SiteFeedTakeoff

SiteFeed Takeoff

Simple construction estimating and takeoff for iPad.

Measure PDF plans, work out material quantities and price jobs using your own rates. Built for tradespeople and small contractors.

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  • Native iPad app
  • Works from your PDF drawings
  • No account needed
SiteFeed Takeoff on iPad measuring a building plan. A blue concrete volume reads 3.64 m³ from 36.44 m² × 0.10 m, a yellow liquid screed volume reads 1.81 m³ from 60.25 m² × 0.03 m, and the Quantities panel lists both tools.
  1. 01Open a PDFPick a drawing from Files.
  2. 02CalibrateAgainst a dimension you know.
  3. 03MeasureLengths, areas, counts, volumes.
  4. 04Price & exportA marked-up PDF and a CSV.

Price & export

From marked-up drawing to a priced takeoff.

Measure the work, apply your own rates and export a PDF that somebody can actually price from. Quantities, cut-outs, counts and the estimate stay together.

A real SiteFeed Takeoff pricing screen with electrical count markers and cable runs on a building drawing. The pricing panel shows separate rates and totals for cable runs, sockets, switches, lights and an outside socket.
Price from the drawing. Different tools can use different rates — per item, length, area or volume — without changing the measured quantities.

REAL SITEFEED EXPORT

Quantity Takeoff

7-page drawing set · named pages supported

Totals — all pages

ToolTypeNetItems
Soundbloc 12.5mmArea127.27 m²3
RenderArea62.88 m²2
SocketCount19 No.19
LightsCount22 No.22
FlooringArea76.69 m²2

Estimate — all pages (GBP)

Render£5,321.61
Gross 77.12 m² × £69.00/m² · priced on GROSS
Socket£1,330.00
19 No. × £70.00/item
Flooring£1,802.28
76.69 m² × £23.50/m²
Project Price / Estimate£13,727.59

Example from a real SiteFeed export. Pricing is calculated from your rates and never changes the measured quantities.

Named pagesPage 1 — Ground Floor, Living Room, First Floor…
Page-by-page breakdownSee exactly which quantities belong to each drawing.
Gross, cut-outs & netKeep the workings visible instead of hiding the useful detail.
Why it exists

Built on the tools

SiteFeed Takeoff started with a working plasterer who wanted a quicker way to measure drawings on an iPad.

The big professional PDF packages are powerful. But most of what they do isn't needed for everyday trade estimating, and they're built for a desk, not for an evening between site days.

A quantity takeoff is simply measuring what you need from building plans: square metres of plasterboard, lengths of skirting or cubic metres of concrete. Those quantities are the starting point for estimating materials and pricing the job.

So this does the part that matters: an accurate scale, accurate measurements, clear quantities and simple pricing. Open the drawing, measure it, price it, send it. Then get back to work.

Built by a tradesman, for people pricing real work.

What it does

Everything you need to price from a drawing. Nothing you don't.

Measure

Measure directly from PDF drawings

Open the architect's PDF and measure on it. Walls, ceilings, floors, beads, openings: tap the points and the quantity appears on the drawing.

Every point is stored against the drawing itself, not the screen. Zoom in, zoom out, come back tomorrow: your measurements stay exactly where you put them.

Curved bay or round room? Draw a circle, ellipse or arc instead of breaking it into straight lines.

Close-up of a site plan in the app. A green area over the living, dining and kitchen reads 91.84 m². A second area over a courtyard is selected with blue corner handles and reads Net 41.80 m², with a hatched cut-out labelled −4.59 m².
Real screenshot. Areas sit on the drawing, labelled with their quantities.

Scale

Accurate manual calibration

If the drawing says 5 metres, calibrate against it and measure from there.

Tap both ends of a dimension you know, type the real length in mm or m, and that page is set. The app shows the implied paper scale, such as ≈ 1:100, so you can check it against the title block. Got a set drawn at the same scale? Copy the calibration to the other pages.

There's no automatic scale guessing. You set the scale from the drawing, so you know exactly where it came from.

The app toolbar showing Page 1 of 7 with arrows, a green calibrated badge reading ≈1:100, and the Check scale button.
Real screenshot. Every page shows whether it's calibrated.

How the scale is worked out (illustration)

Drawn on paper
50.0 mm
Actual length you type
5000 mm
Implied scale
≈ 1:100

Snapping

Intelligent PDF snapping

Turn on Snap and points lock onto the real linework in the PDF: wall corners, line ends and edges. A small magenta marker shows exactly where the point will land before you commit it.

It's careful. When two lines are too close to tell which one you meant, it doesn't guess. It leaves your point where you put it.

Helpful when you want it. Invisible when you don't.

Works on drawings with vector linework (most CAD-exported PDFs). Scanned drawings measure as normal, they just don't snap.

Close-up of a floor plan while drawing a Skirting perimeter with Snap on. The magnifier shows the orange line meeting a wall, with a magenta diamond marker on the wall line where the point will land. A second small magenta marker sits on the drawing below it, and the running length reads 28.57 m.
Real screenshot. The magnifier shows the magenta marker exactly where the point will land.
The app sidebar with Select, Calibrate and Cut-out buttons, the Reuse tool and Snap switches turned on, and the General toolbox with Length, Perimeter, Area and Count tools.
Real screenshot. Snap is one switch in the sidebar.

Openings

Gross, openings and net

Draw the wall or ceiling, then cut out the windows, doors and voids. The app keeps all three numbers: Gross, Cut-outs and Net.

You see what came off and why, and you can price on gross or net, whichever the job calls for.

Part of a rear elevation measured in the app. A pink EPS & Render area is labelled Net 30.33 m², Gross 30.77 − 0.44, with a dashed cut-out for a window labelled −0.44 m². A neighbouring render area reads 13.24 m².
Real screenshot. The new window comes off the EPS & Render area: Net 30.33 m² from Gross 30.77 m².
The £ Pricing panel for page 5. Render: Gross 67.78 m², Cut-outs −7.17 m², Net 60.61 m², priced on GROSS at £4,473.36. EPS & Render: Gross 46.31 m², Cut-outs −0.44 m², Net 45.86 m², priced on NET at £4,012.95. The basis that counts is ticked and the other is greyed out.
Real screenshot. One tool priced on gross, another on net. The tick shows which counts.

Tools

Reusable tools, set up your way

Make a tool for each thing you price, like Plasterboard, Render or Skim to ceilings. Give each one a name, a colour, a fill style and opacity, and a default price.

Group them in toolboxes and they're ready on every job. Turn on Reuse tool and it stays armed, so you can measure room after room without reselecting it.

The app sidebar showing the General toolbox with Length, Perimeter and Area tools plus two custom area tools named Plasterboard and Render, each with its own colour.
Real screenshot. Custom Plasterboard and Render tools next to the basics.

Each tool keeps

  • Name
  • Type: Length, Perimeter, Area, Count or Volume
  • Line colour and thickness
  • Fill colour and opacity
  • Marker shape (Count)
  • Default rate

Count

Count and price items by type

Sockets, switches, lights, radiators, downlights: make a Count tool for each, then tap every one on the drawing. Each tap is one item, with its own marker shape and colour, so you can see at a glance what's been counted.

Give each tool a rate per item and the £ panel does the sums, like 15 No. × £55.00 = £825.00. Handy for electricians and plumbers pricing per point, with cable or pipe runs measured as lengths on the same page.

Count works without calibrating the page. Markers can be moved, deleted and undone like any other measurement.

A building section measured for electrical work. Blue square markers for sockets, green triangles for switches, yellow stars for lights and a pink diamond for an outside socket are placed across the rooms, with orange cable runs labelled 8.36 m and 3.36 m. The £ Pricing panel lists Cable Run 11.72 lm × £15.00/lm = £175.85, Sockets 15 No. × £55.00/item = £825.00, Switches 6 No. × £45.00/item = £270.00, Lights 9 No. × £60.00/item = £540.00 and Outside Socket 1 No. × £135.00/item = £135.00.
Real screenshot. Sockets, switches and lights counted on a section and priced per item.
The tool list in the sidebar: Cable Run (Perimeter), and Count tools Sockets, Switches, Lights and Outside Socket, each with its own marker shape and colour.
Real screenshot. One Count tool per item type, each with its own marker.

Volume

Volumes in m³, from the areas you measure

Measure an area, add a height, depth or thickness, and SiteFeed calculates the volume in m³.

Rooms, concrete slabs, screed, excavations: draw the area as normal, take off any cut-outs, then enter the height, depth or thickness. Each measurement keeps its own figure, so one tool can cover slabs of different thicknesses.

Give the tool a rate and it's priced per m³, on gross or net, just like an area.

A measurement with no height, depth or thickness yet is flagged and counts as 0 m³ until you add one. Nothing is guessed.

A ground floor plan measured for volumes. A blue Concrete Volume area reads 3.64 m³ from 36.44 m² × 0.10 m, and a yellow Liquid screed area reads 1.81 m³ from 60.25 m² × 0.03 m, each with a callout note. The Quantities panel lists Concrete Volume 3.64 m³ and Liquid screed 1.81 m³ for the current page.
Real screenshot. A concrete slab and a liquid screed measured as volumes, with the workings under each total.

Pricing

Estimate jobs from your measured quantities

Set a rate per tool: £/m², £/lm, £/m³ or £/item. Turn a length or perimeter into an area with a height, which is handy for walls. See totals for the current page or the whole set.

  • Workings on every line
  • Areas priced on gross or net, with the other shown for comparison
  • Rates can be saved as tool defaults for the next job
The app's £ Pricing panel for page 1. Skirting: 102.33 lm × £15.00/lm, £1,534.93. Floor Area: Gross 94.18 m², £2,119.13, ticked; Cut-outs −0.87 m²; Net 93.32 m², £2,099.64, shown for information; Priced on GROSS. Doors / Items: 15 No. × £50.00/item, £750.00. Page 1 price / estimate: £4,404.06.
Real screenshot. Page 1 priced: skirting, floor area and doors.

Prices are worked out from the quantities. Changing a rate never changes a measurement.

Exports

Clear exports

Export a marked-up PDF you can send to a client or contractor, plus a CSV for Numbers or Excel.

  • Drawing pages with your markup
  • Quantity summary per tool
  • Gross, cut-outs and net for areas
  • Calibration record for each page
  • Optional estimate, on the summary pages only

Your original PDF is never changed.

Projects

Works as a project, not a flattened PDF

Come back next week, change an area, add another item or amend the price. The measurements remain editable.

Drag any corner to adjust it. Undo and redo cover everything. Projects save as you go and reopen where you left off.

Your data

Local-first

The current version keeps your drawings and projects on your iPad. There's no account to create and nothing to sign in to.

When you want a copy somewhere else, export a project backup to Files and keep it wherever you like.

Markups

Notes on the drawing, kept out of the numbers

Flag a question or point something out: Text, Arrow, Rectangle, Circle/Ellipse, Cloud, Pen and Highlighter. Switch the sidebar from Measure to Markup, add your note, and switch back.

A construction section in the app with the sidebar switched to Markup, showing Text, Arrow, Rectangle, Circle/Ellipse, Cloud, Pen and Highlighter, colour swatches and a Show markups switch. On the drawing are a yellow text callout reading Contractor To Supply??, a green callout with an arrow reading More detail required, and an orange dashed rectangle.
Real screenshot. Two callouts and a rectangle on a section, with the Markup tools in the sidebar.

Markups are never measured, priced or counted, and you choose whether they go in the PDF export. It's still a takeoff tool, not a PDF editor.

Curves

Circles, ellipses and arcs

Draw a circle, an ellipse or an arc with the same tools you already use. On an Area tool it gives the area in m². On a Length or Perimeter tool it gives the circumference or the arc length.

A circle drawn with a Length tool over a drawing's scale bar, labelled 7.87 m. The selection panel reads Circle, counts as Circumference, with Radius 1.25 m, Diameter 2.50 m, Circumference 7.87 m and Area 4.92 m².
Real screenshot. A circle checked against the scale bar: 2.50 m across, 7.87 m round.

Focused on purpose

Simple doesn't mean limited

Accurate where it matters. Simple where it should be.

You probably don't need a hundred markup tools to price a plastering job. You need the drawing to scale properly, your measurements to be accurate, and your quantities to add up.

SiteFeed Takeoff is deliberately focused, not basic. It does the measuring and pricing properly, without the complexity of enterprise takeoff software.

Who it's for

Made for the people pricing the work

Different trades, same job: take a set of drawings, get the quantities right, and turn them into a price.

  • Sole traders
  • General builders
  • Plasterers & renderers
  • Dryliners
  • Carpenters
  • Plumbers
  • Electricians
  • Flooring contractors
  • Groundworkers

Starter toolboxes

Choose a starter setup, then make it yours

The first time you open the app, pick the trade closest to yours and you start with a toolbox already set up for it. Or skip it and keep the General tools.

Starter toolboxes are ordinary toolboxes. Rename tools, change their colours, add or delete tools, or use Create My Own to build one from scratch. You can add another trade's starter toolbox at any time.

It's one app with one measurement engine, not a separate version for each trade. Every toolbox measures, prices and exports the same way.

The welcome screen asking What do you mainly use SiteFeed Takeoff for?, with a list of trades from General Building to Concrete & Groundworks, each showing the starter tools it adds.
Real screenshot. The first-run chooser. Each trade shows the tools it starts you with.

Screenshots

Taken from SiteFeed Takeoff running on iPad. Nothing mocked up.

A plastering takeoff on a first-floor plan: purple Ceilings areas over two bedrooms reading 21.34 m² and 26.21 m², blue Dot & Dab perimeter runs labelled 7.80 m, 15.66 m, 9.95 m, 9.29 m and 20.52 m, and the £ Pricing panel showing Dot & Dab 63.22 lm × 2.50 m = 158.04 m² × £10.00/m² = £1,580.40, Ceilings Gross 47.54 m² × £7.50/m² = £356.56, and a page 3 estimate of £1,936.97.
A plastering job, priced. Ceilings by area, dot & dab by length × height, on page 3 of the set.
Tool sidebar with custom Plasterboard and Render tools.
Your tools, ready every job.
A cross-section drawing measured with the Length tool: orange dimension lines labelled 4.18 m and 9.51 m across the floors, and 2.43 m and 2.47 m for the ceiling heights.
Lengths on a section. Room widths and ceiling heights, straight off the drawing.
The start screen reading No projects yet, with an Import PDF from Files button.
Start from a PDF. Straight from the Files app.
Selection panel reading Gross 46.40 m², Cut-outs −4.59 m², Net 41.80 m².
Openings accounted for. Gross, cut-outs and net side by side.

Pricing

Simple pricing

SiteFeed Takeoff is meant to be affordable for one person pricing their own work. No per-seat enterprise licence, no bundle of tools you'll never open.

£9.99/month or £29.99/year

Full app access on either plan. Subscriptions are managed through the App Store.

Short on time?

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Measure drawings. Price work. Get back on site.

SiteFeed Takeoff brings PDF measurement, material quantities and job pricing together on your iPad.

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