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Best alternatives to Guide lines (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Guide lines, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

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โ‰ˆ2K users4.3โ˜… from 6 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years3 permissions

Guide lines alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Guides

    This simple app allows you to create modify and delete horizontal and vertical guides to check if the elements are correctly aligned

    โ‰ˆ2K users4.2โ˜… from 10 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years2 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Guide lines
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
  2. 2

    CSS Grid Overlay

    Easily check the grid alignment of your page across breakpoints.

    โ‰ˆ10K users3.9โ˜… from 7 ratingsUpdated 22 months ago3 permissions
    • About 5.0ร— more users than Guide lines
    • Updated more recently
  3. 3

    Grid Lines Ruler

    Create grids on pages that provide the developers visual hints to help in developing the web app layouts.

    โ‰ˆ7K users4.3โ˜… from 28 ratings1 permissions
    • About 3.5ร— more users than Guide lines
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 3)
  4. 4

    Capo: get your ๏นค๐š‘๐šŽ๐šŠ๐š๏นฅ in order

    Visualize the optimal ordering of ๏นค๐š‘๐šŽ๐šŠ๐š๏นฅ elements on any web page

    โ‰ˆ2K users5.0โ˜… from 3 ratingsUpdated 7 weeks ago3 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Guide lines
    • Updated more recently
  5. 5

    Measure-it

    Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.

    โ‰ˆ70K users3.5โ˜… from 39 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years3 permissions
    • About 35ร— more users than Guide lines
    • Updated more recently
  6. 6

    Bootstrap grid viewer

    Detects Bootstrap Grid elements on a page and displays visual overlay for them

    โ‰ˆ1K users3.7โ˜… from 3 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years3 permissions
    • About 2.0ร— fewer users than Guide lines
    • Updated more recently
  7. 7

    WhatFont

    The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages.

    โ‰ˆ3M users3.8โ˜… from 2.1K ratingsUpdated 4 weeks ago3 permissions
    • About 1500ร— more users than Guide lines
    • Updated more recently
  8. 8

    Visual Inspect UI

    Advanced Visual Inspector for Editing Web Page Elements.

    โ‰ˆ1K users5.0โ˜… from 10 ratingsUpdated 13 months ago3 permissions
    • About 2.0ร— fewer users than Guide lines
    • Updated more recently
    • Listed under Functionality & UI
  9. 9

    Font Finder

    An easy-to-use font inspector to get CSS styles of the selected element

    โ‰ˆ400K users4.3โ˜… from 229 ratingsUpdated 5 days ago5 permissions
    • About 200ร— more users than Guide lines
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 3)
  10. 10

    Live CSS Tester

    Easily inject CSS into a webpage for testing

    โ‰ˆ2K users3.9โ˜… from 7 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years3 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Guide lines
    • Updated more recently

Guide lines alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Guide lines?

By users, the most popular alternative is WhatFont with โ‰ˆ3M users and a 3.8-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Guides.

Which Guide lines alternative has the best rating?

Font Finder has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.3 out of 5 from 229 ratings.

Is there a Guide lines alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

Grid Lines Ruler asks for 1 permissions, against 3 for Guide lines.

How many alternatives to Guide lines are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Guide lines on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.