Before technology was as modern as it's today, people used to calculate distances and heights using hand-made ladders and yardsticks. With time, the world evolved into a more mature one along with computers and other related industries.

If you like to spend your time designing houses or fashion clothes, but you don't seem to find a proper tool to help you determine various distances, then JR Screen Ruler Pro is a suitable replacement for the manual tools.

It displays a virtual ruler on the monitor that can help you measure any length, desktop area or objects regardless of the environment. It comes with several configuration settings to keep the interface lightweight.

The installation is complete before you realize and uncomplicated. From the middle of the tool, you can select the proper measurement unit (pixels, centimeters, picas, inches, custom) while on the right side of the ruler, you can change the orientation from horizontal or vertical. If you need to check a specific point, and you want its coordinates, you can enable the position lines, which displays the values on the left part of the app.

Right-clicking on it brings up a context menu, from where it's possible to rotate the ruler to different angles, move it using predefined hotkeys or by manually, as well as resize it to the desired length by dragging its corners. In addition, you can adjust the transparency level, pin to stay on top of other programs and change the colors for lines and font.

Taking everything into account, JR Screen Ruler Pro is a reliable and intuitive application that comes in handy for everyone who needs a simple and small screen ruler to measure different items and access its functions using hotkeys.