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).
$29.99
per month per seat
Ras
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Pricing
Adobe AcrobatRas
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 AcrobatRas
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
M‑Files
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Score 8.9 out of 10
M‑Files
M‑Files
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe AcrobatRas
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(915 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(46 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(330 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
5.3
(10 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(64 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.9
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(4 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
4.5
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(8 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.1
(4 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
1.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
1.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe AcrobatRas
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
Adobe Acrobat is well suited for creating PDFs, scanning, and creating files, editing and fixing PDFs, such as if you want to swap pages or edit text. Also good at combining multiple files and organizing them. Adobe Acrobat is not good at working with numbers or editing photos. There are Excel and Photoshop, which are the industry standards for those specific tasks.
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Pros
Adobe
  • OCR on scanned documents actually works well for standard business docs; it makes old vendor contracts searchable without manual retyping.
  • Page organization is genuinely useful, helping with merging, reordering, and splitting PDFs in one place without needing a separate tool or script.
  • Editing PDFs you didn't create without breaking the original formatting works more reliably than anything else.
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Cons
Adobe
  • The UI is awkward to navigate in professional workflows.
  • Major UI changes are much too frequent, which affects productivity adversely even when the changes are "improvements." Muscle memory is a thing.
  • The new AI features tend to be intrusive and distracting if you turn them on, and there are better alternatives for document summary and analysis.
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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.
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Usability
Adobe
It's a 10; well, at least for me, as I jump from desktop to mobile often. The responsiveness of my document in Acrobat makes it easier to read or make comments even when working in a smaller space. My second reason for that score is just that Acrobat keeps it simple and the workspace clean. The icons are perfect where words would be jumbled in a mobile space.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Online Training
Adobe
Answered basic questions.
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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
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
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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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Adobe
I am not responsible for sales or purchasing
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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.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Again, the ability to make multiple versions of a PDF has helped speed up getting them to the warehouse and making it easier to print for them!
  • In marketing, there are multiple uses of Adobe Acrobat where it speeds up our process making us more efficient.
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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.