Does my drawing get uploaded to your server?

No. The PDF is opened in the browser and stays in the browser; the server stores the project — the sheets you named, the calibration, the measurements, the marks — never the drawing file.

How do I set the drawing scale?

Either pick the preset the sheet was issued at (1:100, 1:50, 1/4in = 1ft and the rest of the ladder) or drag a line across a known dimension and type the real length. The calibration is per sheet and editable; change it and every measurement on that sheet is recalculated.

Length, area, perimeter and count, each with its own label and group. The measurement list sums by sheet, discipline or a group you name, and the same numbers go out as a CSV schedule and a printable sheet.

Can I send the marked-up drawing to someone who does not have the app?

Yes — export flattens the marks into the PDF itself, so anyone opens it in Preview, Acrobat or a phone and sees the clouds, dimensions and status stamps as part of the page.

Does it work offline or on a plane?

Once the app is added to your Dock it loads from the browser cache and keeps working with no network; measurements save when you reconnect. Projects already opened are cached.

Is it really $29 a month?

Yes: $29/month flat, per person, month to month, cancel any time. No seat tiers, no per-sheet metering, no annual contract.

For AEC drafters and estimators on macOS

Take off a PDF drawing set on the Mac — no Windows VM, no Revu seat

Revu left the Mac on 28 June 2023 and the takeoff stayed. AEC Markup is the Mac-side instrument for it: open the set in your browser, set the scale from the title block or from two points, then count, measure and cloud the sheet the way the drawing office taught you. The marked-up PDF comes out flattened — anyone can open it — and the schedule comes out as CSV. $29/month.

Open the demo set Subscribe — $29/mo

Try it on a four-sheet set with a finished takeoff already in it — no card, no account, and your own drawings never leave your Mac. Add it to the Dock and it behaves like an app.

A-101 · Ground floor plan · 1:100

Clouds, dimensions and status stamps, drawn over the drawing — then flattened into the export.

Open the set without uploading it

Pick the PDF from your Mac and it opens in the browser tab — the file is never sent to us. Sheets come in as a rail of thumbnails; a 30-sheet, 50 MB set stays navigable because only the sheet in front of you is rendered at full resolution.

Calibrate once per sheet

Set the scale from the sheet's own preset (1:100, 1:200, 1/4in = 1ft, 1/8in = 1ft…) or drag across a known dimension and type the real length. Calibration is a first-class object you can rename, re-measure and edit — and every dimension on the sheet follows it.

Measure the way a takeoff is measured

Length, area, perimeter and count, each with its own label. The measurement list adds up by sheet, discipline or a group you name, so the schedule for "Level 1 – partitions" is a click, not a spreadsheet reconciliation.

Mark it up, then send it

Cloud, rectangle, ellipse, arrow, line, freehand, text, highlight and a status stamp — on layers you can hide and lock. ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z work the way they should, and the export flattens every mark into the PDF so the other side sees exactly what you drew.

What it is not — read this before you pay

It is not Revu. There is no Windows build, no overlay/comparison tool, no Studio or Realtime session, no scripting API, no OCR and no automatic takeoff — you place the marks, which is what an estimator is paid for. It is one Mac-first tool for setting the scale, measuring, clouding and scheduling a drawing set, at $29/month, and it will say so plainly when a sheet needs something it does not have.

$29/month, per person

Unlimited sheets, unlimited measurements, unlimited exports. Month to month, cancel any time, and your schedule exports as CSV until the last day of access.

This deployment runs the pilot in Stripe test mode: no card is charged and no subscription starts.

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Questions an estimator actually asks

Does my drawing get uploaded to your server?: No. The PDF is opened in the browser and stays in the browser; the server stores the project — the sheets you named, the calibration, the measurements, the marks — never the drawing file.
How do I set the drawing scale?: Either pick the preset the sheet was issued at (1:100, 1:50, 1/4in = 1ft and the rest of the ladder) or drag a line across a known dimension and type the real length. The calibration is per sheet and editable; change it and every measurement on that sheet is recalculated.
What can I measure?: Length, area, perimeter and count, each with its own label and group. The measurement list sums by sheet, discipline or a group you name, and the same numbers go out as a CSV schedule and a printable sheet.
Can I send the marked-up drawing to someone who does not have the app?: Yes — export flattens the marks into the PDF itself, so anyone opens it in Preview, Acrobat or a phone and sees the clouds, dimensions and status stamps as part of the page.
Does it work offline or on a plane?: Once the app is added to your Dock it loads from the browser cache and keeps working with no network; measurements save when you reconnect. Projects already opened are cached.
Is it really $29 a month?: Yes: $29/month flat, per person, month to month, cancel any time. No seat tiers, no per-sheet metering, no annual contract.

Written for the way you search for it

PDF takeoff software for MacOpen a PDF set in Safari or Chrome, calibrate each sheet, and take off wall lengths, room areas and counts without a Windows licence.
Bluebeam alternative for MacThree honest routes for a Mac seat after Revu — a Windows VM, Bluebeam on the web, or a Mac-first browser tool — with the limits spelled out.
Drawing markup software for macOSRevision clouds, RFIs, status stamps and scale-aware dimensions in Safari or Chrome on macOS, with a flattened export.
PDF measurement tool for MacA viewer shows the drawing; only a calibrated tool can measure it. How scale, area maths and grouped totals work on a Mac.
Construction takeoff on a MacSet up the set once, measure to one convention per group, and produce a schedule that reconciles — all from the Mac.
Revu left the Mac — what nowThe end-of-life dates and Bluebeam's own words, then the practical options for a Mac-only firm and for a mixed Windows/Mac office.