Painting estimating software that measures every square foot for you.
Upload the plans and get a painting estimate in minutes — interior and exterior walls, ceilings, trim, and doors measured net of openings, priced in your rates.
Scaling walls off a plan, subtracting every window and door, adding up trim and ceilings — it takes hours and one transposed dimension throws the whole bid. Guess high and you lose the job; guess low and you eat the difference.
Why painting contractors switch to EstimateBy
Everything you need to bid faster and more accurately — and stop paying for the parts you can automate.
Every wall, ceiling, and trim run is read straight off the plans, sheet by sheet, against the legend on each page. No skimming, no "close enough" — the count that leaves your desk is the count that's on the drawings.
A full-time painting estimator runs $65,000–$95,000 a year. A takeoff service charges $150–$500 per plan set and takes days. EstimateBy does the same surface takeoff in minutes for a flat monthly price — no salary, no per-plan invoice, no waiting.
The tedious part — counting surface and pricing every line — is the part that eats your evenings and weekends. Drop the PDF, get a priced estimate back before your coffee's cold, and spend that time bidding more work or actually resting.
Load your own price book once and every takeoff comes back in your material and labor rates with your markup and margin baked in — never generic regional averages that leave money on the table or price you out of the job.
Send a branded proposal in one click, and EstimateBy follows up automatically until the customer views and accepts it online. The estimate that used to sit in your sent folder now closes itself.
Push every completed estimate into Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks or 6,000+ apps via webhook — automatically, the moment it's done. No re-keying line items into another system.
A real painting estimate, start to finish.
Every line pulled off the plans and priced — this is what lands in your dashboard, ready to review and send.
Actual line items from a real painting takeoff — exact counts and measurements, done in about 90 seconds.
What the painting takeoff pulls off your plans
EstimateBy reads your painting plan set sheet by sheet and takes off interior wall paint (net of openings), exterior wall paint, ceilings, primer/sealer on new drywall, baseboard and trim, interior and exterior doors, window casing, and soffit and fascia — measured by the square and linear foot. It uses the legend and schedule on each page, measures every area to the square foot, and prices the whole estimate in your own catalog — so a painting bid that used to take hours is done in minutes, and it's right.
Painting estimating — questions
Yes — wall paint quantities come back net of openings, measured off the plan dimensions and the window/door schedule, so you're not paying to paint glass.
It counts and measures directly from the plan sheets using each page's legend and schedule — not a rough guess. On real plan sets it matches a careful hand takeoff, and you review and adjust every line before anything goes to a customer, so you're always in control of the final number.
No. EstimateBy does the square-footage takeoff and pricing that you'd otherwise pay a salaried estimator or a $150–$500-per-set service to do — for a flat monthly subscription, in minutes instead of days.
Yes. Add your material costs, labor rates, and markup once in your price book and every estimate comes back in your exact numbers with your margin applied.
Yes — completed estimates push automatically into Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks, and thousands of other tools through webhooks and Zapier, so you're not double-entering anything.
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