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Coming from Bluebeam?

Keep your habits. Lose the price tag.

Redpen is not a Bluebeam clone. It is a focused markup and takeoff app that respects how you already work.
Your shortcuts still work

Redpen ships with Bluebeam-style shortcuts switched on. C for cloud, T for text, N for count, and the rest.

Markups open in both

Redpen saves standard PDF annotations with their own appearance. Send a Redpen set to someone on Revu and they see exactly what you drew.

Same workflow, calmer screen

Tool chest, markups list with status and comments, takeoff totals by subject. Laid out so the drawing gets the space.

Autoscale does the math

Instead of trusting the scale note, Redpen checks the drawn dimensions against the written ones and finds the real scale.

Month to month

Pay monthly or yearly, add seats when you hire, drop them when the job ends. Cancel from your account page.

Seats for the whole crew

At Redpen's price, the PM, the super and the foreman can all have a copy, not just the estimator.

Switch in an afternoon

Four steps, then back to work.

  1. 1
    Install Redpen

    Download for Windows or Mac. It installs per user, no admin rights needed on most machines.

  2. 2
    Check your shortcuts

    Bluebeam-style keys are the default. Change any of them under Keyboard shortcuts.

  3. 3
    Open a set you are working on

    Markups and measurements from Revu show up. Keep going in Redpen.

  4. 4
    Set scale and take off

    Use Autoscale, then measure and count. Export to Excel when you are done.

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Markups open in Redpen, Revu and Acrobat
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