FOR PAINTING CONTRACTORS

Painting bids shouldn’t take all day.

Measure every surface and coat in one pass.

PlanSwift gives you one place to measure, review, and price the job without chasing numbers across tools.

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BUILT FOR PAINTING ESTIMATORS

Everything you need to build a better painting bid.

PlanSwift turns paint quantities into a clear, reviewable estimate. No separate spreadsheet to reconcile.

AI-Assisted Takeoff

Get a first pass on repetitive plan work with AI-powered tools. Then review the results before they reach your paint and labor pricing.

Assembly-Based Estimating

Tie each surface to the paint, prep, coats, and production rates behind the price.

Custom Formulas

Adjust coverage, coats, waste, or production rates and keep the estimate current as the assumptions change.

Reusable Templates

Save the unit types, finish setups, and assemblies your team uses most, so repeat work starts with less setup.

Plan Comparison

Catch changed finishes, added scope, and deleted areas before outdated quantities reach the bid.

Live Excel Integration

Move organized quantities into the Excel pricing sheets your team already uses, so updates stay connected as the estimate changes.

Auto Count

Pick one symbol; PlanSwift finds and counts every match across up to 10 pages at once.

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Auto Takeoff

Detects walls, areas, lengths and counts across a page automatically — a full first pass in under a minute.

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Auto Scale

Reads and sets the right scale across a whole plan set — no manual setup per page.

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Auto Bookmark

Builds smart links between plans, details and sections so you jump straight to the view.

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These features use Artificial Intelligence to provide results. It is your responsibility to verify results to ensure accuracy.

Takeoff & ESTIMATING

Painting Estimating with Planswift Takeoff Software

PlanSwift makes your painting job takeoff and estimating easy!
Exclude unwanted areas like doors and windows to arrive at an accurate area measurement.
Easily create custom assemblies to include additional materials and layers.
Drag and drop material assemblies onto your takeoff for instant calculations.

PlanSwift Painting Estimating Software

PlanSwift takes the guess work out of estimating painting jobs by accurately calculating square footage for every area, including trim, doors/windows and other painted surfaces. PlanSwift is the #1 takeoff and estimating software for the construction industry. You can automatically adjust your materials list based on the surface to be covered and the materials you’ll need. You will accurately account for every wall and ceiling surface — straight or curved. A better bottom line begins with PlanSwift.

PlanSwift is the industry leading takeoff and estimating software

Painting professionals are finding estimating software to be a necessity. With the need to get bids out faster than ever, doing estimates by hand has become a thing of the past. Because of this, people are finding PlanSwift estimating software to be a more efficient and profitable way.

BUILT FOR PAINTING ESTIMATORS

Everything you need to build a better painting bid.

PlanSwift gives you one place to measure, review, and price the job without chasing numbers across tools.

"PlanSwift has saved us time and money — and it’s dead on accurate. We’ll be using it for a long time to come."

Joe Beyer

Advanced Epoxy Coatings LLC

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How does PlanSwift help painting contractors price the full scope of a job?

PlanSwift gives painting estimators one workflow for measuring and pricing a job. You can use area, linear, segment, and count takeoff for walls, ceilings, doors, frames, windows, trim, molding, and other paintable or related scope. Organize the work by surface, room, floor, finish, interior or exterior area, or another category that matches how your team builds bids. Connect those quantities to custom painting assemblies and formulas for coverage, coats, material, labor, waste, and cost calculations.

Can PlanSwift handle different paint finishes, coats, surfaces, and openings?

Yes. PlanSwift lets painting contractors set up separate takeoff items, assemblies, and formulas for the finishes and surfaces they price. Your team can distinguish wall and ceiling scope, assign different material or coat assumptions, account for doors and windows, and include trim or detail work. The Painting Starter Pack provides prebuilt templates, parts, and assemblies that contractors can customize and reuse. Your estimator still reviews finish schedules, surface conditions, openings, heights, coats, exclusions, and production or waste requirements.

What does Takeoff BOOST do for painting takeoffs in PlanSwift?

Takeoff BOOST is a suite of AI tools built into PlanSwift:

Auto Takeoff creates a preliminary page takeoff with supported area, linear, and count measurements.

Auto Count finds matching symbols or objects across selected pages after you choose what to count.

Auto Scale detects and applies page scale across selected pages.

Auto Bookmark helps create bookmarks and links to related plan pages, details, and sections.

These tools can reduce repetitive measuring, counting, scale setup, and plan navigation. Painting estimators can use the AI-assisted first pass as a starting point, then review and refine the quantities in PlanSwift before connecting them to painting assemblies and formulas. The results are not a finished paint estimate.

How do painting contractors update labor, waste, pricing, and bids in PlanSwift?

PlanSwift lets painting contractors connect measured quantities to reusable assemblies and formulas for material coverage, coats, labor, waste, and other cost assumptions. You can update quantities when plans change, revise paint or labor pricing, adjust production assumptions, and review the effect on the estimate in the same project. PlanSwift also supports printing and exporting estimates, including Excel reports, for review and proposal workflows.

What is painting takeoff and estimating software?

Painting takeoff and estimating software helps contractors measure paintable surfaces from digital plans and turn those quantities into a priced bid. PlanSwift combines takeoff and estimating in one platform, so painting contractors can move from plan review to wall, ceiling, door, and trim quantities. They can connect those quantities to assemblies and formulas for coverage, coats, material, labor, waste, and costs. Takeoff BOOST is a suite of AI tools built into PlanSwift that can help speed up supported first-pass takeoff work. Estimators review and adjust the quantities before finalizing the bid.

Run your first takeoff today.

Painting bids shouldn’t take all day.

Everything you need to build a better painting bid.

AI-Assisted Takeoff

Assembly-Based Estimating

Custom Formulas

Reusable Templates

Plan Comparison

Live Excel Integration

Stop Hunting Paint Plans for Every Wall and Ceiling.

Painting Estimating with Planswift Takeoff Software

PlanSwift Painting Estimating Software

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