How to Turn Your Smartphone Into a Measuring Scale for Virtual Precision Measurement of Almost Anything

Measuring is important in DIY, design or architecture. One millimeter more and everything ends in disaster. And in measuring, augmented reality has a lot to say.

The augmented reality has many advantages over conventional applications. As its name indicates, it increases what we see on the screen, enriches it, and provides additional information or elements to make our lives easier.

One of the functions in which augmented reality can help us is the task of taking measurements even if we are at a certain distance from the element to be measured. Thanks to augmented reality, we can have a  virtual measuring ruler that translates distances from the real world into exact measurements.

Below we collect several examples of applications for iPhone and Android that will turn your smartphone into a virtual measuring rule that, using augmented reality,  will give you the measurements you need for any project.

AR Ruler App

We started with the  AR Ruler App, a practical virtual ruler for iPhone and Android that also measures angles, volumes, areas, and perimeters. You can measure from a simple tile to an entire piece of furniture, a table, or a window.

This handy virtual ruler works well with both straight and circular elements and objects. On the screen, you will see the item highlighted with the corresponding measurements. Once you have taken the desired measures, you can save a photograph indicating the data provided by augmented reality.

AR Ruler App has an automatic and a manual mode so that if it does not detect the object to be measured the first time, you can choose the sides to delimit the surface to be measured.

AR measure

Exclusive for Android,  AR measure is a very simple app with which to measure objects and elements through the screen of your smartphone.

The measurement process is automatic, so you will hardly have to do anything, just point, place the object within the measurement indicators and see the result. Once you get the results, you can see them integrated into the object and photograph it with that integrated information.

CamToPlan

As the name suggests, from the camera to the plane. CamToPlan makes it easy to measure corners, corners, walls or doors by using virtual ruler measurements aided by flags drawn on the screen.

Whether you want to measure rooms,  furniture or objects, you can define the element to measure with the flags yourself and obtain the result instantly. Vertical and horizontal measurements,  metric and imperial units.

CamToPlan can be installed on iPhone and Android. In minutes you will create maps and plans with the measurements taken, even if you move while taking the measurements.

AR Plan 3D

The creators of the  AR Ruler App have under their belt more apps that turn your phone into a yardstick. On this occasion,  AR Plan 3D  is designed to measure rooms and rooms to create a three-dimensional plan with the measurements taken by yourself.

Floors, walls, ceiling, doors, windows ... Any part of a floor, house or apartment can end up in your virtual plane with the delimited measurements. Also, with something from tomorrow you can design your own professional reports with all the necessary data.

As with other similar applications,  AR Plan 3D is used to save the images taken by the phone with the measurements. This way you will carry the plans in virtual format to print or share them.