Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Acrobat	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011).	$29.99 per month per seat

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Acrobat Pro for Individuals: $19.99
per month
Acrobat Pro for Teams: $23.99
per month per user
Acrobat Studio for Individuals: $24.99
per month

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Adobe Acrobat
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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	Adobe Acrobat
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I think Adobe is far superior to any other document program I've ever used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Not the best for edits and comments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I love that it can do everything all in one, no use for separate applications. Incentivized Helpful? Dakotah Schattler Project Manager / IT in Information Technology at KSW Architects (Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Unfortunately if I'm going to be honest, bluebeam is my preferred PDF viewer and work space. In the past is has worked much better for Architecture specifically. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Draft Senior Graphic Designer in Marketing at Tura (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I think OpenOffice and other programs are great in theory; but I work closely with the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem so I like keeping it all together. For the pricing I don't see the loss in getting an Adobe Acrobat license if not the whole Creative Cloud dependent on your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat If I were to make a comparison between Adobe Acrobat and Illustrator, Illustrator would be the Basilica San Pietro while Adobe Acrobat would be a modern faux gothic church in a small city in the US midwest. That is to say that Illustrator is an industry titan with the most … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat The other platforms work well and we didn't have issues in IT dept. But it is a nightmare to roll it out company wide and have to worry about user training. We could not afford with user training and decided the easy route, everyone knows Adobe Acrobat and got ourselves 3 year … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat combines all these software functionalities into one powerful platform which gives the user less steps to do & easier workflows. Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Branagan Assistant Director of Student-Professional Development at Brown (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Although Google Drive tends to function as my home base, it cannot be used for pdfs in the same way that Adobe Acrobat can. It does not have the editing capability for pdfs. I have used almost every function in Google Drive and have yet to find a comparable alternative to some … Incentivized Helpful? Pari Tiwari Business development specialist in Marketing at Cleartrust by Botman Networks (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is comparable and the reason why I selected it is because it has a comprehensive set of pdf features in one platform. It is compatible across all devices and gives extra security as compared to these platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Timothy Siounit Special Processing Unit in Finance and Accounting at VITU (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I haven't used any others because we have only used Adobe Acrobat. It is by far the best service and provides the most cloud space of any service! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat actually surpasses all the above tools. Most of the above tools are free but they come with their own set of challenges. Issues such as security and frequent software crashes are a pain Adobe Acrobat basically outperforms all the above apps and obviously have … Incentivized Helpful? Lucas Hilty Project Manager in Product Management at Faith Builders Educational Programs (Higher Education, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat My preference is really Foxit for its capabilities, though Acrobat stacks up favorably to that. If we did not subscribe to Creative Cloud, we would go with Foxit rather than Acrobat. Incentivized Helpful? Claire Stamler-Goody Senior Graphic Designer in Marketing at Chicago Event Management (Sports, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is much better than Apple Preview. The editing, commenting, highlighting, and signing capabilities are much easier to use in Adobe Acrobat than they are in preview. Editing, commenting, and signing pdfs is a huge part of my job, so it is important for me to work … Incentivized Helpful? Jaime Alvarez Director of Enterprise Technology in Corporate at La Frontera (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Honestly, the other software tools worked and pricing was better in most cases. However, the familiarity of Adobe Acrobat is what drove us back to Adobe. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat The tools I mentioned such as PDFgear or PDF24 are mostly free pdf edit tool. But the reason for not selecting them is the security. You cannot trust on any company you just find on google by searching. Feature wise Adobe Acrobat is much better than these because they do not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Companies I worked for use Adobe Acrobat. I would not have minded any other software as long as it does what i expected and let me do my job without any hassles. They all subscribe licenses so I did not also want to suggest other softwares that cost more even the alternative … Incentivized Helpful? Robert Hutchison Founder in Professional Services at Effin Solutions (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I’ve mostly used Microsoft Edge and Canva as lighter-weight alternatives, and Microsoft Word for some PDF conversion or editing. Edge works well for viewing PDFs and basic markup, while Canva is useful when I need to do something more artistic. Adobe Acrobat is better and more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat They are both very good but our users are already very familiar with using Adobe Acrobat Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat While we are able to easily preview pdfs within the Google Chrome browser, it is only for light previewing and not for reviewing / editing within our company. Adobe Acrobat is better for reviewing and commenting that Google Chrome in this regard. It is also better for editing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Even though many of these are free programs, I need the editing features Adobe Acrobat provides for so many of the functions I handle. I cannot give those up so Adobe Acrobat is worth the money. Also, I know the Adobe programs so much better that it's hard to imagine relearning … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	97% Would buy again 897 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	95% Delivers good value for the price 768 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	97% Happy with the feature set 899 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	96% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 594 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
99% Implementation went as expected 683 Answers

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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (967 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.9 (46 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (382 ratings)
Availability	8.6 (4 ratings)
Performance	5.2 (11 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (64 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.9 (16 ratings)
Configurability	7.7 (5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	3.9 (3 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (9 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.2 (5 ratings)
Professional Services	7.3 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.7 (3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	6.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe Acrobat
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe In my opinion there isn't a better document program that works with everyone. In a previous role; I had advocated for staff across departments to get Adobe Acrobat licenses because they kept sending every little thing to me since I had the main Adobe license. It really made their departments (sales & finance) run much smoother for a very minimal cost. Incentivized Scott Draft Senior Graphic Designer Read full review
Pros	Adobe It is easy to sign and send a document. It makes it easy to scan and save a document. It is easy to add text to any document. You can create an editable PDF form for others to complete based on the questions you include. You can create and send a secure document to a client for their signature. It is easy to add photos to any document. Incentivized Dominic Liberoni Practice Manager Read full review
Cons	Adobe I wish the backward compatibility was a little more friendly. PDFLyer had to be updated sooner that we would like when we updated from Adobe 2017 to Adobe 2026. I wish it had list processing like Excel where it could remove duplicates, change formatting, etc. Sometimes after an update we lose our plugins and have to restablish the connection to the plugin or reinstall. Incentivized Andrew Indovina Infrastructure Support Specialist Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Adobe Adobe Acrobat works seamlessly with the other Adobe products we use that are industry-standard. We will certainly continue to use Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, meaning it will always be convenient to work seamlessly with Adobe Acrobat for our organization. We are happy with the performance of Acrobat and it's meets our expectations. Incentivized Avery Chipman Interior Designer Read full review
Usability	Adobe I would say overall, the product is great and as someone who has used it for many years now, I'm quite familiar with the ins and outs of the application. However, we found that when users were shown it for the first time and a bit after, they would feel a bit overwhelmed by the options and what everything meant. I think the UI could be simplified or an option to have a simplified mode and an advanced mode added. Incentivized Scott William Halewood UI / UX Designer Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Adobe We have not had availability issues with Adobe Acrobat, or at least none that I am personally aware of. Some may encounter crashes of the software during outages of electricity in their city or neighborhood, which no one can plan for, but with generators in our organization, we have been lucky not to have outages Incentivized Rod Lott Manager of Marketing Strategy Read full review
Performance	Adobe One of the best features of Adobe Acrobat is its speed and stability. When dealing with massive multi-page files, having to reload a crashed program over and over again would slow down progress unnecessarily. And expanding on that, having the table of contents generated allows me to skip to different pages with ease, a necessary feature with exceptionally long files. word searches are even more helpful with text recognition. Incentivized Daniel Epstein Senior Clinical Quality Analyst Read full review
Support Rating	Adobe For a while, Acrobat DC crashed pretty frequently. I contacted Adobe Acrobat support about the problem. At first support was unable to provide a solution. After about a month Adobe's software engineers provided a fix. I just wish it had taken less than a month to solve the problem. Incentivized Bradley Pearce Managing Member Read full review
Online Training	Adobe Answered basic questions. Incentivized Michael Craven President Read full review
Implementation Rating	Adobe I was not involved with the implementation process, so I cannot answer this question. However, when it was installed on my computer system, they did so virtually. I just sat there while they took control of my computer over the network and watch them install it, lickety split Incentivized Rod Lott Manager of Marketing Strategy Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Adobe Adobe Acrobat has the most premium features that other software can't offer. The seamless UI is consistent on any device, and the ease of use. The security and the advanced AI features are what you won't get on any other platforms or apps. Incentivized Md Ashraful Islam Senior Brand Designer Read full review
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	Adobe I am not responsible for sales or purchasing Incentivized Sean Moore Marketing Specialist Read full review
Scalability	Adobe I find that many users aren't aware of many features of the software they use, nor may they be comfortable with learning multiple-step processes. For the simplest of PDF purposes (scanning, downloading, exporting), it gets a thumbs-up. For anything involving electronic signatures, meh--causes eyes to glaze over, or forgetting what all is involved. Incentivized Jamie Caroland Independent Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	Adobe Definitely a positive ROI when I can receive clear notes/direction on edits for a PDF via Acrobat's comment system, rather than chicken scratch on a printed document. The ability to password-protect my PDFs so I can make sure only the workforce I want to see the information has been priceless! As I mentioned before, a huge positive impact is the ability to edit PDFs without having to return to the original file's native software. Incentivized Mark Rhodes Communications Manager Read full review
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