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
Tungsten Power PDF
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Tungsten Power PDF (formerly Kofax) is a solution to manage PDFs for businesses
and individuals available with a one-time purchase with no subscription fees. It has a built-in eSignature integration with SignDoc and DocuSign for a complete end-to-end document…
$129
one-time fee per license
Pricing
Bluebeam
Tungsten Power PDF
Editions & Modules
Revu Standard
$349
per seat
Revu CAD
$449
per seat
Revu eXtreme
$599
per seat
Power PDF Standard
$129
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Standard for Mac
$129
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Advanced
$179
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Enterprise
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per year per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bluebeam
Tungsten Power PDF
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Desktop licenses are buy once, own forever. No subscription fees.
Enterprise server licenses are term-based with optional maintenance & support contract.
Volume and upgrade discounts available.
Kofax Power PDF is about 1/7 the cost of these programs and offers most if not all of the same features, so why go anywhere else. we used to use Adobe but quickly realized I could buy a copy of Power PDF for everyone in the whole company for the cost of one copy of Adobe.
I don't have much experience with other specific programs. I have used Bluebeam some, but it is created for Blueprint reading/marking up/etc. Kofax is much better for my uses.
Power PDF is comparable to Acrobat, Bluebeam is a bit different and targeted for a different workflow. Comparing to Acrobat Power PDF provides the same functionality at much lower cost.
Nuance outclasses Foxit and Adobe Reader in most categories. It is significantly less expensive than Adobe, easier to use than both of them, and quicker than both as well. Bluebeam is the closest competitor in my opinion. The cost difference makes the difference between the two …
I am well-versed in both Acrobat and Revu. I think that Kofax looks and feels like Revu given all its functions, buttons, and commands but is used more like Acrobat. I selected Kofax because it is by far the most cost-effective option and I wanted to learn a new tool. I really …
Beats them all hands down. The rest of them lack tools, are difficult to navigate, do not have the thumbnail viewer that I find very important. I keep between 20 and 50 PDF's on my desktop at any time, to be able to glance and find the one I need without reading the file name …