Fieldwire is jobsite management software, owned by Hilti. It marks up drawings, pins items to an exact spot, measures, compares two sheets and keeps a version history — and then it does the much larger job it was built for: assigning work to crews, punch lists, scheduling, daily reports, forms and photos from site.
The difference is what the unit of work is. In Fieldwire it is a task — an item with an assignee, status, category and due date, used for everything from QA/QC and inspections to design coordination, and often to drive work on site. In Xenmark it is a comment — raised against a drawing revision for someone to answer. Both live on a drawing; they are not the same object.
If the drawings are already on site and the question is who does what by when, Fieldwire is the right tool and Xenmark is not competing for the job. Choose Xenmark for the step before that: a drawing set arrives, it needs commenting on, and the comments go back to whoever issued it.
Fieldwire bills per user, and states that inviting a free Basic user to a paid project converts them into a paid user on your account. Xenmark never charges for the people you invite — 5–30 per project depending on plan.
Both products have a free tier. On Fieldwire, reports and exports start at Pro, so the free plan cannot produce the deliverable. On Xenmark the Free plan runs a review start to finish, exports included.
Fieldwire pins work to be done and tracks it to completion. Xenmark numbers a comment, keeps it against the revision it was raised on, and sends it back to be answered. Different question, different record.
Every Fieldwire claim below is taken from Fieldwire's own published material and was last checked on 25 August 2026. Software changes; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
| Xenmark | Fieldwire | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting a review | ||
| Can the person running the review start free? | Yes — the Free plan runs one active review at a time, start to finish | Yes, with one limit that matters here. The Basic plan is €0 for up to 5 users, 3 projects and 100 sheets — but reports and exports begin at Pro, so the free tier cannot produce the documents. |
| Do external reviewers need a paid subscription? | No — the people you invite read, reply and download the exports without paying | Yes. Fieldwire states that inviting a Basic user to a paid project converts them into a paid user and charges your account at the subscription rate. Someone who already has their own paid subscription is not charged twice. |
| Available platforms | Any modern browser — nothing to install, and the people you invite join from a link | Browser, iOS and Android, with a Windows app in beta |
| How the review is structured | ||
| What the review is built from | A numbered comment. Anything drawn on the page belongs to that comment rather than standing on its own. | A task, pinned to a point on the plan and assigned to someone to go and do, with a status, category, due date and watchers |
| Replies | Threaded under the comment, each attributed and dated, with image attachments, and carried into the register | Real-time messaging on the task with push notifications, alongside photos, videos and attachments |
| Status workflow | Open, In progress and Closed — three fixed states, and the status travels into the Excel register | Yes — the standard task states, plus custom task statuses from Pro and custom task fields from Business |
| Comment numbering | Numbers are stable — delete comment 5 and the gap stays, so a number is never reused | Yes — every task carries a Task Number that is unique within the project and, in their words, cannot be changed or altered. A deleted task stays recoverable from the Trash for 30 days. |
| One issue, several drawing locations | One comment can own several markers while keeping one number and one reply thread | Tasks can be linked to one another, and markups can be batch-selected. |
| Activity history | Every action timestamped and attributed to the person who made it | Yes — Fieldwire frames this as knowing exactly who did what, capturing as-built information as a record of the work performed |
| Revision handling | Comments stay tied to the revision they were raised against, in one workflow | Slipsheeting. A new version is laid over the old one and markups, annotations and attachments carry forward onto it. Earlier versions stay available behind a red watermark; the project-level version view lists the last 90 days of plan uploads, dropping to 30 days or fewer on projects carrying more than 1,000 version events. |
| Measuring and markup | ||
| Measuring on the drawing | Length, polylength, perimeter and area, calibrated to the page scale | Yes — calibration, distance, area and multi-line measurement in the markup toolbar. Their documentation notes that millimetres are not supported. |
| Setting the drawing scale | Pick a standard scale, type your own, name the sheet size, or calibrate from a distance you already know | Automatic where the sheet carries a text or vector scale, which it reads and calibrates for you. Otherwise you calibrate by drawing a known distance, and several plans can be calibrated at once. |
| Building your own reusable symbols | Check, cross, attention, arrow and cloud — five fixed review symbols, not a custom library | Markup symbols placed on plans, with batch editing, a selection tool, and copy-paste of tasks and markups between sheets |
| Measuring quantities for pricing a job | Not included — measurements are there to explain a comment, not to cost work | Fieldwire lists rough takeoffs among its own strengths. |
| What comes out of the review | ||
| What you send back | The two documents come out ready to send — there is nothing to set up first, because the review was structured that way from the start | Reports you build and schedule — your own templates, filters and sorting, delivered as an emailed link. The recipient does not need a Fieldwire account. |
| Comment plan PDF | The drawing with each comment numbered and shown where it applies | Yes — plans export to PDF with task pins, markups, symbols, text and measurements as layers you tick on or off |
| Spreadsheet output | An Excel file listing every comment, numbered to match the PDF | Yes — a complete CSV export of all task data, from Pro. Also a PDF Summary for punch lists and a Detailed PDF carrying images and annotations. |
| Measurements in the export | Drawn on the comment plan PDF where they were placed, and listed on their own sheet in the Excel file, kept separate from the comments | Measurements travel on the plan export as a markup layer rather than as a schedule of their own |
| What you keep when the project ends | A single zip file — every revision's exports, the attachments and the full activity log, downloaded and stored on your side | A full project export — plans, photos, files and a CSV of every task, emailed as a download link. Needs Pro or above and Project Admin rights, runs 1,000 sheets at a time, and does not include 3D models. |
| Branded reports | Your company logo and text on both deliverables, inherited from Company Settings — Plus and Pro | Yes — a Project Admin can upload a company logo and change the colour of the report banner, on top of building reusable report templates from Pro |
| What else each one does | ||
| Batch operations across many PDFs | Not included — a review works on one drawing set at a time | Yes — bulk plan upload and export, batch markup editing, and calibrating several plans in one go |
| Comparing two drawings against each other | Not included — differences get raised as comments by the people reviewing | Yes — sheet compare on paid plans, either two versions of one sheet or two different sheets, with matching parts in greyscale and differences in red and blue |
| Working offline | Browser only, so you need a connection | Yes — the iOS and Android apps work fully offline and sync when reconnected. Not available on the Windows app. |
| Storing documents long term | Not what it is for. You download the exports and keep them wherever your project records already live. | Yes — unlimited projects and sheets on paid plans, holding plans, photos, files and forms per project |
| CAD integrations and creating PDFs from CAD | None — a review starts from a PDF that has already been produced | No CAD authoring. A BIM viewer arrives at Business, and 3D models cannot be exported back out. |
| Connecting to a document management system | No integrations yet — the closing archive is a single zip you file wherever your records already live | Business and Business Plus. Two-way sync with Box, Dropbox and OneDrive, plus an integrations tab covering Google Sheets, Excel, Outlook, Google Calendar and ArcGIS Online. |
Both products publish prices and both have a free tier, so this is a genuine like-for-like on figures. What differs is the unit: Fieldwire charges per user, Xenmark charges for project capacity and never per reviewer. Fieldwire figures are the EUR ones from their own pricing page, which defaults to annual billing. Xenmark prices are read from our pricing page at build time and include VAT; Fieldwire states no tax basis, so none is assumed here.
| Xenmark | Fieldwire | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per project capacity, monthly | Per user, monthly or annually |
| Entry point | Free — one active review, start to finish | €0 — Basic, capped at 3 projects, 100 sheets and 5 users, and it cannot export |
| To run a review yourself | Free | €39 per user / month — Pro, the first tier that can produce reports and exports |
| Paid range | €14.99 – €59.99 / month | €39 – €89 per user / month billed annually, or €54 – €104 billed monthly |
| Invited reviewers | Free — no per-user charge; 5–30 project members depending on plan | Chargeable. Inviting a Basic user to a paid project converts them into a paid user on your account. |
| Tax basis | Including VAT | Not stated on their pricing page |
Xenmark — read from live plan data at build time, 28 August 2026, so it cannot drift from our pricing page. Fieldwire — checked 25 August 2026 on their pricing page, EUR selected (EUR; tax basis not stated). Their page offers 17 currencies and defaults to annual billing.
Basic is free. Pro is €39 per user per month billed annually, Business €64 and Business Plus €89. Billed monthly instead, those become €54, €79 and €104. Enterprise contracts covering API access, SSO and training are quoted separately. Figures are the EUR ones from their pricing page, checked 25 August 2026.
Yes — the Basic plan, capped at 3 projects, 100 sheets and 5 users across the account. The limit that matters for drawing review is that reports and exports begin at Pro, so Basic cannot produce the PDF or the spreadsheet at the end. Xenmark's Free plan runs a review start to finish, exports included.
Yes. Fieldwire's documentation states that inviting a Basic user to a paid project automatically converts them into a paid user under your account, charged at the applicable rate. If the person already has their own paid subscription you are not charged for them. Xenmark never charges for invited reviewers on any plan.
It depends entirely on how many people touch the review. Fieldwire is priced per user; Xenmark is priced for project capacity and never per reviewer. One person working alone is a close call; the cost difference grows with every extra person who needs paid Fieldwire access.
It does both: drawing review and broader site management. Plans are marked up, items are pinned to an exact spot, sheets can be compared, measurements calibrated, and versions slipsheeted so markups carry forward. It is a site tool that reviews drawings well, rather than a drawing review tool with site features bolted on.
It exports tasks to CSV, which opens in Excel, from the Pro plan upward — along with a PDF summary suited to punch lists and a detailed PDF carrying images and annotations. Reports can be scheduled and emailed to people who do not have a Fieldwire account. The difference from Xenmark is what the rows are: tasks assigned to people, rather than numbered comments matched to a comment plan PDF.
No. If you are running work on a jobsite, Fieldwire does a great deal Xenmark cannot do at all — scheduling, punch lists, forms, offline mobile, RFIs. Xenmark only replaces it if what you actually had was a drawing review.
Whenever the answer to a marked-up drawing is someone going out to do the work, whenever the site is part of the loop, or whenever you need the record to be as-built rather than as-commented.
We sell Xenmark, so this is not an independent review. We have tried to describe Fieldwire accurately, and every Fieldwire claim on this page rests on Fieldwire's own published documentation, named below. Capabilities and pricing change. Fieldwire feature information was last checked against that documentation on 25 August 2026, and the pricing on 25 August 2026.
Fieldwire's pricing page is named rather than linked — their site is where Fieldwire sells. Their documentation is linked, because it is the evidence for what is claimed here.
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