Drawboard PDF v. Bluebeam

Drawboard PDF a Bluebeam alternative

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Drawboard PDF

Designed to make beginners experts. Advanced PDF tools and features with a best-in-class UI that's easy to learn and even easier to use.

Get your team working together from day 1!

Bluebeam

Bluebeam Revu

Tools for highly technical users with document management, markup and automation tools.

Requires onboarding and team training.

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Powerful PDF tools. Intuitive workspace.

Always-on collaboration

Keep everyone on the same page - Mark up, manage & measure in real time or in your own time.

Keep every document in one place

Maintain one single source of truth. Store drawings and documents in one centralized location and track markups & revisions seamlessly.

Mark up with the feel of pen on paper

Use your stylus or finger to replicate the tactile feel of pen and paper.

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Bluebeam

price (USD per seat / year

Pro Plus / Bluebeam Core
Unlimited / Complete

$83.92
$159.99

$300
$400

Markups+annotations

Shapes and lines

Yes

Text and links

Yes

Stamps

-

Yes

Markup Library

Yes

Audio notes

-

Snap to content

Yes

Snap to annotation

Yes

Signatures

Yes

Callouts

Yes

Form filling

Yes

Ink

Ink and draw

Yes

Pressure sensitive ink

Yes

Bezier curved ink

-

Smart ink: Ink to line & Ink to shape

-

Document Navigation

Word and phrase search

Yes

Annotation Visual Search

-

Yes

Document tags

-

Bookmarks

Yes

Outline

Yes

Documents dashboard

-

Multiple windows

Yes

collaboration+cloud

Collaborate with multiple users on same doc

Yes

Control sharing permissions

Yes

Collaborate with live cross platform syncing

-

Cross-platform

Windows

Yes

iOS

iPad only

macOS

-

Android

-

Web

Yes

Technical tools

Distance measurements

Yes

Area measurements

Yes

View, filter, sort annotations

Yes

Markups List / History

Yes

Volume

-

Yes

Tally / Count

-

Yes

Calibration

Yes

Ruler

Yes

Save and reuse markups

Yes

Protractor

Yes

Layers

-

Yes

Flags

-

Yes

OCR

Yes

View and Layout

Customizable toolbar

Yes

Portable small toolbar

-

Dark Mode / light mode

-

Customize menus and layout

Yes

Tablet optimized

-

Touch optimized

-

Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

-

Document
manipulation

Merge

Yes

Split

-

Yes

Extract

Yes

Insert pages

Yes

Delete Pages

Yes

Rearrange pages

Yes

Dedicated Document Builder workspace

-

Templates and overlays

Yes

Color processing

-

Yes

administration

Manage, add/revoke licenses

Yes

Automatic updates

-

Bluebeam

Pro Plus / Bluebeam Core
Unlimited / Complete

$83.92
$159.99

$300
$400

Markups & Annotations

Shapes and lines

Yes

Text and links

Yes

Stamps

-

Yes

Markup Library

Yes

Audio notes

-

Snap to content

-

Yes

Snap to annotation

Yes

Signatures

Yes

Callouts

Yes

Form filling

Yes

Ink

Ink and draw

Yes

Pressure sensitive ink

Yes

Bezier curved ink

-

Smart ink: Ink to line & Ink to shape

-

Document Navigation

Word and phrase search

Yes

Annotation Visual Search

-

Yes

Document tags

-

Bookmarks

Yes

Outline

Yes

Documents dashboard

-

Multiple windows

Yes

Collaborate with multiple users on same doc

Yes

Control sharing permissions

Yes

Collaborate with live cross platform syncing

-

Cross-platform

Windows

Yes

iOS

iPad only

macOS

-

Android

-

Web

Yes

Technical tools

Distance measurements

Yes

Area measurements

Yes

View, filter, sort annotations

Yes

Markups List / History

Yes

Volume

-

Yes

Tally / Count

-

Yes

Calibration

Yes

Ruler

Yes

Save and reuse markups

Yes

Protractor

Yes

Layers

-

Yes

Flags

-

Yes

OCR

-

Yes

View and Layout

Customizable toolbar

Yes

Portable small toolbar

-

Dark Mode / light mode

-

Customize menus and layout

Yes

Tablet optimized

-

Touch optimized

-

Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

-

Document
manipulation

Merge

Yes

Split

-

Yes

Extract

Yes

Insert pages

Yes

Delete Pages

Yes

Rearrange pages

Yes

Dedicated Document Builder workspace

-

Templates and overlays

Yes

Color processing

-

Yes

administration

Manage, add/revoke licenses

Yes

Automatic updates

-

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