PDF markup and quantity takeoff, built for the Mac. Calibrate a sheet, trace the rooms, count the doors, flag the RFIs, and send totals your client can check.
50.86 m² timber floor17.52 m² carpetdoors numbered as you click
Takeoff
Areas, lengths and counts at the drawing’s real scale.
Calibrate from a known dimension or pick the printed scale, then trace. Every room, wall run and fitting lands in the Markups List with its quantity, ready to group, total and export.
Scale per sheet
Calibrate one sheet without disturbing the rest. Separate X and Y when a scan is stretched.
Deductions done right
Cutouts take away only what is inside the area, once.
Volumes and walls
Depth, rise and drop stay true when you switch between mm, cm and m.
Review
Clouds and RFIs that travel with the drawing.
Cloud the problem, pull a callout and write the question where it belongs. Blueprint saves standard PDF markups, so whoever you send it to sees them in Bluebeam, Acrobat or Preview. Markups made in Bluebeam come in editable.
Status and replies
Track every RFI from open to closed, with the history kept.
Your file, untouched until you save
Autosave keeps a recovery copy. ⌘S writes the PDF.
Markups List
Every markup, totalled.
Filter, sort and group by subject, layer or page. Export a CSV that opens cleanly in Excel, with numbers as numbers.
Built for estimators
The checks you would do by hand, done for you.
Check Takeoff
Finds areas counted twice, measurements on sheets with no scale, and a scale that disagrees with the title block.
Verify Scale
Draw along a dimension line. Blueprint reads the figure beside it and offers the right scale if you are out.
Safe saving
Close asks before it discards anything. Autosave keeps a recovery copy and never writes over your drawing.
Bluebeam and Acrobat markups
Open a marked-up set and edit the comments that came with it. Send it back with yours inside the PDF.
Continuous scrolling
Run through a whole set top to bottom, mixed sheet sizes centred, or stay one page at a time.
Thin Lines and Fade Drawing
Quiet a heavy drawing so your markups stand out. The PDF itself is never changed.
OCR and search
Turn scanned sheets into searchable text on your Mac, then find every “A-201” in the set.
Keyboard first
Familiar Revu page and view keys, single-key tools, ⌘W to close a drawing and Delete on full-size keyboards.
For Mac
No Windows. No virtual machine. No subscription.
Blueprint is a native Mac app, fast on Apple silicon and still at home on an older Intel Mac. Your drawings stay on your Mac, in your folders, as ordinary PDFs.
NativeApple silicon and Intel
One-offNo subscription
2 MacsPer licence
LocalYour files stay yours
Metricm, m², m³ by default
14 daysFree trial, no card
Founder launch
Own your takeoff tool.
Try the app free for 14 days, or buy the one-off Founder licence while the first 100 are available.
Straight answers about Blueprint, Bluebeam and your Mac.
Is Project Blueprint a Bluebeam alternative for Mac?
Yes. Project Blueprint is a native Mac app for the core Bluebeam jobs on construction PDFs: markup, calibrated takeoff and revision review. It is independent software and is not affiliated with Bluebeam, Inc. It does not have Bluebeam Studio's live multi-user sessions.
Can I work with people who use Bluebeam on Windows?
Yes. Markups made in Bluebeam Revu or Acrobat open in Blueprint and can be edited, and Blueprint saves your markups into the PDF so they show in Bluebeam, Acrobat and Preview.
What does it cost?
A one-off licence for two Macs with every 1.x update: US$19 for the first 100 Founder customers, then US$79. There is no subscription.
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS 14 or later, natively on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Can I export quantities to Excel?
Yes. Export the Markup Summary as CSV. It opens in Excel with quantities as numbers, grouped however you set up the Markups List.
Are my drawings uploaded anywhere?
No. Your PDFs stay as ordinary files in your own folders, and text recognition runs on your Mac.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. The 14-day trial includes every feature and needs no card.
50.86 m² timber floor
17.52 m² carpet
doors numbered as you click
