Spot it, pin it, fix it.
Drawing markup made simple.
Drop a pin anywhere on a drawing and it becomes a tracked issue — with an owner, a status, and a comment thread. Works right in your browser. Clients and subs you invite join for free.
No sign-up needed to try it — jump straight into a live drawing.
Made for small architecture, engineering, and construction teams.
Catching a problem on a drawing shouldn't be this hard.
You don't need a 200-tool suite just to circle something and make sure it gets fixed. But here's the usual choice:
- Bluebeamdoes a lot — and it's built and priced for people who live in it. Most small teams use a sliver of it, pay for all of it, and can't give everyone a seat.
- Emailing screenshotsloses the part that matters: where on the drawing the problem is, and who's going to fix it.
- Spreadsheets can track issues, but they have no idea what a drawing is.
So things slip. A markup gets missed. Someone works off last week's sheet. And the fix ends up costing far more than catching it would have.
Everything a small firm needs to review drawings. Nothing it doesn't.
Every pin is a tracked issue.
Click anywhere on a drawing to drop a pin. It turns into an issue with a title, an owner, a status, and a comment thread — pinned to the exact spot, at any zoom. Mark it resolved and it's done. Nothing slips through the cracks.
Free for everyone you invite.
Clients, consultants, and subs can view drawings and comment without paying for a seat. Bring in the people who'll actually fix things — not just the ones you could afford to license.
Works right in your browser.
Mac, Windows, iPad — if it opens a browser, it runs Annotably. No installs, no “sorry, we don't support your platform,” no IT tickets.
A live punch list, not a pile of PDFs.
See every open issue, filtered by status, owner, or sheet. When it's time to close out, export a clean punch-list report to PDF or CSV.
Your work stays yours.
Export everything whenever you like. No license games, no holding your drawings hostage.
From “that's a problem” to “it's fixed,” in four easy steps.
Upload a drawing.
Drag in a PDF — one sheet or a whole set.
Drop a pin.
Click the exact spot, give it a title, set the status, pick who owns it.
Talk it through.
Comment, @mention, add a photo — all in one thread, right on the drawing.
Close it out.
Mark it resolved and export the punch list. Nice work.
Annotably vs. Bluebeam — the honest version.
| Annotably | Bluebeam Revu | |
|---|---|---|
| Every markup is a tracked issue (owner, status, thread) | Built around it | Markup + a separate list |
| Free guests (clients, subs, consultants) | Yes | Paid seat to take part |
| Runs on Mac / iPad / any browser | Yes | Windows desktop |
| Price | Free, then from $12/seat/mo | $260–$590 per seat / year |
| Heavy takeoff & estimating | Not our thing | Where it shines |
Honestly?If you live in takeoffs all day, Bluebeam's great — keep it. But if you mostly need every markup to become a tracked issue your whole team can see, that's exactly what we built Annotably for.
Questions we hear a lot.
We already use Bluebeam.
No problem — keep it for the heavy stuff if you like. Most of your team doesn't need a full license just to mark up a drawing and track an issue. That's where Annotably fits, at a fraction of the per-seat cost.
Will it handle our drawings?
Annotably works on PDF — the way drawings actually get shared and marked up in the field. Upload a full multi-page set and pin issues on any sheet.
Is a new tool safe for real projects?
Start free, invite your team, and export your data (PDF/CSV) whenever you want. No lock-in, nothing to lose.
My Bluebeam perpetual license is ending.
You're in good company — Revu 20 reaches end-of-life on Dec 31, 2026. Annotably's an easy way out that doesn't mean a steep per-seat subscription. See our full Bluebeam comparison for the details.
Priced for small firms — not enterprises.
Annotably is free while we're in beta — these are the plans we're building for launch. Clients and subs are always free to invite.
Early-bird perk: the first 100 firms lock in founder pricing, for life — it's there if you want it.
Less chasing markups. More closing issues.
Drop your first pin in about two minutes. Free to start, no credit card, and your data exports anytime.