Bluebeam Revu for iPad 4+

Surely one day they’ll get around to adding sharepoint online support…

/copium

If anyone’s using the app with external keyboards, you’re *guaranteed* to crash if you have any annotation/text box open when attempting to save. This crash can be avoided by simply tapping elsewhere on the screen before tapping the check mark. It doesn't happen when using the on screen keyboard probably because it closes itself when you tap the save icon anyway. There appears to be plenty of other instabilities but hopefully this ends up helping someone else. The app would be more user friendly imo if there was an option to have real labels instead of just blindly punching all the image icons for 15 minutes to learn what they do. The app itself has the features we need, but the instability drags the score down hard. (Ver 3.10)

I am a fire alarm technician and I work with drawings daily. I have the desktop version of Bluebeam and it is vastly superior to the iPad app, but the iPad app isn’t intended to match it. I have to walk around the job-sites where I am to install new systems and verify that what the engineer drew up on the prints are accurate. 99% of the time they do not accurately reflect what’s in the building. As such we have to draw up as built prints and that’s where this app shines.
I can quickly, easily, and conveniently make changes to prints in the palm of my hands and send them out to the engineer and then he can permanently make the changes through the desktop software.
That’s the main selling point I’m making but not the only one. I also link all my projects through Studio and that works well on the app. And lastly it’s an easy way to have multiple project prints at my disposal versus having to carry around a bunch of 24x36 inch paper prints.
I will say that it is too bad that the snapshot feature does not work, because that is a powerful and useful tool to have. So overall this is not a one or two star app if you use it the way I believe it was intended to be used.

I am an architect and I have the desktop version of Bluebeam and I love it. However, this app for the iPad is a real lemon in my view, because it is super clunky to use and is missing some important functions to the degree that it is worthless to me, personally. For example, it has the “snapshot” command, but it doesn’t let you “paste” the snapshot into another document, which is the whole point of the command, at least in the way that I use it commonly with the desktop version.

I contacted Bluebeam support about this issue and they confirmed that the snapshot command doesn’t work that way in the iPad version and furthermore, that copying and pasting from one document to another isn’t an option either. The support guy suggested some cumbersome workarounds, and I just gave up on this application. I asked for a refund, but they just referred me to Apple, and Apple refused to give me one.

I’m really flabbergasted that Bluebeam would release such a lame app that has such limited functionality, given that their desktop version is so powerful. While I never expected the iPad to function at the desktop level, I think the lack of cutting and pasting is a HUGE oversight. This app is only good for making some limited mark ups to a document in the field, in a very clunky fashion, and that’s pretty much it.