According to the action-specific account of perception, perception is scaled by one’s ability to act in interaction with environmental objects. Witt et al. (2005) were the first to report the tool-use effect that supports this notion. In their study, participants either used a reach-extending tool to touch the targets or reached out to the targets with their finger. Their results indicated that targets appeared closer when participants reached with the tool. The present study aims to directly replicate their study as a registered report to confirm the previous findings. Additionally, we will further investigate whether the inherent functionality of a tool influences perceived distance. To explore this, the tool’s inherent functionality will be manipulated while maintaining the tool’s physical length unchanged. In the same reaching task, we predict that alterations in a tool’s functionality are likely to influence perceived distance, even if the tool’s physical length remains constant.