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3 self-hosted Bluebeam Revu alternatives

Bluebeam Revu is a PDF markup, editing and collaboration platform for architecture, engineering, and construction workflows. It provides annotations, measurements and quantity takeoffs, PDF creation/editing, and shared project document management via Bluebeam Studio.

Alternatives to Bluebeam Revu

Self-hostable, privacy-first PDF toolkit that runs fully in the browser for editing, merging, converting, and processing PDFs without server-side uploads.

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14.8k stars1.3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted PDF manager to organize, view, annotate, sign, and share PDFs with multi-device reading progress, tagging, and optional access-controlled links.

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1.9k stars121 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Bluebeam Revu actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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