupe can now see placed guides! Thanks to The Iconfactory for making this version usable in my most common use case. I can now fully (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) recommend it for all developers who need to match implemation to design mockups.

If you want to be a pixel perfect dev you need this tool. Fantastic, and they listen to you when you give feedback!

I use this all day, every day.

great new features and thoughtful improvements all around.

If youve used xScope before, you know that it can be invaluable. I dont use it all the time, but when I do use it, I use the bejesus out of it. The new version doesnt disappoint. Im happy to buy this new version to ensure it continues to work on future OS updates. Two quick notes about the two major new features: * The new text tool prevents me from ever having to google "hex value for <foo>." The presets for different types of development are handy. * Overlay tool is kind of magical. Its like having a little integrated xScope environment within xScope. I can see this tool is going to be come much more powerful over the next few maintenance release (at least I hope so). Oh, and by the way, you dont need to be a hipster west coast iOS designer to use this. Ive been using xScope to help layout academic papers written in LaTeX for the past year or so. My coworkers think Im crazy, but my papers look darn good.

If you’re a programmer, designer, web developer or any combination of the above, you absolutely need XScope as part of your tool set. I’ve used it daily for years and this update adds even more useful features to make my life easier. In particular, the overlay is a much needed feature for responsive design. Great job guys!

I am an iOS developer who constantly uses this to translate designs, specifications, ideas and more into iOS apps. This tool is essential for verifying alignment, getting text and design elements to work well together, getting the color deficient experiencing apps satisfactorily and more. In the new version, they made it so you can get actual iOS pts out of the hovering measurement tools. It’s even better than the prior version.

xScope proved indispensible a couple years ago when I was redesigning my church’s website. Version 4 could not have come at a better time as I am going to be working to redesign again and make it responsive. The Iconfactory’s legenedary attention to detail really shines in xScope.

As a front-end web developer, I reallly can’t understand how other fellow front-end developers do their job without this tool. xScope makes implementing design into a working site an delightful task, specially the measuring and loupe tools. I love it, and recomend it to nearly every developer I come across with.

This application helps when doing the software development, working graphics work, and probably other things also. It is good.

xScope has been a must-have since it was originally released and this version improves on an already essential product. Mirror, Rulers, Dimensions, and (of course) Loupe have been an essential part of our workflow since they debuted and the improvements are great in usability and functionality. In particular, the handling of Retina displays and showing pixel and point measurements is an indispensable tool.

I am, at heart, a systems architect and coder. As a non-artist forced to cobble together assets for development projects, I had previously found xScope quite useful. xScope 4 takes it to a new level. I find my brows rising as I use it because this is an amazing little tool. If you do graphics or screen layout, you will not regret having this in your tool belt.

xScope works pretty well, but it bothers me how much crap xScope inserts into my UI: a menubar entry, a floating panel, an icon in my ⌘+Tab list. Why is all of that necessary? I don’t use most of the utilities, so instead I downloaded three apps for the functionality I need: Sip for grabbing colors, Dimensions for measuring on-screen regions, and Euclid for on-screen crosshairs.

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!

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. Ive updated my rating of this app from 4 to 5 stars.

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.

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?

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.