Adobe Acrobat vs. Nitro PDF Pro

Adobe Acrobat

4,034 Reviews and Ratings

Nitro PDF Pro

76 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Acrobat	Score8.7 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
Nitro PDF Pro	Score6.8 out of 10	N/A	Nitro PDF Pro is a document management platform that supports PDF creation, modification, conversion, organization, review, and protection across Windows, Mac, and iOS environments. Key Capabilities Document Authoring & Modification: Native editing capabilities for PDF creation and content updates. Format Conversion: Conversion between PDF and standard office document formats. Document Organization & Management: File organization and management…	$7.50 Billed every 3 years. This is a subscription product with a 3-year fee of $270.00 per license. per seat

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Nitro PDF Pro

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

Nitro PDF Classic: $7.5/month
Billed every 3 years. This is a subscription product with a 3-year fee of $270.00 per license. per seat
Nitro PDF Standard: $15/month
This is a subscription product with a yearly fee of $180.00 per license. per seat
Nitro PDF Plus: Contact Sales

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

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Adobe Acrobat	Nitro PDF Pro
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User 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. Incentivized Helpful? Jose Gasca Help Desk Coordinator in Information Technology at HOPICS (Non-profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I would say that Adobe Acrobat offers a whole suite of of feature that Niro Pro just doesn't have. Incentivized Helpful? Steven Sheasby President in Corporate at Integrity Mortgage Licensing (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) 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 Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is more expensive, but it has a complete and robust package. A wide range of integration with other platforms, including Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. All of Acrobat's features are advanced and industry standard. Nitro PDF is limited. It has less integration … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat There's no comparison; Adobe does it better, faster and more reliable. It's interface is simpler, more intuitive and easier to use. Acrobat is an industry go to solution for business needs. We value its solid foundation, limited issues and dependability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I selected Adobe Acrobat because of the following reasons.. 1. It provides the Ai powered features and straight forward cloud integration which is not available with other providers. 2.Adobe Acrobat has global certifications of market standards for security and compliance areas. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Both of the alternatives Nitro and Foxit, lacks some functionalities. Eg: Foxit doesn't have a very user friendly UI, thats' the same issue Nitro as well. Also, Nitro's licensing is a bit complex. Adobe Acrobat is a plug and play product. The UI is friendly, one can learn it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe has been the first one that we´ve ever used and it has been established as the industry standard. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat is very popular in the world and secure software, so it is easy for the client to open confidential documents in Acrobat and design the document. Acrobat has a modern view, which is very easy to use. Acrobat takes less time to execute different operations in comparison … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We decided to go for Adobe Acrobat in the end as it is the most well-established product with the most support. Most of our staff already had experience with Adobe Acrobat in some form or another to it allowed us to integrate the product easily into the business with minimal … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Mejia Business Operations Manager in Marketing at Access Digital LLC (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat We used Nitro PDF and the online solution offered by Google Workspace through Google Drive to edit and download our PDF files. We ended up accepting our very old but powerfully known brand, Adobe Acrobat. Incentivized Helpful? Shane Peek Instructional Technology Facilitator at Greenville County Schools (Education Management, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat In my experience, Adobe Acrobat offers more advanced features and security safeguards than competitors. It may come at a price, but you feel that you can trust in the brand and the abilities of the platform when compared to competitors. With that in mind, some users may find … Incentivized Helpful? Dom Pullano PRESIDENT in Professional Services at PCM Associates Ltd (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Nitro did not always provide updates in a timely manner. I also had issues with it being available on multiple platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I have used nitro and abbyy for OCR usage and found similar results. Google Drive I've used for OCR recognition as well. From a usage point of view, I have found Acrobat to have a much more intuitive interface to manage the features I need like editing, page insertion, … Incentivized Helpful? Weronika Oesterreicher Account Director in Human Resources at Key Search (Human Resources, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat They have a much less intutive user interface and don't always provide a complete solution one stop shop for all the features that we make use of. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat All the other applications in the market are replications of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe is the original one. The work on Adobe Acrobat with all the updates does not allow competition from other applications to work. Adobe Acrobat has many features in this applications that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is the clear-cut market leader. Incentivized Helpful? Rod Padua Sr. IT Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Hashicorp (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat DC is what all our users are very comfortable using. We would need to provide training if we implemented something new. Incentivized Helpful? Eduardo Freitas Product Design/Development Engineer in Engineering at NSG Flower (Design, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat We have eventually used Nitro Productivity Suite, it is a more advanced software and with many more functions than Adobe Acrobat DC, however it is much more difficult to configure and has tools that we never used, we chose Adobe Acrobat DC because it has an intuitive user … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat The majority of our “power users” - users that work heavily with PDF documents - were much more comfortable using Adobe Acrobat over Foxit and Nitro, so in the end we decided to go with Adobe Acrobat to make our users happy and ease the learning curve versus the other competing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We tried a few users on Nitro and found it to be less functional and user-friendly than Adobe. Ease of use is important for user acceptance, and with Adobe being more functional for our team, it has remained our internal standard. We also have not found any other clients who … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe DC seems much easier to use overall. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We actually had Nitro before Adobe. While it made claims to offer more features and be intuitive, most staffers felt the opposite. And some of the Nitro extra features were completely unnecessary and we never used them such as the ability to customize certain tabs or create … Incentivized Helpful?	Nitro Inc Grant Millar Financial Planner and Money Coach in Professional Services at Inspired Financial Planners (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Nitro PDF Pro You need a subscription to use Adobe Acrobat. You can pay a one-off license fee to use Nitro. Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin E. Jerew Senior Content Manager in Marketing at One Car Payment, Inc. (Writing and Editing, 1-10 employees) Chose Nitro PDF Pro I downloaded the trial versions of both Acrobat DC and Nitro PDF, and found Nitro to be superior in price, while Acrobat was superior in software features and user-friendliness. I knew I would be using Nitro for basic publishing and editing of PDFs, which both programs do well, … Incentivized Helpful? Rich Russo Network Engineer in Information Technology at Alliant Insurance Services (Insurance, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Nitro PDF Pro Nitro Productivity Suite is able to perform just as well as Adobe. It uses less resources on my machine than Adobe. I think it is much easier to use than Tungsten as well. Incentivized Helpful? Austin Lin IT Operations Lead in Corporate at Providence Technology Group, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Nitro PDF Pro I think Adobe is probably the best PDF solution since they essentially developed and own the PDF format, but Nitro is a very good alternative and is more competitively priced. If our clients didn't use PDF documents or sent us everything in MS Word, then our Office 365 would be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nitro PDF Pro Nitro is a more specified app with simple pdf editing use and a low cost. Incentivized Helpful? Francis kimani Finance Specialist in Finance and Accounting at Finacier (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Nitro PDF Pro It has more functionalities compared to the other software Incentivized Helpful? Ariel Dunay Associate, Project Operations in Professional Services at Palladium: Make It Possible (Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Nitro PDF Pro Nitro has probably 10x the features that Adobe does and just does it so much better. Ease of use is profoundly different. I won't ever go back!! Incentivized Helpful? John Plecki Construction Logistics Coordinator in Corporate at Stock Development (Construction, 201-500 employees) Chose Nitro PDF Pro Nitro was more simplistic than Adobe and a much better price Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nitro PDF Pro Features are comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nitro PDF Pro We selected Nitro PDF because the features that the organization needed were comparable and the annual cost for the on-premises version of the application was considerably less expensive at the time. When we selected, Adobe was not yet in the cloud. At that time, there were … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	97% Would buy again 898 Answers	89% Would buy again 8 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	95% Delivers good value for the price 769 Answers	100% Delivers good value for the price 9 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	97% Happy with the feature set 900 Answers	89% Happy with the feature set 8 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	96% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 595 Answers	100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 8 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
99% Implementation went as expected 684 Answers	100% Implementation went as expected 9 Answers

Best Alternatives
	Adobe Acrobat	Nitro PDF Pro
Small Businesses	M‑Files Score8.9 out of 10	Foxit PDF Editor Score8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Esker Score7.4 out of 10	PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor Score9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Tungsten Capture Score9.6 out of 10	Adobe Acrobat Reader Score8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	Nitro PDF Pro
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (968 ratings)	9.3 (17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.8 (46 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (383 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)
Availability	8.6 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	5.1 (11 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (64 ratings)	9.2 (3 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.9 (16 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	7.7 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	3.9 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (9 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.3 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Professional Services	7.3 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	6.3 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	6.3 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe Acrobat	Nitro PDF Pro
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe We have found Adobe Acrobat very useful in many instances. It is a great resource for anything related to PDFs, as it is the most robust and well-known option, reducing the need for training. It is a vital component for signing documents, especially those that need extra security. Incentivized Tara Herget Finance and Administrative Officer Read full review	Nitro Inc I run a professional services business from home. I need to edit documents quickly and easily and with minimal subscriptions to minimize overheads. I love that Nitro is a one-off payment to get a license to the software, and you can simply upgrade to the latest version if that's what you want, but you're not obligated to. I've been using the same version of Nitro for 7-8 years now. Despite the fact the upgraded versions have a lot of great, nice-to-have features, the version I'm on still does the job. Incentivized Grant Millar Financial Planner and Money Coach Read full review
Pros	Adobe It is easy to sign and send a document. It makes it easy to scan and save a document. It is easy to add text to any document. You can create an editable PDF form for others to complete based on the questions you include. You can create and send a secure document to a client for their signature. It is easy to add photos to any document. Incentivized Dominic Liberoni Practice Manager Read full review	Nitro Inc Ability to combine files SEAMLESSLY and order them around as necessary (so underrated) Signing not only for yourself but for others. Helpful for those who have been granted the authority to sign for VPs and directors Much easier to use than some other PDF viewing services Incentivized Ariel Dunay Associate, Project Operations Read full review
Cons	Adobe I wish the backward compatibility was a little more friendly. PDFLyer had to be updated sooner that we would like when we updated from Adobe 2017 to Adobe 2026. I wish it had list processing like Excel where it could remove duplicates, change formatting, etc. Sometimes after an update we lose our plugins and have to restablish the connection to the plugin or reinstall. Incentivized Andrew Indovina Infrastructure Support Specialist Read full review	Nitro Inc Converting from PDF to Microsoft Word can be complicated at times. Some parts of a document such as tables are not converted properly. Sometimes it appears to be easier to save MS Word documents to PDF rather than using NPS to convert. It can be a bit slow to convert at times. In my view, it wasn't user friendly at the beginning. Incentivized Andrew Barnes Finance Officer Read full review
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	Nitro Inc We will definitely be renewing the Nitro Productivity Suite. Saves the company a lot of money for something we use everyday Incentivized Rich Russo Network Engineer Read full review
Usability	Adobe Nothing is perfect; there are a few things that still get me a little bit aggravated when using the program but that doesn't detract from it accomplishing the needs I and the organizations that I've worked for have needed from it. I've worked with Adobe Acrobat for over 20 years and its usability is second hand to me even with added features and redesigns. It's a great piece of software. Incentivized Scott Draft Senior Graphic Designer Read full review	Nitro Inc For the most part, the entire software is extremely easy to navigate and use. You won't need to follow tutorials or anything for the bulk of the core features, as it's all pretty seamlessly designed. Incentivized Grant Millar Financial Planner and Money Coach Read full review
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	Nitro Inc 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	Nitro Inc It works as advertised. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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 Bradley Pearce Managing Member Read full review	Nitro Inc Nitro checks all the boxes for what we need. It is fairly priced, it allows us to read and edit PDF documents, convert PDF to MS Word and convert MS Word to PDF. It allows us to combine multiple files and do all the post processing like adding page numbers and adding headers and footers Incentivized Austin Lin IT Operations Lead Read full review
Online Training	Adobe Answered basic questions. Incentivized Michael Craven President Read full review	Nitro Inc 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	Nitro Inc No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Adobe Adobe Acrobat has the most premium features that other software can't offer. The seamless UI is consistent on any device, and the ease of use. The security and the advanced AI features are what you won't get on any other platforms or apps. Incentivized Md Ashraful Islam Senior Brand Designer Read full review	Nitro Inc Every 1-2 years will do a check on current PDF options to include trialing the software. Have tried Foxit and several that seem to have failed in the marketplace. Over the last 4 years, I have always stuck with Nitro. Unfortunately, we still need to keep Adobe Acrobat (free version) installed to view a small percentage of some PDFs we receive. Incentivized Jason Glazer President Read full review
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	Adobe I am not responsible for sales or purchasing Incentivized Sean Moore Marketing Specialist Read full review	Nitro Inc 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	Nitro Inc No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Adobe Definitely a positive ROI when I can receive clear notes/direction on edits for a PDF via Acrobat's comment system, rather than chicken scratch on a printed document. The ability to password-protect my PDFs so I can make sure only the workforce I want to see the information has been priceless! As I mentioned before, a huge positive impact is the ability to edit PDFs without having to return to the original file's native software. Incentivized Mark Rhodes Communications Manager Read full review	Nitro Inc ROI was very quick as the license costs were so low. We purchased 8 licenses versus the initial 2 we were planning on for Adobe. More people were able to use the product than we initially thought due to low purchase costs. We haven't had any further costs to own the product after the initial purchase. We would need to purchase new licenses if we wanted to upgrade. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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