Inside Track
Heber Allred zzTakeoffReady to Test: December 2025 Release with a Ton of New Features
We just deployed the latest beta to our TEST server. If you have time, please test it out and let us know what you think. For bug reports in this Beta, please respond to this post, and we'll get them fixed.
Fun fact: this release has over 41,000 lines of added or updated code.
Here is a quick list of features added. We will be creating a more complete and detailed list with screenshots and videos before the official release.
Dark Mode
- Ability to toggle the UI to dark mode, and also separately to invert plan colors.
Project
- Custom Properties at the project level
Pages
- Plan Versions / Plan Sets when uploading (we still have lots to add, but we have a good start)
- Properties for - Revision, Date Issued, Date Received
- Auto name & scale all pages with AI when uploading new files
- Auto move/copy takeoff data to new versions of pages
- Plan Review popup after uploading pages to verify page names/scales
- Plans Tab (Thumbnail View)
- When collapsing pages sidebar, a dropdown for pages is visible in toolbar
- Option to Rotate Page 180
- Snap to corners of page
Takeoff
- Box Mode while doing area or linear takeoffs
- Properties - Auto Name Mode, Formula Mode, Text with Tags Mode, Inherit Mode
- Manual Area, Linear, Count - ability to enter SF, LF, etc. manually
- 10 total count symbols (more coming in the future)
- Symbols for point counts show in the legend
- Scaled checkbox on point counts
- Properties on folders
- Bulk Update on multiple selected takeoffs or items (right click menu after selecting)
- Paste as New
- Duplicate As (including for cutouts to fill them in)
- Dimension Tool - option for sloped
- Cloud Tool - box mode by default
- "+" button to add items on the fly in properties popup
- Item variables inherit by default from takeoff and can now be switched to formula mode
- Merge Areas
Formulas
- [Wall Height.FT], [Wall Height.IN], [Wall Height:Dimension] - better formatting
- Formula mode available for most properties
- [../../Area] - traversal using [..], [./Sibling Item/Some Property]
- Inheritance with [^/Some Property] or "Inherit" mode in property gear menu
Custom Properties
- Default Mode / Default Value
- Inherit Mode
- Ability to "Exclude from Group By Options"
- "Hidden by default" option (apply when needed using the gear in the properties title bar)
Annotations
- Ability to create presets in ribbon bar (caret in upper right of tool button)
Reports & Worksheet
- Worksheet / grid across the bottom available while in takeoff tab
- Properties - accessible in right click menu
- Easier to edit properties directly from reports grid
- Left sidebar is collapsible in reports - shows a dropdown for report views in toolbar
- Ability to search
- Column settings - display name & export name for each column (nice for customizing CSV exports)
- Custom icon option for each report view
- Items no longer require a parent to display in reports
- Option: Include takeoffs with no sections
Sidebars
- When clearing search, restores expanded/collapsed state
- Search gray folders in sidebar (grouped by properties)
Hotkeys
- Spacebar for Quick Search / Start Takeoff or Template
- / Slash hotkey for tools & commands
- Enter - start/stop takeoff
- Alt + S - Snap
- Alt + P - PDF Snap
- Alt + W - Ortho
- Alt + A - Auto Scroll
Colors
- Bigger color palette (5X)
- Predefined color sequence and no re-use of existing colors when picking a random color
Mobile
- Search
- Ability to show legend
- Drag popups
Performance
- Speed improvements
If you don't currently have access to our TEST server, and you're interested to play with the latest, you can Request Test Server Access.
Thank you for all your feedback to help zzTakeoff get better each day 🙂
This is great! I'm playing in the test environment now. 2 Topics:
Topic 1 - Love Box mode......but need ability to toggle between box mode and point and click, sad we even have to toggle tho.... to bad it was not just defaulted to holding down the mouse is box mode, doing one click is point and click. (at minimum we need a hot key to toggle!)
Topic 2 - Project Overview screen:
One thing I see is the ability to add custom fields to projects, example we need to put region on every project! Couple requests here:
1. There is NO WAY to sort your "open projects" list by region now. Need a group by field in the projects list now.
2. Need to make this required, or have the option to make it required or not.
3. Need to make it by default sorted by project for entire company, so they land in a consistent spot sorted by region.
4. Its hidden below map. Please take off the map would be my first request. Or if possible let us control where this lands. (screenshot 2)
please please please add abilty to change naming conventions to match inputs on [Width] ex [Width:IN]
for now, does anyone know a way to use formula mode in a way that would allow me to make some separate calculations and some words in the middle? or after
example: ([width] * 12) by ([Depth] * 12)
@Luke Here is a 54 second video doing what you are asking! Note this release is sounding like its coming in hot, like 1st week of 2026, so stop working till then :) I'm going to do a major overhaul to our templates when it drops.
Hi Kyle, i appreciate your response and its definitely an improvement. and it might sound like a funny request but with the things I'm typically taking off they are displayed in inches only regardless of it being larger than 1 ft. in this specific circumstance I'm talking about HVAC duct dimensions. Since I'm in Canada these dimensions are always displayed in drawings as either inches or millimetres.
yes I'm not building anything just yet, only testing mostly to see how i can build what i want with the new features once its officially dropped.
thank you!
Hi Luke,
Kyle shows a great way of doing this using [Width:Dimension] and [Depth:Dimension]
You can also do it using [Width.In] and [Depth.In]
Note: using the ".In" will pull only the value entered in the inches field. So if you have 1 entered in the feet field and 6 entered in the inches field, this would only return a value of 6. (not 18")
In your case, you entered 48 in the inches field, so it will return a value of 48. Just something to be aware of.
.in! i was doing colon
I'm so pleased!
@Kyle There is a hotkey "Tab" to toggle box mode. We'll get these better documented. I like the click & drag for automatic box mode, too. That could be cool since maybe both point & click & box mode could be active at the same time. For areas, that could be good, but for linear takeoffs there may be a conflict since click & drag can do individual lines (but we could easily give settings for this).
On the projects page, we are planning to add the same "group by" capabilities that we have in the takeoffs, so that will be coming. I like the idea of a required field. We will discuss internally on that.
Thanks for the input on the map, etc. We'll discuss and improve it. Also, thanks for that demo video on the dimensions in the name. This will be a lot of fun with the additional flexibility in this new update.
@Luke In a future release we will also have a [Width:In] separate from [Width.In]. The "." will extract a specific property out of the dimension, and the ":" will be more of a conversion.
Suppose you have 5'-6" width:
[Width.Ft] -> 5
[Width.In] -> 6
[Width:Dimension] -> 5'-6"
[Width:Ft] -> 5.5 (not implemented yet)
[Width:In] -> 66 (not implemented yet)
We will also be adding other conversions as well. 🙂
EDIT: maybe we should rename [Width:Dimension] to [Width:Text] instead. Just thinking out loud.
Are you seeking test server folks to report bugs found? If so is there a specific place we should? I found one litle guy, the thinking animation keeps spinning after scaling. refreshing the page makes it go away. operationally its working. also a question is
"Start" the new "+ section" when right clicking an old takeoff? is there any operational difference?
@heber im happy with width.in for the moment since it takes all my inches from the box regardless of how many inches are there
@Luke Reporting here is fine for now since we don't want to report bugs for this Beta in our main Bug Reports channel. Down the road we'll have a designated spot, but here is fine for now.
We have not been able to reproduce the spinner getting stuck visible while scaling, but we will keep testing. Yes, the "Start" green dot has the same functionality as "+ Section" when starting takeoff. During takeoff, "+ Section" is a separate option after you've clicked at least 3 points on an area for example to start a new section.
i'm using edge browser if that helps