PickCodePickCode vs CSS Scan
CSS Scan is a long-running inspector that shows the CSS rules a page wrote for an element and lets you copy them. PickCode turns any element into Tailwind, React, Blade or HTML + CSS and checks that the result pastes at the original size.
Choose CSS Scan if
You want to read and copy the original stylesheet rules, with their relative units, rather than a ready-to-paste component.
Choose PickCode if
You want a component you can paste straight into a Tailwind, React or Laravel project and trust to render at the same size, for one $49 payment.
At a glance
| Checked 16 October 2026 | PickCode | CSS Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan with 5 elements a day and 1 CodePen. Pro is $49, paid once. | One-time license, about $59 to $95 |
| Chrome Web Store users | New listing | 10,000 |
| Store rating | No ratings yet | 3.3 from 101 ratings |
| Output formats | Tailwind, React (JSX), Blade, HTML + CSS | See their site |
| Published size test | Yes, at 390, 900 and 1280px | None we could find |
| Website | This site | getcssscan.com |
Store numbers come from the Chrome Web Store and change over time. Spotted something out of date? Email support@pickcode.dev and we'll fix it.
What CSS Scan offers
- Shows the page's authored rules, including :hover, :focus, ::before and ::after, and lists matching media queries.
- Keeps relative units such as %, em and rem.
- Converts the copied CSS to Tailwind with the open-source css-to-tailwindcss converter.
- Exports to CodePen as HTML + CSS.
What PickCode does differently
- Four ready-to-paste formats. Tailwind classes, a React (JSX) component, a Laravel Blade component that merges
$attributes, or HTML with a stylesheet. - Built from what the browser applied. PickCode starts from computed styles, so inline styles, CSS-in-JS and utility classes all come through. It then adds the page's own
:hover,:focusandmin-widthrules ashover:,md:andlg:classes. - Tailwind names, not hex soup. Colors, spacing, radii and font sizes snap to Tailwind's scale. Anything off-scale becomes an exact arbitrary value.
- Private. Elements are converted inside your browser. The pages you visit are never sent anywhere.
- One payment. Pro costs $49 once, works on up to 3 browsers and includes future updates, with a 14-day refund.
Limits worth knowing: PickCode can't read cross-origin stylesheets yet, so hover and breakpoint rules from a CDN stylesheet are skipped, and units are written as pixels rather than rem or %.
Proof: the pasted code renders at the original size
Copied code is only useful if it looks like what you picked, so we measure it. The test page is a responsive card grid with a :hover rule and md: and lg: breakpoints. PickCode copies it once. We then render the original and the pasted Tailwind at three screen widths in Chrome and compare the boxes. The HTML + CSS output measured the same as Tailwind.
- Original element
- Pasted PickCode output, drawn to scale
Measured 16 October 2026. The biggest gap was 1px of height at 390px, and the hover color matched exactly. We haven't found a published size test from any other tool in this category.
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