All Features

Everything mTally 1.0 does, on macOS 15, iOS and iPadOS 26.1, and visionOS 26.1. One subscription covers all of them.

Takeoff & Counting
Coverage Areas
Search & Symbol Detection
Measurement & Scale
Markup & Annotations
Stamps
Digital Signatures
Legends & Revision Tables
The Catalog
Pages & Projects
Counts & Exports
iCloud & Storage
Workflow & Platform

🔢Takeoff & Counting

Tap to place, tally as you go. Pick an item from your catalog and place it on the plan. The count updates live, per page and across the project.
Per-placement multipliers. One marker can stand for any quantity, so a homerun of six doesn't need six clicks.
Revision statuses. Flag a placement as Existing, Relocated, or Deleted. All are pulled out of your new-work totals and reported as their own sections.
Dynamic auto-numbering labels. Label tokens number your devices for you as you place them — project-wide, per page, or by sheet, with arithmetic offsets like DEV #{IGC}{-1}.
Up to six labels per item. Text in any of six positions around the marker, overridable on individual placements.
Four marker shapes. Circular, rectangular, square, and hexagon, each with its own color from the item's type.
Linked items. An item can automatically pull in the accessories and hardware that always go with it — never drawn, always counted.
Multi-select and rubber-band select. Drag a box around a group, then move, restatus, or delete them together.
Drag-to-copy and constrained drags. Hold to duplicate while dragging; constrain to horizontal or vertical for clean rows.
Visibility control. Hide item types individually, or toggle every label, annotation, or coverage area at once as the sheet fills up.
Marker size and opacity. Project-wide sliders so markers stay readable against a busy background.

📡Coverage Areas

Real-world coverage zones. Attach a to-scale coverage area to any catalog item — sprinkler heads, cameras, detectors, access points, speakers.
Circular and sector shapes. Set a real-world radius and an angle; 360° gives a full circle, anything less gives you a directional cone.
Rectangular shapes. Real-world width and height with a nine-way pivot point, so the zone sits where the device actually throws.
Multiple named zones per item. Primary and secondary coverage on the same device, each colorable independently.
Per-placement rotation. Aim each individual device without touching the catalog definition.
Coverage masks. Draw a polygon to clip a coverage area out of irregular rooms, and edit it vertex by vertex.
Draggable coverage labels. Move the label off the geometry when zones overlap.

🔍Search & Symbol Detection

Visual symbol search. Draw a box around one symbol and mTally finds every visually similar symbol on the page — or across the entire drawing set.
Batch assign to an item. Check the matches you want, pick a catalog item, and mTally places it at every one of them in a single action.
Text recognition on matches. Each match is read for text so you can filter results down to the specific tag or device number you're after.
Knows what's already counted. Results show the part number of any item already placed nearby, so you don't double-count.
Sub-search refinement. Layer another query on top of your results to narrow a broad match down.
Background all-pages search. The current page comes back first while the rest of the set processes, with live progress.
Confidence selection. Select all, deselect all, or select only the high-confidence matches.
PDF text search. Standard find across the drawing's text layer, current page or all pages, with highlighted results and context snippets.

📏Measurement & Scale

Linear measurement. Trace conduit runs, wall lengths, and pipe routes and read them in real-world units.
Area measurement. Outline a rectangular region for square footage, reported with its width and height.
Seventeen scale presets. Imperial from 1"=1'-0" down to 1/16"=1'-0", and metric from 1:1 to 1:500 — filtered to your locale automatically.
Reference-line calibration. No printed scale? Draw a line over a known dimension and type in what it really measures.
Apply scale to all pages. Set it once for a consistently plotted set, or per sheet when they differ.
Paper size detection. Letter, Legal, Tabloid, Arch C/D/E, A3, and A4 recognized automatically, portrait or landscape.
Measurement types. Reusable named types with their own color and line style, optionally tied to a catalog item.
Thirteen colors, six line styles. Solid, dashed, dotted, dash-dot, long dash, and short dash.
Chained measurements. Snap each new measurement to the last endpoint to walk a continuous run.
Units your way. Feet and inches, decimal inches, meters, or centimeters.
Per-measurement multipliers and labels. Multiply a typical run, override the label text, or hide it entirely.
Running totals sidebar. Linear and area totals per type, updating as you measure.

✏️Markup & Annotations

Revision clouds. Scalloped clouds with optional numbered delta badges, resizable, with independent cloud, text, background, and delta colors.
Text boxes. Clean rounded boxes with full control over font size and horizontal and vertical alignment.
Arrows that stay attached. Anchor an arrow to a placement or a cloud and it follows when that object moves.
Callouts. A text box with a leader line, auto-sized or fixed, attachable to any item on the sheet.
Polylines. Multi-vertex open or closed shapes with your own color, line width, and dash style.
Freehand ink. Pen, highlighter, and eraser with adjustable color and stroke width — with the native tool picker and Apple Pencil on iPad.
Mixed multi-select. Select clouds, arrows, callouts, and placements together, then move or delete them as one group.
Copy and paste across pages. Copy one annotation type or paste everything at once onto another sheet.
Hide all annotations. One shortcut to see the clean drawing underneath.

🏷️Stamps

Your own stamp library. Build stamps from a PDF or an image file, with the aspect ratio preserved.
Approved and Denied included. Two stamps ready to go on first launch.
Drag to size, resize by corner. Place it exactly where and how big you need it.
Stamp a whole set at once. Current page, all pages, or a custom range like 1,3,5-10 — and the placements stay linked as a group.
Shared across projects. The library is global, so a stamp you build once is on every job.

🔏Digital Signatures

Real cryptographic signing. mTally applies a genuine PKCS#7 digital signature to the exported PDF — not an image of a signature pasted on top.
PKCS#12 certificate import. Bring your own .p12 or .pfx document-signing certificate.
Certificates stored in the Keychain. Held securely and synced to your other devices through iCloud Keychain.
Automatic certificate chain fetch. mTally retrieves the issuing CA's intermediate certificate from the authority listed on your certificate, so the signature validates in Adobe Acrobat.
Expiry tracking. The signer name and expiration date are read from the certificate and expired certificates are flagged before you rely on them.
Signature templates. Name, date, and time tokens fill themselves in at placement, so the block is always current.
Image placement. Put your signature graphic left, right, above, or below the text block.
Sign a page, a range, or the set. Place on the current page, all pages, or a custom range, with size and position applied consistently across them.

📋Legends & Revision Tables

Page legend. A table of item counts for the sheet you're on, building itself as you place.
Project legend. The same thing aggregated across every page, honoring page multipliers.
Linked items roll in. Accessories counted through linked items appear in the legend totals.
Measurement totals included. Linear and area totals per measurement type, formatted in your project units.
Existing, relocated, and deleted excluded. The legend reflects new work only.
Place, drag, and resize. Drop the legend anywhere on the sheet and scale it to fit the title block.
Automatic revision table. Every delta number used by your revision clouds, listed with its description, assembled for you.
Both render into the export. What you place on the sheet is what lands in the PDF.

📚The Catalog

One library, every project. Build your parts list once and it's on every job you open.
Full item records. Part number, description, list price, cost, an image, and your own custom fields.
Types for grouping and color. Organize the sidebar and drive marker and coverage colors from one place.
Pack and order configuration. Give an item an order part number and a pack quantity, and choose whether remainders round up or split.
CSV import and export. Bring in an existing parts list or take yours out, with per-row reporting on exactly what was added, updated, or failed.
Favorites. Star the items you use constantly and pin them to the top, optionally across every project.
Filter as you type. Search by part number or description.

📄Pages & Projects

Multi-page drawing sets. Import a full PDF set; each sheet keeps its own counts, measurements, and markup.
Import several PDFs into one project. Combine architectural, electrical, and mechanical sets in one place.
Drag and drop import on the Mac. Drop a PDF straight onto the pages sidebar.
Thumbnail sidebar with drag reordering. Put the sheets in the order you actually work them.
Rename pages, one at a time or in batch.
Page multipliers. A typical floor counted once can stand for all twelve — and a multiplier of zero drops a sheet out of the totals entirely.
Duplicate a page with all its markup.
Custom starting page number. Match the numbering on the printed set.
Project browser. Sort by name or date, rename, duplicate, and delete.
Recent projects. Your last ten, synced across devices.
Bundled sample project. A worked example on first launch so you can see the whole workflow before touching a real set.
Autosave. Every change is written as you make it. There's nothing to remember to save.

📤Counts & Exports

Dedicated counts window. Per-page breakdowns and grand totals, in its own window on the Mac.
Separate new, existing, relocated, and deleted sections. The as-built picture and the new-work number, side by side.
Measurement totals alongside counts. Linear and area figures per type in the same report.
Page filtering. Check off the sheets you want, and that selection carries through to the export.
Four export formats. Detail CSV, Detail PDF, Summary CSV, and Summary PDF.
Summary does the ordering math. Pack quantities and remainder handling turn your count into what you actually need to buy.
Marked-up PDF export. Items, labels, coverage areas, masks, measurements, every annotation type, ink, stamps, signatures, legends, and revision tables, all rendered in.
Three export modes. The entire document, the current page only, or every page as a separate file.
Two quality levels. 150 DPI for email, 300 DPI for print.
Progress reporting. Large sets export in the background without locking up the app.

☁️iCloud & Storage

Your choice of storage. Keep projects on the device or in iCloud Drive — switchable at any time.
Sync across every device. Start on the Mac, take the iPad to the field, check a count on your iPhone.
Bulk migration. Move all your projects between local and iCloud storage in one pass, with progress and a per-project result.
Catalog merges, not overwrites. Moving your catalog between locations combines it rather than clobbering it.
Live upload status. See when a project has finished uploading before you close the laptop.
Visible in Finder and Files. Your projects live in a folder you can actually see and back up.
Settings and favorites follow you. Preferences, recent projects, and starred items sync automatically.
Works offline. Everything except sync itself runs with no network at all.

⚙️Workflow & Platform

Undo everything, by name. The Edit menu tells you exactly what you're undoing — "Move Item", "Rotate Coverage", "Reorder Pages", "Edit 5 Labels".
Keyboard shortcuts throughout. Open, export, zoom, search, select all, toggle labels, coverage, and annotations, and step through pages.
Built-in shortcut reference. A window listing every one of them.
In-app user guide. Twenty-seven illustrated articles across nine sections, fully searchable.
Contextual tips. Guidance where you need it, resettable when you want to see it again.
Quick Actions palette. A floating window on the Mac with undo, select, and the visibility toggles always within reach.
Mac multi-window. Counts, visual search, and quick actions each in their own window alongside the plan.
Apple Pencil on iPad. Native tool picker and pressure-sensitive ink.
Native on Apple Vision Pro. Spread the sheets out at full size in a space of their own.
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