Today's Daily iPad App is My
Measures & Dimensions PRO. It's universal, but I only tested it on the
iPad. The app is a beautiful and useful tool for anyone who needs to take
measurements around the house. Though it's designed with carpenters, engineers,
architects or landscapers in mind I found it an incredibly useful app to have
during my recent move between flats.
My Measures & Dimensions PRO allows you to snap a
picture quickly or choose an existing picture from your library and add photos
with measurements to objects in the app. For example, say you're viewing a new
apartment and you want to know if your furniture is going to fit. With the app,
simply take a picture of the new apartment, tap the screen with two fingers and
then drag to place a lined arrow on the desired area. Then simply add the
measurement of the area you are recording. Measurements can be entered in
Imperial, metric, Chinese or Japanese standards. Measurements must obviously be
inputted manually as the app cannot calculate the distance between two points
just from a photo.
Another great feature is the ability to easily add angle
measurements. Just select the angle tool and adjust its degrees by dragging the
tool to match the angles and the photograph. Angles are calculated
automatically. What's really great about the app is it can also calculate the
sum of all your measurements and even the surface area of your measurements.
Lastly, the app allows you to write simple text on photos so you can make notes
on the same canvas you're recording dimensions on.
What My Measures & Dimensions PRO does is it allows you
to stop carrying around a pen and paper for your measuring needs. By taking a
photo and recording measurement on a photo you'll have a much better idea of
what the space you are working in actually provides and looks like. Another
nice feature lets you export your measurements as a PDF. That way you can share
your measurements with just about anyone.
There is also a basic version of My Measures &
Dimensions PRO. That version, called My Measures & Dimensions, is a few dollars
cheaper and lacks some of the features of the PRO version including iCloud sync
and backup, the ability to zoom in on pictures, the ability to snap arrowheads
together, and loupes and cross mode.
The only problem I had with My Measures & Dimensions PRO
was that the iCloud sync feature didn't appear to work on the iPad version of
the app. I took photos and measurements with the iPhone version of the app and
I could see that those documents were stored in my iCloud account, but for some
reason the iPad app couldn't see the documents were there. Still, once that bug
is ironed out, I can't recommend My Measures & Dimensions PRO enough.
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