Adobe Acrobat Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.8 out of 10

Score

8.8 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Adobe Acrobat are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Versatile Editing Capabilities: Reviewers have praised Adobe Acrobat for its accurate text, picture, and graphic editing features within PDFs while maintaining consistent formatting. Users appreciate the software's ability to handle various editing tasks effectively.

Effective File Conversion: Users have found the software effective in converting Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files to PDFs without compromising style or content. They value the seamless conversion process that retains the original look and feel of documents.

Usability and Security Features: Customers appreciate the ease of use of Adobe Acrobat along with its robust security measures and functional document editing tools. The combination of user-friendly interface and secure features enhances their overall experience with the software.

Reviews

844 Reviews

My honest review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Acrobat to review artworks and layout in my workplace. I also use it to edit some information on the layout and send them to the graphics team for they to work.

Pros

Show the file clearly
Edit files
Add comments

Cons

Allow to edit as the customer needs without any restriction.
Charge the files speedily.

Likelihood to Recommend

To review and add comments on layouts or files. The less appropriate scenario is that for file with high weight, sometimes we need to wait so the file can download or charge.

Verified User

Account Manager in Sales (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Amazing Adobe Acrobat

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 18, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Acrobat on a daily basis to help organize and manage my PDFs! Most days I'm having to do some form of PDF organization so combining PDFs and shifting pages around! We also use more specific tools within Adobe Acrobat like using print production to easily adjust the sizes of the PDFs, and creating editable PDFs for clients.

Pros

Ability to manipulate a PDF in various ways.
Print production is incredibly helpful for checking off and making sure PDFs are ready for print.
Commenting in Adobe Acrobat is awesome! So nice to be able to hand off a PDF and get it back with edits that are easy to navigate and resolve!

Cons

For as amazing as Adobe Acrobat is, a lot of the time it does feel like one of the more clunky and slow Adobe programs.
Ability to edit text! Adobe Acrobat sometimes struggles with fonts and editing the text ends up messing with the text in weird ways.
It would be cool to have multiple versions of the same preflight single fixups! I use the same single fixup but need to adjust it for multiple sizes! I'd like to be able to save another version of it with the different sizes.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think managing any kind of PDF that needs comments or small adjustments, Adobe Acrobat is the easiest and most seamless to use.

Phillip Tusler

Graphic Designer in Marketing at Costco (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Adobe Acrobat Always

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 18, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe Acrobat for our internal and external compliance disclosures. All of our departments including HR, Legal, Communications, etc... We also have lots of informational mailings and touch points with all our professional partners and vendors. Some of the problems we have had was with the coding used within some of the forms we use.

Pros

user interface
embedding capabilities
providing tools for making docs accessible
embedding capabilities

Cons

Preparing forms
Frequent crashes

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for compliance and annual disclosures amd onboarding documents.

Verified User

Director (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Adobe Acrobat

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe acrobat for creating and editing secure PDF document. It serves as a standard tool for document management which make sures consistency in sharing material internally in out team. We use it for merging reports, adding digital signatures and converting it various file formats into standard pdf and apply password protection for confidential information

Pros

PDF editing
Securing PDF files
Collaboration and editing tool
Merging reports

Cons

The Adobe Acrobat desktop app is useful but is resource hungry it works great for Mac OS but will struggle for windows laptops
The user interface is quiet complex for basic task

Likelihood to Recommend

When working in a team we need to review and annotate the official document like project proposal or technical specification it helps in finalizing official documents and securing the document for professional deliverables. It also helps me in compressing large pdf files without 0 any major loss in the pdf quality

Anuj Chandrakant More

Software Developer in Engineering at California State University, Fullerton (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Adobe Acrobat Usage

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Acrobat for reading and signing PDF at work. I e-sign contracts and agreements. I've made PDFs and flyers. I think Adobe Acrobat is really useful for signing contracts. Some other services are less straightforward for those who may not be technologically apt, but Acrobat makes it easy for everyone to receive information and sign what needs to be signed.

Pros

Sharing PDFS
E-signing PDFS
Creating PDFS

Cons

The cancellation fee is unfair
I don't like that the setup automatically installs MacAfee virus protection
The program often freezes on me

Likelihood to Recommend

I really only need to open PDFs a lot of the time, and Acrobat sometimes overcomplicates that a teeny tiny bit. I think that it used to be easier to use but now it feels slower, there's a lot of pop ups, and maybe too many features. It feels that it has lost its focus.

Verified User

Contributor (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Adobe Acrobat

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Acrobat in my day to day work in order to open, view, and edit various PDF files. The summarize feature is also useful for having to read through long and complex files.

Pros

Summarize
Open PDFs
Edit PDFs

Cons

Stability

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very well suited for opening and viewing PDFs. It can also be used to edit them, but it does struggle with stability issues and isn't well suited for creating PDFs from scratch.

Verified User

Employee (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

A Powerful Tool for Reading and Organizing Documents

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I personally use Adobe Acrobat to organize many PDFs of research articles into portfolios. This allows me to find articles that I need to access quickly from one place instead of opening them from my computer's file system. I also use Adobe Acrobat to create fillable documents that are used for students or staff workflows.

Pros

Combining multiple document types into a single PDF
Organizing multiple documents into Portfolios for ease of access and searching
Creating online forms that can be signed digitally

Cons

I'd love for the AI assistant to be standard and not require an additional license.
When running OCR on a document, I'd love if the quality of the document is retained. There is often a reduction in quality where the document looks slightly blurry.

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Acrobat is best suited for reading, creating, and organizing documents. While editing documents is useful, it is sometimes difficult to match fonts if the document does not use the same fonts. It is understandable since Adobe Acrobat is not necessarily an editing tool, but has some editing features, however, it is not as easy as it seems and often those edited parts of the document look a little off.

Verified User

Manager (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

20 years of experience

Adobe Acrobat for great workflow.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I mostly use Adobe Acrobat for our review process for marketing materials. It is an easy way to share information and get feedback across departments. I also use it to create forms.

Pros

Easily combine several pdf files
Easily share and receive feedback
Easily make sure files has proper print separation for offset printing

Cons

When you make a comment it doesn't start right where you clicked and can make comments confusing if the user doesn't specify exactly where they are commenting. I find that people assume that where they click is where the comment bubble starts and it moves when you zoom in and out.

Likelihood to Recommend

Again great for proofing, great for file sharing and also great for forms.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Great Option for Comprehensive Features

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Acrobat in my organization to view documents, organize pages, extract pages, redact information, add OCR to documents, and send documents out for signatures. The problems that Adobe Acrobat addresses are that the native application for viewing documents on my Macbook work laptop, Preview, does not have extensive features the way Adobe Acrobat does. I might be able to get these tasks done if I figure out some workarounds, but it’s much more efficient to be able to complete everything with one app that’s intuitive to use.

Pros

Organizing pages in documents
Preparing and sending documents for signatures
Redacting sensitive information from documents

Cons

Ability to turn off AI features from appearing

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Acrobat is useful if your department already has a subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud. It may be less appropriate if your organization is on a budget and therefore must rely on native applications to meet their needs. Ultimately it is up to an organization to assess their budget and compare it to how much use they would get out of the application.

Verified User

Team Lead in Marketing (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience