Award for Going Backwards
Someone at Bluebeam should get an award for “Best in screwing up an app and making it worse” Put some effort into your app. Your loosing customers to other alternatives. “Used by construction professionals”, only the ones behind a desk cuz ya can’t use this in the field. SAD!
New app but fewer features
Since Jan 1 Bluebeam has closed Bluebeam Revu and forced Bluebeam Cloud which has fewer tools, worse interface and harder to navigate. Revu wasn’t great and crashed frequently but this is worse. I can’t fathom why Bluebeam is doing this.
<update> I’m continuing to use this with the continued updates and it still disappoints. While the developer promises to improve I am struggling to keep working. I can’t open PDF attachments that were marked up in Bluebeam on desktop because Bluebeam Cloud considers it corrupt. I appreciate that features are being added but slowly and not just a handful of features Revu had. This is a significant deficiency in function now and I don’t know how long it will take to get back base line. I’m still very frustrated and disappointed with the way this transition has been implemented.
<update 2 - 2026.09.15>
I wish I had added dates to the original review and the previous update. Progress has been SLOW. The developer is quick to respond to reviews promising future progress. This progress is measured in years though. Functionality is barely moved the needle. I recently saw that I might be able to import custom tools for reviews and/or seals but each one I try errors. I don’t know why I keep coming back to give it another shot. If this update is seen by the developer, I appreciate the quick communication and response but you need to start delivering results much faster.
<update> I’m continuing to use this with the continued updates and it still disappoints. While the developer promises to improve I am struggling to keep working. I can’t open PDF attachments that were marked up in Bluebeam on desktop because Bluebeam Cloud considers it corrupt. I appreciate that features are being added but slowly and not just a handful of features Revu had. This is a significant deficiency in function now and I don’t know how long it will take to get back base line. I’m still very frustrated and disappointed with the way this transition has been implemented.
<update 2 - 2026.09.15>
I wish I had added dates to the original review and the previous update. Progress has been SLOW. The developer is quick to respond to reviews promising future progress. This progress is measured in years though. Functionality is barely moved the needle. I recently saw that I might be able to import custom tools for reviews and/or seals but each one I try errors. I don’t know why I keep coming back to give it another shot. If this update is seen by the developer, I appreciate the quick communication and response but you need to start delivering results much faster.
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Glorified adobe
I’m genuinely curious. What was the point of this release? We have been being warned that there was going to be a switch for over a year, yet here we are, and there’s SO many basic features missing. The line tool is gone, I can’t hide the layers I created on the PC, I can’t edit my own mark-ups, and I can’t edit my line style. My field team is refusing to use BB since the app is gutted, so now I have to go pick up paper drawings to copy into the PC side like it’s 2002 all over again. I’m at a loss for words and looking to pull my subscription in favor of Drawboard PDF, or something of the like.
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Trash app that doesn’t hold a candle to other markup tools
Was so excited to see this as an app after being an avid desktop revu user. This app is clunky and has less features than the screenshot tool. Absolutely pathetic, this could have sooo much potential with something like the Apple Pencil but apparently having features and tools that free pdf apps have is asking too much for an enterprise grade tool. Really disappointed in how barebones and uninspired this app is.
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Bring Revu Back
I work on an iPad without data, so I regularly sync my iPad while on WiFi to ensure I have the latest drawings, RFI, submittals, etc. This wasn’t an issue with the Revu app, however, the new app constantly logs me out, and every time I have to log back in, I have to re “download” everything, it won’t even store the last set I synced locally. This is a huge issue because it takes 3+ hours to download all this information on a project of my size. Jealous of all my coworkers who still have Revu on their iPads because it’s now basically worthless since it’s unreliable.
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