An AR tape measure you pay for once, with saving never locked

Name: Tickmark
Author: Growing Peas

Point your phone at a wall, a window or a sofa, get its length in a few taps, and keep it with a name. Tickmark turns your camera into a tape measure, with no subscription, no ads and no trial that turns into a charge.

Get it on Google Play Android 12 and later · free to measure and save

The camera view of a living room, tracking good, with a yellow line across the radiator under the window reading 3 ft 10.5 in, and Distance, Path, Height, Angle and Area modes below a Save button. — A length on the camera image, your saved measurements by name, and a room plan to scale.

The history: a living room area of 212.3 square feet, then named measurements of the radiator under the window, a sofa, a floor lamp and a hallway runner, each with a Photo link. — A length on the camera image, your saved measurements by name, and a room plan to scale.

If you want an AR measuring app without a subscription

In reviews of popular AR measuring apps, people report a free trial that turned into a charge, and a paywall just to save a measurement.

Tickmark never locks saving. Every measurement can be saved as a photo with the line drawn on it, given a name such as “Kitchen wall” and found again in the history. Angle and the bubble level are free too. Pro is a single purchase that stays yours.

What it measures

Distance between two points: aim the centre ring at one end, tap +, aim at the other end and tap again. The length stays on the object while you move around it.
Path: one total through as many points as you need, each segment labelled.
Height: from the floor up, without reaching the top.
Angle between two edges, and a bubble level, flat on a table or standing on its edge.
Centimetres, metres, inches or feet and inches.

What is free, and what one purchase adds

Free: distance, path, height, angle, the bubble level, annotated photos without limit, a name and a note written on each photo, and the last 10 measurements in the history. Older ones are kept, not deleted.

Pro, one purchase that stays yours: area and perimeter of a floor, a wall or a table; room plans to scale from your areas, with several rooms per plan, doors, windows and every wall with its length; a 3D view of the plan; box volume calculated from three edges you measured; the full history; and export as CSV for a spreadsheet or as an A4 PDF report with the lines and the plans. Google Play shows the price in your own currency. No subscription, no ads, no account.

Good to know

Measurements are augmented reality estimates. Good light and a surface with some texture help, and a quality indicator tells you when tracking is weak. Check anything critical with a physical tape. Tickmark works with Google Play Services for AR (ARCore), installed with the app on supported phones. This application runs on Google Play Services for AR (ARCore), which is provided by Google and governed by the Google Privacy Policy. Tickmark is not affiliated with Google.

Who makes it

I do: one person, on my own, under the name Growing Peas. Mail goes to [email protected] and I answer it myself. There is no account, no server and no analytics: your measurements stay on your phone, photos go to Pictures/Tickmark without a storage permission, and the camera image is processed on the device. The privacy policy says so in full.