Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate

161 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Animate	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Animate (or Animate CC) supports but replaces the former Adobe Flash, and allows users to design interactive animations for games, TV shows, and the web. With it, the vendor states users can bring cartoons and banner ads to life, create animated doodles and avatars, and add action to eLearning content and infographics. With Animate, users can publish to multiple platforms in many formats, and reach viewers on any screen.	$20.99 per month

Pricing

Adobe Animate

Editions & Modules

Annual Plan, Paid Monthly: $20.99
per month
Monthly Plan: $31.49
per month
Annual Plan, Prepaid: $239.88
per year

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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	Adobe Animate
Considered Both Products	Adobe Animate Abhijith Menon Solutions Engineer Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Animate was always the preferred software as the support was much better than the competition. And the ease of rendering was also a deciding factor. Results with character animations are much more crisp with Adobe Animate than in any other 2d based animation software. Incentivized Helpful? Gajanan Biradar Lead Design Engineer Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Animate is a powerful and versatile animation software that offers a wide range of tools and features. When compared to other animation software, it stacks up well in terms of its capabilities and functionality. Here are a few reasons why one might select Adobe Animate … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Animate I only use Adobe Animate. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe Animate We initially used after effects for many of our animations because it was part of our creative cloud subscription and some teammates had experience. We discovered some of the all-in-on features of Animate and decided to migrate a large percentage of our training video … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Adobe Animate I find After Effects more difficult to learn. Both are in the same Adobe CC subscription and both have a great interface. But the possibilities in features make After Effects more difficult. Therefore I like to use Animate when the assignment does not need to much complexity, … Incentivized Helpful? Teresa Evans Graphic Designer Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Animate works best for advanced animation and cuts and works well with the entire Adobe suite. There is nothing that compares when it comes to working within the same product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Adobe Animate We haven't used any other animation software to compare. We only use Adobe Animate because it was included with our software suite. We do sometimes use Canva to create animated collateral and graphics, but they are already designed templates for the most part, so it's not a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Animate is extremely coordinated across different stages and programs, versus its rivals. Like Adobe Animate, HTML5 incorporates playing highlights for sound inside sites. It additionally has versatile help. In any case, I don't believe it's very there yet and is by all … Incentivized Helpful? Stefanie Cash Digital Marketing Manager Chose Adobe Animate As mentioned earlier, Photoshop is an easier program to work with and you can use it to make animated images for digital marketing. It's usually easier to just use Photoshop because the controls are not as cumbersome and there is a minimal learning curve. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Adobe Animate Nowadays we use HTML5 products whenever possible but when you need to use Flash because an application calls for it it works. Incentivized Helpful? Dan Talvi Teaching Assistant Chose Adobe Animate Other software we have evaluated include Toon Boom Harmony (which we also use in our classroom) and OpenToonz. Toon Boom and Adobe Animate are the industry standard software used professionally. Incentivized Helpful? Olivia Crellin Corporate & Securities Attorney Chose Adobe Animate We previously used Audacity for sound editing but have found Adobe's Soundbooth functioning to be easier to use. That being said, Soundbooth is being phased out and we are looking for alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? Emily Sperduto Marketing Solutions Coordinator Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Flash is very integrated across various platforms and browsers, versus its competitors. Like Adobe Flash, HTML5, includes playing features for audio within websites. It also has mobile support. However, I don't think it's quite there yet and seems to be a few steps behind … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Animate Unfortunately, it doesn't! While there are some disadvantages to HTML5, it's overall just cleaner. Since it's cleaner, browsers prefer it. And again, Flash animations will no longer be supported in a couple years, so users really don't have a choice but to part ways with the … Incentivized Helpful? Rebecca Powell Marketing Coordinator Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Flash is being used in my company and my freelance work because it is the most universal tool used by all. It is able to be used on multiple applications and platforms and it is fairly easy to use once you have been trained. You can also get it with Adobe Suite which is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Adobe Animate I have tried synfig, but go back to Flash because of ease of use and integration with other Adobe products (and familiarity). Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Yee Technical Assistant - Contractor Chose Adobe Animate The only major alternative is to run your media on HTML5 and find mobile sites (or others) that can run on mobile devices. HTML5 tends to run directly on the browser faster (and doesn't crash very often). I would only select Adobe Flash if a specific website that I needed for … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Hustedde Interim Dean of Academic Innovation Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Illustrator has a lot more drawing capabilities and features than Flash, but for most tasks, I prefer to use Flash. For cross-platform development, Xamarin offers a true full, native development environment, but Flash is good for prototyping. The big diadvantage here is … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Cookson Junior Animator Chose Adobe Animate ToonBoom Harmony has a lot of the compositing stuff from AfterEffects built in and it has much stronger rigging tools than Flash. It's great because it lets you do a mix between both puppeted and animation that is tweaked by hand. However documentation on how to use the program … Incentivized Helpful? Luca Campanelli Senior Database Administrator Chose Adobe Animate It is not easy to talk about software that can be compared as an alternative to Adobe Flash. It all depends on the need and the use that you want. I can recommend doing a thorough analysis of all software that can develop the kind of work you have to do, surely the fact that we … Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Daugherty Marketing and Implementation Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Flash is more universally accepted and larger variety of formats accept Flash over Vimeo Pro. We find it easy to promote Flash as the standard for use in our offices because no matter which software is used we can easily integrate into Adobe Flash. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Adobe Animate If you need to deliver on a laptop or PC, Flash is okay. iOS/macOS development trumps Flash easily if you have the capability. Developing for iOS and macOS can be just as fast or faster than developing for Flash. Apple Swift has great momentum - Flash is a dying technology … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro User friendly Pro Web browsers
Top Cons	Minus Set up Minus Frequent updates Minus Well versed

Best Alternatives
	Adobe Animate
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User Ratings
	Adobe Animate
Likelihood to Recommend	7.9 (27 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe Animate
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe Scenarios where Adobe Animate is well suited:2D animation for web, mobile, and video games: Adobe Animate is well suited for creating 2D animations for web, mobile, and video games. With its vector-based drawing tools, bone rigging, and inverse kinematics features, it's easy to create smooth, scalable graphics and realistic movement.Scenarios where Adobe Animate is less appropriate:Complex 3D animation: Adobe Animate is primarily a 2D animation software, and while it does have some basic 3D features, it is not as robust as specialized 3D animation software like Autodesk Maya or Blender. Incentivized Gajanan Biradar Lead Design Engineer Read full review
Pros	Adobe The adaptability of what Adobe Animate can do makes it so helpful. You can accomplish something basic like make a ball bob on-screen over certain letters prior to showing your logo, or something more mind-boggling like building up a vivified short to show. Utilizing Adobe Animate recordings on sites is typical, so individuals are accustomed to seeing it and have the essential modules introduced as of now. The records are little, and the pressure is extremely smooth. This aids in the event that you are attempting to send substance to cell phones or essentially keep your site impression little to guarantee quick stacking times. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Adobe There are too many updates and they are constantly popping up - especially during the middle of a projects, which causes me to shut down the application and restart the program. Wastes time. There is no mobile browser or device support. Limits a lot of projects - especially apps. Flash player can require a lot of RAM and battery Incentivized Emily Sperduto Marketing Solutions Coordinator Read full review
Usability	Adobe Flash is usable but definitely has a learning curve that a novice user may need to Google a few tutorials prior. The seamless integration with other Adobe software products is nice for loading content from the cloud. Plus it's great for storing and saving work on the go. Incentivized Stefanie Cash Digital Marketing Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Adobe Adobe Animate was always the preferred software as the support was much better than the competition. And the ease of rendering was also a deciding factor. Results with character animations are much more crisp with Adobe Animate than in any other 2d based animation software. Incentivized Abhijith Menon Solutions Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Adobe Negative, anyone who spent time learning the program now feels sad that it's going away. Animation that was done on Flash but can now be made with Toon Boom or even Adobe After Effects. On the plus side, since it's an Adobe product, you can rent it instead of buying the full license. That means potentially people could use it for a little longer without having to shell out as much money. Incentivized Daniel Epstein Executive Producer Read full review
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