Adobe Stock vs. Storyblocks

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Stock
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Stock consists of curated asset collections that allow users to explore diverse collections of high-resolution, royalty-free, stock assets for use in digital projects.
$29
per month
Storyblocks
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Storyblocks is a rapid video creation platform that allows individuals and businesses to create videos fast enough to meet strategic objectives. Storyblocks helps users avoid having to choose between creativity, output, & meeting business goals. It is presented as a complete content solution for creators and businesses alike, providing an unlimited library of high-quality royalty-free video, audio and images available through subscription plans.
$15
per month
Pricing
Adobe StockStoryblocks
Editions & Modules
Individuals
Starting at $29
per month
Teams
Starting at $29.99
per month
Starter
$15
per month
Unlimited All Access
$30
per month
Unlimited Pro
$35
per month
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe StockStoryblocks
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adobe StockStoryblocks
Considered Both Products
Adobe Stock
Chose Adobe Stock
the main thing about Adobe Stock is first its integration with creative cloud you wont see this feature in any platform. the library is rich with high quality assets from vector to videos their offering is really good. their pricing structure is fair to everyone. the trust …
Storyblocks
Chose Storyblocks
Storyblocks has templates for videos and graphics. Adobe does not. Both can integrate directly with Adobe software that we use, like Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premiere. Both allow you to create libraries or lists to save your downloads or favorites to.
Chose Storyblocks
Hands down, Storyblocks offers more for your investment. The licensing is straightforward, and provides all the coverage we need to legally offer services to our clients within a budget we can live with.
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Small Businesses
Adobe Express
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Adobe Express
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Adobe Express
Adobe Express
Score 8.8 out of 10
Adobe Express
Adobe Express
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Adobe Express
Adobe Express
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe StockStoryblocks
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(69 ratings)
9.6
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
4.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe StockStoryblocks
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
If you're looking for quality professional images for sales and marketing collateral, presentations, social media pages, and graphics, it's great. If you have a very specific industry or subject, sometimes it is too cumbersome to find what you need. They need a better variety of people in their images as well.
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Storyblocks
Storyblocks is perfect for your advertisements, films, music videos, and any type of video media. It's also great for still imagery. I can't imagine someone not being able to find suitable material for their creative or corporate project. The best part is that with a subscription, you can download UNLIMITED assets. That's absolutely incredible, as most other stock sites require monthly fees as well as enormous costs per video purchase. With Storyblocks, every picture, song, sound effect, and image comes to you at no extra cost. It's not quite as good as iStock. I've used both, and the quality of iStock is ultimately superior. But for Storyblocks' convenience, it's almost as good.
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Pros
Adobe
  • Presents a huge collection of distinctive graphics with all sorts of options to fit the user's particular need of the day.
  • Allows for easy grab-and-go, cut-and-paste of the sample proofs so that a graphic designer can work up an idea and present it to the team before purchasing it.
  • Operates a user-friendly platform so that team members who haven't used the program but is suddenly needed to jump in on a project can figure it out quickly.
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Storyblocks
  • Website is easy to navigate
  • Enormous library of stock footage, images and templates
  • Edit capabilities of video and audio within the website
  • Customer service is great
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Cons
Adobe
  • I really do wish Adobe Stock would offer editorial-based content. There are no historical photos, photos of world figures, or other event-based content. We have to go to Getty for that.
  • Their video offerings are OK, but there is room for improvement.
  • The current enter-level monthly plan does not provide for any video downloads at all.
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Storyblocks
  • There is an increasingly growing call for UHD (4k) video
  • For audio downloads from favorites folders, I'd like to see a zipped or compressed option
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
Because it is easy to use, has a robust database of all kinds of photos, has industry photos that we serve clients in, is quick and easy to download the licensed images, easy to find similar images, cost effective, acts as a source of quality images we can use on high resolution art.
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Storyblocks
No answers on this topic
Usability
Adobe
the user interface is very basic their filter function is difficult for beginners to use although after sometime of use you wont find any problem in that, their library is good but again. they still have to work on their library volume with current quality standards. apart from interface which is a personal perspective everything is amazing in this platform.
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Storyblocks
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Adobe
It's always available
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Storyblocks
No answers on this topic
Performance
Adobe
It loads quickly and we have not had any issues
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Storyblocks
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Adobe
Never really used it.
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Storyblocks
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Adobe
In comparison to other options, Adobe Stock is far more user-friendly. Adobe Stock has helped me find quality photos. One-stop licensing's convenience and variety were important. Instead of buying photos per image, we usually find something similar at Adobe and license it under our subscription. I prefer Adobe's curated resources over other services. Adobe Stock's filters make finding the right image easy.
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Storyblocks
Storyblocks is significantly better for videos. Pexels is better for photography. Pexels doesn't have audio, so no competition there. I have found these two resources to be complimentary and great to use for client promotions and educational videos
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Adobe
It's a little expensive
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Storyblocks
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Adobe
It's very easy to integrate
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Storyblocks
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Adobe
  • I used stock photos for my blog posting on medium and website creation. I found adobe stock a very amazing site for high-quality images.
  • It has resolved the issue where I would spend countless hours looking for a photo on Google or other stock-image websites, no other stock photos website is perfect and stunning like Adobe Stock. Overall, it's a fantastic time-saver.
  • Overall, I found images impact more than words while blog posting on medium and other social media, so I can say that Adobe Stock helps me in growing my startup…
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Storyblocks
  • It allows me to make more money by having an easy access to what I need
  • Licensing songs or clips is extremely easy
  • Storyblocks helps keep ads off of my content
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