Adobe Acrobat vs. Adobe Acrobat Sign

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat

3727 Reviews and Ratings

Adobe Acrobat Sign

Adobe Acrobat Sign

585 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Acrobat	Score 8.8 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
Adobe Acrobat Sign	Score 8.3 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Acrobat Sign is an e-signature solution that combines simple and secure e-signatures with Adobe Acrobat. With Acrobat Sign, the user can create, sign, send for signature, manage, and track documents from one Adobe platform. The user can create signing experiences for customers and teams by enabling them to sign documents on any device or browser – anytime, anywhere. No additional software download or accounts are needed. As Microsoft’s e-signature solution, Acrobat Sign…	$14.99 per month license

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat Sign

Editions & Modules

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

Acrobat Standard DC for teams: $14.99
per month license
Acrobat Pro DC with advanced e-sign: $16.99
per month license
Acrobat Sign Solutions: Call 800-685-4192 for pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat	Adobe Acrobat Sign
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

$34.99 license per month

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Community Pulse
	Adobe Acrobat	Adobe Acrobat Sign
Considered Both Products	Adobe Acrobat Karambir Singh Khalsa Chief Executive Officer Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat Sign was evaluated and found to be lacking in terms of setting up a document for data entry and signature. We chose to continue to use Adobe Acrobat DC for situations requiring data entry and signature because the ROI for purchasing this more expensive package did … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat I feel like Adobe Acrobat does it all from converting files to and from PDFs while it preserves the formatting. although Adobe Acrobat Sign and Adobe Acrobat Reader are pretty self explanatory i just feel that Adobe Acrobat has and does it all. This is what i love the most. Incentivized Helpful? HH Heidy Hernandez Graphic Designer Chose Adobe Acrobat I like It for different reasons , Adobe Acrobat is for digital document signing and Adobe Express is for quick social media layouts and templates. Incentivized Helpful? AT Andrea Tidwell Legal Assistant Chose Adobe Acrobat This is a feature I personally have had to use a lot as we have to contact inventors for their signatures on a lot of documents. The ability for them to sign digitally is extremely helpful. A manual signature is harder to get and contacting these individuals can be hit or miss … Incentivized Helpful? GM Gina Monthes Operations Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat Both read documents through Adobe, which is better for security and because the service is more optimized. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat Ease of use Incentivized Helpful? SS Sara Schleske Marketing Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe helps aid in keeping financial records in order when you organize documents digitally, which helps make it easy to search for items such as spreadsheets, receipts, payments, expense reports, and other documents for tax or billing information. Plus there is much more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe has more features than the others and they are included in my Adobe software. No other integrations needed Incentivized Helpful? CN Cassandra Nicholl Strategist Chose Adobe Acrobat I use all of my Adobe products for different reasons. As someone who works in creative a lot of the time, the products I listed are super important in my daily work. I typically use Adobe Acrobat to organize and export the files I worked on. I find it to be an all purpose … Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat All of Adobes products work cohesively together making projects seamless. Adobe Acrobat DC is my go-to software to share files and documents with others that I know don't have access to more involved Adobe platforms such as InDesign or Illustrator. I know that users will be … Incentivized Helpful? Orin Mamun Junior Frontend Developer Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat DC simplifies the process of editing and creating PDFs. With drag-and-drop functionality, it's simple to use. We can also choose to forego reading by utilizing the text-to-speech function. It's InDesign and Illustrator-compatible. Templates in Acrobat DC make it … Incentivized Helpful?	Adobe Acrobat Sign Christopher Power Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Adobe Sign and DocuSign are very similar in use; however, in comparison, the navigation of the Adobe app and integration are much easier for marketing and design professionals because it is still very close to the format and structure of other Adobe products. Industry standard … Incentivized Helpful? Todd Dodge Marketing Assistant/Graphic Designer Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Our original idea was to edit our forms using Adobe Acrobat DC to make them fillable with text, but they (the clients) would still have to save, download, and email them back to us, and DocuSign had such an user-unfriendly layout and design, it was very slow and just overall … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign I'm familiar with Acrobat and this was easy to learn based on my knowledge of Acrobat. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Both products allow you to create a fillable form and send the form out for signature. Acrobat did not originally set up to do these features. But we share the Adobe Sign across the HR Dept for sending out new hire forms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign We sometimes received DocuSign documents from clients for signature. I've found that, while DocuSign is similar to Adobe Sign, it does not seem as user friendly or as intuitive as Adobe Sign. We selected Adobe Sign due to its value and ease of use. We have other products … Incentivized Helpful? DM Doug Marchand IT Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign I feel Adobe Acrobat Sign holds their own to the DocuSign brand. I see more organizations using DocuSign, but feel I can easily use the toolset that Adobe Acrobat Sign offers. I really like the signature tracking feature that Adobe Acrobat Sign offers and combined with the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Better integrates with our other systems, and allows employees to use it easier along other applications. We already use lots of adobe products so the decision was based heavily on that. I think Adobe Acrobat Sign can be a little clunky at times, but once a user has been … Incentivized Helpful? Emily Wallace Talent Acquisition Coordinator Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign We utilize DocuSign over Adobe Acrobat Sign for e-signature purposes. The functionality of DocuSign is much greater in its' self-contained application; usability appears superior, and, to my knowledge, costing is more beneficial for the total value package. Incentivized Helpful? BS Brooke Shilling Executive Assistant Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign I like that its incorporated WITH ALL Adobe products so I can create a PDF or edit one and attach my signature RIGHT there or send it off for signature all in one go. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign I was looking for a tool which needs no approval (third party) as well as well aware of it. I was using acrobat so has fair knowledge of features and options Incentivized Helpful? AE Adriano Eva Supervisor Wellness & Enrichment Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Integration is key to help me determine the value of Adobe Sign to our organization. That is what set it apart from DocuSign in my opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign In [every] way, Adobe Sign is good. The forms stayed familiar so users didn't get upset. We built out our forms in Word; [it was] very easy to build out forms and make them yours. Although support has been adequate, I usually bring difficult questions to the table, which … Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign HelloSign is a similar product to Adobe Sign; however, I found it lacking in some features that are present in Adobe Sign. Usability is similar, [but] I believe that Adobe Sign has a slight edge and I found it nicer to use [with a] better layout and design to be honest. Incentivized Helpful? BP Barbara Peeters Executive Assistant Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Adobe Sign had better functionality and pricing. It also synced more readily with the programs already in use and filled a need for our organization to obtain electronic signatures across multiple facilities, departments and users. We can't say enough about how great Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Some of the providers did not offer services that matched our needs. However, most of the major companies (Adobe SIgn, DocuSign, HelloSign, Zoho Sign) all do pretty much the same thing. Initially, we chose Adobe based on brand recognition and the fact that their pricing was … Incentivized Helpful? SD Shawn DeLauney Operations Security Engineer Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Both are easy to use, however the biggest difference I see is the name. Adobe is more recognized. For me, when I used DocuSign, it feels the same for scrolling to sign, but from the set up it tends to be a little more confusing. Incentivized Helpful? Shannon Augustine, M.S. Manager, Cloud/Endpoint Engineering and Administration Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign They have better workflows and are very sleek. Their technical support and sale people do know how to sell and make it simpler for people to use their products Incentivized Helpful? PM Phylisha Moore Administrator - Sales Promotions Representative Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Adobe Sign is better with customer service and intuitive UI. However, DocuSign allowed for greater customization of workflows. Incentivized Helpful? PB Patrick Blake IT Director Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign For what we use it stacks up to the same. Both Adobe and DocuSign work with our ERP environment. It comes down to price and negotiation with our account rep. We could easily move to DocuSign if Adobe chooses not to be competitive. Incentivized Helpful? JB Jo Brand Administrative Assistant Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign We already had Creative Cloud and so used this because it was already paid for. That being said, we've really valued it and would likely purchase it on its own if we had needed it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign Adobe Sign is the only document signing software that I have used. I have nothing to compare it to. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign We occasionally use DocuSign because it is free but it is not as robust and seems to lack some security function. However, the cost comparison is not even close when it comes to Quote Roller. We were on the base plan and the transition was a no-brainer. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign The main advantages for Sign are csv reports and encrypted signature. Incentivized Helpful? Caitlyn Weathers Photographer Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign I haven't used any outside products. I researched a few last year when deciding if I'd continue on my Adobe Cloud program but ultimately chose to continue with Adobe Sign. Prior to this program, I did everything on paper or through emailing, printing, writing and scanning … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign They are about as good, but Adobe Sign comes with the Adobe Suite, which I use as a Web Designer/ Developer, as a result, I don't have to get yet another solution, and the Adobe Suite becomes a whole lot more valuable. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	Adobe Acrobat Sign
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (838 ratings)	6.0 (228 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (39 ratings)	8.0 (30 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (243 ratings)	5.6 (194 ratings)
Availability	9.3 (3 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Performance	6.3 (10 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (62 ratings)	7.3 (164 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.7 (15 ratings)	8.0 (7 ratings)
Configurability	7.3 (3 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	6.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (9 ratings)	5.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.2 (4 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	4.0 (3 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.5 (2 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe Acrobat	Adobe Acrobat Sign
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe I would recommend to my peers if they are signing paperwork as it makes it super easy. I would also recomned it if somebody was trying to make an editable PDF or fill in paper document to be able to share across multiple platforms and emails at a timely manner Incentivized HH Heidy Hernandez Graphic Designer Read full review	Adobe Acrobat Sign isn't quite as user friendly as other E-Sign platforms I have used. However, it offers a wide range of features that provide convenience and efficiency. For example, I can have multiple people receive the same document separately, or I can have multiple people receive and review the exact same document. I also like that I can choose to set a signing order or not, this is important for when I send Offer Letters and other things that require order of approvals. Kennedy Humphrey MBA HR Manager Read full review
Pros	Adobe For the business account, the Adobe Acrobat rep assigned to your account will actively look for ways to save you money. We have found that our rep from Adobe Acrobat Business Account reviews our usage and related apps and has offered helpful tips on better ways to complete tasks we historically undertake with their software. They have saved us a great deal of time and money. They make us efficient. The apps they offer that combine with the primary program are relevant to the tasks our business performs, and they function at a high level and never fail. It's really quite remarkable. Incentivized DB Dennis Blocker Office Manager Read full review	Adobe Adobe Acrobat Sign tracks whether or not a signer has viewed a document Adobe Acrobat Sign tracks when a signer has signed, and the document has been sent to the next signer Adobe Acrobat Sign sends you confirmation emails and progress update emails along the way Adobe Acrobat Sign provides a "confirmation of signing" page at the end of the document package you put together, to prove the signatures are authentic Incentivized KM Kayte Moore Family Law Paralegal Read full review
Cons	Adobe More printing settings, like being able to adjust the margins and place the print area on the page when the file size is larger than the page, and I only want to print one section. Illustrator has this feature. Often, we print from Illustrator instead, because of this limitation. Incentivized LK Lucia Kwon Creative Design Manager Read full review	Adobe Builds on Adobe platform so it is easy to utilize, but many features require enterprise subscription. Integrations available but your CRM integration is only available with enterprise license. Lots of templates but there are additional templates with enterprise only and there was no drag and drop editor. Adobe captures some analytical metrics but many of the analytics we required were not available - specifically metrics related to how the tool converts and reduces use time by our team and the impact on clients. Incentivized Jeff Keeney Sales and Customer Success at Cross-Sell 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	Adobe It is by far the easiest service we have used to obtain digital signatures from employees. In the past we had done it by hand (a process I would not recommend for 1500+ employees) and with another company that would not allow us to create our own forms and would charge us for each form. Incentivized Lori Diggs HR Project Analyst Read full review
Usability	Adobe I've only used it on Mac desktops, so I am giving this a neutral rating right down the middle. I've not used a mobile version of Adobe Acrobat for cell phone or for a tablet (like an Apple iPad). I've also not used Adobe Acrobat on a PC, although Acrobat Reader, yes. (But that's not the point of this review.) Incentivized Rod Lott Manager of Marketing Strategy Read full review	Adobe I've had very little trouble with it in all my uses with it. I do wish the text boxes you add wouldn't cut off the text if you entered too many words and that it would adjust it's size to fit within the space you've provided. However, that just takes a little refining in the initial set up of the document before you send it out. Incentivized LH Luke Holocher Business Manager 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	Adobe I would have rated this a 9 or greater had they not had had such critical outages. They have taken steps to resolve this so I may come in and revise this Verified User Anonymous 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	Adobe The Adobe Acrobat Sign's performance are excellent. When we send electronic document by email for signature all the customers receive it regularly, nobody has any issue to open it and the signature phase was very easy. The user-friendly aspect of this product reduce or reset the call for IT support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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 BP Bradley Pearce Managing Member Read full review	Adobe It is a great tool to get signatures from the client and has reduced a lot of overhead that was caused before resulting in very long delays. With the integration of Adobe Acrobat Sign, we have reduced this delay making the process much smoother and more efficient. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	Adobe Easy to follow and understand Incentivized Dave King Director of IT Read full review	Adobe The best types of training are well integrated into the product and Echosign does this well. As mentioned earlier in my review - there are some areas of functionality that can be difficult to understand ("only I sign") for the novice user. Other areas such as macro usage, bulk signature and so on were easily learned and understood via the online tools. Joshua Lipton VP Technology 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	Adobe We did not use it in the manner that most companies do, so I am pleased with how our company handled implementation. We will be pushing the full company over into Echosign for various processes which will incorporate more of an implementation effect. Jessie Mead Business Services Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Adobe In my opinion, both complement each other. Microsoft clearly has with Copilot the AI Edge. However, the visual dynamics of Adobe Creative are Outstanding and provide a balanced approach to creativity, utilizing both Excellent, user-friendly Tools. Incentivized JR Joe Reddix President and CEO Read full review	Adobe They are just different. Adobe's number one feature that puts it above it's competitors is that your document, the signing process, all of it exists within Adobe. There is no need to go from Word, to Adobe, to DocuSign. It saves you time and makes life easy for you (and for your clients). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	Adobe The only thing I can think of that may be helpful would be a more flexible tiered pricing options based on usage or document volume. Incentivized Dave King Director of IT Read full review	Adobe No answers on this topic
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	Adobe At the beginning we assigned Adobe Acrobat Sign just to Purchase Office Department because at that moment we needed a tool that supported us to avoid manual signature and was compliance with remote working. Now we are using it also in other situation because it help us with time and we can also reduce cost Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Adobe Automation of contract offer generation enabled the HR team to reduce the time to process contracts by 97%. The automated workflow is more accurate and decreased document errors by up to 90 percent. The signature collecting process was cut from a minimum of 30 minutes to only 2 minutes. Incentivized HS Hemant Salunkhe Sr. Associate Human Resource Read full review	Adobe Significantly reduced the time required for document signing processes reducing wasted time and effort Cost savings since there is no longer any need to print and post/scan traditional signed paper-based documents Faster decision-making since time-sensitive decisions and approvals can now be processed much more quickly by using e-signatures. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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