--- title: Bluebeam Reviews meta_title: 'Bluebeam Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 461 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Bluebeam works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 461 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-30' parent_category: name: Construction Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/construction-management --- # Bluebeam Reviews **Vendor:** Bluebeam **Category:** [Construction Drawing Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/construction-drawing-management) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 461 ## About Bluebeam Bluebeam is the leading provider of digital productivity and collaboration solutions for industries that design and build our world. Trusted by over 3 million users in more than 160 countries, Bluebeam’s solutions empower professionals to make their mark, adapt to change, and deliver projects successfully. Revu is Bluebeam’s flagship product - a powerful, versatile, and easy-to-use desktop application helping professionals communicate clearly, collaborate effectively, and optimize PDF workflows. It increases teams’ productivity with discipline-specific and customizable markup tools, precise measurements set to drawing scale, real-time collaboration on a single source of truth, and process efficiency tools that streamline your workflows. Bluebeam Cloud helps keep projects moving no matter where contributors are. By extending Studio in Revu to your web browser or mobile device, Bluebeam Cloud lets you markup documents and collaborate on Studio Sessions and Projects from anywhere. ## Bluebeam Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** of Bluebeam, enhancing workflow efficiency and simplifying tasks like annotation and markup. (29 reviews) - Users value the **vast array of tools** in Bluebeam, enhancing efficiency in markup and document management tasks. (14 reviews) - Users find the **intuitive design** of Bluebeam Revu excellent for both quick markups and advanced tasks. (12 reviews) - Users value the **convenient integration of takeoff and editing features** in Bluebeam, enhancing productivity and saving time. (11 reviews) - Users appreciate the **versatile document management features** of Bluebeam, facilitating efficient markup and review processes. (10 reviews) - Simple (10 reviews) - Users value the **easy integration of Bluebeam** into workflows, enhancing collaboration through robust tools and responsive support. (9 reviews) - Users appreciate the **robust collaboration tools** in Bluebeam for seamless teamwork and effective document management. (8 reviews) - Photo Tools (8 reviews) - Users find Bluebeam **user-friendly** , appreciating its intuitive features and adaptability for various document tasks. (8 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **steep learning curve** of Bluebeam challenging, especially for newcomers trying to master its features. (8 reviews) - Users find Bluebeam's **difficult learning curve** a barrier, hindering efficiency and frustrating new users in their experience. (7 reviews) - Users find the **lack of features** in Bluebeam limits usability and makes extensive design work challenging. (7 reviews) - Users feel the **subscription costs** of Bluebeam are high without significant added value compared to previous versions. (6 reviews) - Users express frustration over the **subscription issues** with Bluebeam, feeling the cost doesn't match the value received. (6 reviews) - Limited Tools (5 reviews) - Users express frustration with **inconsistent tool saving** and challenging license activation, impacting their overall experience with Bluebeam. (4 reviews) - Inadequate Tools (4 reviews) - Limited Features (4 reviews) - Markup Issues (4 reviews) ## Bluebeam Reviews ### 1. Runs smoothly and effectively as PDF reader and editor, but lacks quantity take-off functionality. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandrea M. | Preconstruction Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** This program runs very smoothly and allows the user to be quick and efficient with their time in the program. It has a lot of beneficial tools that can help in the construction industry. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** For quantity take offs, it doesn't allow for an organized system to follow the items you have counted. It gets messy and the marks you use to follow the takeoff can't be altered easily. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Is a great program and can get the job done no matter the category. I very much recommend this but as for construction estimating, I would possibly recommend a different software that allows for a cleaner interface to track your work. Unless you work in Bluebeam a lot, you will then feel comfortable. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you say solving to be like working with then I am using it as a document viewer and a quantity estimating program. The benefits are that it is super smooth and can allow for you to switch around from various pdfs very easily. ### 2. Bluebeam Revu is Extremely Powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Policy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** What I like best, is effective this application really is. Bluebeam allows you to edit, update, change, and review documents, using Bluebeam is so much better than trying to view a PDF (For example) on the other applications I've used in the past. Not only is Bluebeam fast, but the options you're given for reviewing and editing are easy to navigate to and make sense (in terms of the icon for each item). **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** What I initially disliked about Bluebeam Revu was that this application is daunting to use at first. Because Bluebeam is so powerful, there are literally hundreds of different things a user can do, because there are so many options for the user, it was difficult to find an actual starting point. The other thing I disliked about Bluebeam Revu is, at first, my computer would run considerably slower when I would try to review documents. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** The biggest recommendation I can give is to go for it. Bluebeam is unbelievably powerful and beneficial for any person or organization. If you decide to trial Bluebeam, take your time and explore the application. It may seem overwhelming at first, but eventually the app becomes not only easy to navigate, but it will become part of your daily applications. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems I was solving with Bluebeam Review were finding better ways to review and edit documents. Using other PDF viewers, in the past, many of them are not as effective as Bluebeam really is. One of the biggest benefits I've realized is how easy Bluebeam makes it to edit and change an actual PDF. It doesn't feel like there are dozens of hoops to jump through to make changes in documents. The other major benefit is how easy it is for me to leave notes and markups for other users to later review, additionally, it's easy for the other users to make changes that, I too, can track. ### 3. When it Works, It Works Well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I like the collaboration aspects of the software the most. Using 'Studio' sessions to mark up documents as a team, and tracking picking up of those comments and assigning them is a real time saver, and less 'administrative' work to do since we don't have to create new Excel Spreadsheets. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** I dislike the performance of the software when opening large PDF's. Unfortunately, due to its poor performance on larger PDF's, myself and other peers have to use other software that is up to 10 times quicker in opening and viewing PDF's. I also dislike having to work around software updates, ie the newest iPad software auto updated, and our BlueBeam application which we use on a daily basis was broken. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Be sure you are ready to take full advantage of what it has to offer. BlueBeam is not just a PDF viewer. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving our QAQC process workflow by using tools that are built into the program. We no longer have to print, mark up, scan, markup, print, scan etc. This is not only a HUGE time saver, but saves us money on paper and printing, and in turn is saving the environment. ### 4. Easy to Use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Its over all layout and easy functions,creation of sessions and altering function **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** nothing much,the version of 2018 is much better than latest version **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Good to use **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** To review Compare Assign Create sessions ### 5. Best in Class Markup; More Tools Than Meet the Eye **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** The PDF markup capability has more tools and data than you could imagine from a pdf software. There is a lot of room for creativity in developing workflows that fit you needs best. The customer support and training resources are also best in class. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam's cloud-based collaboration is a work in progress with promising potential. The Sessions feature works fantastically, but the rest of the cloud based drawings and projects features can be cumbersome in comparison to other cloud-based tools out there. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single entering data on pdf's and tracking every detail of a pdf's history makes for high quality management of data and collaboration. No information on a pdf should go missing with a tool like this. ### 6. Bluebeam user in interior design/architecture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madeline F. | Staff Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** The flexibility of Bluebeam, and the feeling of being able to do real-time, collaborative markups. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** The interface is pretty heavy. It can be hard to find the tool you're looking for. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real-time, collaborative mark ups. The ability to quickly call and respond to consultants near and far is a big change. Better mimics in person collaboration than simply rounds of emails. ### 7. versatile tool for editing pdf **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I like there are so many options and commands in bluebeam that it can do pretty complex things with it **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Sometimes many buttons and commands are overwhelming when I'm trying to do something simple and I just use adobe acrobat instead **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** definitely saves time for architectural redlines and punchlist **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use bluebeam for sure for punchlist. it's very helpful it generates the punch report after we tag a plan and take a photo. it needs just a little editing as opposed to going through each photo and trying to figure out where it was taken. huge time saver ### 8. Best PDF Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** The most helpful feature of Bluebeam is all the quick access tools that are easy to use. You can program specific functions to numbers on your keyboard for extremely easy and quick use. It allows you to be way more efficient each and every day. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** The downside of Bluebeam is that it is not as universally known as Adobe, so it is harder to search how to do something online and find an easy answer like it is easy to do with Adobe. Other than that, Bluebeam trumps Adobe in other aspects. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** I would recommend Bluebeam over Adobe. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am combining multiple PDFs together in hopes of keeping proper documentation for the future and to allow my managers to see where I gathered information from. I edit PDFs in Bluebeam to check off numbers that I have used and sum numbers together to allow my managers to easily see where numbers are coming from and they can confirm this through using Bluebeam. It is easy to merge documents together and even sign documents in the program. ### 9. Program well-suited for markups used in quantity take-offs, etc. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Allows you to program measurements into your markups, and allows you to export all your measurements into a CSV file in order to process the data through Excel. Can calibrate each individual page in a document to have certain scales. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** The program is pretty buggy, and tends to crash quite a bit. It should be optimized more. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a platform from which quantity takeoffs can be executed more efficiently, and has plenty of options to help organize your markups on a document (such as spaces, etc.). It also allows you to export the markups alone so that another user can import those markups to their copy of a document and continue to add to it if necessary. ### 10. Where did the wonder years go? **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** adam k. | Design Technology SPecialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam is a great integrated tool that allows for seamless collaboration on PDF markups and review and so much more. I love the options it offers, and Bluebeam Studio for multi-person collaboration **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Within the latest 2018 release, bluebeam has become slow and buggy. We have had many issues with speed and and graphics. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** PDF markups for Civil design. basic manipulation of pdfs from autocad, word documents or excel documents. easier team collaboration for finalizing plans ### 11. One of the best tools I have seen in a long time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam is incredible. Offers so much in one PDF tool. So many markup features, measuring features, scheduling etc. It is basically CAD in a PDF reader/writer. Very pleased with this tool **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** I do not like the new interface that rolled out in one of the recent updates. I know it was to make things easier to find, but honestly it makes it harder. Felt a bit like it went from and apple iphone interface back to the old blackberry. Not happy with it.. but the tool is still wonderful **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Bluebeam for digital markups, field reports, punch lists and so so so much more. ### 12. Good but could be better **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Overlaying features, smart sections, comments, markup tools **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Overlaying print export settings are in depth and we cant use the full capabilities due to user inexperience. We could use simple print export settings to pick an existing PDF, overlay automatically and create key of the colors and documents. Create a summary report of the view/sheets affected. May be possible, but we have issues with local PDF editing for multiple users. Sketching something like a piping layout could be useful and having a pline tool with a couple default pipe types that are color coded could be amazing. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Changes in floor plan recognition, comments for delegating tasks. ### 13. 2018 not as good as previous version **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Its great in many regards, was better before this 2018 version, more intuitive. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** I was doing desktop publishing back in high school in 1983 and yet get stuck trying to figure out how to print a range of pages because REVU sticks the words "CUSTOM RANGE" into the box where the range goes when I hit custom range. First you shouldn't have to hit a button to enter a range and second you shouldn't have to replace the words with your range. I still don't know what get window means exactly since I was able to use get window to select the range off the thumbnails. How is that a window? Used to love this program, latest version not as good. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** its great and there is customer support line if you come across something that doesn't make sense **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** plan markup, plan compare, doc markup ### 14. Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Max N. | CPA, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Love this software since I feel so professional using it. ALso so easy to use! **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Sometimes the doc will zoom in when I am scrolling down when making edits on the Pdf. Proves to be annoying at times. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to send out neat, crisp and professional documents ### 15. Great tool for anyone in construction **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert S. | Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Awesome tool for construction. It is the Microsoft Word of construction--I review and markup plans, make punchlists, etc. Its fairly simple and easy to train people on as well. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** No major complaints, though it can be slow on some computers. There could be more training as well--its easy to figure out but difficult to master. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Worth the expense--its such common knowledge in construction that it's hard to function without it. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use the overlay feature to analyze changes in plans, use the clouding and other markup tools to highlight changes and send out to subs. The export features is useful as it saves me a step from saving, pulling up the file, then attaching to an email. ### 16. The easiest way to coordinate drawings, and do quick sketches **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam is a very powerful tool for editing and marking up architectural drawings. Makes team coordination a breeze. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** The toolbars are not well set up out of the box. it takes some work to get the work area set up. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** There's a lot of quick commands you can use. make sure you get some training so you can use it's full capabilities. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for quick sketches, and our office uses it for quality control. we can keep track of comments and markups. ### 17. PDFs easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Having a license to use it is great. That way I can do everything I can't do with other free PDF readers, such as editing, adding comments, markups, creating new documents. It fulfills my needs with PDF files. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** So far, there is nothing I dislike. I wish I could have some training to use all its features correctly. I've been exploring it, but with training I'd probably be more efficient. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Get some training and then explore it, or vice-versa. You will enjoy it. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to read, edit, mark up, and create construction drawings easily with BlueBeam. ### 18. I love Bluebeam **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam R. | Civil CAD Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I like that the markup tools are so easy to use. The stamp tools are great, easy to make and reuse. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Stamps can only be made from PDF files. I'd like to use images. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Bluebeam for markup and review of plans. It's allowed us to more easily review sheets and track who reviewed and addressed the markups. ### 19. Better than Adobe **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** The adding comments function is really nice. If I have the same comment in multiple places, rather than having to copy and paste, I just drag and drop. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** It seems to crash often. It will randomly disappear from my windows toolbar and then when I try to open it again, it won't let me since it's technically still open. I have the ctrl-alt-delete close it to start over. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has allowed me to send edits to our outsourcing company in the easiest way possible. We outsource most of our drafting, and this takes editing time in half compared to adobe. ### 20. Used to be better **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rowan J. | Operational Efficiency Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Easiest markup tool for the field by far **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Recent interface change is horrendous. It used to be so intuitive that I could just give it to staff with limited to no training, that's no longer the case. Our staff wastes a lot of time just trying to do something that used to be simple. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overlaying drawings ensures QA/QC ### 21. Contractor coordination **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I like it’s ability to mark up flatten and edit PDFs and images and ad images to enhance what I’m describing in legal building documents so there is clarification on what I’m writing **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** I disliked the design refresh but that primary was because of the learning curve from the old layout **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** It’s great and easy and everyone is using it **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’m using it for construction administration and for redlining drawings ### 22. Bluebeam is for anyone connected to buildkng **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael M. | Facilities Project Manager, Architecture & Planning, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** The ability to collaborate on projects using the Studio is awesome. The additional cloud space integrated into the software streamlines sharing and review of submittals and drawings. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** I wish there was an app to work with the studio integration. Also, I wish it was easier to tally totals of different areas when doing area takeoffs of different spaces in markup. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing owner ideas and changes with contractors, architects, and engineers is quick and easy to understand without using AutoCAD or other vector based cad program. ### 23. Great collaboration and mark-up software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jenny M. | Senior Design Technician, Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I like that I can mark up drawings without having to print anything out on paper **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Sometimes it can run a little bit slow.... **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Use it!!! **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have worked with Studio and LOVED it....but I have had times where it does not load files as quickly as I would like. Otherwise great program overall ### 24. BB Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maurice S. | CPA, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam is great because I am able to professionaly edit my documents in an easy to use way **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Sometimes when I am making edits, certain glitches will happen like automaticly scrolling to the top. Nevertheless, find it more effective than other similar software like Adobe **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to prepare documentation in a professional manner ### 25. A lot of Functionality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam has really great markup tools which is very useful for me in the architectural profession. With a little bit of effort, things can even look graphically beautiful. It's nice that I can play with opacities, line weights and line types. It is pretty easy to use and has great organizational features, like bookmarks and stamps. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam 2018 is big shift for the 2017 version and when I made the shift, it was extremely tough for me to find quality support for the software. Sometimes files become strangely heavy and are very slow (which is unacceptable to send to a client). When I make edits to a file (even when I flatten it), the original PDF below flashes on the screen before the edits show up, which is something Revu definitely needs to fix. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Stick with bluebeam 2017 if you can. Although 2018 has a lot of benefits, I find that it is hard to use even after having it for a year. It has some great color processing features as well that are good to explore. It has made a big difference to my day to day life **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bluebeam is great when I want to send something to a client very quickly. The shortcuts and easy toolbars have helped me put PDFs together on the fly. When my boss is sitting near me this is something that is very important. ### 26. Best PDF markup software period! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fazal K. | Project Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Blue beam has so many features that sometimes I think I could just draft a set of plans using nothing but it. Markup tools have a lot of options and are easy and intuitive. Cloud collaboration through Bluebeam Sessions is a fantastic feature. OCR based hyperlinking makes navigating large sets so much easier. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** I would like the ability to have profiles that have pre-set tool default styles such as colors, font size etc. Can be buggy at times and spaz out when files have a ton of lines and hatch patterns (A lot). **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drawing reviews are made much easier with Bluebeam. We upload review sets to a session (cloud) and multiple team members can review at once. We also save a lot of paper by not having to print and do markups. ### 27. Great Program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Really love how i can create fill-able documents. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** At this point no dislikes. Nothing i can say i don't like for what i do in it. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Great program, does a lot. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** creating forms for staff to complete on the computer instead of printing and filling out. ### 28. the only way to QC a plan **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** alberto m. | designer 2, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** the most helpful feature that i love is sessions **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** i would like make tool boxes easier. i would like a pullbox for adding tools from other sets **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** we created a five step process to ensure every comment has been addressed. nothing is left undone ### 29. So many things you can do with this software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen G. | Design Applications Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I use Bluebeam to review submittals and place Architectural Seals on drawings. This software has saved me lots of time over the years. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** There is nothing that I dislike about this product. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Several issues have been resolved since moving to Bluebeam that Adobe didn't have. ### 30. CAD TEchnician **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle H. | CADD Technician, Design, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Ability to mark up drawings and tag others as to what they need to work on **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** not as interactive as BIM 360, ability to rename renumber sheets easily, or email project members about an issue **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** can collaborate in real time with markups in Studio ### 31. more powerful than Adobe **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** easy to make PDF files to clients and add comments pictures and manipulate PDF size so its easy to send **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** how it has a learning curve and sometimes doesn't work very well with large PDF files but still better than Adobe acrobat. it also takes time to get use to building a library of data and files for like stamps and symbols but once its done it makes things so much easier and stream lined ! **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** if you want a program that's easier to use than Adobe this is the program to use ! **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** as a construction office we need to send files to clients and other subs this is an easy way to send files and not waste time in other programs. ### 32. BlueBeam Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan L. | CPA , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I like how the document feels fresh each time I open it up, easy to edit **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Sometime when I zoom in, it will take me to the top of the document. Just random glitches like that **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to present professional documentation and edit accordingly ### 33. Designer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex J. | Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** the ability to make live markups and in a live situation. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** their is nothing that i dislike about this product **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** the ability for multiple people to make markups at the same time in the same document **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of use ### 34. Very Helpful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam is successful because it is user friendly and can easily be explained to our field teams who are not up to date with technology. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam can sometimes cause issues when there is too much markup on a drawings. It can also cause problems when i send a markup to another company that is not using bluebeam. The markups dont always show up for them. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick field markups to send questions to design team. ### 35. Great tool for markups and field collaboration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Ease of tools, ease of use, to push out quick markups. Also the dimensioning tool is useful. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Figuring out how to create smart buttons is a challenge. Could have more "smart buttons" out of the box **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Consider the ease of use and the time saved over using a similar product (Acrobat) **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Field Markups, Marking up of submittals, and creating rudimentry sketches over existing details to communicate design directions to the field. ### 36. Wonderful tool for PDFs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emma B. | Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I love being able to mark up documents and send off documents either with or without flattened markups **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Sometimes, if the document is too large, bluebeam freezes or crashes **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drawing markups. Some benefits are the overlay tool and stamps tool ### 37. The Best PDF Tool around for Engineering Industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** john H. | Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I like the ability to scale on the drawing, intuitive command buttons to modify pdfs, and existence of layers and spell check into the program. The program is also able to convert some scanned documents into selectable text. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** The cost of the program is high due to its monthly subscription. I would love to use it on my home computer as well, even if it required being more for the initial copy, but the software industry wants the cash flow from subscription models instead, losing a potential sale. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to modify large reports or drawings with ease. When interacting with old pdf scaled drawings originally it was a tiring process to ensure accuracy when scaling dimensions. Using the BlueBeam Revu scale command you can size a accurate scale from aerials and old files with ease. ### 38. Editing PDFs on Bluebeam Revu **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam is a great tool for editing PDFs, whether they are text or drawings. There are thousands of tools on Bluebeam, from text tools, to drawing tools, to overlay tools. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam can be challenging to beginners with tools that are any more complicated than adding text or drawing lines. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bluebeam has positively impacted the ability to edit plan set drawings. It's simple and effective. ### 39. Bluebeam Revu is Extreme! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas K. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** This is a great tool for implementing material take-off and changes to PDF documents. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** This is a great tool, and easy to use. There are no dislikes. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making minor changes to mechanical drawings without the need for a full Autocad requirement. Performing material take-off from PDF drawings. ### 40. Bluebeam review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Being able to mark up quickly. Even come up with quick design options by copy and paste in Bluebeam before implementing in cad for client approval **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** The interface is a bit difficult to navigate and hard to use **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Great for puchlist redlines and quick design option and its easy to learn **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Punchlist - very useful on site and it organizes by keynote on plan along with photo associated with keynotes ### 41. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam is a great piece of software for marking up pdfs and sketching basic concepts **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam isn't very accurate and the CAD features can be difficult to use **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Great for sketching over PDFs but not good for accurate sketching like CAD **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this for drawing over PDFs to limit printing and communicate comments to others. It is easy to use for this. ### 42. Powerful Tool For Impressive Results **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Versatility, powerful options, multiple document types **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** There is a lot to learn with Bluebeam Revu. Not a negative, just the reality when working with powerful software platforms. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Worth a trial! You'll be amazed at the platform's capabilities and utility. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to markup documents, with photo inserts, and send to the team. A versatile way to include data. ### 43. Great to use in a large group environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Similarities to Adobe and overall easy to use though I would like to see some modification made to make it more intuitive **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Not always intuitive and missing some organization and commands that adobe has which would make this a much better software **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working through construction documents and sharing the documents with third party helps where there are no other programs that I know of with this ability. This is referring to Bluebeam studio. ### 44. Almost full featured PDF software package **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan M. | Cadd Manager / Senior Engineering Tech, Civil Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Packed full of useful feature with an easy to use interface makes Bluebeam a great pdf software. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** The interface can be a bit complex and not great support for geopdf and geospatial pdf's. The price is getting too high when compared to Acrobat DC Pro since you have to purchase the license and then add maintenance on top of that if you want to keep getting updates. Having to buy the most expensive version to edit Forms is not ideal. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** Give it a try and learn what it all can do. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's great for pdf editing and markups which saves paper and is easier to keep a record of the markups. ### 45. Easy Solution for Small Projects **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Connects all users in the project and allows input regardless of skillset. Extremely easy to use and accessible on a wide array of devices. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Does not populate document status for submittals, RFIs, and drawings. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Field review of design and shop drawings. Redlines for modelers. sketches for RFIs and field use. ### 46. Bluebeam to facilitate field/modeling teams work together. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** The bluebeam studio is really good to have the field markups always up to date and centralized in only one space. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Sometimes is difficult do manage the files. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Field communication is facilitated because they can do their markups in an easy way for the modelers do their respective updates. ### 47. Bluebeam Revu Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** I like that I can use Bluebeam for multiple things. I use it for marketing purposes and my colleagues use it for drawing mechanical engineering plans. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** I don’t like that I can’t open a PDF made in an Adobe program in Bluebeam without it looking distorted and weird. This is a huge problem for us. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is beneficial to use for drawings and proposals. We are solving problems with comparing architects and engineers plans. ### 48. Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Max G. | CPA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Bluebeam gives me a lot of options when editing documents-I love it! **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** Took me a little time to catch the hang of it. Wish there was a quicker learning curve process **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to make ordinary documents look as profesional as possible ### 49. Way better than adobe **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** Ease of use for quantity takeoffs. Also having steel shapes for markups **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** all the different profiles. It would be nice if all the profiles had the same options **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits have been quantity takeoffs using measure commands ### 50. Amazing Once You Get Past The Learning Curve **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Bluebeam?** It was super quick, I didn't have much, or really any, lag with my inputs and the program showing it on the screen. Once I learned the program, I was able to knock out my projects pretty quickly. **What do you dislike about Bluebeam?** It had a bit of a learning curve and not a lot of information to help me learn how to use it. Once I played around with it, I got the hang of it, but the first couple days were a bit of a struggle. It can also be a little sparse with the options you have for editing and marking the sheets. **Recommendations to others considering Bluebeam:** For basic editing and marking, it is great once you get the hang of it. For anything more complex and design heavy, a more design-centered program may be up your alley. **What problems is Bluebeam solving and how is that benefiting you?** I would use Bluebeam for basic editing of sheets or marking necessary changes on plans I was sent. ## Bluebeam Discussions - [Does Maintenance include training?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-maintenance-include-training) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How can I purchase Maintenance?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-can-i-purchase-maintenance) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is included when I purchase Maintenance?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-included-when-i-purchase-maintenance) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Do I need to own Revu to access Bluebeam Studio?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/do-i-need-to-own-revu-to-access-bluebeam-studio) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What type of permissions are available in Bluebeam Studio?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-type-of-permissions-are-available-in-bluebeam-studio) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Bluebeam pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/bluebeam/reviews?page=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-02+11%3A44%3A23+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=40fbb6c0-f95c-47b0-81dd-b5f3ddb1b92f&secure%5Btoken%5D=922aea8970dfa910968843aa410a80b4f19d544411def0ad98b78faeb7ab31c3&format=llm_user) ## Bluebeam Integrations - [AutoCAD](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews) - [AutoCAD MEP](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad-mep/reviews) - [Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud)](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-forma-formerly-autodesk-construction-cloud/reviews) - [Civil 3D](https://www.g2.com/products/civil-3d/reviews) - [Egnyte](https://www.g2.com/products/egnyte/reviews) - [Microsoft Excel](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-excel/reviews) - [Microsoft Outlook](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-outlook/reviews) - [Mitek Management](https://www.g2.com/products/mitek-management/reviews) - [Procore](https://www.g2.com/products/procore/reviews) - [Quickbase](https://www.g2.com/products/quickbase/reviews) - [Revit](https://www.g2.com/products/revit/reviews) - [Sage Intacct](https://www.g2.com/products/sage-intacct/reviews) ## Bluebeam Features **Documentation** - Attachment Uploads - Templates - List Generation - Reporting and Analytics **Document Management** - Centralized Platform - Versioning - Document Management - Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology - Linkage **Data Gathering** - Cost Calculators - Enterprise Search - Multiple Input Formats **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization - AI Image-to-Text **Agentic AI - Autodesk Construction Cloud Integration Partners** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Before the Job** - Calendar - Dispatch - Roles - Booking **Collaboration** - Action History - Notifications and Reminders - Messaging and Communication - Mobile Support **Site Management** - Site Progress Monitoring - Mobile Access **Bid Generation** - Collaborative Editing - Automated BoQs and BoMs - Versioning **On the Job** - Location - Employee Communication - Behavior Monitoring - Client Notifications - Field Sales **After the Job** - Reports - Analytics - Invoicing - CRM Integrations **Agentic AI - Field Service Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Bluebeam Alternatives - [Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud)](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-forma-formerly-autodesk-construction-cloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (5,198 reviews) - [Procore](https://www.g2.com/products/procore/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (4,147 reviews) - [Fieldwire by Hilti](https://www.g2.com/products/fieldwire-by-hilti/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (548 reviews)