# Bluebeam — user reviews > 205 indexed App Store user reviews of Bluebeam by Bluebeam, Inc., rated 1.50/5 from 378 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bluebeam/id1479484276/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bluebeam/id1479484276.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 33 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 27 · 1★ 305 ## What do users think of Bluebeam? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - ✅ Automatic saving functionality works well - 📱 Useful for viewing PDFs on the go - 🔄 Good for accessing Studio sessions - 📊 Desktop version is powerful and feature-rich - 🎯 Cleaner, more modern interface design **Cons** - ❌ Massive feature loss compared to Revu for iPad - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues - 📉 Severely limited markup tools and capabilities - 🖊️ Apple Pencil input is unresponsive and laggy - 💾 Data loss and corruption issues - ⚠️ Forced migration without feature parity - 🔌 Requires constant internet connection - ⏱️ Extremely slow file uploads and loading - 🎨 Clunky and unintuitive user interface - 🔋 High battery consumption - ❌ No measurement tools available - ❌ No custom toolsets or tool libraries - ❌ No bookmarks or document navigation - ❌ Cannot embed images in callouts - ❌ No undo/redo functionality - ❌ Cannot open multiple PDFs simultaneously - ❌ Missing stamp library and symbols - ❌ No dimension markup tool - ❌ Cannot access local PDF files - ❌ Studio sessions not accessible from app **Commonly reported bugs** - Markups fail to load or display correctly - App deletes markups instead of saving them - Documents wipe clean when reopened - Files uploaded disappear from app - Corrupted file errors when opening PDFs - Keyboard disappears during login - Selection boundaries too large, preventing precise markup selection - Apple Pencil input stops working intermittently - Pen tool produces no line output despite input - App crashes when opening large file sets - Session documents fail to load - Blank PDF pages displayed - Scaling doesn't work properly - Blue screen errors - Markups missing after checkout and checkin - Incomplete markups syncing between devices - App freezes during document checkin - Unable to add users to sessions - Projects not showing up in app - App crashes when opening Studio sessions - Drawings won't load or open - Markup placement doesn't correspond to tap location - PDF goes blank when inserting callouts - Constant logout requiring re-authentication - Links to details don't work - App crashes on older iOS versions - Audio communication issues - File synchronization failures **Most requested features** - Restore measurement and scaling tools - Add custom toolsets and tool libraries - Implement bookmarks for document navigation - Enable image embedding in callouts - Add undo/redo functionality - Support multiple PDF tabs simultaneously - Create stamp library with standardized markups - Add dimension markup capabilities - Allow local PDF file access and import - Full Studio session integration - Improve Apple Pencil responsiveness and precision - Add eraser tool for pen markups - Enable photo capture and attachment to markups - Support Dropbox and cloud storage integration - Add form field editing capabilities - Implement punch list and defect tracking - Add RFI creation functionality - Support for custom columns and data fields - Reset viewpoints feature - Pen width and cloud shape customization - Settings menu for preferences - Better pen and drawing mechanics like Notability - Ability to download session documents to device - Support for opening PDF attachments from desktop - Batch file upload capability ## Newest reviews (19 of 205) ### 1/5 — For IPAD *2026-06-24, version 1.30.1* I can’t get the app to work always crashes ### 1/5 — Very disappointed *2026-06-24, version 1.30.1* I used Bluebeam Revu for years on the IPad. It was a great tool to use in the field. This new Bluebeam cloud is a massive downgrade. Not sure why this program needed to be changed. They should offer Revu for iPad as an option. ### 1/5 — Useless now *2026-06-22, version 1.30.1* I can now no longer do anything other than view pdf documents? The whole point of using REVU was to be able to mark up documents in the field. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-06-16, version 1.30.1* Doesn’t work ### 1/5 — Not good *2026-06-11, version 1.30.1* Can’t even sign in now ### 1/5 — Bring back the old version *2026-06-09, version 1.30* Very few tools and editing capabilities compared to the old version of bluebeam. I need to be able to edit and draw markups in the field and cannot accomplish this any longer. I used the original version to markup my as-built drawings right on my iPad, I now have to draw everything out on paper drawings and redraw them on the pc version when I get back home/office. All the new features are useless or accomplished through other software already. Please bring back the old markup tools. ### 1/5 — Don’t Upgrade to Cloud *2026-06-08, version 1.30* Bluebeam Cloud is incredibly disappointing. I developed office procedures around Bluebeam Desktop and Bluebeam Revue for mobile use. Most of the functionality of Revue is missing from Cloud effectively making our procedures worthless. ### 1/5 — This is why people jailbreak iOS. *2026-06-06, version 1.30* This is an absolute backwards slide, and why people jailbreak… to go back to previously usable versions. Probably easier to just switch to System Surveyor. Gets the job done. ### 1/5 — Markups not working *2026-06-03, version 1.30* I’m having a very similar issue as the other person has made a review about. When I am in studio projects I have created multiple notes. On Bluebeam cloud on my iPhone, I can view the notes and the content within the note. But when I try from my iPad, which is preferable because it is large I can see the note view the note, but any in all contents that I add to that note from my desktop are not viewable from my iPad. ### 1/5 — Bluebeam se volvio una herramienta inservible *2026-05-27, version 1.30* Dessert que bluebeam revu cambio a bluebeam cloud dejo de ser until peridio muchas herramientas e estado revisando algunas aplcaciones como autodesk, procore, y creo que tienen mejores herramientas. ### 1/5 — SSO doesn't work *2026-05-26, version 1.30* Can't even get past the SSO page to access the app ### 1/5 — Completely unusable and underdeveloped *2026-05-22, version 1.30* Completely unusable on IPAD for actual markups. The toolset is gone and it is impossible to do field markups which is the entire reason I downloaded this app ### 1/5 — This is terrible *2026-05-21, version 1.30* BB Revu for iPad used to be quite useable. I could open sessions, and send my field guys drawings for their relevant SOW. This however.. is garbage. It’s slow, clunky, unrefined, doesn’t recognize my apple pen half the time, unintuitive to navigate and we’ve lost about 80% of the functionality. It’s like going from an android based device to an apple device. Sure, you can still do some stuff, but there’s way more functionality on the android. At this point, we’re better off just using paper notes, or integrating ACC on the iPad and downloading the markups as new .PDFs. Such a shame since the desktop version is largely unmatched in the AEC field. ### 1/5 — Garbage app *2026-05-18, version 1.30* Why? The old revu app was awesome this is not that app ### 1/5 — Lost my markups… *2026-05-14, version 1.30* All of them Apparently it doesn’t save automatically and even the manual save as I did didn’t work. ### 1/5 — HORRIBLE *2026-05-14, version 1.30* What a disaster, Bluebeam absolutely DESTROYED a great app with this cloud update. Use to use for scaling and marking up drawings which was a breeze to navigate and the new toolbox is horrendous. My new employer paid $400 for access and it is complete garbage. Can’t believe how badly everything nose dived. I need to find a new app asap. ### 1/5 — Can’t log in anymore *2026-05-13, version 1.29* I can’t login anymore for some reason. This has been going on for weeks. I just can’t use the app anymore at all. Not that it was great anyway, but I had queued up all the drawings. I need this week in studio and I can’t login to open them.. ### 1/5 — Sr. PM *2026-05-12, version 1.29* Yeah I can see why people don’t like this app, doesn’t work like the computer, take forever to load, I didn’t see a rotate option, I just want to write on a pdf for crying out loud for field work ### 2/5 — Needs improvement *2026-05-11, version 1.29* The draw function is glitchy / pen works smoothly in other applications but when drawing, lines just around and hard to draw a consistent line. Add an undo / step back function to the draw tool. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Still worthless *2026-07-09, version 1.30.1* Many of the promises made when the old app was depreciated still haven’t been met, even a year later. Tool sets synced from desktop still hasn’t been added, despite a December 2025 goal. Why in any world would we buy additional services (cough AI) when you’ve killed the most basic functionality the guys in the field need the most. ### 1/5 — Disappointing / Unusable *2026-07-06, version 1.26* Worked for a while, but not very well. Now it won’t work at all unless I upgrade to the newest version, which I can’t due to having an older iPad (that otherwise works fine!) ### 1/5 — Promises, promises *2026-07-06, version 1.30.1* No, it's not actually a viable replacement for Revu on iOS. Not even close. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work on iPad *2026-07-04, version 1.30.1* I have been trying to use this app on my IPad, and it doesn’t work at all. It works well on my phone, but when I try using it on my iPad, I just get to the validation screen, after that I can’t do anything. Is there any way to fix this? ### 1/5 — Disappointment *2026-07-03* I love Bluebeam desktop, so when I found out about the mobile app I was quite excited. However my need is to do punch lists and for some inexplicable reason it does not have a punch list symbol! You have to use some other shape and size it and color it every time. You can place a rectangle and set its shape and size but there is no way to replicate it without going through the whole process again! Even copy paste doesn’t work. Sometimes programmers need to get out more! So I completed a punch list by using rectangles. In some cases my rectangles were not perfectly in a space so I ended up with a spaceless comment, however it gets worse from there. I had trouble checking in on my phone, but it finally did. Then I got a conflict error and couldn’t download the final version to my computer. When I exported it to csv I had to compare each entry to my spreadsheet and manually paste many of them over. Of 140 items about half of them exported to csv: spaces without comments, comments without spaces. So a couple of hours of Excel work and I got the punch list issued. This app is not done. Apparently I beta checked it! **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. We hear you on the punch list workflow, Tool Sets (which let you save and reuse custom markup styles) are coming to iOS in our next release, targeted for July 7. That will let you save a configured punch symbol and use it repeatedly. We would love to hear more about your workflow at community.bluebeam.com. ### 1/5 — Embarrassing *2026-06-30, version 1.30.1* Bluebeam is a great software on a pc but nowadays there is so much you could do on the go on ipads or similar devices. Please look at pdf expert for example and implement a version of the ios app that can at least do some basic tasks. At the moment it is rather embarrassing having an app on the apple store that behaves like the current version. You might as well take it off to avoid giving false hope and illusion to your customers. ### 1/5 — So unreliable *2026-06-27, version 1.30.1* Bring back the old app ### 1/5 — First app review ever *2026-06-26, version 1.30.1* shocked at how bad this is compared to the desktop version. I was hoping to use this to markup drawings in the field. Does not seem realizable enough to risk loosing your work. Tried deleting markups I just made with apple pen. And it would not allow me to erase markups from a few minutes ago. ### 1/5 — Miss the old *2026-06-26, version 1.30.1* Bring back studio ### 1/5 — Bring back Revu *2026-06-24, version 1.30.1* This app sucks bring back Revu ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Update Issue *2026-05-18, version 1.30* Can’t see the mark up in session on IPad. Please fix this, it’s caused by recent update. It’s saying “file cannot be edited. An unknown error occurred during import. Editing isn’t available but you can still view it” ### 5/5 — Extremely Helpful *2026-01-08, version 1.25* Saved me from having to walk to my laptop. ### 5/5 — Excellent for viewing on the go *2025-03-07, version 1.22* Don’t let the bad reviews fool you. Works great for viewing purposes, it’s not designed to be used for markups or bidding. ### 5/5 — Pat *2023-11-25, version 1.9.1* Amazing brilliant link to the studio ### 5/5 — Pat *2023-11-25, version 1.9.1* Rolled out across our company heated 20 years for this amazing ### 4/5 — Better than what the other reviews say *2023-12-22* This would be an outstanding app if there was Apple Pencil mechanics. Other than that, using BlueBeam Cloud as a workflow solution could be a real consideration. Ability to mark up PDFs on the app is definitely there; setting up is just a little convoluted. ### 3/5 — Functional but limited *2026-05-09, version 1.29* If it had undo instead of delete and being able to move/zoom drawings while marking it would be a plus on iPhone ### 3/5 — Missing Revu App Features *2026-01-05, version 1.25* Please update this app with the feature to attach a photo to a markup similar to Revu. It is more useful on site to place a markup and have a group of photos and videos attached rather than placing a photo on a drawing. ### 3/5 — Needs tool box *2025-10-15, version 1.24.2* If this is gonna be the new flagship, it needs to have the toolbox. For those of us who are using this on the go, we need to have this same tools from the desktop. ### 3/5 — Definitely needs more features *2025-06-04, version 1.23* On the PC version I can assign pictures to markups from camera and from the iPad version I can take pictures and drop them onto a drawing but I can’t assign it to a markup. Can the please be fixed. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*