Comparison

Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 vs Ruler ▸

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定

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Measure real-world lengths with your iPhone camera. No tape measure needed. ■ Two steps Put the crosshair on where you want to start, and tap Measure. Move your iPhone to the end point. That's it. The number updates live as you move, like pulling out a tape measure. ■ Two ways to measure [Target mode] Measure things you can't reach. A ceiling beam, wall to wall across a room, the gap where a piece of furniture has to fit. Requires an iPhone with a LiDAR scanner (Pro / Pro Max). [Device mode] Measures how far the iPhone itself moved. Touch it to one end, move it to the other. No depth sensor involved, so it works in a dark room and on glass or polished metal, where depth sensing struggles. ■ Steady aim Your hand shakes when you line up a point. The image is zoomed slightly, and the spare margin is used to cancel that shake. When your aim settles, the ring around the crosshair tightens — so you can see the right moment to tap. ■ Rangefinder When you're not measuring, the distance to whatever the crosshair points at is shown continuously. Distance to a wall, height of a ceiling, how far away something is. ■ Save the result When you're done, save a photo with the measurement line and the number drawn on top. Keep it as a note, or send it to someone as it is. ■ Good for • Checking whether furniture or an appliance will fit • Measuring a doorway before moving day • Sizing a shelf board or a curtain • Finding the distance to a wall or ceiling • Any time there's no tape measure around ■ Units Switch between centimeters and inches. The default follows your region. ■ Device support Target mode needs a LiDAR scanner (iPhone 12 Pro and later, Pro / Pro Max). On iPhones without LiDAR, Device mode still measures. Note: readings are approximate. For construction, trade, or anything where accuracy matters, use a real measuring tool.

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Ruler ▸

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Five measuring tools in one app. • Free — no subscription, no trial, no paywall • No ads and no account • Works offline, even in airplane mode • Nothing you measure ever leaves your phone ON-SCREEN RULER A real scale on your screen, in millimeters or in inches marked like a tape measure down to 1/32". Zero sits at the very edge of the glass, so you can butt the object straight against the phone. Drag the caliper and read the number on the line itself. Turn the phone sideways for the full length of the screen, and the numbers turn to stay readable. Full screen clears everything else away. CALIBRATION IN 30 SECONDS The ruler is accurate as it comes. If you want it exact, lay a bank card, a 1 or 2 euro coin, a US quarter, or anything else whose length you know on the glass and match the scale to it. It is an offer, never a wall in front of the app, and there is no limit on how far you can adjust it. PHOTO MEASURE Measure anything in a photograph. Put something of a known size beside it — an A4 or US Letter sheet, an access card, a business card, a coin, or your own length — draw the reference line along it, then draw the measured line across what you want to know. Both lines are there from the start and every end can be dragged at any time. A magnifier follows your finger above it, never under it, so a point lands where you meant it. Take a new photo or use one you already have. If the photo was taken from an angle, or the reference is far from the measurement, the app tells you instead of quietly handing you a wrong number. BUBBLE LEVEL A spirit level that is two instruments in one: a tube when you hold the phone against something upright, a round glass when you lay it flat, with the angle in degrees. Set any surface as zero and measure from it. The phone gives one short pulse the moment something is exactly level. Hold freezes the tool, and a reading can be held on screen behind a big button you can drag anywhere and make bigger with two fingers, for measuring where the screen cannot be seen. AR QUICK MEASURE Measure across a room with the camera. Aim the crosshair, press once, aim again: one distance, or a chain of them along a floor, a table or a wall, with the total as you go. It uses the depth sensor where your iPhone has one and detected surfaces where it does not, and when it is not sure of a point it says so instead of showing a number it does not believe. AR ROOM PLAN Walk the corners of a room and get its walls, its perimeter and its floor area. The plan draws itself in the corner of the screen as you walk, and it comes out as a real drawing with every wall measured, a scale bar and a north arrow. SAVED MEASUREMENTS AND PDF EXPORT Save anything you measure, name it, and keep it in folders. A ruler measurement opens back on the ruler, a photo measurement back on its photo, a room as its plan. Export through the normal share sheet as a clean A4 PDF: a table of names, measurements, tools and dates, photo measurements drawn on the photograph with each length beside its line, and a room drawn as a plan a builder can read. No watermark, and screenshots are never blocked. UNITS AND LANGUAGES Centimeters, fractional inches the way a tape is marked (3 3/8"), or decimal inches, climbing to meters or to feet and inches on their own. Units start from your region and are yours to change. 38 languages, right to left included, and a dark theme that follows your phone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no network. The camera and the motion sensor are asked for only when you open the tool that needs them, and a refusal costs you that one tool, never the app. The camera measures and records nothing. WHY IT IS FREE Measuring apps turned into weekly subscriptions with ads over the ruler. This one is free, has no ads, and has nothing behind a paywall.

Screenshots

Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定3 screens
Ruler ▸4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ruler ▸ at none against Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定's shown. Ruler ▸ also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 versus Ruler ▸: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定Ruler ▸
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoah's Ark Sapporo llcYaroslava Majstrovich

In-app purchases

None

Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定

No in-app purchases

None

Ruler ▸

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 free?
Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ruler ▸ free?
Ruler ▸ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 or Ruler ▸ have ads?
Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 shows ads; Ruler ▸ does not.
Which is updated more often, Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 or Ruler ▸?
Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 ships an update daily, and Ruler ▸ daily. Most recently, Camera Scale 簡単メジャー&距離測定 was updated on September 24, 2026 and Ruler ▸ on October 1, 2026.

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