Measuring up a room
Floor to ceiling, wall to wall, and the diagonal nobody can hold a tape across on their own. Press once for a length, switch to area and it multiplies two readings together without you writing either of them down.
Pocket size · 30 m range · Eight modes
Pocket Laser Measure, 30 m Range
An aluminum laser measure about the length of your thumb. It reads from 1.2 inches out to 98 feet in meters, inches or feet, and works out an area, a volume or a height without you writing anything down. Read this first: it fires a visible red laser rated under 1 mW, and the maker's own two documents disagree about the laser class. We treat it as the stricter of the two — do not look into the beam, and do not point it at anyone's eyes.
How many
1 rangefinder
$44.99
Bought separately:
One meter, one charging cable, one lanyard. Enough for a room, a renovation list or a move.Sold out
One meter, one charging cable, one lanyard. Enough for a room, a renovation list or a move.
Save 11%
2 rangefinders
$79.99
Bought separately: $89.98
Two complete meters, each with its own cable and lanyard. One for the toolbag and one for the kitchen drawer — or keep the second as the spare for the day the first one walks off.Sold out
Bought separately: $89.98. $40.00 each. Save $9.99 on two. Two complete meters, each with its own cable and lanyard. One for the toolbag and one for the kitchen drawer — or keep the second as the spare for the day the first one walks off.
A 2-pack is two separate meters, each with its own charging cable and lanyard. The supplier does not build a twin pack, so the two are picked and shipped as two singles and may arrive on different days.
2 rangefinders
Total $79.99
- Free US shipping from $49
- 30-day returns on unused items
- Delivery in 7–15 business days
Turn it over
Every side of it, before you buy
Drag to turn the model. The display and the three buttons sit on one face, the laser lens and its window are in the top end you point at the wall, and the charging slot is in the bottom end. The back and sides are plain brushed aluminium.
This is a 3D model we built to the maker's published dimensions — 56 × 21.5 × 13.5 mm — not a photograph of the item. The photographs in the gallery are the maker's own.
Tape measure, minus the tape
Measure a room with one thumb.
Twenty-five grams of aluminum, about the length of your thumb. Put the red dot on the far wall, press once, read the number. It reaches 98 feet, switches between meters, inches and feet, and does the area and volume arithmetic for you.
- Reads 0.03 to 30 m — 1.2 in to 98 ft
- Eight modes, one measure button
- The maker's two accuracy figures disagree
Three controls
One button to measure. Eight ways to count.
The front of it is a screen and three controls, and that is the whole interface. The round button takes the measurement — the maker's own label for it is “one press to use”. The small switch beside it is marked F/R. The third button turns the meter off. Everything this thing can do, from a single length to a two-sided Pythagoras, comes out of those.
One press to measure
Hold the body against your starting point, put the dot where the measurement should end, and press. The reading lands on the screen a moment later.
Eight modes on the sheet
Single, continuous, area, volume, wall area, one-side Pythagoras, two-side Pythagoras and height — the eight printed on the maker's own diagram, and the eight this page will claim.
0.03 to 30 meters
About 1.2 inches at the close end and 98 feet at the far one, read in meters, inches or feet. The maker lists all three units and never says how you switch between them.
The maker prints “F/R function switch” on its own diagram and never says what the letters stand for, so neither do we.
The specifics
Straight answers
Two of this maker's own numbers contradict each other, and one of its graphics advertises a part this model does not have. Rather than quietly pick the flattering version, the table below prints both figures and names the gap.
30m*
maximum range
About 98 ft. The close end is 0.03 m, roughly 1.2 in.
±2mm*
accuracy, cautious figure
Its spec block says 0.002 m, its body text 0.001 m. We quote the larger.
25g*
on the maker's graphic
About 0.9 oz. An older supplier title said 24 g; the artwork says 25.
8
measuring modes
Length, continuous, area, volume, wall area, height, two Pythagoras.
56mm*
end to end
About 2.2 in. Its own drawing rounds the other sides to 22 and 13 mm.
200mAh*
built-in cell
Lithium, charged over USB. No charge time or runtime is published.
* Marked figures are the maker's own and are not measured by us.
Full specifications
An aluminum-bodied laser distance meter with a 30 m range, eight measuring modes and a built-in rechargeable cell. No test report is published for it, and this model has no angle sensor.
- What it is
- A pocket laser distance meter in an aluminum-alloy shell: a screen, one round measure button, a switch marked F/R and a power button Nothing to assemble and nothing to attach. The cell is built in.
- Range
- 0.03 to 30 m — about 1.2 in to 98 ft The maker gives the same figure twice, in its spec block and in its body text.
- Accuracy
- The maker contradicts itself: its spec block says 0.002 m and its body text says 0.001 m. We quote the larger of the two, ±2 mm, about 0.08 in Neither figure comes with a distance, a target surface, or a word on whether it is typical or worst case. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
- Laser
- A visible red laser rated under 1 mW. The spec block calls the hazard level Class 1 and the body text calls it Class 2 at 630–670 nm — both cannot be true Because they disagree we treat it as the stricter of the two. Do not look into the beam and do not point it at anyone's eyes, including a pet's.
- Modes
- Eight: single, continuous, area, volume, wall area, one-side Pythagoras, two-side Pythagoras and height The eight printed on the maker's own diagram of the front face.
- Units
- Meters, inches and feet The maker lists the three and never says how you switch between them.
- The F/R switch
- Not published The maker prints the label on its diagram and explains it nowhere. We will not guess at it on its behalf.
- Angle or tilt
- None. This model has no angle sensor The maker's own level-and-angle graphic prints “30m models do not have this function”, and this is the 30 m model. Its rendered screen elsewhere still shows a degree figure, because that artwork is shared across the range.
- Size
- 56 × 21.5 × 13.5 mm — about 2.2 × 0.85 × 0.53 in From the maker's spec block. Its dimension drawing rounds the same body to 56 × 22 × 13 mm.
- Weight
- 25 g, about 0.9 oz The figure on the maker's own graphic and in its body text. An older supplier title said 24 g; we use 25.
- Shell
- Aluminum alloy The maker's own word for it. No grade, finish or thickness is published.
- Power
- A built-in 200 mAh lithium cell, charged over USB with the cable supplied We do not name the connector. It is a line drawing at the end of one graphic and a 2 mm slot in another, and the maker never writes it down.
- Charging and runtime
- Not published No charge time, no runtime, no number of measurements per charge and no auto-off time anywhere in the maker's material.
- Temperature
- Works at 0 to 40 °C (32 to 104 °F); store it between −10 and 60 °C (14 to 140 °F) The maker's figures. There is no water or dust rating of any kind, so keep it dry.
- Certification
- The maker states CE and prints no certificate, standard or test report behind it We have not seen one, so read it as the maker's statement rather than a tested result.
- In the box
- The meter, a USB charging cable and a lanyard From the maker's own packing graphic. No case, no pouch, no printed manual.
- Packs
- One meter, or two separate meters The supplier does not build a twin pack, so a 2-pack is picked as two singles and the two may arrive on different days.
- Origin
- China, from the maker's own spec block The same block prints no brand name at all.
- Not published
- Charge time, runtime, measurements per charge, auto-off, what the F/R switch selects, how units are changed, which end of the body a reading starts from, any water or dust rating, and the conditions behind either accuracy figure The maker gives none of them, so we quote none. Its “golf range: 600 m” attribute is left out too — twenty times this meter's own stated range, so it cannot be about this product.
In the box
- The laser measure itself
- A USB charging cable
- A lanyard for the loop at the end
The maker's own packing graphic names the cable and the lanyard; the cell is built in and already fitted. No case, no pouch and no printed manual appears in any of its pictures.
Inside the case
Watch it come apart
The screen and the two front buttons lift off the aluminium shell. Behind them sit the board, the optics block that fires the beam and reads it coming back, and the battery. Drag to turn it while it moves.
The maker's diagram below names the parts it says are inside: a First Sensor silicon photomultiplier, an ST microcontroller, a TDK inductor and capacitor, and a Silicon Labs clock chip. Those are the maker's claims, not ours — we have not opened a unit to check them. The moving model is our own illustration of how the pieces stack, built to the published outside dimensions, not a photograph of a teardown.
Where it earns its keep
Jobs where a tape needs two people
Everything below is work this meter is actually sized for: indoor distances, measured on your own, where the answer has to be good to a couple of millimeters rather than certified. The last card is the one to read twice.
Quoting paint, flooring and fill
Wall area for paint and paper, volume for concrete, insulation or air. The arithmetic happens where you are standing, so you are not carrying three numbers out to the truck and multiplying them from memory.
On your keys, in a jacket pocket
56 mm long, 25 g, with a lanyard loop at one end. It lives in a coat you already wear, which is the whole difference between having a measure with you and having one in the toolbox at home.
Where it does not belong
Outdoors at long range, and anywhere a number gets signed off. It stops at 30 m, the maker's two accuracy figures disagree with each other, and this model has no angle sensor — its own graphic says so. It also fires a visible laser, so keep the dot on the wall and off people's eyes.
Living with it
Charge it, aim it, press it.
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Charge it over USB
A 200 mAh cell is built in and a charging cable comes with it. The maker publishes no charge time and no runtime, so the honest advice is to top it up when you think of it rather than plan a day around a figure nobody has given us.
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Pick what you are measuring
The measure button and the switch marked F/R step through the eight modes: a single length, a running readout as you walk, an area, a volume, a wall area, a height, and the two Pythagoras calculations for a span you cannot stand square to.
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Aim the dot and press
Put the body against your starting point, the red dot where the reading should end, and press once. The maker never says which end of the body a measurement starts from, so if a job has to be exact, check it once against a tape and remember the offset.
That is the whole routine. The one habit worth forming is where the dot goes: behind that panel is a laser whose class the maker's own two documents cannot agree on, under a warning triangle it molded into the case itself. Keep the beam on the wall, never on a face, and never on a mirror pointed at one.
Compared with the usual options
Laser, tape or full-size meter?
Three ways to get a number off a wall. The rows that matter most are near the bottom: what each one can tell you about its own accuracy, and the two jobs this little one will not do.
| Feature | Nexura pocket laser | A steel tape measure | A full-size laser meter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Measure a long span on your own | Not past arm's reach | ||
| Reaches 30 m | Only as far as the tape | Usually further | |
| Works out an area or a volume | |||
| Pythagoras for a span you cannot reach | Depends on the model | ||
| Works round a corner or without line of sight | |||
| Fits on a key ring | Depends on the tape | ||
| Works with a flat battery | |||
| A published accuracy figure | Two, and they disagree | Depends on the tape | Usually one, with conditions |
| An angle or tilt reading | Depends on the model |
Compared by type, not by brand. “Depends on the model” means it varies with the one you buy. Nothing in this table is an accuracy rating; this meter has no published test report behind either of its figures.
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30-day returns. Items must be unused and in their original packaging. Email support@nexuratool.com with your order number to start a return. Returns & Refunds.
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What we can take back: unused items in their original, undamaged packaging. Adhesives, sealants and lubricants cannot be returned once opened; the same goes for any item with a broken safety seal. That is a safety and hazardous-goods rule, not a preference.
Who pays: return shipping is paid by you, except when the item arrived damaged, faulty or was not what you ordered — then we cover it and refund the original shipping too.
Refunds go back to the original payment method within 5 business days of the return reaching us. Full returns policy.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
Before you order
How accurate is it, really?
Is the laser safe to use around people?
Does it measure angles or show a level?
What are the eight modes for?
How far does it reach, and in what units?
How long does a charge last?
What comes in the box?
What does the F/R switch do?
What exactly is in the 2-pack?
How long does delivery take, and can I return it?
30 m · Eight modes · 25 g
A measure you can forget you are carrying.
One meter or two, each with a charging cable and a lanyard. It fires a visible red laser under 1 mW, so keep the dot on the wall and off people's eyes. Free US shipping from $49, and 30 days to return unused items.