SuperPin — The Easy Guide

🤔 What is SuperPin?

Imagine a big construction drawing — a map of a building. On that map there are lots of little pictures: outlets, light switches, smoke detectors, cameras, speakers. A grown-up’s job is sometimes to count every single one. That can take hours, and it’s easy to lose your place.

SuperPin makes it easy:

• You tap each picture you want to count.
• SuperPin drops a colorful dot (we call it a pin) and adds 1 to the total.
• It remembers the count for every page and adds them all up for you.

Step 1 Open your plans

When you start SuperPin you’ll see a big box that says “Open your plans.” There are two ways to open a drawing:

1. Drag and drop: grab your PDF or photo and drop it onto the big box.
2. Tap to choose: tap the big box, then pick your file.

SuperPin can open a PDF (a whole set of drawings, page after page) or a single photo (PNG or JPG).

Step 2 Keep only the sheets you need

Big plan sets have lots of pages you don’t need for your count — like walls, pipes, and air ducts. If you’re doing a low-voltage or fire-alarm takeoff, you only care about some sheets.

SuperPin can clean that up for you. Right after you open a PDF, a window may pop up that says “Keep only Low-Voltage & Fire Alarm.” It sorts every sheet into three groups:

• ✓ KEEP — the sheets you need (legends, telecom/data, security, cameras, access control, fire alarm, and more).
• ? REVIEW — sheets where SuperPin couldn’t read the sheet number. It keeps these so nothing important is lost by accident.
• ✕ REMOVE — everything else.

Read the lists. If they look right, tap 🗑 Remove … and SuperPin makes a fresh, smaller plan set with only the sheets you kept. If you’d rather keep everything, tap Keep everything.

Step 3 Count by tapping

This is the simplest way to count, and you’re always in charge.

1. Tap ➕ Add a thing to count and give it a name, like “outlet.” (Or just tap the plan and SuperPin makes one for you.)
2. Each thing gets its own pin color, so they’re easy to tell apart.
3. Now tap every one you see on the page. Each tap = one pin = one count. 🟢🟢🟢
4. Tapped the wrong spot? Tap the pin again to remove it. Or press Ctrl+Z to undo your last tap.

Looking closely

• Zoom in: scroll/pinch on the plan, or use ➕ ➖. Tap Fit to see the whole page again.
• Pins in the way? Turn on “Hide the pins” in ⚙ Grown-up settings to peek at the drawing underneath.

At the top you’ll always see two big numbers: This sheet (the page you’re on) and Whole set (every page added together).

Step 4 Magic count ✨

Tapping every single device can take a while. Magic count does the hard part for you: you show it one symbol, and it finds that same symbol on every other page automatically.

1. Go to the legend sheet — the page with the little key that explains what each symbol means.
2. Tap ✨ Magic count.
3. Tap a symbol in the legend (or drag a little box snugly around it). SuperPin takes a tiny picture of it and even reads its name from the words next to it.
4. SuperPin then searches every other sheet and drops a pin on each match. 🪄
5. Pick the next symbol, and the next. Press Esc when you’re done picking.
6. Finally, tap ✅ Count everything for me to count them all, fresh, across the whole set — and show your report.

Step 5 Check the “not sure” pins

Sometimes SuperPin finds something that might be your symbol but it isn’t totally sure. Instead of guessing, it drops a gray ? pin and does not count it yet. You decide:

• It’s a real one? Tap the gray ? pin — it turns solid and gets counted.
• It’s not? Hold Alt and tap it to throw it away.
• Use 🔍 Go to next “not sure” pin to jump from one to the next.
• Use ✗ Clear all “not sure” pins to remove all the gray ones at once.

Step 6 Save your numbers 💾

When you’re finished, you can save your work in a few ways. Open ⚙ Grown-up settings to find these:

• ⬇ Save as Excel — a real spreadsheet with each symbol, its count on every sheet, and the grand total.
• ⬇ Save as spreadsheet — the same numbers as a simple CSV file.
• 💾 Save my work to a file — saves everything so you can open the same plan later and keep going.

⌨️ Handy buttons & keys

• 1–9 — switch which thing you’re counting.
• ← / → — go to the last / next sheet.
• Ctrl+Z — undo your last pin.
• Esc — stop picking symbols in Magic count.
• Alt + tap a gray ? — throw that suggestion away.
• ↻ on a row — re-run Magic count for just that one symbol.

🛟 If something goes wrong

• A page is blank or won’t load. SuperPin will show a yellow warning in the status line and in your report — it never hides a problem, so you’ll know which sheet to check.
• Magic count missed some. In ⚙ Grown-up settings, set “How picky should I be?” to Easygoing. Set it to Fussy if it’s pinning things that aren’t your symbol.
• Symbols turned sideways? Turn on “Find turned symbols.” Different sizes? Turn on “Find bigger or smaller ones.”
• This sheet shouldn’t be the legend. On the plan there’s a little unmark link to fix it.
• Start over. Use Clear this sheet or Clear everything in Grown-up settings.