Comparison

Atom vs Bluebeam

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Atom

Streamline your organization's operations with a comprehensive workforce management tool. Create and track work orders, manage inventory, schedule teams, and analyze performance with robust reporting and budgeting features.

Highlights
  • Work order creation and tracking
  • Inventory management
  • User and group management
  • Calendar and scheduling
  • Reporting and analytics
  • Budgeting and alerts
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Be one of the many small, medium, and large organizations changing the way they work today with Atom. Atom is a workforce management application built by Google engineers and leading software designers. Work on and offline: Users are able to quickly create maintenance, inspection, and other work orders for mobile and desktop users. Inventory management: Build and manage your data seamlessly. Track both dynamic and static assets real-time and budget accordingly. Users and Groups: Build teams and enable users to login based on permissions. Track users real-time and understand time and cost spent on work. Calendar and Scheduling: Schedule teams and resources while understanding and identifying priority. Project manage by skillset, availability, and proximity. Reporting and Analytics: Build custom and user-specific reports of any data within Atom. Print and export those reports for additional context and predictive analysis. Budgeting within Atom: Build your budget against people, work, assets, and more. Atom also allows users the ability to configure alerting against their budget relative to being over and/or under their budget.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Real-time PDF collaboration
  • Markup and annotation tools
  • Offline file access
  • Document syncing
  • Studio Project management
  • Live session joining
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Atom4 screens
Bluebeam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Atom at 82% against Bluebeam's 3%. Atom also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). Bluebeam's advantage is ratings volume (392 vs 44). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Atom holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bluebeam has 392 ratings behind it against 44, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Atom's written reviews are positive against 3% of Bluebeam's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Atom ships an update every 11 days, Bluebeam monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Atom versus Bluebeam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAtomBluebeam
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (44 ratings) — better1.5 (392 ratings)
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better3.0% of reviews
Number of ratings44392 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB288 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAtomAI Solutions Inc.Bluebeam, Inc.

Customer experience

Atom

All ratings44 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%

Bluebeam

All ratings392 ratings
Positive9.9%
Neutral2.0%
Negative88.0%
Written reviews237 reviews
Positive3.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative94.1%

Bugs and requests

Atom

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

None

Atom

No in-app purchases

None

Bluebeam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Atom free?
Atom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bluebeam free?
Bluebeam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Atom or Bluebeam?
Atom is rated higher. Atom averages 4.5 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while Bluebeam averages 1.5 from 392 ratings.
Do Atom or Bluebeam have ads?
Neither Atom nor Bluebeam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Atom or Bluebeam?
Atom ships an update every 11 days, and Bluebeam monthly. Most recently, Atom was updated on October 10, 2026 and Bluebeam on October 15, 2026.

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