Material takeoff from your plans
Drag in the plan set and it reads the dimensions off the sheets so you do not have to hunt for them. You check what it found, and it gives you a material list.
A material takeoff is the list of everything a building needs before anybody can price it – how many studs, how many sheets of sheathing, how many cubic yards of concrete, how many squares of roofing. Doing one by hand off a set of plans takes an afternoon and a legal pad, and the arithmetic is the easy part. The hard part is not forgetting anything.
What this does
Upload a plan set and it reads the sheets – the legends, the notes, the schedules and the details, not just the floor plan – and pulls out the dimensions a takeoff needs. It shows you everything it found, and where on the drawings it found it, before it calculates anything. You correct whatever is wrong. Then it works out quantities for framing, concrete, roofing, siding and trim, insulation, drywall, and plumbing and electrical rough-in.
If you would rather not upload anything, type the numbers in yourself. That path is free, there is no limit on it, and it produces exactly the same list.
Priced at what you actually pay
Quantities are only half an estimate. Upload your building supply house's own price sheet – a spreadsheet, a CSV, or a quote printed to PDF – and every list you make afterwards is priced at your rates, not at a national average that is wrong in both directions. Anything your supplier does not carry, you type in once from a phone quote: concrete is the usual one, because a lumber yard will not quote ready-mix.
Each trade gets its own subtotal, and anything still unpriced is counted out loud under the total – so a figure that quietly left out the concrete cannot look finished.
What it will not do
It will not size a framing member. Whether a rafter is a 2×8 or a 2×12, what a truss is built from, where the headers and beams go – that depends on span and load, and it belongs to whoever engineered your plans. You get counts and lengths; you do not get sections. Trusses come back as a count and a span to send the truss plant, because they are quoted as a package rather than priced off a lumber list.
It will not choose anything for you either – no cabinets, no fixtures, no flooring, no paint – and it does not cover site work, excavation, utilities, permits or labor. Every figure carries an accuracy band, and every assumption it made is printed underneath your list so you can check it rather than trust it.
An estimate to bid from, not a quote
Nothing here replaces reading your own drawings. A takeoff done off a rectangle does not know about your bump-outs, and a count read off a drawing is worth checking against the drawing. What it does is get you to a checkable list in a minute instead of an afternoon, with the arithmetic already right and the assumptions written down where you can argue with them.
Sign in to read a plan set. Your first one is free, and it is tied to your account rather than this browser – so it follows you to your phone on site.
Your supplier's prices
Ask your building supply for their price sheet – a spreadsheet, a CSV, or a quote printed to PDF. Upload it once and every list you make is priced at what you actually pay. Anything they do not sell – concrete, most likely – you can type in by hand at the bottom of your list.
A price sheet is kept on your account, so sign in to add one. Quantities below are free either way – signing in is what puts dollars next to them.
No plans handy? Type the numbers in instead – it is free, there is no limit, and it gives you exactly the same list. A supplier price sheet works the same way on typed numbers as it does on a read plan set, so you can price a job you measured yourself.