Bluebeam

Bluebeam

381 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Bluebeam	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Bluebeam Revu is a PDF management, control, and editing tool. It enables collaboration and markup within shared documents across projects’ life cycles and has takeoff and bid creation capabilities.	$240 per year per user

Pricing

Bluebeam

Revu Standard: $349
per seat
Revu CAD: $449
per seat
Revu eXtreme: $599
per seat

Pricing Offerings
Bluebeam
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Bluebeam
Considered Both Products	Bluebeam, Inc. Verified User Chose Bluebeam I believe Bluebeam is actually easier to learn and use versus Adobe Acrobat. With it’s how to videos and great customer support, there’s basically not a problem that cannot be figured out. As far as PDF modification, I believe Bluebeam’s tools and screen configuration is very … Incentivized Helpful? Michelle Lyn Paddock Finance Coordinator in Finance and Accounting at Blue Heron (Real Estate, 201-500 employees) Chose Bluebeam It is just more advanced in terms of functionality. Bluebeam has far more features for collaboration, document sharing and marking up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam is targeted towards construction professional and offers features and built-in markups that I use everyday. Acrobat is a generic program that requires more training and set-up for use specific to construction and design. Bluebeam was more cost-effective than Acrobat, … Incentivized Helpful? Joey Harman Sales Assistant Manager - Project Consultant in Sales at Coval Homes LLC (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Bluebeam I haven’t spent enough time with Revit to give a full comparison. But three architects I’ve worked with have all said they enjoy both programs and Bluebeam was highly recommended for my needs in the company. Incentivized Helpful? Babar Tahirkheli Senior Proposal Manager in Sales at Pentair (Architecture & Planning, 201-500 employees) Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam has more enhanced features than Adobe. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Patrick Owner at Designers Ink (Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees) Chose Bluebeam Years ago I used Adobe which was not well suited for CAD drawings. I soon found Bluebeam which at the time was a wonderful game changer. Sadly, my recent experience has caused me to begin searching elsewhere for new software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam I believe is much better then Smartsheets because there are way more features that just make sense and are construction minded. I am able to host and share these documents with other users who do not need to have a Bluebeam license to view or download them from the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam is a more advanced PDF editor and better suited for the engineering and construction industry. It has far more tools and better capabilities for collaborative viewing, marking up, and sharing of documents. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam Much better. The features are greater, the layout is better and you can just do so much more. The features alone and what you can do with it makes it worth it. Also, it allows for you to edit and create in a much more user friendly way. All of our engineers love using it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam Revu has essentially replaced Adobe Acrobat as our default PDF viewer and editor, because its robust suite of architecturally-focused tools allow for better review of documents and creation of simple graphic diagrams. The scale and measurement tools are especially … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam It is better than Acrobat in my opinion. More features and more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Brij Purohit Technology Design Engineer in Engineering at P2S Inc. (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose Bluebeam PDF file sharing is really easy and simple, so users can markup and others can view them in real-time. Also, editing PDF files to crop, batch, remove, or replace pages is really efficient compared to Adobe Acrobat DC. Plus, the licensing fee is pretty small compared to Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam Revu is a no-brainer in the AEC space. Stop wasting money on owning adobe and Revu. Revu can replace all of your Adobe usage. With a good change management process, Revu can meet the needs of your entire organization. The Bluebeam team will be with you every step … Incentivized Helpful? Bob Kramer, RCDD, LEED AP Principal in Engineering at CR2 Engineering (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Bluebeam Revu was much easier to use, more cost-effective, and is more generally used in the construction and design industry than Adobe. We found Adobe to be more of a resource hog, as well as being bloated with offers for other Adobe applications, which many times would slow down a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam is a good in-between of Adobe and Photoshop. If you're not looking to do photo editing, but need more capabilities than just line work, Bluebeam is perfect. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam I select Bluebeam Revu when I have to as directed by the client or the owner. Otherwise, when the user does not need such a specific or robust piece of software, I usually go to one of the less expensive competitor's PDF editors. They suite our needs just fine and cost half … Incentivized Helpful? Heather MacLean Administrative Assistant in Corporate at Strategic Construction, Ltd. (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam definitely blows Adobe out of the water in the basic to the basic comparison. You will have to do more research on how exactly to use all the tools if you have never used the program before such as myself. Incentivized Helpful? Jill Liegghio Accounts Payable Manager in Finance and Accounting at Barton Malow Company (Construction, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam Revu has a much more sophisticated interface that allows you to mark up documents in many different ways. It can store tools for standard markup use. It provides digital signatures which can be very useful for many document types. By creating a Revu studio, multiple … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Smith Safety and Project Manager in Corporate at Century Exteriors, Inc. (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Bluebeam We've used these other products in conjunction with Bluebeam mainly because Bluebeam lacks RFI/COR/PO/Mark-up/revision tracking, and doesn't handle punch lists or tasks. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam Adobe is good for viewing PDFs, but as far as how PDFs are utilized in construction, Bluebeam is hands-down the best program I have used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam The newer Adobe interfaces are poor. Adobe does not do as well with drawing markup or takeoff tools. Adobe does seem to render some drawing files more quickly though. Adobe text document markup feels a bit more polished. Bluebeam was selected for better tools specific to … Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Smith Project Manager in Product Management at Platinum Builders, LLC (Construction, 1-10 employees) Chose Bluebeam This is by FAR the most powerful product that I have used. I have not turned back to Adobe for modifying documents since we purchased Bluebeam. I am not sure of the cost of the program, but sure it is worth it to the company. As to doing take-offs, this is a great tool as well … Incentivized Helpful? CHE CHAVEZ Project Engineer in Engineering at Haselden Construction (Construction, 201-500 employees) Chose Bluebeam Procore is excellent for tracking documents and links. Bluebeam is superior at editing, scaling, and marking up documents. You can track projects of any size at a very low price point with Bluebeam. Incentivized Helpful? Oliver Philippe Goulart Young Facility Designer I in Engineering at Studio Slab (Architecture & Planning, 10,001+ employees) Chose Bluebeam Much more complete than the competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bluebeam There is no comparison. The editing tools, batch tools drafting tools, personal environment profiles, settings, printing, calibrating, direct connecting apps that links Bluebeam to AutoCAD and Revit. This is an extremely powerful program that is amazingly helpful and I probably … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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Features

Bluebeam

Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bluebeam
Feature	Bluebeam 8.7 1 Ratings
Standard reports	9.01 Ratings
Custom reports	8.01 Ratings
Data exportability	9.01 Ratings

Comparison of Construction Project & Field Management features of Bluebeam
Feature	Bluebeam 8.9 54 Ratings
Plan distribution & viewing	8.952 Ratings
Plan markups & sharing	9.254 Ratings
Issue tracking & punchlists	8.533 Ratings
Photo documentation	8.836 Ratings
Jobsite reports	9.031 Ratings
Document sharing	9.347 Ratings
RFI tools	9.035 Ratings
Collaboration & approvals	9.042 Ratings
As-built drawings	8.945 Ratings
Mobile app	7.927 Ratings
Submittal design and management	8.921 Ratings
Checklists	9.53 Ratings
Change orders	9.03 Ratings

Comparison of Estimating features of Bluebeam
Feature	Bluebeam 9.1 29 Ratings
Takeoff tools	7.927 Ratings
Job costing	8.45 Ratings
Cost databases	10.01 Ratings
Cost calculator	10.02 Ratings
Bid creation	9.08 Ratings

User Ratings
	Bluebeam
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (66 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	1.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	1.0 (11 ratings)