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Excalibur View pricing

Plans and pricing

Free for one person, forever. Offices pay once per user for the server that lets their people work together.

Try Office free for 30 days

Excalibur View

Estimators, PMs, subs and field
Free
For one person, forever. Commercial use allowed.
  • The full desktop app
  • Every markup and measurement tool
  • Imports .bpx and .btx tool chests
  • Compare, OCR, batch, stamps and seals
  • Works with your own Claude plan
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Excalibur View Office

Offices of two or more on the same drawings
$250per user, one time
Includes 12 months of updates and email support. Updates after that: $100 per user per year, optional.
  • Everything in the free app
  • The office server, on your own computer
  • Shared sets and live markups
  • One tool chest for every seat
  • Keeps working if you don't renew
Try free for 30 days

Excalibur View Sealed

Defense and security-sensitive contractors
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Planned. Tell us what you need and we'll let you know when it's ready.
  • Everything in Office
  • No internet connections, by policy
  • Updates as signed offline files
  • Audit log
  • Priority support
About Sealed

Want it done for you? Setup, bringing your files over, training and custom work are quoted per job. Setup and migration start at $1,500 per office. Services

What's in each edition

FeatureFreeOfficeSealed (planned)
Open any PDF drawing set, with existing markups in place
Every markup tool; move, copy, arrange and style
Length, area, count, volume and angle; quantity and slope
Tool chests, including .bpx and .btx files
Markups list with totals, export to spreadsheet
Compare, OCR, batch and document tools, stamps, signatures and seals
Works with Claude, on your own Claude plan✓, for the whole officeOff by policy
Office server on your own computer
Shared sets, live markups, one tool chest for every seat
Reissues replace old sheets and carry the takeoff over
Connection for estimating software or an ERP
User accounts; the office controls updates
No internet connections; signed offline updates; audit log
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How to buy Office

Send us the number of users, your company name (it's printed on the license) and your administrator's email. You pay once and we don't keep a card on file. Your license file arrives by email within one business day, with three steps to add it.

Adding people later is a new purchase against the same license, and you get a replacement file that covers the new total. Thirty days before your updates end, we email you a renewal link. Nothing is charged automatically.

Buy Office

Try it first

The Office server runs with every feature for 30 days from the first time it starts, for any number of users. No purchase and no card.

When the trial ends, nothing is deleted or locked away. Everyone can still open and export every drawing and markup. Sharing new work through the server pauses until you add a license.

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Licensing questions

Is the free version really free for business use?

Yes. One person can use every tool for paid work, for as long as they like. There's no account and no ads.

What's the catch?

Free is for one person working alone. When your office wants shared projects, live markups and one tool chest for everyone, that's Office.

Is Office a subscription?

No. You buy it once per user. The first year of updates is included. After that, updates are $100 per user per year, and optional.

What happens if I stop paying for updates?

Everything keeps working on the version you have, forever. You just don't get versions released after your updates end.

Can I try Office first?

Yes. You get 30 days with every feature, for any number of users, and you don't need a card.

What happens when the trial ends?

Nothing is deleted or locked away. Everyone can still open and export every drawing and markup. Sharing new work through the server pauses until you add a license.

How are users counted?

Each person with an account on your office server counts as one user. Someone using the free app without signing in to your server doesn't count.

Where are my drawings stored?

On your own computers and your own office server. We never receive your drawings, markups, takeoffs or tool chests.

Does the app connect to the internet?

It checks our public release page for new versions, and that check sends nothing about your company. Claude features connect only if you set up Claude yourself. Sealed turns both off. Every connection, listed.

Can I use the drawings and tool chests I already have?

Yes. It opens PDFs with their existing markups in place, and it imports .bpx and .btx tool chests with their tools, columns and unit weights.

Do I need Claude?

No. Claude features are optional and use your own Claude plan.

Mac?

Windows today. Mac is planned.

Is it open source?

We plan to publish the free app's source code. The office server is commercial.

We do defense work. Does this make us compliant?

No software makes you compliant on its own. Excalibur View keeps drawings inside your own network, which helps you meet your NIST SP 800-171 obligations. For a locked-down setup, ask about Sealed.

Can you set it up for us?

Yes. Setup, bringing your files over and training are quoted per office. Services.