Markup, takeoff and estimating

True to scale.

Precise PDF markup, takeoff and estimating for every construction trade. Every measurement keeps its own scale. Pay once, own it, and get every update.

Founding price $349 USD$559 AUD inc GST was $499 USD$799 AUD inc GST $499 USD$799 AUD inc GST, once.

Works with the files you already have. Open PDFs marked up in Revu, edit the markups, and send them back.

Founding price ends 31 December 2026.

Measure it once. Measure it right.

Precise, fast, familiar, yours.

Precision

Every measurement keeps its own scale.

Every measurement keeps its own scale, so a detail at 1:20 and a plan at 1:100 measure true on the same sheet.

Wall area is run length times wall height, worked out for you on every wall run.

Speed

Fewer clicks on every job.

Set a tool up once in the Tool Chest and use it on every job.

Your most used tools sit on the number keys.

Print a whole set in one go, each sheet on its own paper size.

Ease

Your shortcuts already work.

Revu keyboard shortcuts work the same way.

Imports your Revu tool sets (.btx): every tool comes in with its look, subject, label and measurement settings.

Trust

Nothing locked in.

Saves markups that open back in Revu.

Your drawings never leave your computer or your own server.

30 day refund, no questions asked. Sell or transfer your licence, 30 days after you buy it.

The deal

Three things that never change

01

Pay once, own it forever.

A perpetual licence with every future update included. No renewals, no paid upgrades.

02

One licence, two computers.

Your desktop and your laptop, both activated. One person, not two licences. Two Windows computers today. Mac and mobile seats are included free when they are released. Move your licence to a new PC in one click.

03

Your files, your server.

Work together on the same set with the free TrueScale server, on a PC you already own. Your drawings never leave your office network.

File compatibility

Bring your marked up PDFs. Keep working.

Open PDFs marked up in Revu, edit the markups, and send them back.

  • Opens PDFs marked up in Revu, with every markup visible and editable.
  • Saves markups that open back in Revu.
  • Imports your Revu tool sets (.btx): every tool comes in with its look, subject, label and measurement settings.
  • Keeps the markup list details you rely on: subjects, labels, status and measurements.
  • Wall heights you set in TrueScale on lengths and polylengths carry over to Revu's Wall Area column.
File compatibility in detail
The TrueScale Tool Chest beside the sample plan, with downlights and power points counted using their own symbols.
The TrueScale Tool Chest: each count tool with its own symbol, ready to use on the plan.

Every trade

Built for every trade.

Starter tool sets for builders and estimators, electricians, plumbers, insulators, fire and security installers. Build your own for anything else.

In one place

Markup, measure, estimate, Excel.

TrueScale with a calibrated sample floor plan: ceiling areas measured room by room, with the Measurements panel open.
Markup: colour the areas you are quoting.

Markup

Colour the areas you are quoting, add notes and call-outs, and send the marked up plan with your price.

TrueScale showing external wall runs drawn with the insulation batt pattern, and Properties with the wall height that gives the wall area.
Measure: wall runs with their wall height.

Measure

Areas, lengths, counts and wall areas straight from the PDF, each at its own scale.

The TrueScale Estimate panel pricing the sample takeoff from example assemblies.
Estimate: prices on every quantity.

Estimate

Put a price on each quantity and turn the takeoff into a quote PDF.

The TrueScale Markups List under the sample plan, listing every area, wall run and count with its quantity.
Excel: the quantities you link to a workbook.

Excel

Link quantities to an Excel workbook. Change a markup and the cell follows.

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Why TrueScale exists

The software is the product.

Over the last decade, things we used to buy became things we rent. Video games, features in our cars, and the software trades rely on every day. Tools that worked perfectly well under a perpetual licence moved to annual fees, and the customer became the recurring revenue.

TrueScale goes back to a simpler deal. You pay for it once, it is yours, and it keeps getting better. The software is the product, not you.

The TrueScale pledge

Our pledge to you

  1. Pay once. Own it. Every update included.
  2. Your files stay yours, on your own computers.
  3. Open your files in other PDF software any time. Nothing is locked in.
  4. Host your own server, free forever.
  5. Cloud is optional. The software never goes subscription.
  6. You tell us what to fix, and the next release fixes it.

Read our promise

See it work

The full demo

Calibrate a plan, take off areas, wall areas and counts, price them, and make the quote PDF.

Own it at the founding price. Buy it once. Keep it forever.

Founding customers pay $349 USD$559 AUD inc GST, 30% off, until 31 December 2026. One edition, every feature included, $499 USD$799 AUD inc GST once. A free 14 day trial opens with the first public release.

Founding price $349 USD$559 AUD inc GST was $499 USD$799 AUD inc GST $499 USD$799 AUD inc GST, once.

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