Procore Drawings vs Xenmark for drawing review.

No free plan is published. Procore quotes an upfront annual fee by product, based on your Annual Construction Volume — the aggregate value of the construction work across your projects — and the way to a figure is a demo or a call with their sales team.

What is free is the people: Procore states it will never charge for adding users, and that includes clients, subcontractors and vendors. Xenmark Free runs one active review at a time from upload to exports, with no card and no time limit.

They never pay. Procore is explicit that users are unlimited and that adding more of them is never charged for. What varies is what each person may do: adding a markup needs Read Only or above, and publishing it where anybody else can see it needs Standard or Admin permission on the Drawings tool. Until it is published, a markup sits on that person's own layer.

Xenmark works the same way, by role rather than by bill. Invited people are free within your plan's member limit, and the Project Manager decides whether each one is a Participant, who replies and downloads exports, or an Editor, who creates comments and pins. That choice is available on every plan, including Free.

Yes, and this is worth knowing before you assume otherwise. A drawing download taken with markup includes the items linked to that sheet, where the tag for each one — such as "RFI 7" — appears as a hyperlink, and the colour of each pin carries its status. Taken from the Drawings log it carries the published markups; a personal layer comes out only by downloading that sheet from the viewer. An Observations export gives you the number, type, trade, title, assignee, dates, status, priority and location, as CSV or PDF.

Two differences remain. The documents come out of different tools rather than from one review, and Linked Drawings appears in the PDF-with-photos export rather than in the CSV, so the spreadsheet names the location rather than the sheet. And what joins the two is the record number, which Procore says you may edit. In Xenmark the plan and the register are produced together and numbered from the same comment, and the number is not editable at all.

Yes. Calibrate first from a length you already know, entered in feet and inches or in metres, then measure distance, area or a freehand shape. If you recalibrate later, the measurements you have already placed are recalculated against the new scale.

Procore adds a caveat of its own worth repeating: the calibrations, areas and distances "are approximate and only appear on your Personal layer". Because measurement markups cannot be published they never join the shared review — but they do come out. A separate Measurements Report collects the measurements you have added across the project's drawings and exports them to PDF or CSV. Xenmark measures length, polylength, perimeter and area against the page scale and puts those values on their own sheet inside the same Excel file as the comments, so the register and the measurements arrive as one document rather than two.

Better than Xenmark can, on the comparison side. Procore keeps a drawing history and opens a comparison mode that overlaps one revision on the other and highlights the changes — what was removed in red, what was added in blue. A whole drawing set can be compared in bulk, with the result emailed back as a PDF, and Procore documents applying the markups from a previous revision to a new one. Xenmark cannot compare two drawings at all — differences get raised as comments by the people reviewing.

What Xenmark does instead is tie the comment to the revision it was raised against, so the review history travels with the set from one issue to the next, and closing the project hands you one zip holding every revision's exports, the attachments and the activity log.

There is no way to answer that honestly. Procore publishes no price at all — no list price, no starting price, no per-user price — so there is no figure to compare against. The fee is quoted by product against your Annual Construction Volume, which means it is sized to the value of the work you have on rather than to a review.

What can be said is what each publishes. Xenmark is €14.99 to €59.99 a month including VAT, on the page, with a Free plan that runs a complete review. Procore gives you a demo and a quote. For a firm whose Procore subscription already covers the Drawings work it needs, the review adds nothing to the bill — though a Procore contract does not by itself mean Drawings is in it, because the fee is quoted by product. For a firm not on Procore, the comparison starts with a sales call on one side and a signup on the other.

No. Procore is a construction management platform — RFIs, submittals, punch lists, inspections, observations, photos, document control and the project record around them. Xenmark does none of that.

Xenmark covers the part where a drawing set goes out for comment and something structured has to come back. A firm running its projects on Procore should keep doing that. Xenmark is for the times when you need the review and not the platform.

When you run construction projects and want the drawings inside the project record, connected to the RFIs and submittals and punch items around them. When the work is on site and needs to hold up offline. When you need revisions compared or markups carried forward. When everybody on the job — staff, subcontractors, clients — has to be in the same system. And when the Procore subscription you already hold covers the Drawings work, so the review adds nothing to what you pay.