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Adobe Acrobat

Overview

What is Adobe Acrobat?

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).

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Acrobat checks the box

7 out of 10
February 03, 2024
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Pricing

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Acrobat Standard for Individuals

$12.99

Cloud
per month

Acrobat Standard for teams

$14.99

Cloud
per month per user

Acrobat Pro for Individuals

$19.99

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.adobe.com/acrobat/pricing/b…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $12.99 per month
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Product Details

What is Adobe Acrobat?

Documents are more than just a collection of information and proof. They are foundational to connecting people and ideas, pushing business forward.  Adobe Acrobat helps to keep users connected to their teams while driving business forward – no matter where they are working.

Acrobat is a PDF and e-signature solution with users among Fortune 500 companies. Acrobat users can create, edit, convert, share, sign, and combine documents from the Adobe platform. It provides for digital experiences that enable team to collaborate and work from any device, anytime, anywhere. Liquid Mode in Acrobat also enables users to view PDFs on small screens without the need to pinch and zoom.

In partnership with Microsoft, Adobe aims to reimagine how work gets done in a modern, secure, and connected hybrid workplace. Acrobat solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate with any preferred Microsoft apps so that users save time by creating, editing, sharing, and signing right from Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, and more. It also features smart integrations with Google, Box, and other daily use apps.

Acrobat provides access to file protection features to protect documents from being copied, changed, or printed – for added peace of mind. Acrobat helps organizations comply with security standards and regulatory requirements such as GLBA and FERPA. It also meets ISO 32000 standards for electronic document exchange, including special-purpose standards such as PDF/A for archiving, PDF/E for engineering, and PDF/X for printing.

Adobe Acrobat Screenshots

Screenshot of Create, edit, convert, and share PDF files all from within Microsoft Teams – as part of Acrobat integrations with Microsoft 365 apps.Screenshot of With Liquid Mode in Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app, 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 Fill and sign PDF forms from anywhere and on any device. Collect signatures, digitally track progress, and automatically archive the signed document.Screenshot of With Adobe Scan mobile app, capture and convert documents into high-quality, interactive PDF documents that can be filled out, signed, and shared. Eliminates the hassle of finding a printer, filling a form by hand, and scanning it again.

Adobe Acrobat Videos

Adobe Acrobat DC is built for the cloud-connected, multi-device world. It streamlines reviews and feedback with a new review service, and users can edit PDFs on tablets with a touch of the finger, or send documents for Signature.
How to make changes to PDFs and send them out to get e-signed in Acrobat Pro.
Password-protected PDFs to keep formatting locked and sensitive info more secure.
Sending PDFs for review, gathering comments in one place, and responding in real time with Acrobat Pro.

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Adobe Acrobat Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesBulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian

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Frequently Asked Questions

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).

Adobe Acrobat starts at $12.99.

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom) are common alternatives for Adobe Acrobat.

Reviewers rate Ease of integration highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Adobe Acrobat are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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January 16, 2024

Trustworthy product for digital signage!

Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Non-profit Organization Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat is a perfect solution for businesses that are able to use PDFs for invoicing and other business documents where they also need to collaborate with people outside the business for approval and signage. It does a great job of tracing a secure path of ownership and authorship between users.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat

JR
Jimmy Roussos
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Focal-Naim America (Consumer Electronics, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat is my Go-To for the creation of FAQ's, Manuals with or without chapters, I also use it for extracting pages from existing Manuals or documents.

I find it could be easier to use when creating Forms, or Templates.
They could definitely improve some page editing tools as well.
January 16, 2024

Easy to Use with Great Features!

Verified User
Administrator in Customer Service
Building Materials Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I recommend Adobe to colleagues who are looking for an electronic signature. I also recommend Adobe to colleagues who are looking for a way to create documents that can be viewed by their clients who do not have a program to view a word or excel document. Even a PowerPoint presentation can be printed to a pdf and viewed in Adobe when necessary.
January 16, 2024

The gold standard for secure or high-quality documents.

Verified User
Consultant in Other
Internet Company, 1-10 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's honestly the only easily available way to create secure and signable documents that can be verified. And it's also the standard way to export digital files—it does work really well to create those, and I'm happy to use it for that. I would be surprised to hear that anyone annotates PDFs heavily or uses that system, though, because it's clunky.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat leads the competition

BD
Bill Duncan
Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Fort McKay First Nation (Government Administration, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Acrobat is well-suited to the world of publishing and artwork creation, it is also extremely useful for online/email fillable forms, especially complicated forms with radio buttons and multiple word boxes etc. It is a useful tool but not one that I would create something in from scratch, it is always something I would output to instead.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat: The Perfect PDF Companion

Shane Peek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Shane Peek
Instructional Technology Facilitator
Greenville County Schools (Education Management, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat is well suited for: - Creating, editing, and modifying PDFs - Adding password protections or encryption - Managing workflow that requires signatures on documents - Collaborating on PDFs, adding comments - Converting various file types into PDFs - Manipulating PDFs such as changing the order of pages, removing pages, etc. - Adding fillable Forms or text boxes onto existing PDFs - OCR capabilities
January 16, 2024

My Life and My Teams' Lives is Easier

Dee Moore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dee Moore
Executive Assistant
MorrisAnderson & Associates, Ltd. (Financial Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We can can securely sign and send documents for electronic signatures. This is especially valuable for contracts, agreements, and other legal documents, reducing the need for physical paperwork. It is great for the financial advisors I work for. I like how it facilitates the organization and archiving of documents. My firm can create searchable PDF archives, making it easier to retrieve and reference critical information.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat Great For All Your PDF Needs!

Verified User
Professional in Corporate
Environmental Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe is superior is taking different documents and formats (reports, CAD drawings, maps, spreadsheets) and blending them into one seamless report. However, in doing so, it does re-format some of these items inconsistently, causing more work for the report editor. For example, a map from a cad file might appear three times larger than the proceeding pages from a Word document.
January 16, 2024

Makes global marketing teams' work so much easier

Verified User
Team Lead in Marketing
Research Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat is incredibly well suited to marketing teams where they have various stakeholders working across creative materials. Especially those where a lot of copy is included i.e. product marketing materials; user guides, battlecards, factsheets, whitepapers, reports. It allows for people to easily make comments and amends or suggestions to files, allowing for better communication with design teams. We have found it particularly helpful in communicating directly with teams that are non-english native language; being able to make edits and mark-ups in file is much more constructive vs communicating these over email, slack, teams or voicenote; you can save time and communicate within global teams despite office hour differences.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat: Great for Feedback and Review Process

Verified User
Employee in Social Media
Marketing & Advertising Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat makes it easy to work within PDFs. Anything you may want to do to a PDF, Adobe Acrobat has functionality for, depending on whether you want to pay for it. The downside is sharing and editing can be complicated when you are working with people who only have the free version. Then you must work in multiple file formats, which means more work and versions to keep track of for the user.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat Review

Verified User
Project Manager in Corporate
Media Production Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It has been great interdepartmentally but can be problematic when sending documents outside the company if an Individual does not have acrobat or if they are not familiar with the files.
January 16, 2024

Don't know what I'd do without Adobe Acrobat!

Verified User
Manager in Other
Fundraising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In the post-pandemic world people started using all kind of free PDF software to get signatures, etc. but Adobe Acrobat is really so much better if you have access to it. I'm lucky I have it through work because I don't know if I use it enough in my personal life to justify buying it/paying monthly for it. But those free PDF tools are so clunky.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat makes my work-life simpler, easier, and more efficient.

LF
Laci Fitch
Marketing Coordinator
Beckenhauer Construction (Construction, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
When you are working with a large document, Adobe Acrobat is great for keeping it organized: moving pages around, setting up a nice bookmark structure, and editing within the document. Working in construction, there are times where it is more beneficial for my coworkers to open things in Bluebeam, but that's because that program is built to support things in construction (placing define marks on drawings). As far as I know, Adobe Acrobat doesn't have that kind of functionality.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat is a must have for my everyday work!

Allanna Yates | TrustRadius Reviewer
Allanna Yates
Senior Administrative Assistant
Lake Simcoe Conservation Foundation (Fundraising, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are regularly issuing, creating or updating PDF documents, Adobe Acrobat is a must. In 2022 I started with a new organization that didn't have the full Adobe Acrobat program and it ended up being the first resource I asked to purchase as I didn't feel I could do my job to the best of my abilities, especially with any speed. I don't know how to compile documents that are created from all different types of files (Word, PDF, Excel, etc) outside of Adobe Acrobat and have no interest in investigating because Adobe Acrobat makes it so simple.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat is a go to marketing product

Verified User
Director in Customer Service
Mental Health Care Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat is great to use for a company that needs to display professional visuals for marketing or presentation. Most visuals that we produce for promotions, events, social media, video are made through Adobe Acrobat. We may use another product if we want something that is already premade and quick to produce such as Canva.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat Software

Verified User
Account Manager in Finance and Accounting
Construction Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Half of our company uses Adobe Acrobat for editing and saving documents. The pricing has not been able to beat other programs and has forced us to switch for some of the employees. The editing functions have changed and are not standard and has to be updated constantly in order to take advantage of all the functions.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat's great... but I prefer Kofax

Verified User
Partner in Legal
Law Practice Company, 1-10 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat is the industry leader, but not cost-effective in small to mid size operations to fully equipment all stations with the full paid version. I experimented with competitors in the last 5-10 years and landed on the Kofax suite of products as my personal primary go to for document editing, formating, etc.
January 16, 2024

Adobe Acrobat - The Gold Standard

Verified User
Director in Legal
Real Estate Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat is the standard for opening any pdf or similar documents throughout the internet. Adobe Acrobat excels at opening these documents and has many advance functions such as editing, searching, combining, adding in pages, removing pages, adding verified signatures, and more. Once scenario where it could use some work is opening colored larger items as that typically results in a slow down.
January 16, 2024

100% Recommend This Product

Verified User
Director in Finance and Accounting
Marketing & Advertising Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
This software allows for a truly paperless experience in the workplace. I can create documents and send them via email seamlessly whether in front of a computer or working from a laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. It has really increased efficiency across all aspects of the company and is highly recommended.
January 15, 2024

Love the Easy-to-use Features

MH
Matt Hochstetler
Owner
Designed on Purpose (Design, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Acrobat is the ONLY program I use to open and/or edit pdf's. I find it frustrating when working on a computer that does not have Adobe Acrobat.
A client of mine needs a password added to multiple pdf's periodically and could not figure out a way to accomplish it. It's a breeze to do in Adobe Acrobat.
January 14, 2024

Must have office program for over a decade

PD
Peter Doyle
Communications Specialist
MMC Productions Inc (Media Production, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for transfer from Microsoft Word, PowerPoint , various image programs. So if a report or presentation has to be done, the writing is done in Word. Then it is transferred to Acrobat where the layout, organization and checking is dome. Acrobat is a better layout program than a writing program.
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