PixelStick
PixelStick is a Mac screen measurement utility from Plum Amazing for checking on-screen distances, angles, and color values across apps.
What is PixelStick?
PixelStick is a macOS utility published by Plum Amazing Software LLC for measuring on-screen distances in pixels, checking angles, and sampling colors anywhere on the desktop. It works across applications rather than inside a single editor, which makes it useful for interface design, graphics work, screenshots, mapping from scaled images, and other visual measurement tasks. Plum Amazing describes it as a lightweight ruler and color tool with zoom assistance and multiple copyable color formats. Users may encounter it as a standalone app installed in Applications, through direct download from Plum Amazing, or from older App Store listings. The bundle ID com.plumamazing.PixelStick is consistent with Plum Amazing’s own documentation and product materials. It is generally a legitimate niche utility, but its exact local support files can vary by version and installation source.
Key features
- Measures on-screen distances in pixels across any Mac app
- Calculates angles between points on the screen
- Samples colors from the display with an eyedropper-style tool
- Shows zoomed-in detail around the cursor for precise selection
- Copies color values in multiple formats such as RGB and hex
- Supports custom scale-based measurement for mapped or scientific images
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
This is generally a legitimate utility from Plum Amazing Software LLC, not a known system component. The main caution is privacy and permissions context: screen measurement and color-picking tools may request accessibility or screen-related permissions so they can inspect on-screen content accurately.
Recommendation: Keep it if you use screen measurement, UI design, color picking, or scaled image analysis. If you do not recognize it or no longer use it, it is usually optional and can be removed like a normal third-party app after checking for any settings or support files you want to preserve.
Common paths
/Applications/PixelStick.app
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.plumamazing.PixelStick.plist
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