Adobe Acrobat vs. Conga Composer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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).
$19.99
per month
Conga Composer
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Conga Composer is a document generation and automation tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of creating and distributing customized documents, presentations, and reports.N/A
Pricing
Adobe AcrobatConga Composer
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe AcrobatConga Composer
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adobe AcrobatConga Composer
Considered Both Products
Adobe Acrobat
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is far more visual than any other document editor/viewer. As a veteran in the market, it understands its customers' needs well and has managed to stay relevant and keep its tools up-to-date. Furthermore, it maintains a good balance between the number of tools it …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is great for organizations to use, while the other tools are mostly targeted to individual users. We have tried other software, Adobe products with their ecosystem and different products with the same subscription, ended up being more useful than buying different …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
I am sure it works fine but I do not have any reason to ever use it instead of or in addition to acrobat. If the software is working fine, has the features you need and is already well known by the staff, it would be foolish to switch to a different software.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
I don't know if it's the many years of experience I have using Adobe Acrobat or that they just seem to evolve along with the industry, the other programs I have tried (not by choice) just don't seem to have the abilities I have found and used with Adobe Acrobat.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat runs in a parallel way to these other products. Only Illustrator has a function that you can save files as PDF and read them in acrobat Reader. And you can open PDF files and edit them. The thing is that for simple things and simple modifications Adobe Acrobat has …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is far superior to Microsoft Edge's PDF reader. It is far more robust in the features that are offered without sacrificing any user friendliness.
Bluebeam offers more detailed editing features, specifically for things like construction documents. However, …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is better for a few reasons: it has more powerful capabilities like editing, it's stable, it's exported files are universally compatible. The two I named above are ok in a pinch, but definitely not something we use if we can avoid it.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is the best tool to be able to view and amend documents especially for accessibility. While some other products might be better for editing the documents Adobe Acrobat will allow you to do a full accessibility report and ensure that the content of the document is …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
I have used eCopy Pro before. This, when I used it, was very limited on what I can do with whole pages or electronic signatures. It did not at the time have the function to get an electronic signature directly. It would allow me to erase meta data, but I am not sure that is …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
For what we need the application for, Acrobat is the right software. Yes, it is the right tool for the job and for our organization to complete the projects we need it to do and succeed with.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
It just seems like Adobe is PDF-first, and others are trying to catch up. I'm used to it, and it does everything I need.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat has the naming and reliability solidified all over the world and the name already share what's needed to work without security issues
Chose Adobe Acrobat
We like the interoperability between Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. Their is native support to export from or to either format, but Adobe Acrobat Reader is free & everyone can view & print PDF documents free of charge.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
DocuSign was the main alternative we looked at seriously. The E-Signature side is comparable, but DocuSign does not give you the broader PDF editing and OCR capabilities, so you would still need another tool alongside it. Acrobat made more sense as a single tool that covered …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
I got Adobe Acrobat for free
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is an amazing tool. I chose this one because I did not see any others that I had enough knowledge to give a true review. I am more of a creative user when it comes to Adobe. I am new to marketing.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Only used once, free version. Not nearly as helpful.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Premiere Pro
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Well, Mac Preview is a default app on the Mac. It just works. It comes pre-installed and it is also used for images and various things. The UI, the graphics, the ux, the functionality all seem seamless. The application also feels very light, works very fast and it is easy to …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Better for designers and people that care about layout
Conga Composer
Chose Conga Composer
NA - We did not evaluate other programs like Conga.
Chose Conga Composer
DocuSign and Formstack for Salesforce
Chose Conga Composer
Firstly, we used Conga Composer to generate documents and DocuSign as the e-signature tool. However, Conga Sign proved to be much more cost-effective for our user base, as users didn’t need to switch to another system like DocuSign to send contracts to customers. With both …
Chose Conga Composer
Yeah, Conga is something that the client has selected. We asked them the same question — they believe they’re a long-time user of Conga and they have trust in that product. So that’s the reason.
Chose Conga Composer
Only reason was its integration with salesforce. In those apps, we had to manually copy paste the data to generate document and get signed but with conga composer’s salesforce integration, it fetches all the data from salesforce and generate the document for us and once …
Chose Conga Composer
We have used PandaDoc and with our personal experience, we can say that Composer is way better as it lets us pull data from multiple Salesforce objects, apply conditional logic, and generate highly customized documents.
Chose Conga Composer
Conga Composer helps us in document generation part and once the document has been generated from Conga Composer it can be sent out to the customers. Here we can also use Conga Email Template to send out the message and the attachments. Docusign here works so well and we can …
Chose Conga Composer
S-Docs is also great with Salesforce; however, it offers broader integration, scalable automation, and a deeper support ecosystem. Conga Composer delivers more powerful and flexible document generation.
Chose Conga Composer
I've used PandaDoc before; it is nowhere near as good as Conga Composer in terms of usability and end-user experience. Conga is much more valuable and business-oriented.
Chose Conga Composer
Can have more control with Aspose by using more code to dynamically generate the document to your exact needs.
Chose Conga Composer
Easily the best In the market. Still needs massive improvements in my opinion. Alot of use cases look legacy today!
Chose Conga Composer
Conga Composer works well with Conga Grid.
Chose Conga Composer
Better pricing and better functionality.
Chose Conga Composer
IDK - I really don't have a comparison to give
Chose Conga Composer
No other tools that are comparable.
Chose Conga Composer
We used the out of the box salesforce functionality but realized when our order forms used multiple currencies and had some customization we realized we needed a tool like Conga Composer
Chose Conga Composer
We did not try any other products with our Salesforce instance.
Chose Conga Composer
Benchmarking is upcoming. Conga Composer was already implemented when I joined the company
Chose Conga Composer
We used Microsoft Excel to manipulate all the data from different objects, now we can click a button and the report is generated, Excel provides a powerful tool, but Conga Composer is better than Excel to generate the data in the format that the customer wants, you don't need …
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User Ratings
Adobe AcrobatConga Composer
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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8.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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8.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(0 ratings)
7.5
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
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3.6
(0 ratings)
Performance
5.3
(0 ratings)
3.6
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(0 ratings)
6.8
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.9
(0 ratings)
3.7
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(0 ratings)
1.8
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(0 ratings)
2.7
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.1
(0 ratings)
3.6
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
1.0
(0 ratings)
1.8
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Vendor pre-sale
1.0
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3.3
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User Testimonials
Adobe AcrobatConga Composer
Likelihood to Recommend
When asked, I tend to suggest Adobe Acrobat vs Docusign, it's easier to use, cheaper and has more editing options available. I suggest Adobe Acrobat for many things over other programs, sometimes the only issues is the cost, you need to own Adobe Acrobat to do a lot of things, and the cost can be can an issue for people.
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From my experience, Conga Composer is particularly well-suited for generating documents, such as quotes and contracts, directly from Salesforce. It saves us a great deal of time, which is remarkably beneficial for companies with sales teams. Not suitable for companies lacking significant Salesforce expertise or administrative support.
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Pros
  • ISO standard PDF creation is critical for print production, so that there are no surprises on press.
  • Adobe Acrobat's security features are simple to use, and effective.
  • Most clients have no difficulty with the commenting features in Adobe Acrobat, which makes review quick and simple.
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  • It allows us to generate multiple documents at once using batch generation. This simple automation saves a lot of time for our team.
  • Its very user friendly. Even a newbie can simply generate document by clicking a button once this is setup by the admin.
  • Integrate Conga Sign with Conga Composer and it will automatically sent for e- signature once generated saving lot of time. we previously had to wait a lot for the signature.
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Cons
  • For as amazing as Adobe Acrobat is, a lot of the time it does feel like one of the more clunky and slow Adobe programs.
  • Ability to edit text! Adobe Acrobat sometimes struggles with fonts and editing the text ends up messing with the text in weird ways.
  • It would be cool to have multiple versions of the same preflight single fixups! I use the same single fixup but need to adjust it for multiple sizes! I'd like to be able to save another version of it with the different sizes.
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  • Not very intuitive. Once you know the system it's fine but there is a learning curve
  • I would like to see training opportunities on features that I am not using or aware of
  • I am sure I am only using about 3% of it's full potential
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Likelihood to Renew
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.
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We most likely will renew conga because of it's strong salesforce integration and we're so engrained into it with all of our different brands and products/services. It would take a lot of time, money and resources to switch to something else.
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Usability
We have not experienced any major problems using Adobe Acrobat within our company. We use a variety of computer devices, and it works well on all machines. The only minor issues we have had occur have been the software getting "hung up" during some printing tasks and conversion tasks, but these sorts of inconveniences have been few and far between.
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It's a fairly simple tool to integrate into your current business structure. When we've had issues, we were able to resolve them extremely quickly. The users click a button and it can bring in all the quote lines, and our credit application seamlessly into our tool. I'd definitely recommend it to other colleagues
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Reliability and Availability
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
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It was available, it just didn't always work depending on what glitches were happening within our app
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Performance
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.
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This product appears to work well. It was not a fit for us this time, but we would consider in future
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Support Rating
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.
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As a conga parter we have created more than 50+ cases with conga support and many times we have got the answers on the chat support itself. A very effective knowledge base and conga university give you all the study material to enhance your product knowledge. Conga support has been very effective and has always responded quickly to questions and issues
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Online Training
Answered basic questions.
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Implementation Rating
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
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It was painful internally to build out all of the templates, but the actual implementation of the product was okay.
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Alternatives Considered
I am sure it works fine but I do not have any reason to ever use it instead of or in addition to acrobat. If the software is working fine, has the features you need and is already well known by the staff, it would be foolish to switch to a different software.
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We have not been able to find an offering that allowed for the level of customization or could handle the complexity of the solutions we've built using Conga's products. We selected Conga originally as it was recommended at the time (2012) and there weren't any better alternatives - but we have looked recently and still can't find anything better.
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Scalability
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.
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We used it for something simple and it was still a pain to use
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Return on Investment
  • Time spent on manual document prep dropped noticeably once OCR became part of the workflow, about roughly 3-4 hours a week across the team, just from not retyping scanned documents.
  • Fewer errors in documents going out to clients because edits happen in the original file rather than recreating things from scratch.
  • The pricing is a real negative ROI consideration. At this cost, you expect the performance to be consistently solid, but it isn't always, which makes it harder to fully recommend internally.
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  • We have been able to standardize our branding in documents to give them a more professional appearance.
  • The number of manual errors is significantly reduced, thereby improving our turnaround time by 30%.
  • Our overall working efficiency has improved by over 70% with the introduction of Conga Composer.
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ScreenShots

Adobe Acrobat Screenshots

Screenshot of where to create, edit, convert, and share PDF files all from within Microsoft Teams – as part of Acrobat integrations with Microsoft 365 apps.Screenshot of Liquid Mode in Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app, where users can read PDFs on phones and tablets without having to pinch and zoom. Navigate lengthy documents with intelligent outline and search tools, while maximizing readability and comfort with font size and line spacing that are adjustable.Screenshot of where to fill and sign PDF forms from anywhere and on any device. Here, users can collect signatures, digitally track progress, and automatically archive the signed document.Screenshot of the Adobe Scan mobile app, used to capture and convert documents into high-quality, interactive PDF documents that can be filled out, signed, and shared. This eliminates the hassle of finding a printer, filling a form by hand, and scanning it again.

Conga Composer Screenshots

Screenshot of how documents are created automatically, directly from SalesforceScreenshot of documents generated with any data, from any object - standard or customScreenshot of Conga Document GenerationScreenshot of popular document formats available, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and PDFScreenshot of how large documents are sent via a link - and they provide visibility into customer document engagementScreenshot of how multiple documents can be sent with one or no clicks