The 10 Best plan Measuring Tools (2023 reviews)

• Date : August 21, 2023
• Categories : Linear Measurement

We consider a plan measuring tool to be a worthy investment in the long run. We are here to help you choose the right one for your needs from all the best available products in market today.

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Best Overall: Buy: Bosch plan Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best With volumes: Buy: Leica plan Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best For dim lighted areas: Buy: Bosch Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best For preparing bids: Buy: calculated industries plan Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best For Measuring room sizes: Buy: DTAPE plan Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best With bubble: Buy: Mileseey Great Tool READ REVIEW

Best For outdoor Precision: Buy: Mileseey plan Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best For home decoration: Buy: TECCPO plan Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best With name: Buy: ACEGMET plan Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best With Bluetooth portion Of The Device: Buy: APEXFORGE plan Measuring Tool READ REVIEW

Best Overall: Bosch plan Measuring Tool

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The bosch plan measuring tool is capable of outshining several other tool featured in this list in overall features. It features long range measuring with extreme accuracy and measures distances up to 65 feet to within 1/8 inch. It fits easily in a pocket or tool pouch. It features a backlit display that allows measurements to be easily read, even in dark areas. Particularly, it's useful for those looking to buy a home or find a new apartment since it can quickly measure rooms and door to determine if your new space will fit your things.

It's lightweight and simple to use. It has just one button to push which makes it very simple to operate, Press button once to begin measuring, press button again to hold measurement. The Real-time measurement mode lets you walk-off measurements from the wall and other surfaces. This will speed up your base boarding and/or shelf installing skills tremendously.

• Accurate, handy and even keeps the previous couple of measurements for transcribing
• Very handy tool especially for inside measurements
• Very small and compact but definitely worthy to have on your tool belt
• Great, compact easy to use device for everyday use

Best With volumes: Leica plan Measuring Tool

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The leica plan measuring tool is the best reliable tool on the market today. The Bluetooth functionality works awesome and the accuracy and durability of these machines is great. It is an excellent laser measure device and easy to handle. The Leica is also smaller and has a crisper, easier to read display. The built in hook at the bottom will be handy that also flips out straight and automatically compensates for it. The accuracy of this is incredible, and it is very easy for anybody to use.

The Bluetooth feature allows you to move measurements directly onto sketches or photographs in your phone or tablet without rewriting them. A laser level is used for setting yard grades and you can move a stick up and down until it beeps indicating level. It comes with a convenient removable pocket clip, this unit is easy to carry at all times.

• Compact, lightweight capable tool that will handle what you need to do
• Dust and splash proof to ip54 standards
• An accurate and reliable laser distance meter with bluetooth coupling to software
• Good for short distances but not long one in daylight

Best For dim lighted areas: Bosch Measuring Tool

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Next on the list, we've got yet another tool that manages to win our hearts. It's the bosch measuring tool and it's widely considered as tool that has the most suitable features. The Bosch glm50c carries a unique interactive imaging feature where you can quickly snap a photo from your phone, mark the area interested, point to measure, and save the information right onto the photo. It's a great tool, perfect for single person measuring. It features small dimensions and a handy pocket size design so the glm50c can fit in any pocket.

This amazing digital tape measurer is made to help you work faster and smarter and more accurately. It works well and saves time walking from area to area. The audible beep in stake-out mode is too quiet to hear in an industrial environment. This has a more powerful (Class 2 laser and reflective targets, a big help during outdoor measuring days. It is perfect for home renovation and other hefty indoor contractor projects.

• Realy strong laser and easy to use
• Most useful for indoor applications out of bright sunlight
• Large and easy to read lcd screen
• Comes with carrying case, lanyard, target cards, directions and batteries

Best For preparing bids: calculated industries plan Measuring Tool

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Next on the list, we've got yet another tool that manages to win our hearts. It's the calculated industries plan measuring tool and it's widely considered as tool that has the most suitable features. For anyone who has to work with blueprints,this is a must tool to have. The newly designed calculated industries 6135 scale master proxe gives you simplicity, versatility and accuracy with a new ergonomic design with comfort grip, improved weight balance, dedicated function keys and a new dual lcd display for left. It lets you roll the hi-visibility red wheel on any kind of printed plans, drawings or maps to take-off linear distances, square areas or cubic volumes quickly and accurately.

The pointer at the bottom of the hand grip shows you the exact start point and stop point. It has design for hard copy paper with scale adjustments. It can be used on house plans, site plans and even rand mcnalley maps. It includes many standard scales and is easy to set up custom scales for documents that are copies and may not have the original scake intact.

• Works great for an old school estimating tool
• You can easily store a new scale permanently into the device for future use
• Rubber wheel as flex/distortion could impact accuracy

Best For Measuring room sizes: DTAPE plan Measuring Tool

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The dtape plan measuring tool is capable of outshining several other tool featured in this list in overall features for the price point. It does a good job getting rough measurements for an estimate for a project. The Large backlight screen provides you with a better visibility in dark areas. It measures only in meters and centimeters. The device has six buttons on the front panel. It is easy to read markings, logical placement of the functions and a strong laser to traverse ga daylight over 50m with accuracy. It can calculate the flat area and volume for you easily.

This one is within 3-6 inches for distances. Real-time measurement mode lets you walk-off measurements from the wall and other surfaces.

• Come with a really nice box and 2 aaa batteries in the box
• 10 times faster and safer up in the attic
• Helpful for projects that would involve the perimeter of an area, like crown molding

Best With bubble: Mileseey Great Tool

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate tool. The mileseey great tool is exactly that - it's a simple tool that hits all the right notes. This is a powerful little tool that fits well in and can be operated one handed. It is ideal for home decoration, especially in large areas such as apartments, buildings, real estate, factories, warehouses, construction and industrial sectors. It is calculated automatically and also provides higher accuracy and faster angle measurements compared to bubble level meters. The corners of the unit are chamfered at 45 degrees which makes it easy for quick common calculations based on a typical. The built in angle measure is very helpful too, and automatically works in two out of the three axes.

The red laser light is easy to see in daylight conditions without the aid of yellow or red safety glasses to amplify/contrast the laser light.

• You can easily & quickly calculate angles without having to move from one spot
• High precision measurement tool with long range
• Withstands water intrusion by low-pressure water jets from any direction
• Compact unit, easy to understand manual with user friendly controls

Best For outdoor Precision: Mileseey plan Measuring Tool

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Mileseey is known for creating pragmatic and minimalist tool for people on the go, and its line of mileseey plan measuring tool definitely falls in line with that reputation. It is perfect for outdoor large property measurement like venues or a warehouse. It comes with its large 2.4" ips display backlit display, so you are assured that you will get a clear readout of the measurements even in the sunlight. The high accuracy tilt sensor & integrated smart base allow you to capture accurate measurement between any two points (p2p technology) from a single remote location. The display is bright and very easy to read. It's waterproof and dust resistant, so you can take it on any outdoor adventure without worrying about it getting damaged.

A rotation display keeps the measurement in line with the device, making sure that you can get the readings from any angle. It does all this complex math internally based on simple measurements, it's fast and easy to use. The accuracy is very spot on and the built in camera is an added bonus.

• Fine tune adjustment tripod makes target hitting easier and more accurate
• One of the new comers and featured product

Best For home decoration: TECCPO plan Measuring Tool

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The teccpo plan measuring tool should be able to handle its purpose and duties with ease. With the APP it is very easy to create the construction plan (Blue Print) and put the measurements. It features Bluetooth 4.0 with automatic data transmission within a range of 10 meters. It works for outside or hard to reflect surfaces. It can also select furniture and furniture size according to the data you measured, which can save you a lot of time. It also has the advantage of having a rechargeable battery.

The screen is a pleasure to use even outside, in daylight. It is capable of measuring the dimensions, area and volume of objects. The device is quite small and very easy to carry around, even in a small purse.

• Built-in rechargeable lithium battery, which can be charged once and used for 8000 times
• Works best in indirect sunlight but very good accuracy
• Function buttons could be labeled for alternate functions
• Provide more convenience for home decoration

Best With name: ACEGMET plan Measuring Tool

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Acegmet makes beautiful and great tool with classic and smartly choosen materials. These tools are a great time saver for people who need a quick measurement of a house, room, backyard or entire construction site. It includes pythagoras functions and also it is useful for quickly measuring the length, width, and height of a room. It measures in a straight line, so wherever the laser is pointing, whatever comes into contact first that's the distance it will give you. It even has a backlight.

It does area, volume, and logs pretty well. It is easy to use and has zero negatives to report.

• Looks and works great, fantastic value
• Good value and jam packed with function
• Has english instructions with mostly accurate grammar, and color diagrams
• Has a nice feel, buttons are pretty rugged too

Best With Bluetooth portion Of The Device: APEXFORGE plan Measuring Tool

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If you often find yourself confused about appropriate and satisfactory tool, apexforge plan measuring tool should be your first option for buying. The Old School Method is very time consuming and VERY EASY to measure a long distance improperly. This compact palm sized small device is packed with multi. It comes with a nice pouch to store the device and its rechargeable comes with a USB-c charge cable. It is easy to make a lot of measurements quickly with good accuracy. The measurements have to be jotted down by hand or also quickly forgotten/mixed up.

The unit is solidly built and intuitive to use. It is easy to read and the information is presented concisely.

• Compact multifunctional laser tool for your diy needs
• Portable, lot of functionality, and accurate
• You can quickly take measurements with different unit settings that are easy to read