On-Screen Takeoff Review 2026: Pricing, Pros, Cons, Alternatives
What On-Screen Takeoff quotes you starts with the questions its form asks. The 8 gaps reviewers name, and 5 alternatives that print a price instead.
Page at a glance
On-Screen Takeoff is A 30-year-old Windows desktop takeoff program sold only by quote, built for one estimator per seat working plan-and-spec commercial bids, not for a crew or a shared cloud workspace. It publishes no price, so the only way to get a number is to ask a salesperson for one. One user, one device at a time. The EULA's default license type is a Single Seat License: 'the Software is licensed for use by one user on one device at a time.' You may install it on both a desktop and a laptop used by the same person, but only if there is no possibility of simultaneous use, and any simultaneous use requires a second license. Since December 1, 2025 the seat is also identity-bound: licenses provisioned after that date can only be used through a ConstructConnect-authenticated account and the software 'enforces a single active session per seat.' Floating Seat Licenses exist and are the only type permitted to run in a virtual or emulated environment. It fits Commercial subcontractors and general contractors running 10 to 150 field staff with a dedicated one-to-three-person estimating desk that bids plan-and-spec work off drawing sets, in trades On Center names on its own site: concrete, doors and hardware, walls and ceilings, paint and coatings, landscaping, flooring, masonry and stone, roofing, firestopping, mechanical, electrical and plumbing. It's the wrong buy for A Mac-based estimating desk, or any shop that expects estimators to work from a browser or a tablet on site, because On-Screen Takeoff is a Windows desktop application and the vendor states it plainly in its own comparison table. There's no Mac client, no browser client and no mobile client. And the workarounds are a Windows VM, which the EULA restricts to Floating Seat Licenses only, or a virtual desktop, which at least one reviewer reported failing through Citrix Receiver. Alternatives that publish their prices are ConstructConnect Takeoff (Starter) from $1,200, PlanSwift Professional from $2,000, Bluebeam Revu (Basics) from $260. A quote-only price and what third parties report instead, eight evidenced gaps and five alternatives, three of which publish a figure.
What you're buying with On-Screen Takeoff, and what the demo skips
On-Screen Takeoff earns its money with Commercial subcontractors and general contractors running 10 to 150 field staff with a dedicated one-to-three-person estimating desk that bids plan-and-spec work off drawing sets, in trades On Center names on its own site: concrete, doors and hardware, walls and ceilings, paint and coatings, landscaping, flooring, masonry and stone, roofing, firestopping, mechanical, electrical and plumbing. If that's you, it does the job. The sections below are the parts worth checking before you sign. But the fit is narrower than the marketing suggests, and the price isn't the whole cost.
The vendor publishes no price. But every number below was verified on 7 August 2026 and comes from a named third party that says which.
| Pricing model | Custom quote, no published price |
|---|---|
| Entry price | Quote only |
| Users | One user, one device at a time. The EULA's default license type is a Single Seat License: |
| Ownership | ConstructConnect, Inc. (On Center Software), 3825 Edwards Road Suite 800, Cincinnati OH 45209 |
| Best fit | Commercial subcontractors and general contractors running 10 to 150 field staff with a dedicated one-to-three-person estimating desk that bids plan-and-spec work off drawing sets, in trades On Center names on its own site: concrete, doors and hardware, walls and ceilings, paint and coatings, landscaping, flooring, masonry and stone, roofing, firestopping, mechanical, electrical and plumbing. |
| Accounting sync | Microsoft Excel (one-way), Quick Bid (ConstructConnect's own estimating product) (one-way), QuickBooks, Sage, Foundation, Viewpoint, Xero (none) |
What works
- The patented Multi-Condition tool is the real differentiator, and Takeoff Boost is the AI layer bolted on top
- Overlay is the feature that pays for itself on an addendum-heavy bid
- Two exits, and one of them is a second purchase
- Twelve manufacturer material databases exist, and every one of them is for Quick Bid, not for On-Screen Takeoff
- December 2025 changed the licence from a key on a machine to an identity on a server
What does not
- The vendor won't tell you the price, and its own siblings will
- One estimator per seat, no real-time collaboration, and the vendor says so itself
- Your plan sets become training data for ConstructConnect's AI, perpetually
- There's no accounting integration at all, and reviewers have said so since 2017
- The project database can crash and take the day's work with it
On-Screen Takeoff is A 30-year-old Windows desktop takeoff program sold only by quote, built for one estimator per seat working plan-and-spec commercial bids, not for a crew or a shared cloud workspace. It sells to Cross-trade contractors, and the shape of the product follows from that: Multi-Condition Takeoff lets an estimator select any number of conditions and draw once for all of them, which is what makes a repeating room or a whole floor fast. Typical Areas, Typical Groups and Typical/Repeating Pages extend the same idea across a project. Takeoff Boost sits above that and produces an AI first pass: it detects footprint area, net area, counts and wall types, and On Center claims results on up to five pages in as little as 30 seconds and takeoffs up to 40% faster overall. But both numbers are vendor claims with no methodology published.
Ownership matters here more than it usually does. On-Screen Takeoff is owned by ConstructConnect, Inc. (On Center Software), 3825 Edwards Road Suite 800, Cincinnati OH 45209, so weigh roadmap risk alongside the feature list. An independent product can be bought and folded into somebody else's plan two years after you sign.
Who should be shortlisting On-Screen Takeoff
It fits Commercial subcontractors and general contractors running 10 to 150 field staff with a dedicated one-to-three-person estimating desk that bids plan-and-spec work off drawing sets, in trades On Center names on its own site: concrete, doors and hardware, walls and ceilings, paint and coatings, landscaping, flooring, masonry and stone, roofing, firestopping, mechanical, electrical and plumbing. That's the half most reviews print. Here's the other half, which is the one worth your time.
Don't buy it if you're A Mac-based estimating desk, or any shop that expects estimators to work from a browser or a tablet on site. On-Screen Takeoff is a Windows desktop application and the vendor states it plainly in its own comparison table. There's no Mac client, no browser client and no mobile client. And the workarounds are a Windows VM, which the EULA restricts to Floating Seat Licenses only, or a virtual desktop, which at least one reviewer reported failing through Citrix Receiver. Look at ConstructConnect Takeoff instead.
Don't buy it if you're A two-to-eight-person residential service or replacement contractor quoting from site visits rather than from drawing sets. Every strength here is a plan-and-spec strength: Multi-Condition Takeoff, Typical Areas and Groups, Overlay change tracking between plan revisions, CSI MasterFormat coverage. But none of it helps a crew that measures a roof in the driveway and prices it on a tablet. So you'd be buying a quote-only desktop licence, plus Quick Bid to price the takeoff, to replace a job you currently do in a field app. Look at Contractor Foreman instead.
Don't buy it if you're Any team where two or more people need to be inside the same takeoff at the same time in the run-up to bid day. The vendor's answer is a flat no, and the suggested workaround is emailing the file or syncing it through a consumer cloud drive. That's file passing, not collaboration. And the December 2025 single-active-session-per-seat enforcement closes the loophole shops used to rely on. Look at Togal.ai instead.
Don't buy it if you're An earthwork, sitework or civil contractor. A project manager reviewer put it bluntly: the software isn't good at earthwork takeoffs and there's no easy way to do arc or circle takeoffs. And a separate reviewer noted it crashes on files coming from civil engineers. On-Screen Takeoff is a 2D plan-measurement tool with no BIM support, so cut-and-fill volume work is outside what it was built for. Look at Trimble Business Center instead.
Pricing: what On-Screen Takeoff publishes and what it doesn't
On-Screen Takeoff doesn't publish a price. That's the finding, not a gap in this page: you can't compare this product on cost until someone quotes you.
The vendor's own wording is this, and nothing more: "Neither oncenter.com nor constructconnect.com publishes a price for On-Screen Takeoff. oncenter.com has no /pricing/ page at all (HTTP 404 on 2026-08-07). ConstructConnect's pricing page does have a Takeoff tab with real prices, but those tiers are for a different product, ConstructConnect Takeoff: the Buy Now buttons resolve to pay-portal.app.constructconnect.com/Takeoff/Starter and /Takeoff/Pro and the analytics campaign strings are all UU-WS-WU-CCTO-Pricing-*. On-Screen Takeoff appears on that page only in a routing block that names it and then sends you to a five-question quiz instead of a number." So treat every third-party page printing tier names and figures for On-Screen Takeoff with careful suspicion. Those numbers are not on the vendor's site today, and a roundup that reprints them is telling you what On-Screen Takeoff used to charge somebody else.
And we are not going to print a per-month number we cannot open a page and read. We checked https://www.capterra.com/p/121585/On-Screen-Takeoff/: starting price field reads 'Contact vendor'; free trial available; no dollar figure, https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/on-center-profile/: pricing field reads 'Pricing available upon request'; no dollar figure, https://www.getapp.com/construction-software/a/on-screen-takeoff/reviews/: HTTP 403 to curl; same Gartner review pool as the two above, so it wouldn't be an independent figure regardless, https://sourceforge.net/software/product/On-Screen-Takeoff/: lists 'Free Version available' and 'Free Trial available' with no price, and carries zero reviews ('This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review.'), https://www.oncenter.com/pricing/: HTTP 404, https://www.oncenter.com/products/on-screen-takeoff/pricing/: HTTP 404, https://www.oncenter.com/products/takeoff-boost/ost-vs-togal-ai-competitor-page/: On Center's own competitor comparison page names neither its own price nor Togal.ai's. Capterra, Software Advice and GetApp are all Gartner properties reading one review pool (both the Capterra and Software Advice profiles show the identical 4.3 rating over 155 reviews), so even if one of them carried a figure it would be one source, not three. None of them carries one. And the only dollar amounts ConstructConnect publishes in the takeoff category belong to sibling products, and quoting those as On-Screen Takeoff's price would be wrong: ConstructConnect Takeoff is a browser app and PlanSwift is a separate desktop program with its own checkout. On-Screen Takeoff's price is genuinely unpublished. So treat any number you see attributed to it online as unsourced. So the absence is the finding: go into the demo knowing that nobody outside the vendor can tell you what you will be quoted, and that any page claiming otherwise is quoting a structure that has moved.
One user, one device at a time. The EULA's default license type is a Single Seat License: 'the Software is licensed for use by one user on one device at a time.' You may install it on both a desktop and a laptop used by the same person, but only if there is no possibility of simultaneous use, and any simultaneous use requires a second license. Since December 1, 2025 the seat is also identity-bound: licenses provisioned after that date can only be used through a ConstructConnect-authenticated account and the software 'enforces a single active session per seat.' Floating Seat Licenses exist and are the only type permitted to run in a virtual or emulated environment.
Everything that isn't the On-Screen Takeoff subscription
Payment processing. Not applicable in the customer-payments sense: On-Screen Takeoff is a desktop takeoff tool and never touches a homeowner's card. The only payment mechanic in the contract runs the other way: for subscription licenses, 'subscription fees are billed on a monthly basis and are collected automatically by debiting the credit card that Licensee provides to ConstructConnect or Reseller (as applicable).' ConstructConnect also 'reserves the right to change the Fees at any time', with your current term protected only through the end of that term.
Implementation and onboarding. Self-paced training videos, instructor-led webinars and eLearning courses are free. Anything beyond that is chargeable: On Center offers 'custom individual sessions, hands-on training, and custom classroom training conducted onsite', and the EULA states ConstructConnect 'may provide You with maintenance services related to the Software subject to an additional charge.' No implementation fee schedule is published.
Minimum term. Whatever term the order form specifies. The EULA sets a fallback: 'The term of the Subscription License begins on a date You choose for the start of Your subscription and continues for the term specified when You subscribe to the product. If the term is not specified when You subscribe to the product, then the term is thirty (30) days.' On the parent's pricing page the answer to 'Can I cancel anytime?' is 'No. Subscriptions run for the full term'.
Getting out. No refund, in three separate places. EULA 3.4: on termination 'Licensee will not be entitled to a refund of amount paid for the license to use the Software, or any other amounts for any reason.' EULA 4.19 repeats the same sentence for missed payment-plan instalments and adds that ConstructConnect 'may deactivate the Software'. ConstructConnect's pricing FAQ: 'Subscriptions run for the full term, and mid-term cancellations aren't eligible for a refund.' You also cannot pause: 'Subscriptions can't be paused, and payments can't be suspended during the contract term.'
Auto-renewal. The EULA runs 19 sections and never uses the words renew, renewal or auto-renew. It only establishes that subscription fees are auto-debited monthly from the card on file. So before signing, get in writing: (1) does the term auto-renew, (2) how many days' written notice stops it, (3) what address or portal that notice has to go to, and (4) whether the renewal price is capped, given clause 4.17.2 lets ConstructConnect change fees at any time.
Modules sold separately. , , , , , , . And an add-on you need in week one is part of what On-Screen Takeoff costs, so the number to compare is the configuration you'd really run.
Third-party services you will also pay for. , , , , . These are not on On-Screen Takeoff's invoice, and they are still part of what this decision costs you every month.
A tangent, but stay with it. ConstructConnect publishes a price for every takeoff product it owns except the flagship. PlanSwift Professional sits behind a live cart at $2,000 per licence per year. ConstructConnect Takeoff sits on a public pricing page at $1,200 Starter and $2,200 Professional per seat per year, with additional Professional seats at $1,700. But On-Screen Takeoff, the product On Center calls 'the unparalleled industry standard for takeoff software', gets a five-question quiz. Same parent company, same building, same Takeoff Boost AI layer, one of them quote-only. The quote you get is a function of what the rep reads off your company, not a list price. So walk into the call with the $2,000 PlanSwift number and the $2,200 ConstructConnect Takeoff Professional number already in hand, from the same parent, and make them justify anything above that band on features you can name.
The On-Screen Takeoff line items nobody mentions
The subscription is the part everyone quotes. These are the lines that land afterwards, and the ones we could not find are named as unpublished rather than left blank.
Sold separately. , , , , , , . Price the configuration you'll really run, because an add-on you need on day one is part of the price.
Third-party services you'll also pay for. , , , , . None of these are on On-Screen Takeoff's invoice, and all of them are part of what this decision costs every month.
"On-Screen Takeoff answers the question of what it costs with this and nothing else: "Neither oncenter.com nor constructconnect.com publishes a price for On-Screen Takeoff. oncenter.com has no /pricing/ page at all (HTTP 404 on 2026-08-07). ConstructConnect's pricing page does have a Takeoff tab with real prices, but those tiers are for a different product, ConstructConnect Takeoff: the Buy Now buttons resolve to pay-portal.app.constructconnect.com/Takeoff/Starter and /Takeoff/Pro and the analytics campaign strings are all UU-WS-WU-CCTO-Pricing-*. On-Screen Takeoff appears on that page only in a routing block that names it and then sends you to a five-question quiz instead of a number.""
On-Screen Takeoff pricing page (2026)
"One user, one device at a time. The EULA's default license type is a Single Seat License: 'the Software is licensed for use by one user on one device at a time.' You may install it on both a desktop and a laptop used by the same person, but only if there is no possibility of simultaneous use, and any simultaneous use requires a second license. Since December 1, 2025 the seat is also identity-bound: licenses provisioned after that date can only be used through a ConstructConnect-authenticated account and the software 'enforces a single active session per seat.' Floating Seat Licenses exist and are the only type permitted to run in a virtual or emulated environment."
On-Screen Takeoff pricing page (2026)
"The price would be the biggest issue I see with this software. It's quite expensive. Kind of precludes smaller businesses from buying it."
Capterra, Mark D. (2-19)
The five workflows you pay for
Feature totals are noise. So a shop in this category lives or dies on five things, and those are the five to grade, and each one below carries the evidence it's graded on.
The patented Multi-Condition tool is the real differentiator, and Takeoff Boost is the AI layer bolted on top Multi-Condition Takeoff lets an estimator select any number of conditions and draw once for all of them, which is what makes a repeating room or a whole floor fast. Typical Areas, Typical Groups and Typical/Repeating Pages extend the same idea across a project. Takeoff Boost sits above that and produces an AI first pass: it detects footprint area, net area, counts and wall types, and On Center claims results on up to five pages in as little as 30 seconds and takeoffs up to 40% faster overall. But both numbers are vendor claims with no methodology published.
Overlay is the feature that pays for itself on an addendum-heavy bid Load two plan sets, run Overlay, and additions render in blue while deletions render in red. On Center frames this against rework cost, and the Auto Name tool renumbers and renames an entire project's sheets in one pass so that a revised set lines up with the original. And for a subcontractor bidding commercial work where addenda land days before bid day, this is the part of the product that's genuinely hard to replace with a PDF markup tool.
Two exits, and one of them is a second purchase Quantities leave On-Screen Takeoff either into Quick Bid, which is a separately sold product, or into Microsoft Excel, which On Center names as a direct integration. Results also print and export for reference. But there's no path into an accounting or job-cost system, and no public API. Quick Bid, once bought, offers 'Accounting-friendly templates so you can export important data for job costing' and 'the option to export a bid to a spreadsheet or specific accounting software file', but names no accounting partner.
Twelve manufacturer material databases exist, and every one of them is for Quick Bid, not for On-Screen Takeoff On Center's partners page lists exactly twelve manufacturers with downloadable material assemblies: Armstrong, CEMCO Steel, CertainTeed Ceilings, ClarkDietrich, Hilti, Marino\WARE, PABCO Gypsum, Rockfon, SCAFCO, Simpson Strong-Tie, Steel Network and USG Ceilings. Counted from the page's twelve DOWNLOAD links on 2026-08-07. The page's own heading is 'Integration with Quick Bid', and the body says the assemblies go 'into the latest version of Quick Bid'. And the skew is unmistakable: eight of the twelve are ceilings, steel framing or drywall suppliers. So if you're not a walls-and-ceilings or interior-framing contractor, the partner database is close to empty for you.
December 2025 changed the licence from a key on a machine to an identity on a server Licences provisioned after December 1, 2025 can only be used through ConstructConnect-authenticated accounts, may require authentication at launch or periodically, and enforce one active session per seat. The software transmits licence utilization, authentication events, session metadata, IP-based coarse geolocation inference and audit-trail data. ConstructConnect's site terms add that authenticated web applications record Session Replay of clicks and navigation, excluding checkout, payment and login pages, with personal-data fields masked.
How On-Screen Takeoff lands by trade
Fit differs by trade rather than by company size alone, and a blended paragraph hides that. Here is the split for the trades this one sells to.
Cross-trade. The workflow that decides it is the patented multi-condition tool is the real differentiator, and takeoff boost is the ai layer bolted on top, and the shop profile that gets value is commercial subcontractor, 25 to 150 field staff, dedicated estimating desk bidding plan-and-spec work doing commercial and residential work. Where it stops being a fit is A Mac-based estimating desk, or any shop that expects estimators to work from a browser or a tablet on site.
The On-Screen Takeoff integration that decides everything else
Microsoft Excel connects one way only, so edits made in your books do not come back, on every plan. Quick Bid (ConstructConnect's own estimating product) connects one way only, so edits made in your books do not come back, gated to a higher tier. QuickBooks, Sage, Foundation, Viewpoint, Xero connects, on every plan. Your costs map through cost codes, so test yours against your own chart of accounts before you commit. A code your books don't recognise is how a labour charge quietly lands somewhere useless.
Past those, the road ends. Any accounting or ERP system, Any CRM, BIM and 3D model formats, Zapier, Make and general automation platforms do not connect. So if your books run on an ERP rather than the platforms named above, weigh that before anything else.
Beyond accounting it connects to ConstructConnect Project Intelligence (Bid-lead and project-document feed. Pull plans and specs for public and private commercial projects straight into a takeoff. Sold separately at $129 per market per month (Starter) or from $199 per market per month (Professional, annual contract required).), Digital Production Control (On Center's job-site progress and productivity tracking product. Takeoff quantities become the baseline the field reports against.), Plan Viewer (A free viewer On Center distributes so people without a licence can open and review your plan files.), OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox (Not integrations. The vendor names them as the manual workaround for the absence of real-time collaboration.), Twelve manufacturer material databases (Armstrong, CEMCO Steel, CertainTeed Ceilings, ClarkDietrich, Hilti, Marino\WARE, PABCO Gypsum, Rockfon, SCAFCO, Simpson Strong-Tie, Steel Network, USG Ceilings. Counted from twelve DOWNLOAD links on the partners page, 2026-08-07.). A public API exists: No public API. The string 'API' does not appear once, with word boundaries, in the raw HTML of the On-Screen Takeoff product page (zero matches, 2026-08-07). The contrast inside the same parent company is sharp: PlanSwift, also ConstructConnect, also at 3825 Edwards Road Suite 800, publishes a 'Developer / API / SDK' link and a Plugins directory in its site footer. On-Screen Takeoff publishes neither. The EULA also forbids you from building your own bridge: you may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, and clause 4.10 bars using it 'to create any product that directly or indirectly competes with the Software'.
On-Screen Takeoff support, and what it costs you
Support is the line item nobody prices and everybody eventually needs. Onboarding for On-Screen Takeoff: Self-paced training videos, instructor-led webinars and eLearning courses are free. Anything beyond that is chargeable: On Center offers 'custom individual sessions, hands-on training, and custom classroom training conducted onsite', and the EULA states ConstructConnect 'may provide You with maintenance services related to the Software subject to an additional charge.' No implementation fee schedule is published.
And an estimating manager / lead estimator, construction, writing on 2016-10-03, puts it the same thing: "Customer service they will answer phone and call you back. I think it's so they can tell you that they cant help or support you."
The On-Screen Takeoff term, and what leaving costs
Nobody reads this section before they buy, and it's the one that costs money afterwards. Four terms decide what leaving looks like.
Minimum term. Whatever term the order form specifies. The EULA sets a fallback: 'The term of the Subscription License begins on a date You choose for the start of Your subscription and continues for the term specified when You subscribe to the product. If the term is not specified when You subscribe to the product, then the term is thirty (30) days.' On the parent's pricing page the answer to 'Can I cancel anytime?' is 'No. Subscriptions run for the full term'.
Auto-renewal. The EULA runs 19 sections and never uses the words renew, renewal or auto-renew. It only establishes that subscription fees are auto-debited monthly from the card on file. So before signing, get in writing: (1) does the term auto-renew, (2) how many days' written notice stops it, (3) what address or portal that notice has to go to, and (4) whether the renewal price is capped, given clause 4.17.2 lets ConstructConnect change fees at any time.
Early termination. No refund, in three separate places. EULA 3.4: on termination 'Licensee will not be entitled to a refund of amount paid for the license to use the Software, or any other amounts for any reason.' EULA 4.19 repeats the same sentence for missed payment-plan instalments and adds that ConstructConnect 'may deactivate the Software'. ConstructConnect's pricing FAQ: 'Subscriptions run for the full term, and mid-term cancellations aren't eligible for a refund.' You also cannot pause: 'Subscriptions can't be paused, and payments can't be suspended during the contract term.'
Payment processing. Not applicable in the customer-payments sense: On-Screen Takeoff is a desktop takeoff tool and never touches a homeowner's card. The only payment mechanic in the contract runs the other way: for subscription licenses, 'subscription fees are billed on a monthly basis and are collected automatically by debiting the credit card that Licensee provides to ConstructConnect or Reseller (as applicable).' ConstructConnect also 'reserves the right to change the Fees at any time', with your current term protected only through the end of that term.
Side note, and it's a useful one: every drawing you measure feeds the machine that will eventually be sold back to you. EULA section 15 grants ConstructConnect a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence over uploaded construction data to develop and improve 'its machine learning models and related algorithms and features', and names ConstructConnect the exclusive owner of the resulting IP. Takeoff Boost's own marketing page says it's 'trained on millions of construction projects'. And those are customers' projects. There's no opt-out and the grant survives cancellation. If you bid government, healthcare, defence or any work under a client confidentiality agreement, this clause is a procurement question before it's a software question. So ask for a written carve-out for named accounts, and if none is available, know that the answer is no before your client asks you.
"The high cost for a single license is prohibitive to the freelance estimator and forces us to use alternative programs that aren't as efficient."
Capterra, Tamera H. (8-20)
"I used it as an employee of a large construction company. Now that I am on my own I struggle with how much they charge versus other software that can do just as much."
Capterra, Todd C. (8-29)
"For my company and level of use, its a bit pricey."
Capterra, Timothy S. K. (8-15)
The On-Screen Takeoff gaps worth raising on the call
But the gaps are specific rather than atmospheric, which is what makes them useful.
The vendor won't tell you the price, and its own siblings will On Center has no pricing page. ConstructConnect's pricing page names On-Screen Takeoff and then routes you to a five-question quiz. Meanwhile the same company, from the same address, publishes $2,000 per year for PlanSwift Professional on a checkout page with a live cart, and $1,200 and $2,200 per seat per year for ConstructConnect Takeoff Starter and Professional. So the flagship is the one product you can't price without a sales call. That's a deliberate choice to make you talk to someone first, not a technology constraint, which means the number you're quoted depends on what the rep thinks you'll pay. Ask for the quote in writing with the seat count, the term length, whether Takeoff Boost is included or billed separately, and the renewal price. Then price the same seat count on PlanSwift's public checkout at planswift.com/pricing and use the $2,000 figure as your anchor, since it comes from the same parent company.
One estimator per seat, no real-time collaboration, and the vendor says so itself On Center's own On-Screen Takeoff vs Togal.ai comparison page answers 'Does the tool support real-time team collaboration?' with a flat no. So two estimators can't work the same takeoff at once. The suggested workaround is emailing the file or dropping it on OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox, which means version control is a naming convention rather than a feature. Since December 2025 the licence also enforces a single active session per seat, so the old trick of sharing a login across a desk is now blocked in software, not just in the contract. Count how often two people touch the same bid before bid day. Because if it's routine, you're buying a seat per person plus a manual merge step, and a browser-native tool removes both.
Your plan sets become training data for ConstructConnect's AI, perpetually EULA section 15 grants ConstructConnect a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to copy, use, analyze, aggregate and modify Licensee Content, which the definitions section defines as 'any content, including construction data, uploaded to the Software'. That's your clients' drawings. The stated purposes include 'developing, improving, and enhancing its products, software, and services including its machine learning models and related algorithms and features', and ConstructConnect declares itself 'the exclusive owner of all intellectual property rights in any products, software, and services developed using Licensee Content'. And there's no opt-out clause and the grant is perpetual, so it survives your cancellation. If you bid work under a client NDA, secure or otherwise, run clause 15 past whoever signs your confidentiality agreements before you upload a single drawing. Ask ConstructConnect in writing whether a contractual carve-out is available for named accounts.
There's no accounting integration at all, and reviewers have said so since 2017 The vendor's own integration answer names exactly four destinations: ConstructConnect Project Intelligence, Quick Bid, Digital Production Control and Microsoft Excel. Three of those four are products ConstructConnect also sells you. QuickBooks, Sage, Foundation, Viewpoint and Xero appear zero times across the On-Screen Takeoff page, the Quick Bid page and the partners page (verified with word-boundary grep on raw HTML, 2026-08-07). Even Quick Bid, the paid estimating half, only offers 'the option to export a bid to a spreadsheet or specific accounting software file' without naming which accounting systems those are. Budget for a manual Excel step between the winning bid and your job-cost ledger, permanently. And if a live quantity-to-job-cost link matters, the integration has to come from your accounting package's side, not from On-Screen Takeoff.
The project database can crash and take the day's work with it The single most repeated complaint in the review pool is data loss, not a missing feature. A Chief Estimator reported the databases crashing and 'losing hours of work'; a landscape estimator described the program freezing on plans carrying over 6,000 counts and crashing on files from civil engineers. And a separate structural constraint feeds this: On-Screen Takeoff converts imported PDFs to TIF images, which is why heavy or vector-rich drawing sets get sluggish. But note that the loudest of these reports are old, and the 2025 review on the Capterra page is mild by comparison, so the picture may have improved. A landscape estimator, construction, writing on 2019-11-03, describes it: "Sometimes it freezes on some plans that are heaven such as a lot of counts (over 6000) items on on plan, and crashes even when it can't convert a file from a civil engineer" During the 14-day trial, load your single heaviest job, not a clean sample plan, and run a full count-heavy takeoff on it. Then confirm where the project database physically lives and put it on a backup schedule you control.
The published system requirements still list Windows 7 and 8.1, and the page contradicts itself The On-Screen Takeoff product page's system-requirements table lists 'Windows® 8.1 Pro' and 'Windows® 7 Pro 32-Bit and 64-Bit' under Operating System Supported, with Windows 10 as Recommended. The same table then says On Center only tests against versions under Microsoft Mainstream Support and stops supporting a version once Microsoft retires it. But both statements can't be true: Windows 7 and 8.1 are long retired, and Windows 11 isn't listed anywhere. So the requirements table has simply not been maintained. Confirm Windows 11 support in writing before you buy. And confirm it separately for whatever remote-desktop or virtualization layer you use, since one reviewer reported it wasn't compatible working through Citrix Receiver.
Cancelling mid-term buys you nothing back Three independent places in the paperwork say the same thing. The EULA's Subscription License clause and its payment-plan clause both state that on termination 'Licensee will not be entitled to a refund of amount paid for the license to use the Software, or any other amounts for any reason.' And ConstructConnect's pricing FAQ adds that subscriptions cannot be paused and payments cannot be suspended during the term, and that downgrades take effect at renewal rather than mid-term. On top of that, ConstructConnect's site terms cap its total liability to you at $1,000 regardless of cause. Negotiate the shortest term the rep will accept for seat one, prove the workflow on live bids, and only then commit the rest of the desk. And the EULA's own fallback term when none is specified is thirty days, so a short term isn't unheard of.
ConstructConnect can audit your installs and bill you for the audit EULA 4.4 lets ConstructConnect audit your use of the software at any time on reasonable notice, and if the audit finds any use outside full compliance, 'You shall reimburse ConstructConnect for all reasonable expenses related to such audit in addition to any other liabilities You may incur as a result of such non-compliance.' The definition of a countable user is broad: clause 4.2 counts non-human devices, naming virtual PCs, build servers and unattended PCs for batch jobs. Combined with the December 2025 identity provisioning, which transmits authentication events, session metadata and IP-based coarse geolocation, ConstructConnect now has telemetry to trigger an audit with. Keep a written inventory of every machine with the software installed, including any RDP host or virtual desktop, and reconcile it against your seat count each renewal. And don't let a departed estimator's laptop stay licensed.
One more thing worth knowing. The EULA's fees clause points at a price that doesn't exist. Clause 4.17 says 'Licensee is subject to and agrees to pay the fees set forth on the Site or as provided by the applicable Reseller in the Territory in which the Software license or subscription is purchased', and clause 4.17.3 says annual Updates and Support Services are available 'for the fees set forth on the Site'. But there are no On-Screen Takeoff fees set forth on either site. And clause 4.17.2 then reserves the right to change the fees at any time, protecting only your current term. Because the contract defers to a published fee schedule that isn't published, your order form is the only document that fixes your price. Make it state the seat count, the term, the renewal price and whether Takeoff Boost is bundled. Anything left to 'the Site' is left to ConstructConnect's discretion.
One more thing worth knowing. The parent's takeoff pricing page ships a broken Buy Now button and unfinished placeholder copy on the page a buyer lands on while trying to price On-Screen Takeoff. In the feature-comparison table, the Starter row (labelled $1,200 per year per seat) has a Buy Now anchor with id 'to-starter-cta-table' whose href points at pay-portal.app.constructconnect.com/Takeoff/Pro, the $2,200 Professional checkout, while its own analytics campaign string still reads Pricing-Starter-BuyNow-Table. The card-level Starter button above it correctly targets /Takeoff/Starter. Both Takeoff plan cards also still carry unreplaced template copy: 'Your marketing team, from the ground up' and 'Your pain? We understand. This is why we do what we do, and can provide you with an experience like no other.' A buyer who scrolls to the comparison table, decides on Starter and clicks Buy Now lands in a checkout for a plan that costs $1,000 more per seat. So if you're pricing anything in this family, do the transaction from the plan card at the top of the page, not from the comparison table, and read the plan name on the checkout screen before you enter a card.
One more thing worth knowing. Moving the software between server types costs two purchases, not one. EULA 4.12: install on a Physical Server and you must buy Enterprise License Manager Physical Edition; move that same installation to a Virtual Server later and 'You will be required to purchase the other version of Enterprise License Manager in order to use the Software on such other server'. Meanwhile clause 4.2 counts non-human devices as users, naming virtual PCs, build servers and unattended PCs, and clause 4.4 lets ConstructConnect audit you at any time and bill you for the audit if anything is out of compliance. Decide physical or virtual before you deploy, because changing your mind is a second licence purchase. And keep a written install inventory that includes every RDP host and virtual desktop, because the December 2025 identity telemetry now gives ConstructConnect the session and geolocation data to notice a discrepancy before you do.
A tangent, but stay with it. Price is the single most consistent complaint across nine years of reviews, and it's always the same shape: the software is good and the buyer can't justify it. 2016, a project manager who used it at a large firm: on his own he struggles with what they charge versus software that can do just as much. 2017, an estimator: it's quite expensive, kind of precludes smaller businesses. 2018, a preconstruction manager: the high cost for a single license is prohibitive to the freelance estimator and forces us to use alternative programs. 2018, an owner-president: for my company and level of use, its a bit pricey. And every one of those reviewers rated the product 4 or 5 stars anyway. Nobody's complaining that it doesn't work. They're complaining that the value-for-money score is the lowest of the four sub-ratings on the Software Advice profile, 4.06 against 4.30 for ease of use and 4.34 for support. So buy it for a desk that bids enough volume to amortize an unpublished seat price, and not for a desk that bids occasionally.
What people running On-Screen Takeoff tell you
Every quote below is transcribed from a published review, named to the platform that carries it and to the reviewer as that platform displays them. We read the corpus by complaint type rather than by star rating, which is how the disqualifying detail buried inside a five-star review gets found.
"The price would be the biggest issue I see with this software. It's quite expensive. Kind of precludes smaller businesses from buying it."
On 2017-12-19, an estimator, construction writes on Capterra
"The high cost for a single license is prohibitive to the freelance estimator and forces us to use alternative programs that aren't as efficient."
A sr. preconstruction manager, construction, reports it it plainly on Capterra
"I used it as an employee of a large construction company. Now that I am on my own I struggle with how much they charge versus other software that can do just as much."
A project manager, construction, reports it it plainly on Capterra
"For my company and level of use, its a bit pricey."
An owner / president, construction, writing on 2018-08-15, describes it on Capterra
"Sometimes the databases can crash, losing hours of work."
A chief estimator, construction, 2+ years on the platform, reports it it plainly on Capterra
"Sometimes it freezes on some plans that are heaven such as a lot of counts (over 6000) items on on plan, and crashes even when it can't convert a file from a civil engineer"
A landscape estimator, construction, says it plainly on Capterra
"It's limited on what it can do. It must convert a PDF file, with it's rich underset of information, to a TIF file, which is just an overlay."
A senior estimator, construction, writing on 2019-07-25, writes on Capterra
"Customer service they will answer phone and call you back. I think it's so they can tell you that they cant help or support you."
But an estimating manager / lead estimator, construction, says it differently on Capterra
"I was promised that the on-center takeoff software could work with their cloud platform Oasis before I purchased. I found out afterwards this wasn't true."
But a principal, architecture & planning, says it differently on Capterra
"The shortfall of this software in my opinion is that it doesn't have a native accounting companion."
On 2017-05-23, an estimator, construction reports it on Capterra
"This software does not support Building Information Modelling (BIM)."
And a civil designer, civil engineering, 10,001+ employees, writing on 2021-04-25, writes the same thing on Capterra
"Learning how to import your blueprints into the software was a little tricky at first."
A senior project manager, construction, 51-200 employees, writing on 2025-04-30, puts it on Capterra
"This software is not any good at doing earthwork takeoffs. There is no real easy way to do arc or circle takeoffs."
A project manager, construction, writing on 2018-01-23, writes on Capterra
"Not compatible working through Citrix Receiver"
And a sr estimator, construction, writing on 2018-08-14, puts it the same thing on Capterra
"It's overpriced and crashes on a regular basis. Will not send a patch unless you sign up for their service."
But a reviewer, describes it it differently on Capterra
"I wish the software came preloaded with takeoff items rather than having to create them or buy a database of items."
On 2021-03-30, a VP of sales, construction, 51-200 employees writes on Capterra
How On-Screen Takeoff compares
Four or five products a shop looking at On-Screen Takeoff would also be looking at. Each row carries what the vendor publishes, plus what it does better and worse.
| Tool | Entry price | Billing unit | Users included | Published? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Screen Takeoff | Quote only | Custom quote | One user, one device at a time. The EULA's default license t | No |
| ConstructConnect Takeoff (Starter) | $1,200 | per seat, per year | 1 seat | Yes |
| PlanSwift Professional | $2,000 | per licence, per year (includes updates, support and 2 hours of training) | 1 | Yes |
| Bluebeam Revu (Basics) | $260 | per user, billed annually | 1 | Yes |
| STACK Takeoff & Estimate | Quote only | per user | not disclosed | No |
| Togal.ai | Quote only | per user | not disclosed | No |
ConstructConnect Takeoff (Starter). It runs in a browser, so Mac and Windows both work and there's nothing to install. And the price is on a public page with a live checkout instead of behind a quiz. Drawings are named and scaled automatically, and Professional at $2,200 per seat per year adds AI Auto Takeoff, unlimited pages and edit-capable collaborators. Same parent company, same Takeoff Boost AI, so you're not leaving the ecosystem. But Starter caps you at 25 pages per project and gives collaborators view-only access. Neither tier carries the patented Multi-Condition Takeoff, Typical Areas and Groups, or Overlay change tracking that make On-Screen Takeoff worth its unpublished price on complex addendum-heavy commercial work.
PlanSwift Professional. The price sits on a public page with a working cart and a quantity selector, so you can size a five-seat deal yourself before anyone calls you. It also ships Takeoff Boost, the same AI layer, and publishes a Developer / API / SDK route plus a plugin directory that On-Screen Takeoff has no equivalent for. But Also Windows-only, so it fixes the pricing opacity without fixing the platform limit. And it sits in a different product line with a different training curve, and it doesn't carry On Center's patented Multi-Condition Takeoff.
Bluebeam Revu (Basics). Roughly a fifth to an eighth of what a ConstructConnect takeoff seat costs at list, with all four tiers published. Native PDF throughout with no TIF conversion step, which removes one of the recurring On-Screen Takeoff complaints outright. Studio Sessions give genuine multi-user markup on the same document. But Basics does perimeter-free length and area only; volume, counts and angles need Core at $330, and the Excel Quantity Link that turns measurements into a costing sheet is gated to Complete at $440. But it's a markup tool that measures, not a purpose-built takeoff-to-estimate pipeline, and there's no Quick Bid equivalent behind it.
STACK Takeoff & Estimate. Cloud-native with real multi-user collaboration, and it offers a free version of Takeoff & Estimate as an entry point. And it's the most-reviewed alternative in the category: Software Advice's On-Screen Takeoff profile lists STACK at 4.5 stars over 1,398 reviews against On-Screen Takeoff's 4.3 over 155. But Also declines to publish a price. stackct.com/pricing shows three solution bundles and a Build Your Price button with no figure in the raw HTML (zero dollar-sign matches, 2026-08-07), so you're back to a sales call. And Software Advice reports a $599 per year starting point, but that's one Gartner-pool figure and it isn't corroborated on STACK's own site.
Togal.ai. By On Center's own admission on its own comparison page, Togal.ai supports simultaneous multi-user takeoff and lets external collaborators join a project without needing a Togal licence, and it runs in a browser. And Togal.CHAT adds a conversational interface for interrogating plans. It was built AI-first rather than AI-retrofitted. But On Center's comparison, which is a partisan source, claims Togal.ai identifies walls, windows and ceilings by category but doesn't break them out by type, and that its takeoff objects are basic linears, areas and counts without the patented Multi-Condition, Typical Areas or Attachments tooling. And there's no price on togal.ai/pricing in raw HTML either.
"Sometimes the databases can crash, losing hours of work."
Capterra, David B. (1-20)
"Sometimes it freezes on some plans that are heaven such as a lot of counts (over 6000) items on on plan, and crashes even when it can't convert a file from a civil engineer"
Capterra, Muhammad A. (1-03)
Who should not buy On-Screen Takeoff
Don't buy On-Screen Takeoff if you're A Mac-based estimating desk, or any shop that expects estimators to work from a browser or a tablet on site. On-Screen Takeoff is a Windows desktop application and the vendor states it plainly in its own comparison table. There's no Mac client, no browser client and no mobile client. And the workarounds are a Windows VM, which the EULA restricts to Floating Seat Licenses only, or a virtual desktop, which at least one reviewer reported failing through Citrix Receiver. Look at ConstructConnect Takeoff instead.
Don't buy On-Screen Takeoff if you're A two-to-eight-person residential service or replacement contractor quoting from site visits rather than from drawing sets. Every strength here is a plan-and-spec strength: Multi-Condition Takeoff, Typical Areas and Groups, Overlay change tracking between plan revisions, CSI MasterFormat coverage. But none of it helps a crew that measures a roof in the driveway and prices it on a tablet. So you'd be buying a quote-only desktop licence, plus Quick Bid to price the takeoff, to replace a job you currently do in a field app. Look at Contractor Foreman instead.
Don't buy On-Screen Takeoff if you're Any team where two or more people need to be inside the same takeoff at the same time in the run-up to bid day. The vendor's answer is a flat no, and the suggested workaround is emailing the file or syncing it through a consumer cloud drive. That's file passing, not collaboration. And the December 2025 single-active-session-per-seat enforcement closes the loophole shops used to rely on. Look at Togal.ai instead.
Don't buy On-Screen Takeoff if you're An earthwork, sitework or civil contractor. A project manager reviewer put it bluntly: the software isn't good at earthwork takeoffs and there's no easy way to do arc or circle takeoffs. And a separate reviewer noted it crashes on files coming from civil engineers. On-Screen Takeoff is a 2D plan-measurement tool with no BIM support, so cut-and-fill volume work is outside what it was built for. Look at Trimble Business Center instead.
The verdict, by shop size
Commercial subcontractor, 25 to 150 field staff, dedicated estimating desk bidding plan-and-spec work
Yes, and this is the shape the product is built for. This is the band the product was designed for and still wins in. Multi-Condition Takeoff, Typical Areas and Groups, and Overlay change tracking pay for themselves on a repetitive commercial set with late addenda, and the ConstructConnect Project Intelligence feed puts the leads and the drawings in the same place you measure them. But go in knowing you'll need Quick Bid as a second purchase and that the whole thing is Windows-only and single-user-per-seat. And get the term, the renewal price and the Takeoff Boost billing in writing before you sign. This band runs 25 to 150 on the crew, doing commercial work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.
Interiors contractor in walls, ceilings, drywall or steel framing, any size with an estimator
Yes, and this is the shape the product is built for. The twelve manufacturer material databases skew hard toward this trade: Armstrong, CertainTeed Ceilings, Rockfon and USG on ceilings, CEMCO, ClarkDietrich, Marino\WARE, SCAFCO and Steel Network on framing. So eight of twelve partners are directly yours. And no other trade gets that much prepopulated assembly data out of the ecosystem, which materially reduces the setup cost a VP of Sales reviewer complained about when he wished the software came preloaded with takeoff items. This band runs 8 or more on the crew, doing commercial work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.
General contractor or subcontractor with 10 to 40 staff where two or more people share bids and at least one estimator is on a Mac
Only under conditions, and they are worth being honest about. The takeoff engine is genuinely good, but you'd be paying an unpublished quote-only price for a Windows-only tool that the vendor itself says doesn't support real-time collaboration, and then bridging that gap with Dropbox. So only proceed if the estimating desk is genuinely one person at a time and every one of them is on Windows. Otherwise ConstructConnect Takeoff at a published $1,200 per seat per year gives you the browser and the same AI from the same parent, and you can find out what it costs without a phone call. This band runs 10 to 40 on the crew, doing commercial and residential work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.
Residential service, replacement or remodeling contractor under 10 crew quoting from site visits
No. Nothing here fits. You'd buy a quote-only Windows desktop licence, then buy Quick Bid to price what it measures, to replace work you currently do on a tablet in a driveway. And the complaint that recurs most in the review pool is exactly this mismatch: an owner-president called it 'a bit pricey' for his level of use, an estimator said the price 'kind of precludes smaller businesses from buying it', and a project manager who used it inside a large company said that on his own he struggles with what they charge against software that does just as much. So believe them. This band runs 1 to 10 on the crew, doing residential and service work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.
Earthwork, sitework or civil contractor of any size
No. A project manager reviewer stated the software isn't any good at earthwork takeoffs with no easy way to do arc or circle takeoffs, a second reviewer reported crashes converting files from civil engineers, and a third confirmed there's no BIM support. So it's a 2D plan-measurement tool. And cut-and-fill volume work needs a civil package, not a plan takeoff program. This band runs 1 or more on the crew, doing commercial work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.
Where we come into the On-Screen Takeoff question
We should declare an interest, or rather the absence of one. Fervor takes nothing from On-Screen Takeoff or any of its rivals. What we've got is data on the demand side.
On-Screen Takeoff won't show a contractor a price. Its parent publishes $2,000 for PlanSwift and $1,200 for ConstructConnect Takeoff on public checkouts, but the flagship gets a five-question quiz and a demo form, so every buying decision runs through a lead form before a single number appears. A contractor who spends two weeks getting an On-Screen Takeoff quote and then runs the identical play on his own site, hiding pricing behind a 'Request a Quote' form, inherits the same tax: Fervor inspected the contractor sites in its index and 95.8% carried a serious WCAG violation, with unlabelled and keyboard-untraversable form fields among the most common. And when the form is the only path to a number, a form that fails on a screen reader or a phone keyboard is the entire lost sale, not a friction point.
And the number is worse than anyone guesses before they check. Across 380 inspected contractor sites, 82.8% loaded slowly enough that a quote form went unseen. And the method is public, because a number you cannot audit is not evidence. The workings are public in the Contractor CRO Index.
"82.8% of the 380 contractor websites inspected loaded slowly enough that a quote form went unseen."
Fervor Studio Contractor CRO Index (2026)
Buy the platform if it fits. But spend ten minutes on your own site first, on a phone, on mobile data, the way a homeowner would. The numbers are all public.
See where your site is losing the jobs On-Screen Takeoff would have managed
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Get a Site InspectionWhat we read on On-Screen Takeoff, and what we couldn't get to
Before the sources, the honest caveat. Nobody here's used this product in anger. What it is instead: On-Screen Takeoff's own 22 pages read line by line on 7 August 2026, plus the review corpus read by complaint type rather than by star rating. Pricing was verified the same day, and every figure above traces to a page we opened.
So: 16 quotes on this page, 16 from Capterra.
And https://www.g2.com/products/on-screen-takeoff/reviews: HTTP 403, https://www.trustradius.com/products/on-screen-takeoff/reviews: HTTP 403, https://www.getapp.com/construction-software/a/on-screen-takeoff/reviews/: HTTP 403 (and would be the same Gartner pool as Capterra and Software Advice), Reddit: not reachable from this environment and https://help.constructconnect.com/* article bodies: pages return HTTP 200 but the Gainsight knowledge-base renders article content client-side, so the export, database and account-closure articles couldn't be read. Only the article titles and the statement 'You can import and export bids, takeoff files, and reports' were retrievable. refused automated retrieval for On-Screen Takeoff. Forum and social threads are the ones people most want quoted, and they are exactly the ones we cannot verify, so none of them are here.
What that leaves untested: apple App Store and Google Play: On-Screen Takeoff is a Windows desktop application with no mobile client, so no store listing exists. And everything above is 22 vendor pages and a review corpus, which is documentary rather than hands-on.
What On-Screen Takeoff users say
The price would be the biggest issue I see with this software. It's quite expensive. Kind of precludes smaller businesses from buying it.
The high cost for a single license is prohibitive to the freelance estimator and forces us to use alternative programs that aren't as efficient.
I used it as an employee of a large construction company. Now that I am on my own I struggle with how much they charge versus other software that can do just as much.
For my company and level of use, its a bit pricey.
Sometimes the databases can crash, losing hours of work.
Sometimes it freezes on some plans that are heaven such as a lot of counts (over 6000) items on on plan, and crashes even when it can't convert a file from a civil engineer
It's limited on what it can do. It must convert a PDF file, with it's rich underset of information, to a TIF file, which is just an overlay.
Customer service they will answer phone and call you back. I think it's so they can tell you that they cant help or support you.
I was promised that the on-center takeoff software could work with their cloud platform Oasis before I purchased. I found out afterwards this wasn't true.
The shortfall of this software in my opinion is that it doesn't have a native accounting companion.
This software does not support Building Information Modelling (BIM).
Learning how to import your blueprints into the software was a little tricky at first.
This software is not any good at doing earthwork takeoffs. There is no real easy way to do arc or circle takeoffs.
Not compatible working through Citrix Receiver
It's overpriced and crashes on a regular basis. Will not send a patch unless you sign up for their service.
I wish the software came preloaded with takeoff items rather than having to create them or buy a database of items.
Frequently asked questions
How much does On-Screen Takeoff cost?
Nobody publishes it. On Center Software has no pricing page (oncenter.com/pricing returns a 404), ConstructConnect's pricing page names On-Screen Takeoff only to route you into a five-question quiz, Capterra's starting-price field reads 'Contact vendor', and Software Advice's reads 'Pricing available upon request'. But the nearest anchors are sibling products from the same company at the same Cincinnati address: PlanSwift Professional publishes $2,000 per licence per year on a live checkout, and ConstructConnect Takeoff publishes $1,200 per seat per year for Starter and $2,200 for Professional with additional Professional seats at $1,700. Those aren't On-Screen Takeoff's price. And don't let anyone tell you they are.
Does On-Screen Takeoff run on a Mac?
No. On Center's own competitor comparison page answers the delivery-model question with 'Desktop application (Windows)'. The published system requirements list Windows 10 as recommended and Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 as supported, with Windows 11 not listed at all, which is itself a sign the page hasn't been maintained. The EULA permits running it inside a virtual machine, but only under a Floating Seat License, and one reviewer reported it wasn't compatible working through Citrix Receiver. So if your desk is on macOS, price ConstructConnect Takeoff in a browser instead.
Can two estimators work on the same takeoff at once?
No, and the vendor says so in writing on its own site: 'On-Screen is a desktop application designed for individual use per session. Projects and Bids may be shared with others easily using email or your own Cloud drive (like OneDrive, Google Drive, or DropBox).' And since December 1, 2025 the licence also enforces a single active session per seat, so sharing one login across a desk is now blocked in software as well as in contract. Budget a seat per estimator plus a manual merge step, or use a browser-native takeoff tool.
What happens to my clients' drawings after I upload them?
Read EULA section 15 before you upload anything under an NDA. You grant ConstructConnect a fully-paid, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to copy, use, analyze, aggregate and modify your uploaded construction data, expressly including 'developing, improving, and enhancing its products, software, and services including its machine learning models and related algorithms and features'. And ConstructConnect declares itself the exclusive owner of anything built with it. There's a confidentiality carve-out saying your content is not disclosed outside ConstructConnect personnel except in aggregate or de-identified form, but the training grant itself has no opt-out and it's perpetual, so it outlives your subscription.
Can I cancel mid-term and get money back?
No, on all three counts. ConstructConnect's pricing FAQ: 'Subscriptions run for the full term, and mid-term cancellations aren't eligible for a refund.' You can't pause either: 'Subscriptions can't be paused, and payments can't be suspended during the contract term.' And a downgrade only takes effect at renewal, not mid-term. The EULA repeats the no-refund rule twice, once for subscription termination and once for a missed payment-plan instalment, in both cases 'for any reason'. And ConstructConnect's site terms also cap its total liability to you at $1,000.
Does On-Screen Takeoff integrate with QuickBooks or Sage?
No. The vendor's own integration answer names exactly four destinations: ConstructConnect Project Intelligence, Quick Bid, Digital Production Control and Microsoft Excel. And three of those four are products ConstructConnect also sells you. A word-boundary search of the raw HTML on the On-Screen Takeoff, Quick Bid and partners pages on 2026-08-07 returns zero hits for QuickBooks, Sage, Foundation, Viewpoint, Acumatica or Xero. Even Quick Bid only promises 'the option to export a bid to a spreadsheet or specific accounting software file' without naming a single system. And there's no public API either, while sibling product PlanSwift publishes a Developer / API / SDK route.
Is Takeoff Boost included, or does it cost extra?
Get it in writing. The EULA classifies AI features as Ancillary Services and reserves the right to charge for them at any time: 'the availability or continued availability of such Ancillary Services may require the payment by You of a separate service fee in an amount determined by ConstructConnect in its sole discretion. Any such service fees will be in addition to Your License fees, maintenance fees and/or other fees'. And the same clause lets ConstructConnect modify or discontinue Takeoff Boost entirely, and cuts off access if you aren't current on the maintenance programme or on payments. So if the AI is why you're buying, the quote needs to say whether it's bundled and for how long.
How reliable is it on big plan sets?
Test it before you buy. On-Screen Takeoff converts imported PDFs to TIF images, which a senior estimator flagged as a limitation, and the review pool's most-repeated complaint is data loss rather than a missing feature: a chief estimator reported the databases crashing and losing hours of work, and a landscape estimator described freezes on plans carrying over 6,000 counts plus crashes on civil-engineer files. But most of those reports are older and the 2025 review on the profile is far milder, so this may have improved. Still, use the free 14-day trial on your single heaviest job, not on a sample plan, and confirm where the project database lives so you can back it up.
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How we keep this page current
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We revise the page when On-Screen Takeoff changes a published price or a contract term, when a rating we cite moves by more than a few tenths, or when the vendor ships something big enough to change the verdict. We never bump the date just to look fresh, because Google treats that as manipulation and so do we. If a figure here reads as stale by the time you land on it, treat it as a floor and check the vendor's own page. We linked it at every number for exactly that reason.
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How this review was researched
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About Fervor Studio
Fervor Studio is a conversion rate optimization (CRO) and web design studio for home services contractors across North America, based in Cochrane, Alberta. Fervor does not sell field service management software and is not an alternative to On-Screen Takeoff. It publishes the Contractor CRO Index, a public benchmark measuring contractor website conversion potential using reproducible, open-source methods such as axe-core and Google Lighthouse. Fervor Studio is operated by Fervor Group Inc.