PlanRadar is a construction documentation and field platform. Work is organised as tickets pinned to plans, with statuses, assignees, forms you design yourself, offline mobile capture, document management, plan version comparison and an open API. Drawing review is one of the things it does, not the thing it is.
Xenmark is focused on the review itself. It is for the side that receives drawings: you collect everyone's comments in one place, each numbered and pinned to the spot on the drawing it refers to. The review produces two documents to send back — a PDF showing where every comment sits, and a spreadsheet saying what each one means.
PlanRadar is the more capable product, and it can produce equivalent PDF and Excel outputs. The difference is not what comes out but how you get there: in PlanRadar the pair is assembled out of a broad ticket and field system you configure first. If you need the site as well as the review, use PlanRadar. Choose Xenmark when drawing review is the job itself, and that matched handover should be the built-in result rather than a report you configure.
Xenmark Free runs one active review at a time, start to finish. PlanRadar offers a 30-day trial with no card, after which running a project needs a paid in-house licence. Both let you invite outsiders free.
Replies belong to the comment, and one comment can hold several markers on the drawing under a single number. A PlanRadar ticket takes one plan position, and a multi-location issue is handled by linking sub-tickets under a parent, each keeping its own Ticket ID, status and form; its comments sit in the Journal alongside attachments and field changes, recorded against the ticket rather than against a single comment.
Comments, replies, statuses, revisions and the handover are the workflow rather than components you assemble, so there is nothing to configure before a review starts. Document management, field workflows, the API and offline capture stay with PlanRadar — which is the point if you only needed the review, and the wrong trade if you needed the rest.
Every PlanRadar claim below is taken from PlanRadar'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 Software changes; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
One thing to say plainly before the table. PlanRadar's project export includes an Excel ticket list and annotated plan PDFs. It also supports Ticket ID labels on separately downloaded plan PDFs. Xenmark produces the matching numbered PDF and register as its standard review handover.
So this page does not claim that deliverable is ours alone. What it compares is how each product gets there, and what else you take on to get it.
| Xenmark | PlanRadar | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | A 30-day free trial, no credit card. After it, running a project needs a paid in-house licence — there is no permanent free plan. |
| Do external reviewers need a paid subscription? | No — the people you invite read, reply and download the exports without paying | No, and generously so. PlanRadar invites an unlimited number of subcontractors and watchers free, on every tier. What they may do is narrower: subcontractors see only the tickets assigned to them, and cannot create tickets, plan markups or set Closed; watchers are view-only. |
| Available platforms | Any modern browser — nothing to install, and the people you invite join from a link | Browser, plus native iOS and Android apps |
| 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 ticket, pinned to one position on a plan and carrying a customisable form. Markups drawn on the plan are separate objects from tickets. |
| Replies | Threaded under the comment, each attributed and dated, with image attachments, and carried into the register | Entries in the ticket Journal, alongside attachments and field changes, and filterable. |
| Status workflow | Open, In progress and Closed — three fixed states, and the status travels into the Excel register | Open, In Progress, Resolved, Feedback, Closed and Rejected, each with a colour. The ticket form around them is fully customisable; the status list itself is predefined. |
| Comment numbering | Numbers are stable — delete comment 5 and the gap stays, so item 12 still means item 12 in every email and every export | Every ticket receives a unique project Ticket ID that cannot be edited. PlanRadar also supports configurable form-based numbering, such as RFI-10001. |
| One issue, several drawing locations | One comment can own several markers while keeping one number and one reply thread | A ticket has one plan position. For an issue spanning several locations PlanRadar can link sub-tickets under a parent — any ticket can be linked this way, each keeping its own plan position, Ticket ID, status and form, and they can sit on different layers. Each stays a separate ticket. |
| Activity history | Every action timestamped and attributed to the person who made it | Yes — the Journal records comments, attachments and changes to ticket fields, and can be filtered by entry type |
| Revision handling | Comments stay tied to the revision they were raised against, in one workflow | Tickets survive a new plan version. On upload PlanRadar asks whether to keep pin locations or review them, and offers a step to drag each pin onto the replacement drawing. Plan markups are the exception — those are saved against one version and are no longer visible on the next. |
| Measuring and markup | ||
| Measuring on the drawing | Length, polylength, perimeter and area, calibrated to the page scale | Distance, Path and Area on plans. The separate markup set for PDFs attached to a ticket has no measurement tool. |
| Setting the drawing scale | Pick a standard scale, type your own, name the sheet size, or calibrate from a distance you already know | Calibrate the scale for the plan. PlanRadar is explicit that measurements are only available once that is done. |
| Building your own reusable symbols | Check, cross, attention, arrow and cloud — five fixed review symbols, not a custom library | Two broad markup toolsets — one for plans, one for PDFs attached to tickets, the latter including notes, links and signatures. |
| Measuring quantities for pricing a job | Not included — measurements are there to explain a comment, not to cost work | Measurements are saved as plan markups rather than gathered into quantities. |
| 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 | A project export ZIP: an Excel ticket register, a folder per plan layer holding the plan file and an annotated PDF showing ticket locations, and all project reports. The same two components, assembled from a broader system. |
| Comment plan PDF | The drawing with each comment numbered and shown where it applies | Yes. A plan downloads as a PDF with ticket pins, and the pin caption can be the Ticket ID, the ticket title or the numbering sequence — with pin size, an optional QR code and the plan version and upload date. |
| Spreadsheet output | An Excel file listing every comment, numbered to match the PDF | Yes — Excel with a column for each ticket field and a backlink to each ticket, sorted by Ticket ID. The template is customisable. |
| 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 stay markups on the plan, with no documented automatic route into Excel. A measured value can be typed by hand into a Number or Decimal ticket field, which does export as a column. |
| 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 | The project ZIP above, with photos, videos and audio by default and all documents optionally. PlanRadar notes it cannot be imported back. |
| Branded reports | Your company logo and text on both deliverables, inherited from Company Settings — Plus and Pro | Deeper than ours. A template builder places your logo in a header and footer on every page, with cover and signature pages, Word-like styling and custom PDF forms. |
| What else each one does | ||
| Batch operations across many PDFs | Not included — a review works on one drawing set at a time | Plans are uploaded to a project and reviewed there |
| Comparing two drawings against each other | Not included — differences get raised as comments by the people reviewing | Yes — plan comparison calculates and highlights the differences between two plan versions |
| Working offline | Browser only, so you need a connection | Yes — the mobile app views, edits and creates tickets with no connection, flags what is unsynced, and pushes it automatically once back online. Comments and the Journal are the documented exception: those need a connection. |
| Storing documents long term | Not what it is for. You download the exports and keep them wherever your project records already live. | Yes — Document Management, with approval workflows from the Pro tier and document versioning on Enterprise only |
| CAD integrations and creating PDFs from CAD | None — a review starts from a PDF that has already been produced | Plans upload as PDF or image files. DWG and DXF can be attached to a ticket, and IFC BIM models are supported from the Pro tier — including a Revit plugin that uploads the model currently open in Revit to a project layer as IFC. |
| Connecting to a document management system | No integrations yet — the closing archive is a single zip you file wherever your records already live | Yes, from the Pro tier — an open REST API for custom integrations, plus PlanRadar Connect for building automations with third-party tools without code |
The two are not priced in the same unit. Xenmark charges per month for the capacity to run projects; PlanRadar charges per in-house user, with the people you invite from outside costing nothing on either side. Each price is shown as the company publishes it — ours include VAT, PlanRadar's exclude it under their own general terms, and we have adjusted neither. Both sides are in euro, so nothing here has been converted.
| Xenmark | PlanRadar | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per project capacity, monthly | Per in-house user, monthly or annually |
| Entry point | Free — one active review, start to finish | A 30-day trial, no credit card. No permanent free plan. |
| To run a review yourself | Free | A paid in-house licence — the entry tier allows a maximum of one paid in-house user |
| Paid range | €14.99 – €59.99 / month | €26 – €149 per user / month depending on tier and billing period, plus Enterprise on request |
| Invited reviewers | Free — no per-user charge; 5–30 project members depending on plan | Free and unlimited — subcontractors and watchers, on every tier |
| Tax basis | Including VAT | EUR · excluding VAT |
Xenmark — current as of 28 August 2026. PlanRadar — checked 25 August 2026 against the euro prices on their published pricing page. PlanRadar sets prices by region and offers several currencies, so figures differ by market. Each tier publishes two figures: the lower applies when you pay for a year up front, the higher when you pay month to month. Both are shown below.
Not a permanent one. PlanRadar publishes a 30-day free trial with no credit card, after which running a project needs a paid in-house licence. Separately — and this is the part worth knowing — subcontractors and watchers can be invited in unlimited numbers for free on every tier, so "free" means something real here even though the person running the work pays.
No. PlanRadar's own user-type documentation says an unlimited number of subcontractors and watchers can be invited for free, and only in-house users require a paid licence. Their permissions are narrower: subcontractors work on tickets assigned to them, can comment, change status and progress and add attachments, but cannot create tickets, draw plan markups, or set a ticket to Closed. Watchers can view and create ticket reports but change nothing. So the count is more generous than ours, while what each free person may actually author is narrower.
Yes. This is worth stating plainly because it is the deliverable Xenmark is built around, and PlanRadar can produce it too. A plan downloads as a PDF with ticket pins whose caption can be the Ticket ID, and the Excel export carries a column for each ticket field and is sorted by that same Ticket ID. A whole-project export also packages an Excel ticket list and annotated plan PDFs into one ZIP.
The difference is the route. In Xenmark that pair is what a review produces by default. In PlanRadar it comes out of a configurable ticket system — which is more powerful, and more to set up and maintain, than a review that only ever needed the two documents.
Yes, on plans — Distance, Path and Area — and PlanRadar is explicit that measurements only become available once you calibrate the scale for that plan. Note that PDFs attached to a ticket use a different markup set, which includes notes, links and signatures but no measurement tool. Measurements stay markups on the plan: there is no documented automatic route from a measured value into the Excel export, though the value can be typed by hand into a Number or Decimal ticket field, which then exports as a column. In Xenmark measurements land on their own sheet in the same file without anyone retyping them.
Yes, and well. Plans are versioned, PlanRadar can compare two versions and highlight what changed — which Xenmark cannot do — and your tickets are not lost when a drawing is replaced. When you upload a new version PlanRadar asks whether the plan has moved or changed scale, and if it has, walks you through dragging each existing pin onto the new drawing.
One documented catch worth knowing: plan markups, measurements included, are saved against the version they were drawn on and are no longer visible once a newer one is uploaded. Tickets carry over; markups do not.
It depends on how many people need to run work rather than take part in it. Neither product charges for the outsiders you invite. PlanRadar is priced per in-house user per month, with an entry tier allowing a maximum of one paid in-house user; Xenmark is priced per month for project capacity regardless of how many people are in the project, within the plan's member cap. For one person running reviews the honest comparison is between one PlanRadar licence and a Xenmark plan. Both are quoted here in euro, but the tax bases differ — ours include VAT and theirs do not — so compare the basis as well as the numbers.
No. PlanRadar covers site documentation, defect and snag workflows, offline mobile capture, document management with approvals, plan comparison and integrations. Xenmark covers the drawing-review workflow and ends it with the comment plan and the matching register. It can replace PlanRadar for that one job, and not for the platform around it.
When work happens on site as well as in the office, when people need to work offline, when you need plan version comparison or want tickets carried onto each new drawing revision, when documents need managing with approvals, when you want to connect the system to others through an API, or when the number of outside parties is large enough that unlimited free subcontractors and watchers is the deciding factor.
We sell Xenmark, so this is not an independent review. We have tried to describe PlanRadar accurately, and every PlanRadar claim on this page rests on PlanRadar's own published documentation, named below. Capabilities and pricing change. PlanRadar feature information was last checked against that documentation on 25 August 2026, and the pricing on 25 August 2026.
PlanRadar's help centre is linked, so every claim here can be checked against the source it rests on. The pricing page is named rather than linked, because a pricing page is a shopfront.
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