# Keylines - Grid Tool for Devs

> A Material Design grid overlay tool to measure layout sizes, margins and padding

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.faizmalkani.keylines](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.faizmalkani.keylines)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.faizmalkani.keylines`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Faiz Malkani
- **Category:** TOOLS
- **Downloads:** 13,917
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (561 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.8
- **Last updated:** 2023-01-14
- **First published:** 2015-03-30
- **Publisher country:** IN
- **Size:** 4.74 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faizmalkani.keylines)
- **Website:** [http://faizmalkani.com](http://faizmalkani.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://keyline-pushing-6f9c5.web.app/](https://keyline-pushing-6f9c5.web.app/)

## Description

Keylines is a powerful Chrome extension designed for developers working with Material Design. It overlays a baseline grid on webpages to help you precisely measure layout sizes, margins, and padding. By aligning components to this grid, Keylines accelerates your development process and assists in analyzing the layout structure of any app or site.

Ideal for frontend developers and UI designers, Keylines ensures pixel-perfect alignment and adherence to Material Design principles. With its easy-to-use interface, you can quickly validate your layouts or study other applications' designs for inspiration or debugging.

## Rankings

- #497,854 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.faizmalkani.keylines.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`

## Review summary

### Pros

- Very useful for measuring everything when making your android app
- Simple and extremely useful for Android Development
- Must have app for devs and designers
- Helpful tool to verify your app is aligned to the 8dp baseline grid
- Great tool for ux/developer

### Cons

- Cannot set custom grid size
- Broken on landscape mode, with key lines not positioning correctly
- Recent updates caused issues like missing icons and notification toggles

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.faizmalkani.keylines)