PixelStick
PixelStick is a macOS screen measurement utility for measuring pixel distances, angles, and on-screen colors across apps and the desktop.
What is PixelStick?
PixelStick is a macOS utility for measuring items on your screen with a ruler, protractor, and color picker. It helps designers, developers, map users, photographers, and other visual workers measure pixel distances, compare angles, and sample colors in places where standard app-specific tools are not available. The app works across the desktop and in other applications, which makes it useful for interface reviews, graphic layout checks, image inspection, and scale-based measurement tasks. It also supports custom scaling so measurements can be adapted to maps, images, or other visual documents with a known reference. PixelStick includes tools for copying sampled colors in common formats and for inspecting screen elements with the right macOS permissions. It is published by Plum Amazing Software LLC for Mac users who need precise on-screen measurement and color reference tools.
Key features
- Measure on-screen distances in pixels across apps and the desktop
- Check angles with a built-in protractor-style measurement tool
- Sample colors under the cursor with an eyedropper tool
- Copy picked colors in multiple RGB, HTML, and CSS-style formats
- Use custom scaling to measure mapped or reference-based content
- Inspect screen elements and view their dimensions
- Lock or constrain measurements for more controlled alignment work
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
PixelStick is a legitimate screen measurement tool for macOS. Its requested Screen Recording permission matches the color-picking feature, and its Accessibility permission matches the screen-elements measurement feature. Those permissions let the app observe screen content and interface elements, so only grant them if you use those tools and trust the installation source. The bundle ID com.plumamazing.PixelStick matches the app name and the product documentation.
Recommendation: Keep PixelStick if you use it for design measurement, color sampling, or screen inspection on your Mac. If you do not use these tools, you can remove it without affecting macOS, though features that depend on PixelStick for on-screen measuring and color reference will no longer be available.
Common paths
/Applications/PixelStick.app~/Library/Preferences/com.plumamazing.PixelStick.plist
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.plumamazing.PixelStick.plist
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