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Buy the takeoff ruler once.Keep pricing in your own spreadsheet.

If unit prices and markup already live in a workbook, the piece left to buy is the measuring. MeasureSet sells as a single Microsoft Store purchase, with a 15-day trial of the full app, and covers scale, quantities, totals, and export.

If you price in Excel and need only quantities from plan PDFs, a one-time purchase covers the measuring. Try the full app for 15 days first.

Pay once. Own it forever.

One-time purchase on the Microsoft Store · No subscription · Instant install

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Buy through the Microsoft Store—instant install, automatic updates, and a Microsoft receipt for easy expensing. No account needed on our site, and no subscription on Store purchases.

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If this sounds like your week

The yearly bill pays for features a finish trade never opens.

Estimating suites bundle takeoff with assemblies, cost databases, shared online projects, and reporting, and many are licensed by the seat, by the year. For a contractor whose pricing already sits in a spreadsheet, the part in daily use is the ruler: scale, measure, add up. Subscriptions and their price are a common complaint about these tools, and every added seat repeats the charge.

Where tooling usually breaks

The fallback is paper, a scale ruler, and a calculator.

Going without software means printing each sheet, scaling it with an architect's ruler, and adding figures on a calculator. That costs little up front, yet each bid eats the hours, and the record of it is pencil on paper headed for recycling. A PDF reader that can scale one line at a time changes little, because the adding up and the typing into Excel are still manual. Neither approach produces a takeoff a colleague could audit next month.

Where MeasureSet lands

Pay once for the measuring. Keep pricing where it is.

MeasureSet is a one-time purchase in the Microsoft Store, preceded by a 15-day free trial of the full app. What you buy is the measuring, complete: calibration, every drawing tool, heights, depths, pitches, waste, and revision overlays, with quantities headed to a spreadsheet or a marked-up PDF. There is no subscription, no account, and no license code. The Store runs both the trial and the sale, and the app never asks for payment.

Pay once. Own it forever.

One-time purchase on the Microsoft Store · No subscription · Instant install

Get it from Microsoft

Buy through the Microsoft Store—instant install, automatic updates, and a Microsoft receipt for easy expensing. No account needed on our site, and no subscription on Store purchases.

Learn more about MeasureSet

windows · plan pdf never written over · no account · nothing uploads

What you get

Feature highlights

Scale from the drawing

calibrate each sheet by clicking both ends of a dimension you know and typing its length, or pick a standard architectural, engineering, or metric scale, then check a second dimension with the segment tool.

One click per room

the room tool adds a closed room’s floor area from one click inside it, and the length, area, rectangle, count, and segment tools cover everything else, with undo for every change.

Labels that carry the math

give a label a height for wall area, a depth for volume, a roof slope for sloped area, and a waste allowance, and every mark with that label follows; openings deduct with their own height.

Totals and revisions

totals for each sheet and for the whole set, several PDFs in one project, and a revision compare where red is only on the sheet and blue is only on the revision.

Excel, CSV, or a marked-up PDF

export an .xlsx with Marks and Totals sheets, a .csv, or a new PDF of the marked sheets with a totals page, all from the Windows save dialog.

Your plan stays as it was

MeasureSet only reads plan PDFs and never writes over one, works with no account and no telemetry, and nothing uploads.

Especially when

  • Measure lengths, areas, and counts on a plan PDF at its real scale on a Windows PC, without printing the sheets or renting an estimating suite
  • Turn wall runs on a floor plan into net wall area, with door and window openings deducted and a waste allowance added
  • Get quantities from a PDF drawing set into Excel by label, for each sheet and the whole set, with a marked-up PDF showing what was measured
  • Check a revised drawing against the sheet that was measured, without changing the original plan PDF

Who benefits

Real-world scenarios

A painting shop with its own price workbook

A painting contractor keeps unit prices, production rates, and markup in an Excel workbook built up over years, and needs only quantities from each new plan set.

MeasureSet supplies the quantities: wall area by height, trim in linear feet, and doors by count. The Totals sheet from the .xlsx export goes into the existing workbook, so the pricing stays where it has always been.

Judging the room tool during the trial

A flooring estimator wants to know, before buying, whether the room tool handles the drawing style of the architects whose plans the shop bids from week after week.

During the 15-day free trial, the estimator opens last month's bid set, clicks into each room, and sets the areas beside the figures that went into that bid. Rooms the tool cannot close get outlined with the area tool.

A concrete crew moving off printed plans

A small concrete contractor still prints slab plans, reads them with a scale ruler, and works out cubic yards on a calculator for every pour.

Slab outlines with a depth give cubic yards in the Totals list, and the marked-up PDF records which areas were counted, something the printed sheets never kept once they were thrown out.

Deep dive

What a one-time purchase covers, and how to judge it in 15 days

What you get. MeasureSet is the takeoff, complete: calibration from a known dimension or a standard scale, length, area, rectangle, count, segment, and room tools, wall area from a height, volume from a depth, roof slope, waste, deductions for openings and voids, totals for each sheet and the whole set, revision compare, several PDFs in one project, saved jobs, and export to .xlsx, .csv, and a marked-up PDF. The trial is the full app, not a cut-down edition.

What it is not. It is a takeoff ruler, not an estimating suite. It has no assemblies, no cost database, and no cloud collaboration, it does not search drawings for symbols, and it runs on Windows and opens PDF files only. If your work needs those things, buying once does not change that.

How the Store handles it. The Microsoft Store runs the 15-day free trial and the one-time sale. The app itself has no license code, no Buy button, and no account to create, and the Store listing shows the current price. Buying is done on that listing, not inside the app.

A plan for the trial. Use a plan set you bid recently, so you already know roughly what the answers should be. Calibrate a floor plan sheet from its longest printed dimension and check a second dimension with the segment tool. Click into a few rooms with the room tool and see which ones it closes on your architects' drawings. Trace a wall run, give its label a height, and deduct a door. Export the .xlsx and paste the Totals sheet into your pricing workbook. Export a marked-up PDF and decide whether you would send it with a bid. If an addendum came with that set, try Open > Revision to compare.

Your files stay yours. The .xlsx, .csv, and PDF exports open in other programs, and jobs save as .measureset project files on your PC. MeasureSet works with no account and no telemetry, and nothing uploads.

When a suite is the better buy. If you need assemblies that turn a wall into studs, board, and labor, a shared cost database, symbol counts across large commercial sets, or a team working in one project online, an estimating suite fits better. If you measure and then price in your own spreadsheet, the ruler is the part worth owning. Either way, a measurement is only as good as the calibration and the drawing.

How it is built

Built to measure the plan, never to change it.

The plan is only read

MeasureSet never writes over a plan PDF. Exports are new files you name, and a marked-up PDF is refused over any plan open in the session, checked by path and by content.

Nothing leaves your PC

No account, no telemetry, and no network calls. The package declares no capabilities, and the app opens only the files you pick.

A ruler, not a suite

Scale, length, area, counts, and totals for Excel. No assemblies, no cost database, no cloud collaboration. One-time purchase in the Microsoft Store.

Head-to-head

How MeasureSet compares

Feature MeasureSet Subscription estimating suite Paper and a scale ruler
How you pay Once, in the Microsoft Store Often per user, per year Printing, paper, and a ruler
Trying it first 15-day free trial of the full app, run by the Store Varies by product Not applicable
Assemblies and cost database — ✓ —
Shared online projects — Often —
Where plans are measured On your PC; nothing uploads Desktop or online, depending on the product On printed sheets
Record of what was measured Saved project, .xlsx or .csv, and a marked-up PDF Inside the product's own project files Pencil marks on the prints

FAQ

Straight answers—no glossary dump

Is MeasureSet a subscription?

No. MeasureSet is a one-time purchase in the Microsoft Store, and the Store listing shows the current price. Before buying, the Store runs a 15-day free trial with the full app, so every tool and export can be tried on your own plans. The app has no license code and no account, and there is nothing to renew.

What can I try during the 15-day free trial?

Everything. The Microsoft Store runs the trial with the full app: calibration, every measuring tool including the room tool, labels with height, depth, slope, and waste, revision compare, saved projects, and all three exports. Buying is done on the Store listing, not inside the app, since MeasureSet has no Buy button.

When is an estimating suite the better choice?

When the job needs more than quantities. Assemblies that turn a measured wall into materials and labor, a shared cost database, symbol searches across large commercial sets, and teams working in one online project are suite territory, and MeasureSet has none of them. If you price in your own spreadsheet and only need the measuring, a one-time purchase covers that part.

How far can I trust the measurements?

A measurement is only as good as the calibration and the drawing. MeasureSet multiplies what you click by the scale you set, so calibrate each sheet from the longest printed dimension you can find, then measure a second dimension with the segment tool before you start. A reduced print, a sheet marked not to scale, or a dimension that does not match its line will carry its error into every quantity on that sheet.

Will MeasureSet change my plan PDF?

No. MeasureSet only reads plan PDFs and never writes over one. Scales, marks, and labels are kept in a separate .measureset project file that you save. Every export is a new file that you name in the Windows save dialog, and the app refuses to save a marked-up PDF over any plan open in the session, including a revision you are comparing, even when the same file is reached another way, such as a mapped drive.

Does anything leave my PC, and how do I get MeasureSet?

Nothing uploads. MeasureSet works on your PC with no account and no telemetry, and the app makes no network calls. It runs on Windows 10 version 2004 or later and on Windows 11. It is a one-time purchase in the Microsoft Store, and the Store runs a 15-day free trial with the full app, so you can measure one of your own plan sets before you buy. There is no subscription and no license code.

Related pages

Plan PDF in. Quantities out, on your Windows PC. One dimension you trust. Every other line measured from it. Trace the wall runs. Get wall area, less the openings.

The plans are already a PDF.
Measure them and price in Excel.

MeasureSet sets the scale from a dimension you know, measures length, area, and counts by label, and exports totals to .xlsx, .csv, or a marked-up PDF. It never writes over the plan PDF, and nothing uploads. The 15-day free trial in the Microsoft Store has the full app.

Pay once. Own it forever.

One-time purchase on the Microsoft Store · No subscription · Instant install

Get it from Microsoft

Buy through the Microsoft Store—instant install, automatic updates, and a Microsoft receipt for easy expensing. No account needed on our site, and no subscription on Store purchases.

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Technical specifications

Technical specifications for procurement

Spec Implementation
Data Sovereignty Reads only the PDFs you pick in the Windows file picker and never writes over them; writes only the project, .xlsx, .csv, or marked-up PDF files you name in the save dialog; the label library and unit settings stay in the app’s local settings on this PC
Telemetry Status None; no account, no telemetry, and no network client in the app
Core Runtime .NET 10 and WinUI 3 (Windows App SDK), packaged as MSIX and run in the Windows app sandbox; pages are rendered with the PDF engine built into Windows
Network Requirements Fully functional offline; the package declares no capabilities, including no internet access, and the app makes no network calls
Deployment Compatibility Windows 10 version 2004 or later and Windows 11, x64; one-time purchase on the Microsoft Store with a 15-day free trial
Inputs PDF plan sets picked in the Windows file picker; several PDFs per project; a revision PDF can be opened for comparison
Measuring Calibration from a known dimension, or standard architectural, engineering, and metric scales; length, area, rectangle, room, count, and segment tools; deductions; snapping to corners of other marks
Quantities Length, area with perimeter, count, wall area from a height, volume from a depth, sloped area from a roof slope, and waste, in imperial or metric units; totals per sheet and for the whole set
Outputs Excel workbook (.xlsx) with Marks and Totals sheets, CSV (UTF-8, RFC 4180) with the same two tables, a marked-up PDF with a totals page, and a .measureset project file
Plan safety Plan PDFs are only read; a marked-up PDF is refused over any plan open in the session, checked by path and by content, and is written only when complete
Limits PDF input only; one scale per sheet; no circle or arc tool; no symbol search; no assemblies, cost database, or cloud collaboration