Tape Measure™ Reviews

by Sammylbrown

Inaccurate measurements and deceptive setup that makes it seem like there is no free option. Combined with the 3-day free trial and high yearly fee this seems designed to trick people out of their money.

Edited to add - My apologies for confusing the subscription period to be monthly instead of annually. I have corrected this above. I stand by the rest of my review and find it off putting that the developer responds to users reporting challenges by insisting TapeMeasure is easy to use. I did use the tutorial before trying the measuring feature; I still could not get an accurate result. Moreover, while a $30/year fee is much less crazy than $30/month I still find it excessive for the functionality offered, and it is sketchy the way setting up a pro subscription appears to be required to proceed to use TapeMeasure . Other apps make it much easier to use free features and clearer when you are opting in to paid services. Although I realized what had happened and was easily able to end my subscription, it’s clear from the reviews that others have been billed because they either didn’t know they’d subscribed or were unfamiliar with how to unsubscribe and I think that’s deceptive.

If the developers are so sure their tutorial will address everyone’s complaints I’d encourage them to promote it instead of pushing the pro subscription and let users seek out the latter on their own or as they try to access the paid features. I will not be using TapeMeasure again.

by TJay96

Tried to measure a TV screen and it couldn’t even do that, it was inaccurate. It’s not intuitive at all; no matter how many yellow dots are around, it hardly sticks and when you step back, the measurement starting point has moved to the middle of the object. Finally, the tip to turn on the flashlight is probably the one thing that’d make TapeMeasure usable (even in a well-lit area) is locked behind a paywall. They even disable your phone’s flashlight while using TapeMeasure . For $25 I can just make a one-time purchase of my own tape measure... useless! And before the developer comes in here with the same canned response: yes, I looked at the tips (see above) and watched the how-to video.

by Susie 😌💕

The tape measure itself, which in my opinion doesn’t even work well as it’s very hard to get it to want to measure something, is the only thing included in the free version. This tool is also available for free on the Measure app by Apple, and it works much better. You then need to pay $30/year (I know $30 isn’t a fortune, but for what you’re getting? Not worth it) for several other tools including a ruler, level, area, and floor plan. Also included is a height tool… which confuses me because are you not allowed to measure height with the tape measure? I couldn’t find out because the tape measure didn’t seem to find anything measurable, no matter how straight the lines are on the thing you wanna measure. The level is another tool that’s already available on Apple’s measure app. I don’t know how valuable the area and floor plan tool is, but I recommend looking elsewhere if it works as well as the tape measure.

by YodaGaba

On newer phones, it comes with a tape measure app. And it has more features that this. A free version on my phone has more tools that the paid version. Plus, you can’t close the premium purchasing window. You must exit, restart TapeMeasure , and reopen to remove the buy premium pop up. The free one already downloaded on my phone has measuring, chaining, and testing how flat things are, while you have to pay for that on here. The only reason people use this is because older models don’t have a pre installed measurements app. It also doesn’t put the marker where I want. When I try measuring my table, it just puts it floating in the air behind it. Bad,bad,bad.

by Garymon

I’m trying to measure a window for blinds. I click on the corner of the window frame, slide over to the other corner and click to end measurement. I stand back to look at measurement and the starting point is floating in the middle of the room. I tried several times and it keeps doing wacky things in 3D space.

The built in iPhone measure app was a bit fidgety but worked. I downloaded this hoping for something less fidgety and more precise. Oh well. Back to a physical tape measure. I will check back in 5 years and see how things have improved. It’s just a matter of time before this is useful and precise.

by Gropoppoli1

This is a great idea for an app, and I love the AR features. However, there are a lot of glitches. For instance, it attempts to get a layout of a room/object and line it with yellow dots. Some of these dots are floating in thin air, others are way behind the object. If you stand and measure in one place, you won’t get an accurate measurement at all. If you bring the camera of your phone exactly to the two points you want to measure, you get a better reading but still inaccurate. I never got the same reading with TapeMeasure that I did with an actual tape measure - no matter what I tried. This is a great idea but it needs a lot of work. (Note: I tested all the other competing apps on TapeMeasure Store today and none are any better).

by MacX.Dmg

It looks like it can do amazing things, maybe in the pro, but the free version it was incredibly hard to measure my desk or walls, I would end up several feet or inches away on one end of the measurement quite often. The numbers were within a few inches usually, once a foot off, it was not close enough for what I required. The pay for benefits I never tried before I uninstalled TapeMeasure , turns out a tape measure actually works well to measure things, much easier than trying to get TapeMeasure to attach to the corner of a desk or a wall. To the devs, good effort, it looks like you might be outmatched by Apple in iOS 12 though, best of luck.

by Geowil

This is an interesting app but there are some huge problems with it. In large rooms or over larger distances TapeMeasure completely fails. Much of the time it will stop tracking the distance mid-line, lines that have already been drawn will be shifted around as you take other measurements, and in some cases lines will just vanish.

TapeMeasure furthers the new subscription bs that has infected TapeMeasure Store as of late but I did not take any stars off for that.

Note to devs: photo mode should be free because you can take a screen capture with your phone; why make us pay for something we can already do?

by Rlhopkins167

So far TapeMeasure works great, it has helped me with a few tasks that not many other methods could have so for that part I would definitely recommend TapeMeasure, BUT THERE IS ONE MAJOR FLAW I FOUND AND IT IS THE FACT THAT THE “RULER” PORTION OF TapeMeasure DOESN’T WORK AND AS A MATTER OF FACT IT CAUSES TapeMeasure TO SHUT DOWN EVERY TIME I ATTEMPT TO SWITCH TapeMeasure TO THE RULER... SO THAT MAJOR FLAW NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED AND RESOLVED ASAP, and then TapeMeasure will be absolutely perfect. Thanks! Once that is fixed I will come back and give my star ratings or up it if this thing forces me to select at least one star... we’ll see in a second... here goes!

by I'm Kimberly

I understand that AR is limited, so I don’t want to fault the inaccuracy of the tape measure function. However, the ruler too large by 1/8 inch per inch on iPhone XR, so that would at least be nice to have a calibration feature. All in all TapeMeasure is intuitive enough to pick up and use but wasn’t accurate enough for what I needed it for. I also agree with the other review about the deceptive set-up almost forcing you to get the free-trial for pro but this may not be intentional, and I think it is a design flaw. Upon first opening TapeMeasure , there is no way to get past the pro subscription screen because the X, in addition to blending in quite well, is mostly cut off on the right. If you close TapeMeasure and re-open, it will ask for camera permission and allow you to use the free feature.

by Lovely Rita Lu

The tutorial shows a green circle to start the measuring but there’s no mention of the red circle. The instructions are inadequate but I was able to make it work and I got the measurement I needed- the length of rope on our tire-swing which needs to be replaced. Also I received a prompt response from TapeMeasure developer to my questions. (Ps I would not have left my complaint in a review if I could have found a way to contact the developer directly)

by Kejdnrifnfeoevefd

I would say for what it is, your app is definitely a cool idea and I like it a lot( hence why I am giving 4 stars. However, One change I would make is for you guys to find a way for the points to snap to the edge of a surface you are trying to measure (kinda like a vision system on a cmm works). I say that because I notice a large user error in trying to get the points on the edge of what I am trying to measure. If you guys can figure out how to make your measuring points sense the edge of a part and allow me to pick a point and have it snap to it, you guys would have the perfect measuring app and it would be one that I would trust to use in replacement of a tape measure.

by DrPhyzx

Be aware, the first time I tried TapeMeasure, I discovered than none of the AR apps were working on my iPhone 8 for some reason. After a quick google search I tried rebooting the phone and it worked fine afterwards. I don’t know if this will happen again or was because it was the first time I had used the capabilities of arkit.

by Droobie-Doo

Ok. I have to say the negative reviews are pretty harsh. Many are because they aren’t paying attention to “6s and above”. Others expect it to be dead accurate. Folks, AR is just in it’s infancy. For an early attempt at taking measurements in 3D space, it’s pretty darn good and I think the approach is on the right track. Yes it needs some additional prerequisite calculations to place the anchors before selecting start and stop points (and the reticle needs to light up when you have an anchor highlighted) but it’s a work in progress. And good grief, it’s free so stop complaining. Keep an eye on this one, I can’t wait to see future versions.
Nice work y’all.

by Endless Creations

Okay so my title is a biiiittt dramatic but, I’m kind of in love with TapeMeasure, more specifically the tape measure. TapeMeasure has taken place of any kind of physical ruler I’ve previously owned. I love how the little dots appear and I can click them and proceed to drag it to where I need to measure to. I could go on and on about this tool but I’ll not bore anyone with a novel length review (although I’m pretty close now lol). Whoever reads this will just have to take my word for it. Yes, the word of a stranger 😂 but an honest stranger, nonetheless.

by Jackk45

Pretty nice app, find myself using it nearly everyday. The ruler and level tool come in handy all the time and the regular measuring is pretty darn good when you know how to use it. I recommend this one over the rest.

Edit - I have some suggestions that might help. I would really like to see an option in settings were I can see measurements in decimal place mode. Something I need a little more precision that 1/2 inch etc. I also wish I could see my saved floor plans in TapeMeasure and not just an export option. It’s still nice but that would be helpful. Lastly I do think there should be some additional tutorials in TapeMeasure . The video and tips are good but for the floor plan tool there are no instructions. I still figured it out but it may help others learn easier. The level and ruler are self explanatory so those are easy to figure out. Just some ideas. Glad there is one app that has all the tools I need so thanks for that

by Pharaohlll

This is pretty handy so far, just downloaded it and I’ve put to use a number uses as a full time photographer and a part time property manager. Finding uses for it more and more. Going to try some long distance applications as I’m taking my rifle out for some target shooting. Saw some negative reviews but seemed like most “new app” concerns and and few people not following through with instructions. Will update review along the way. But as of now so far so good...

by Thundercaaat

TapeMeasure totally blew me away from the moment I opened it and saw that it wasn't like all the other so-called ruler apps. I've downloaded countless of them, all claiming to be AR enabled measurement apps, yet every single one of them was either too difficult to learn and/or use or they simply didn't work at all. Either way, none of them lasted more than 30 minutes on my phone.

Honestly, I was expecting one of those outcomes when I decided to try TapeMeasure as a last ditch effort at having a working, reliable ruler on my iPhone. You know what it took for me to learn to use TapeMeasure? A 17-SECOND HOW-TO VIDEO THAT'S AVAILABLE FROM THE SETTINGS PAGE. Hallelujah, Devs! You've earned my business for as long as you keep updating TapeMeasure - oh! And that's the other thing! I'm usually such a tightwad, especially when it comes to paying subscription fees for the "Pro version" of any app - I can't believe I'm typing this, but I truly think TapeMeasure is worth EVERY PENNY! Save yourself the headaches and just download it. (You can even take it for a free 3-day test-drive before you get billed for the annual fee.)

by Halliehall

Alright so I rarely write reviews but I got to for this. Lots of good reviews for TapeMeasure and some one stars that I see and a lot of the same replies from the developer. It’s pretty simple, a lot of the users just need to watch the tutorial to see how to use TapeMeasure ! Maybe there should be a walkthrough when you first download that better explains but the video right now shows enough to get the idea. And contrary to what some people say, you can measure for FREE. There are a lot of other tools you can upgrade too but it’s optional like the developer says. I like the level tool better than other apps so I use that and would recommend trying out all the tools. Just my two cents 😌 I also have used the floor plan tool and the screen ruler which is nice. I wish there was a way to make the screen ruler longer, I know you can scroll but sometimes it’s too short. Overall would recommend, try it out and make your own assumption. Okay gthats my review for tape measure ✌️

by JPBRUNSWICK

I work in construction and I’ve always been hesitant to try one of these tape measure apps. Yesterday I needed to get a measurement and realized I left my tape on the other side of the plant. I downloaded TapeMeasure took the measurement. Later, I went back to that spot and pulled a hard measurement with my physical tape measure and found it to be very accurate. I measured half a dozen other things since then and they’ve all been dead on. You just need to be precise with your start and stop points. Definitely recommend TapeMeasure.

by Outdoorsman830

TapeMeasure blows worse then my moms boyfriends soccer team. They make it so you can’t even use the flashlight on your phone! You have to buy the upgrade to be able to use your light. That’s like paying to unlock your house door every time you come home?! The lowest I could go was 1 star but it needs negative 16 stars. Plus the measurements aren’t accurate. I would rather drive across the country to Home Depot and steal a tape measure and wait my time in the county jail for stealing the tape measure. Hope I remembered what I was measuring in the first place. and do that.. Like I said TapeMeasure blows. (Thank you for your time)

by Happy.cloud

The pro option came on while I was trying to figure out how to measure something. Now I cant find anything in the settings to say no.... only the ominous warning that I will be charged if I don’t cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the 3 day trial. It doe not even say what that charge will be. I am so screwed..... I hate TapeMeasure. I don’t even know how it works yet. All I know is that if I don’t figure it out in the next 48 hours, I will pay some kind of money.... this is really bad.... I hope others read this warning!!!!!!!
I hope the developer reads this and helps me before I am stuck with a bunch of charges on mu skinny bank account!!!!!

by Skksjagsvsnusys

I downloaded TapeMeasure as a last resort because the Apple one completely fails when I measured, same with other apps. I tried it and did a couple of tests and it was pretty accurate, so high hopes for this one. Then when I try to measure my walls, it does the same thing, it fails. I measured super slow and close to the wall and it completely cuts out! I read the tips but it should be able to replace a measuring tape right? Now I’m here with my trusty tape and measuring my walls.

by Yoli_Bear229

I downloaded it thinking it was going to be really easy to measure things and stuff by reading the reviews but when I downloaded it I realized you couldn’t turn the camera and so I tried to take a picture then measure it but I have to sign up for a “free” trial and it wouldn’t let me do anything else besides the basics.I was really disappointed because all the reviewers said it was a really good app and it is but I wish there was at least one app without people having to sign up for for “free trials”

by Andrewjbolton1

There are NO instructions at all. What I learned is that you move it slowly around what you desire to measure, to allow TapeMeasure to get its bearings, then move the camera CLOSE to the starting point prior to tapping, then again CLOSE to the ending point prior to tapping that. With this procedure it works great. Other than not knowing how to use its WONDERFUL

by Sir Bobbo IV

I was very skeptical of TapeMeasure and I tested it around 20 different times scaling it to objects I could prove the length of. Other than a few bugs, where the computer gets confused about where you are looking, it works accurately almost every time. I measured myself, and it checked out with almost exact accuracy. Would highly recommend.