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Bluebeam Revu 20 end of life: what changes and what to do
Bluebeam has set two dates for Revu 20: end of support on 31 July 2026 and end of life on 31 December 2026. Here’s what that means if you still measure drawings in Revu 20, and the options, including staying with Bluebeam.
Both dates come from Bluebeam’s own Revu 20 end-of-life page, which says: “Revu 20 reaches End of Support on July 31, 2026 and End of Life (EOL) on December 31, 2026.” This page sums up what Bluebeam says will happen, then sets out the choices you have.
What keeps working, and what stops
- Revu 20 still opens. Bluebeam says Revu 20 “will continue to launch and run locally on your computer” after end of life. Measuring a PDF on your own machine doesn’t switch off on 1 January.
- Studio stops. Studio Sessions and Studio Projects stop connecting, along with “other cloud-based services”.
- No support or updates. Bluebeam “will no longer provide technical support or updates”, so any problem found later stays unfixed in Revu 20.
- No licence moves. Since the end-of-support date, Bluebeam no longer helps with licence transfers or re-registration. Replacing a PC is when this tends to bite.
Your options
1. Move to a current Bluebeam plan
Every Bluebeam subscription includes Revu 21 for Windows, Bluebeam on the web and on mobile, and technical support. On Bluebeam’s pricing page on 8 November 2026 the plans were Basics $260, Core $330, Complete $440 and Max $590 (an introductory price), each per user, billed annually. For takeoff the plans differ: Basics measures length and area only (“No perimeter or advanced measurements”), Core adds perimeters, counts, angles and volume, and Complete adds Dynamic Fill and Quantity Link with Microsoft Excel. If your team works in Studio sessions, marks up drawings together or lives in Revu’s markup tools, staying with Bluebeam is the natural route, and Bluebeam offers a free trial.
2. Keep using Revu 20 on its own for a while
Because Revu 20 keeps launching locally, you can carry on measuring offline into 2027. It’s a bridge rather than a plan: no Studio, no fixes, no support, and no help moving the licence if the computer changes.
3. Use a simpler tool for the part you actually use
If you bought Revu mainly to measure drawings and price jobs, not for document control or collaboration, a takeoff tool may cover it for less. Our guide to free takeoff software lists the free plans and trials we could check, and the Bluebeam alternative page compares prices side by side. On a Mac, see takeoff software for Mac: Bluebeam says Revu is a Windows application and suggests its web version or a Windows virtual machine instead.
Where Planquote fits, and where it doesn’t
Planquote is takeoff plus quoting, in the browser. It is not a replacement for everything Revu does.
What it does
- Opens multi-page PDF plans in any modern browser
- Sets the scale from a known dimension or the drawing’s ratio or architect’s scale
- Lengths, areas with cutouts, and counts
- Wall heights turn lengths into wall area; depths turn areas into volume
- A rate and waste % per item, labour lines, markup and tax
- A quote PDF with your logo and business details
- Marked-up plans PDF and quantities CSV (Pro)
What it doesn’t do
- Markups: no text, clouds, callouts or stamps
- Collaboration: nothing like Studio sessions or projects
- Editing PDFs, filling forms or signing
- Dynamic Fill or Excel Quantity Link
- Cloud sync: jobs are saved in the browser on one device
If the second list matters to you, a Bluebeam plan is the better fit. If the first list is what you use Revu for, try Planquote free on a real drawing: the free plan has every takeoff tool and keeps one job at a time. Pro is £12 a month or £99 a year.
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