Drywall Takeoff Software
Togal is cloud-based drywall takeoff software that measures your partitions and ceilings from the drawings. Apply your own formulas, and Togal.AI calculates the material quantities you need.
No downloads. No being tied to a specific computer.
Open Togal.AI on any internet-connected device, even on the jobsite.
Drywall takeoff software that's 4X faster
Stud gauge, number of layers, board type, and whether the wall stops at the grid or runs to deck are all factored into the quantities.
Because the same 40-foot wall can be built four different ways. Togal.AI knows which one your estimator drew.
What slows drywall estimators down
A large partition package is mostly repetition. And that repetition adds up fast.
Four things in particular eat away at your estimator's time:
Every corner, every run, every floor.
Legacy takeoff software registers a measurement only when you click each point of each wall. A hotel with 180 typical rooms is the same handful of partitions traced 180 times.
The takeoff ends, and the spreadsheet begins.
Measuring is half the job. Someone still has to work out studs, board, joint compound, screws, insulation, labor, and equipment - usually in a workbook maintained by hand for years. One formula dragged one row too far introduces manual errors nobody catches until buyout.
Heights live somewhere else.
The floor plan gives you run lengths. But board quantities depend on surface area, which means finding the wall height in a section, detail, or note about deck elevation and bringing that information back into the takeoff.
Splitting the big work means reconciling it later.
Two estimators take three floors each, then spend an afternoon merging quantities and arguing about whether the shaft wall got counted twice.
How Togal runs a drywall takeoff, from partition run to bill of materials
It measures and classifies the walls for you
Upload plans and hit the Togal Button. Togal.AI runs the linear and ceiling area takeoff, then suggests a classification for every wall and partition. Whether you're working from a clean CAD file or a scan from the job site, Togal.AI can read architectural plans in whatever form they come in.
You confirm, correct, and decide what stays in scope. Togal.AI handles the repetition while your estimator keeps the judgment.
Assemblies build the bill of materials as you measure
Assemblies was built specifically for drywall contractors. Build an assembly once using your own formulas, then apply it to your classified walls. As soon as a wall is classified, Togal.AI calculates the drywall materials and labor estimates that go with it:
Studs and track
Drywall board
Screws and fasteners
Insulation
Labor hours
Equipment and project-specific materials
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Your existing assembly library comes with you
You've already built the formulas your team relies on. You shouldn't have to start over just because you changed software.
Togal.AI can migrate your existing assembly library from PlanSwift or On-Screen Takeoff, formulas intact, so your team can keep estimating the way it already knows how.
Starting from scratch? Start with an editable, industry-standard drywall template and make it your own.
Repetition stops costing you hours
Hotels, apartments, hospitals - large projects are full of the same rooms and layouts repeated floor after floor. Repeating Groups lets your estimator take off one master unit, then place it everywhere that layout repeats.
Areas, finishes, and assemblies come along with it. Every instance stays consistent, and quantities update automatically when the master changes.
Take it off once. Use it everywhere.
See wall heights before you buy board
Togal.AI turns your 2D takeoff into a 3D view, so you can see wall heights before quantities get missed.
See it before you build it. Catching it in preconstruction is a conversation with the GC. Catching it during hanging is a change order.
Everything Togal measures for drywall estimating
Measured from the drawings
✓ Wall and partition runs, by linear foot
✓ Ceiling areas, including acoustical ceilings
✓ Room and space square footage
✓ Counts by item type
✓ Automatic scale detection
Classified and organized
✓ Wall and partition types
✓ Exterior versus interior walls
✓ Wall and ceiling tags, via Text Search
✓ Repeating unit types across floors
✓ Sheet names and numbers, in just a few clicks with Auto Naming
Calculated by Assemblies
✓ Studs and track
✓ Drywall board
✓ Screws and fasteners
✓ Insulation
✓ Labor hours
✓ Equipment and other materials
From takeoff to estimate
Quantities leave Togal ready to price.
Formulas and cost codes stay attached.
Keep quantities grouped the way your team needs them, including categories like stud height.
Detailed material and labor quantities, ready to price.
No reformatting or rebuilding the takeoff in another workbook.
Use the estimating system you already have.
Send your quantities to Excel, Zebel, ServiceTitan, or Ediphi.
One drawing set, from takeoff to estimate.
Keep everything tied back to the same plans instead of starting over at every handoff.
What else comes with Togal
Real-time collaboration
Put three estimators on one partition package, each on their own floors, all in the same live takeoff. Set permissions per person, and share project plans with someone outside your company for a single project without sending a file anywhere.
Image, text, and pattern search
Draw a box around a partition tag or a detail callout and search the entire set for it. Finding every instance of a wall type stops being a page-by-page hunt.
Togal.CHAT
Ask your own drawings a question. Check a quantity, confirm what a spec says about a fire-rated assembly, or draft an RFI without flipping through hundreds of sheets.
Cloud access on any device
Your takeoffs open wherever you are, always on the current version, with nothing installed locally and no file to email around.
SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance
Your drawings and project data sit in a controlled environment, which is the documentation a GC's IT department asks for before your team uploads their set.
Onboarding and ongoing support
Every account starts with a free custom onboarding session, and the support team includes former construction estimators who have priced drywall projects themselves.
Who Togal is built for
Togal fits commercial drywall subcontractors and framing contractors who complete takeoffs often enough to keep an estimator busy.
The clearest signal is a dedicated estimator on payroll, or a self-performing wall-and-ceiling division inside a GC.
Multifamily, hospitality, and healthcare fit best, since those sets run on repeated unit types and long partition schedules. Multi-office teams gain the most, because the emailing stops.
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Questions drywall estimators ask
Does Togal work as drywall takeoff software for Mac?
Yes. Togal runs in a browser, so a MacBook opens the same takeoff as a Windows workstation with nothing to install. This matters more in this category than in most, because the established alternatives are Windows desktop applications. ConstructConnect states its desktop products cannot be installed directly in macOS, and Bluebeam ended support for Revu for Mac in June 2023.
What happens to the assembly library we have spent years building?
It comes with you. Togal's team migrates existing assembly libraries out of PlanSwift or On-Screen Takeoff with the formulas and workflows preserved, so your production rates and wall types survive the switch. Teams starting from scratch can begin with an editable industry-standard drywall template instead.
How much faster is it, really?
An independent University of Kansas study put it at up to 76% time savings against On-Screen Takeoff on a fire station set. The researcher had never worked in either program before: the AI takeoff itself took about a minute, manual corrections took roughly half an hour, and the same work done manually in On-Screen Takeoff took two and a half hours. Quantities landed within 5% of each other on almost every classification. Time saved on that scale compounds across every bid your drywall business submits in a month.
How does drywall takeoff software integrate with estimating and bidding workflows?
Through the export, and at any point in the bid rather than only at the end. Drywall estimating runs as a sequence, and Togal covers the front of it: upload, name the set, measure and classify the walls, apply your assemblies, then send the quantities out with their cost codes attached. That last step is repeatable, which is what matters during a bid. When an addendum lands two days before the date and three partition types change, you update the affected walls and re-export rather than rebuilding a workbook by hand. Togal does the measuring and the material math; drywall estimating software still owns the pricing, the markup, and the project costs you take to the bid.
Where do our drawings live, and who can see them?
In a controlled environment, visible only to the people you invite. Nothing about your bid becomes visible to another contractor. Togal is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, which is generally what a GC's IT department wants documented before your team uploads their set.
Cloud-based vs desktop drywall takeoff software: which is better for field crews?
Cloud, as soon as anyone outside the estimating office needs to see the takeoff. Desktop software installs on a specific machine and keeps the files on that desktop or an internal server, so access stops where the install stops. Getting a partition layout in front of a foreman means exporting a PDF and emailing it, and by the time it reaches the field nobody can be certain it reflects the current set. Togal opens in a browser, so the digital plans and the takeoff on top of them travel to the trailer on a laptop or a tablet, and a foreman can be given view access to check which walls carry which type before hanging starts. Desktop still holds an edge if your office works offline for long stretches, which is worth being honest about. Read the full comparison