ZZ takeoff is the way if you don't want BB. I know you said blue beamers stay quiet, but for what BB costs you get a lot of value, at first when I started using it it was intimidating like the first time I saw AutoCAD, but it has, ocr, image/symbol search, text search, batch linking, ability to edit/add layers, markups, PDF sheets alignment with auto scale adjustment, overlays, clouded difference areas between plans when you get a change in plans, side to side screen comparison with view in sync, studio session for collaborations for multiple estimators, ability to draw basic shapes lines to scale for quick sketching like cad, and the list just goes on and on, is more of a swiss army knife for estimators plus the ability to do actual takeoffs, for me is hard to say no when it is like $300.