Adobe Acrobat vs. PDF+

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat

3754 Reviews and Ratings

PDF+

PDF+

0 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
PDF+	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	N/A	$99.99 per year

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

PDF+

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

Basic: $99.99
per year

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Adobe Acrobat	PDF+
Considered Both Products	Adobe Acrobat BA Bhaskar Allu Developer Chose Adobe Acrobat Compare to other pdf tools Adobe Acrobat security features and the features like supporting various file formats and AI feature makes it more unique in the market to choose it from other competitors and it’s very unique interns of Optical Character Recognition feature to … Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is the best program we’ve found for handling pdfs. It ensures that people in and out of the organization will have no issues with compatibility. Incentivized Helpful? AM Anuj Chandrakant More Software Developer Chose Adobe Acrobat I selected Adobe Acrobat as i have been using it for quiet a long time and I have spend years using it and with a learning curve or other apps i dont want to learn a new service. Also Adobe Acrobat does all the work I have been doing for years Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat I love the editing capability as well as commenting capability compared to Foxit. Incentivized Helpful? J Rio Fultz CEO Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat has been the market leader against these other solutions for our organization when needing more robust, enterprise grade features. Cost versus benefit has placed Adobe Acrobat at or near the top option for our organization. Some of the other solutions do … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Sheasby President Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is a bit more expensive, however, the user interface is a bit more refined. The major issue is that Adobe Acrobat makes it literally impossible to pay to renew your licenses, so I had to switch to another software vendor for PDFs. Foxit PDF had a very simple … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat has an easier interface and more functions. Incentivized Helpful? JC Júlio Calheiros Network Specialist Chose Adobe Acrobat It's like buying a luxury car with all the bells and whistles. It's a significant investment, but you have the vehicle always available, with superior performance, maximum safety, a warranty, and the ability to handle any road or condition. É como comprar um carro de luxo com … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat Foxit doesn't really have the ecosystem that Adobe Acrobat has, and since we are using multiple Adobe products, they all integrate well with one another. The OCR is also more powerful and accurate. So although Foxit has a lower cost to it and is also more light weight and less … Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Cross Director of Communications Chose Adobe Acrobat I selected Acrobat because it is a trusted brand in my personal and professional life. Acrobat is included in my subscription to the Adobe suite of products, and there is simply no reason for me to NOT use it. It's easy to use, intuitive, and secure. Other products require … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat excel at its e-signature capabilities. This beats both Foxit and Power PDF. However, it lacks native integration with accounting-specific tools like TaxFolder. TaxFolder allow one-click from tax software itself to send out signature request. Way more … Incentivized Helpful? HS Hemant Salunkhe Sr. Associate Human Resource Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat integrated fully into our human resources processes and effectively helped consolidate multiple variations of employment documents which helped decrease HR costs and simplified recruitment. We can track the status of documents which means greater security and with … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Bergevin IT Program manager Chose Adobe Acrobat Foxit PDF reader, while less expensive, comes with an whole slew of issues. Typically our users of Foxit (a small subset) complain about issues such as the reader crashing and needing to reboot their device, or simply not opening at all (and again, needing to reboot their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Adobe Acrobat Foxit is a cheaper product, but it does seem a little clunky at times. Things aren't as well organized as Adobe. Adobe does seem easier to use overall Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is robust. It just does what it's meant to do. The learning curve to use the competition is too steep, and for us - it doesn't make sense to pay for an additional PDF tool when we get so many applications in Adobe Cloud along with our Adobe Acrobat app. There are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is much more expensive, and does not offer a perpetual license like its competitors. My organization does not find Acrobat to be a good value compared to the competition. 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 Director Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is the gold standard and you pay for it. It is easy to use and works how you expect it to. The alternatives are cheaper, but don't offer as many features, and require retaining everyone to switch applications. Incentivized Helpful? Muhammed Ronaq BS Founder of Finite X Reality Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat stands out because its more powefull and feature rich as compared to these free tools. and it offers more compatibilty, security and many other editing options in a single software. which is much suitable for professional work rather than these cheap alternatives. … Incentivized Helpful? DF Danielle Fujii Librarian Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat has more functions that a lot of the PDF converters and editors that are web based. It's also easier to use than the Microsoft one. Incentivized Helpful?	PDF+ No answer on this topic

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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	PDF+
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (839 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (45 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (255 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.2 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	6.2 (10 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (63 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.7 (15 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	6.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (9 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.1 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	4.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe Acrobat	PDF+
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
Pros	Adobe Ability to manipulate a PDF in various ways. Print production is incredibly helpful for checking off and making sure PDFs are ready for print. Commenting in Adobe Acrobat is awesome! So nice to be able to hand off a PDF and get it back with edits that are easy to navigate and resolve! Incentivized PT phillip Tusler Graphic Designer Read full review	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
Online Training	Adobe Easy to follow and understand Incentivized Dave King Director of IT Read full review	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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	ExhibitView Solutions 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	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Adobe Adobe Acrobat has saved us time in managing documents. In this day, everything is fast, moves fast, and keeping up with that pace demands software that functions at the same level. Adobe Acrobat does that. It has streamlined the steps I need to take to edit and create documents we need to manage our customers. Adobe Acrobat removes the worry and stress associated with managing a large influx of documents. Something as simple as a document featuring an image that was sent to us upside down. Using the old method, I would have to open other software, click 'Edit', find the 'Rotate Image' button, click it a couple of times, save it as a JPEG, then attach it to Word, and finally save it as a PDF. It was a grueling process that consumed a great deal of time. Now, I simply open the image, and Adobe automatically recognizes it is upside down and fixes it for me. I can save and move on; it literally takes me seconds. Amazing. Adobe Acrobat is intuitive and easy to use, and the additional apps are relevant to the needs that come up. If I have an idea, I can go to the available apps and find exactly what I need. Impressive and speaks to the years of experience this company has had to fine-tune its product and make it obvious that it is aggressive in staying on top. Incentivized DB Dennis Blocker Office Manager Read full review	ExhibitView Solutions No answers on this topic
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