Chose Adobe Acrobat
I use adobe for quick efforts with large PDFs, like combining them with other PDFs or optimizing the file size. I use Bluebeam when I need to spend time working on the PDF and adding comments, color, and other medications.
Adobe Acrobat vs. Bluebeam
Adobe Acrobat vs. Bluebeam
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 Adobe Acrobat | N/A | Adobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011). | $12.99 per month | |
 Bluebeam | 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 |
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| Considered Both Products | Adobe Acrobat  Kelvin Morgan Financial Advisor Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is the master product for multiple project document management. It is great at merging various documents easily and is perfect for creating new PDF files. Reporting and communication strategies via Adobe Acrobat are excellent, and they allow effective team …  Che Odom Marketing and Business Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat DC is easier to use and more intuitive than BlueBeam, we prefer Bluebeam for operations teams because it offers to scale and measuring for construction documents that our operations teams need, however, would prefer the Adobe suite for ease of use, and familiarity …  Erin Drake Director of Marketing Chose Adobe Acrobat I don't use Bluebeam, but many of my coworkers do - particularly when it comes to construction plans and surveys. They tend not to use Adobe Acrobat DC as much, sticking to Bluebeam for everything, but because they have the software they do not have difficulty using Adobe …  Heather MacLean Project Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Our field team uses Bluebeam.  Graham Green Commercial Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat Having previously used Nitro Pro, we were pleased to gain the additional functionality that Adobe provides. Sending and tracking documents is much easier than on Nitro. The support function is slicker and quicker and there is a wider community of users to draw upon. I didn't …  Benjamin Wyszynski Healthcare Associate Chose Adobe Acrobat I think Acrobat DC really makes its case against Revu because of the ability to edit text much easier and add signing areas where in Bluebeam you need to be very exact and do not have the ability to make changes of document that may not lend itself for editing. | Bluebeam  Tony Grasso Project Engineer Chose Bluebeam  Tim Corbett General Manager Chose Bluebeam  Michael Carter General Superintendent Chose Bluebeam I personally like the tools that Bluebeam offers over Acrobat and feel that, for my company, Bluebeam was much better suited. Scaling tools, markups, as-builts, RFI’s, submittal approval, and detail creation all really show its strength. Heather MacLean Administrative Assistant 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.  Oliver Philippe Goulart Young Facility Designer I Chose Bluebeam Much more complete than the competition.  Bob Kramer, RCDD, LEED AP Principal 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 …  Matthew Smith Safety and Project Manager 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.  Jill Liegghio Accounts Payable Manager 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 …  Aaron Graves Estimator Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam is above comparison for the construction industry. They've invested everything into delivering the features that everyone needs and making them as simple to use as possible. Their customer service is unparalleled in listening to the features their customers want and …  Leticia Waller Quality Manager Chose Bluebeam I think Bluebeam is 100% better than Adobe or any PDF viewing like that because of the fact that there are so many more tools to use and the layout of the program is awesome. I really like this software, it is great for anyone who is in construction industry. |
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| Small Businesses |  Square 9 Softworks Score 9.7 out of 10 |  FollowUp CRM Score 9.5 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies |  MSB Docs Score 9.7 out of 10 |  Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro Score 8.7 out of 10 |
| Enterprises |  M‑Files Score 9.2 out of 10 | Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro Score 8.7 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.9 (475 ratings) | 4.2 (62 ratings) |
| Likelihood to Renew | 10.0 (11 ratings) | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Usability | 8.6 (232 ratings) | 8.0 (2 ratings) |
| Availability | 10.0 (2 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
| Performance | 9.8 (7 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
| Support Rating | 8.1 (52 ratings) | 1.0 (11 ratings) |
| Online Training | 9.0 (1 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
| Implementation Rating | 7.6 (4 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
| Ease of integration | 10.0 (6 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
| Product Scalability | 9.7 (2 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | Adobe
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Tim Corbett General Manager |
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Heather MacLean Administrative Assistant |
| Likelihood to Renew | Adobe
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| Usability | Adobe
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 Ernest King Construction Operations & Process Manager |
| Reliability and Availability | Adobe
 Jamie Caroland Independent Consultant | Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic |
| Performance | Adobe
 Daniel Epstein Senior Clinical Quality Analyst | Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic |
| Support Rating | Adobe
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 Michael Craven President | Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic |
| Implementation Rating | Adobe
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| Alternatives Considered | Adobe
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| Return on Investment | Adobe
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