Microsoft SharePoint vs Bluebeam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Microsoft SharePoint
Access and discover important files, news, and people across your organization. Quickly find information, stay updated on company news, and manage your work on the go. Requires a work or school account with SharePoint access.
- Discover relevant files, sites, and news
- Search for information across your organization
- Access recent and favorite content
- Read and preview documents on the go
- Stay connected with coworkers and news
- Access organization's home site
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Find the content you need, return to your work, and catch up on news from across your organization with Microsoft SharePoint. • Discover what matters to you Start with Overview to explore relevant files, sites, and news, see updates from people you work with, and pick up where you left off. • Find information across your organization Search for files, sites, people, and news. Search within a site to narrow your results and get to the information you need. • Keep your work close Quickly return to recently opened content and save important items to Favorites. Browse recent, favorite, and suggested sites, and access their document libraries, lists, and news. • Read and preview on the go Read SharePoint pages and news, and preview Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, images, and videos within the app. Open supported files in their dedicated apps when you need to do more. • Stay connected to people and news Discover content shared by coworkers, view their profiles, and catch up on news relevant to your work. Filter news to find unread stories or updates from particular sources, and share useful content with others. • Access your organization’s home site Open your organization’s home site, when configured, to reach company news and resources alongside your personalized Discover experience. The experience requires a work or school account with access to SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Available content and features depend on your permissions and your organization’s settings.
Bluebeam
Access and collaborate on PDF documents directly from your mobile device. Communicate project updates with markups and work offline by syncing files. Seamlessly join live collaboration sessions and manage document revisions from the field.
- Real-time PDF collaboration
- Markup and annotation tools
- Offline file access
- Document syncing
- Studio Project management
- Live session joining
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Bluebeam for iOS keeps you connected to your teams and documents, so you can quickly access the information you need in the field and capture what matters for the office. - Communicate with markups using tools like callouts, text, clouds, and status indicators - Import your team's custom Tool Sets from Revu, so your standardized markups are ready to go in the field, even offline - Attach photos captured in the field directly to a markup, so supporting documentation stays organized without cluttering your drawings - Open your files stored on your device, Studio Projects, or Studio Sessions - Join Studio Sessions for live collaboration. If your connection drops, your changes sync when you're back online - Check out files in Studio Projects to make edits, then check them back in when you're ready - Work offline by syncing Project files ahead of time or opening PDFs stored on your device Whether you’re reviewing submittals, placing markups in the field, or tracking revisions with your team, Bluebeam gives you the flexibility to get the job done from anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Microsoft SharePoint at 4.6 against Bluebeam's 1.5. Microsoft SharePoint also leads on ratings volume (142K vs 410) and review sentiment (25% vs 3%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Microsoft SharePoint holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft SharePoint has 142K ratings behind it against 410, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Microsoft SharePoint's written reviews are positive against 3% of Bluebeam's.
Microsoft SharePoint ships an update every 3 weeks, Bluebeam monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Microsoft SharePoint | Bluebeam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (142K ratings) — better | 1.5 (410 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.1% of reviews — better | 2.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 142K — better | 410 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #88 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 295 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Microsoft Corporation | Bluebeam, Inc. |
Customer experience
Microsoft SharePoint
Bluebeam
User reviews
Microsoft SharePoint
From 142K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 🚀 Fast access to documents
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🔍 Difficult to navigate folders and files
- 🔍 Limited functionality compared to desktop version
- 🔒 Issues with logging in and signing out
Bluebeam
From 410 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✅ 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
Room to improve
- ❌ 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
Bugs and requests
Microsoft SharePoint
Reported bugs
4 issues- Endless loading loops
- Inability to view certain file types
- Randomly resets to the home page
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to upload and download files directly
- Better integration with other Microsoft apps
- Improved calendar and task management features
- More customization options for the app
Bluebeam
Reported bugs
28 issues- 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
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- 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
Requested features
25 requests- 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
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- 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
In-app purchases
Microsoft SharePoint
No in-app purchases
Bluebeam
No in-app purchases
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