Bluebeam Revu Runs Circles around the Competition!
July 21, 2017

Bluebeam Revu Runs Circles around the Competition!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Bluebeam Revu

Bluebeam Revu is a fantastic and less expensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro, it is less expensive and has tons more features and functionality. The infrastructure project I work with uses Bluebeam heavily for sessions, drawing plan set review and collaboration, takeoffs, measurements and many other functions. It's fairly easy to use and they have online training available.

The biggest business problem this addressed was the ability for multiple persons from different companies to be able to collaborate and comment on drawings and specifications at the same time in a live environment.
  • Sessions - this is a great feature to allow collaboration on documents within a company or across many different companies.
  • Projects - the ability to maintain an entire set of project records in one place. Though simplistic from a document control standpoint it is a usable way to store and retrieve documents.
  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Bluebeam Revu Standard
  • Easier access to free training resources for paid users of the software
  • Greatly decreased the time involved in design plan review and comments from the project engineers back to the design team.
More bang for the buck, tons more functionality and lower price point.
This program is well suited to construction and engineering applications but could be exceptionally useful for anyone that deals with PDF documents on a regular basis. It is more specialized to PDF documents.

Bluebeam Feature Ratings

Plan distribution & viewing
10
Plan markups & sharing
10
Document sharing
10
Issue tracking & punchlists
9
Photo documentation
Not Rated
Jobsite reports
Not Rated
RFI tools
Not Rated
Collaboration & approvals
Not Rated
As-built drawings
10
Mobile app
Not Rated