Xylescope for Mac

Product snapshot

Xylescope is a CSS inspection and debugging utility aimed at web designers. Created by Culturedcode, it is distributed as a trial application and runs on Apple Mac systems.

Purpose and classification

Intended use: CSS analysis and troubleshooting for web development workflows.
Software grouping: listed under Development → Internet → CSS.

Platform support and language

This application is compatible with Mac OS X and earlier Mac releases. The user interface and documentation are provided in English.

Release information

The package is at version 1.2.4, with the most recent update published on February 28, 2009.

Availability and usage figures

Xylescope was added to the software collection in 2005. Since then it has been downloaded a total of 523 times; in the past week it recorded 0 downloads.

Size and footprint

The app is lightweight and consumes less disk space than a typical title in the Development category.

Suggested alternative

Atom — a free editor commonly recommended as an alternative for similar CSS and development tasks.

Technical

Title

Xylescope

Requirements

Language

No language has been specified.

Available languages

License

Free Trial

Latest update

2017-02-08

Author

culturedcode

Other Useful Business Software

MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhere

Deploy in 115+ regions with the modern database for every enterprise.

MongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.

Start Free

Rate This App

User Reviews

Be the first to post a review of Xylescope!

Related Software

BlueGriffon

BlueGriffon is a free web-authoring application that combines a visual WYSIWYG editor with a source editor so you can design pages visually or edit HTML/CSS directly. It supports modern web standards, includes a dedicated CSS editor, responsive layout and multimedia handling, live preview, SEO utilities, spell-check, localization, and an extensible plugin/add-on system. The interface is approachable for beginners while offering useful tools for developers doing prototyping or small projects. An alternative to consider for a different visual workflow is KompoZer.

ColorTagGen

ColorTagGen converts a chosen color into ready-to-use HTML and CSS snippets, providing a simple, free utility for developers who need quick color code tags for web projects. It is lightweight and designed for minimal disk and resource use. Classified as a web development tool (HTML & XML editors), an alternative suggested is Code::Blocks.

Chrome DevTools

Chrome DevTools is a free suite of web development tools for inspecting pages, tracking runtime behavior, and improving site performance. It provides network request and timing inspection, runtime performance and memory profiling, real-time DOM and CSS inspection/editing, and JavaScript debugging with breakpoints, stepping, and variable/call-stack inspection. The tools offer a live, integrated workflow—console output, immediate page edits, and synchronized performance and network views—making it easier to reproduce bugs, test fixes, and measure improvements. They benefit beginners learning page rendering as well as experienced engineers optimizing complex applications, and extensive documentation and tutorials are available.

Adobe Dreamweaver CC

Adobe Dreamweaver 2014 is a mature professional web design and coding application that delivers incremental refinements—Live Insert, enhanced Live View editing, Element Quick View, and an integrated Help Center—aimed at faster, in-context authoring and easier access to guidance. It supports visual (WYSIWYG), code, and split views so you can edit visually, in code, or both simultaneously, and offers drag-and-drop media insertion plus starter HTML/CSS templates to speed project setup. The application is geared toward experienced designers and developers and assumes basic HTML/CSS knowledge; mastering its full feature set typically takes time. Its updates focus on workflow efficiency rather than radical change, and while it integrates with other design tools, it does not convert projects into native files for other design applications, making it a robust, professional option for producing modern web content.

FireBug

FireBug is a free debugging and inspection utility for front-end development that helps users inspect, test, and troubleshoot pages and interfaces. It offers an intuitive interface, live editing of HTML and CSS, built-in JavaScript debugging, and real-time inspection of the DOM and style rules to quickly analyze structure and presentation. By combining inspection, live editing, and script debugging in one place, FireBug reduces context switching and speeds iteration—letting developers experiment with layout and style changes, step through scripts, and confirm fixes on the spot. It’s suitable for learners and experienced professionals who want a lightweight toolset for rapid fixes; an alternative to consider is Respondus LockDown Browser (trial), though that product focuses on secure testing rather than development debugging.

SimpleCSS

SimpleCSS is a visual stylesheet editor that streamlines creating and editing CSS through an intuitive graphical workspace, letting users set attributes without writing every rule by hand. It is distributed under a free license. The editor provides common controls such as drop-downs, color selectors, and checkboxes, organized into logical groups for layout, frame and border, size and dimensions, and text and typography. A live preview updates as you tweak properties, and the interface also offers direct access to the stylesheet source for raw CSS editing.

Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition

Firefox Developer Edition is a browser tailored for building and designing websites, sharing the same core engine as the regular release but adding front‑end focused tools: advanced debugging (inspectors, JavaScript debugger, network tracing, and layout diagnostics), visual CSS Grid inspection and editing, and responsive design testing to simulate different screen sizes and pixel ratios for validating layouts across breakpoints. It’s provided free of charge and lets users opt into experimental features to try upcoming CSS and JavaScript capabilities early. The edition supports add‑ons and extensions so developers can customize the interface and toolset to fit their workflows and increase productivity.

crypt.xhead

crypt.xhead is an encryption utility designed to protect sensitive files, listed under Security & Encryption. It is labeled version 1.0 and was last updated on February 28, 2006; the application is lightweight and requires relatively little storage. Since being added to the catalog in 2006 it has recorded 2,824 total downloads and 0 downloads in the last week. A commonly suggested alternative in listings is Minecraft (Java & Bedrock Edition), a paid title.

Apache NetBeans IDE

Apache NetBeans is a free, open-source integrated development environment originally focused on Java but extensible to many languages such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, C/C++, Ruby and others. It provides a unified workspace for developing a range of application types and supports mixed-language projects. It includes integrated tools—debugger, build and compilation, project explorer, refactoring, code completion, and quick navigation—along with project management for sources, libraries, and dependencies. Modules provide version control integration (Git, Subversion, Mercurial, CVS) and architecture/documentation aids like UML diagramming and dependency inspection. Distributed at no cost, it’s one option among many IDEs and editors for different development needs.

Stylish

Stylish is a free tool that changes the visual presentation of websites by applying custom CSS. It provides a user-friendly interface for discovering, applying, managing, editing, and creating styles, including a built-in editor for crafting custom CSS and controls to enable, disable, update, or remove styles. The product relies on a community-driven catalog of themes and tweaks, making it easy to find designs for popular sites or adapt someone else’s work. It’s well suited to people who enjoy personalizing interfaces; those unfamiliar with CSS can use pre-made themes or turn to community creators for custom designs.

PHPStar

PHPStar is a free, lightweight utility for web server development that provides core server-related functionality without a large disk footprint. It’s positioned as a compact, no-frills tool for developers who need basic server features. The application is small and suitable for users with limited storage. It has a modest usage history—added to the catalog in 2005—with current release 3.0.3 (last updated March 1, 2005) and relatively few downloads to date.

Responsively App

Responsively is a free, open-source utility that streamlines responsive web development by letting you preview multiple viewports side-by-side with adjustable device profiles and a large library of presets. It mirrors interactions across previews (linked scrolling, clicks, form inputs), provides instant live previews as code changes, and includes an integrated DOM/CSS inspector, basic browsing controls, and easy screenshot capture for documentation. By showing multiple viewports in real time, it reduces context switching and accelerates debugging and validation across breakpoints and layouts, helping designers and developers confirm behavior across screen sizes more quickly. Alternatives to consider include HTTP Toolkit, CheatSheet, and Viewport Resizer.

Report inappropriate content