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Adobe Express
Formerly Adobe Spark

Overview

What is Adobe Express?

The vendor states Adobe Spark allows users to create beautiful graphics, web pages, and video stories in minutes, offering free themes, fonts, and images, as well as editing. Imagery assembled or created can be presented through Spark Post, Spark Page,…

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Pricing

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Free

$0.00

Cloud

Premium

$9.99 / $99.99

Cloud
Monthly / Annual, prepaid

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.adobe.com/express/pricing

Offerings

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

Let’s Add Fun & Creativity To Learning Materials using browser apps - Session 2

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Adobe Creative Cloud Express Browser Demo

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Design a YouTube Thumbnail Using Adobe Create Cloud Express on the desktop

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Set up a template for a YouTube thumbnail with Adobe Creative Cloud Express on the desktop

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Let’s Add Fun & Creativity To Learning Materials using browser apps - Session 1

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Introduction to Adobe Creative Cloud Express #CreativeCloudExpressAmbassador #Ad

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Product Details

What is Adobe Express?

Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark) is a unified task-based, web and mobile product designed to make it easy to create and share beautiful rich multimedia content – from social media posts and stories to invitations to marketing materials like logos, flyers and banners. Creative Cloud Express enables drag-and-drop content creation, to empower users to express their creativity with just a few clicks. It includes thousands of high-quality templates, premium Adobe fonts and licensed Adobe Stock images.

Adobe Express Features

  • Supported: Start from thousands of templates for social media graphics, stories, and thumbnails, as well as posters, flyers, business cards, and logos.
  • Supported: Choose from royalty-free Adobe Stock photos, images, icons, backgrounds, and design assets.
  • Supported: Get a desired look with effects, filters, textures, and overlays.
  • Supported: Cut out backgrounds without having to outline a subject.
  • Supported: Resize and reflow content to fit any size for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, banners, and flyers. The content will adjust using Adobe tools.
  • Supported: Create attention-grabbing content with features to animate text and photos.
  • Supported: Upload a brand logo, fonts, and colors and apply them to any design with one tap.
  • Supported: Trim, crop, resize, and convert videos.
  • Supported: Choose from over 20,000 licensed fonts from the Adobe Fonts library. Start from text templates that feature curved type, grids, and font pairs.

Adobe Express Screenshots

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Adobe Express Videos

Introducing Adobe Creative Cloud Express
Getting started in one minute with Creative Cloud Express

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Adobe Express Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Korean, Dutch, Chinese Traditional, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish

Frequently Asked Questions

The vendor states Adobe Spark allows users to create beautiful graphics, web pages, and video stories in minutes, offering free themes, fonts, and images, as well as editing. Imagery assembled or created can be presented through Spark Post, Spark Page, and Spark Video. Adobe Spark is available through a Creative Cloud subscription, free with the Starter Plan, or on a single product license via the Team or Individual plan.

Canva, Wix, and Picsart are common alternatives for Adobe Express.

Reviewers rate Contract Terms and Pricing Model highest, with a score of 9.5.

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

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July 22, 2022

Fun and easy to use

Cecelia Steidinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Primarily focusing on Adobe Spark Post, it is the perfect tool for social media content creation. I use it for Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, etc. The customization tools and resources available on Adobe Spark Posts are so helpful when I need to create grabbing, attention-getting content for my social channels. It may be less appropriate for businesses without a social media presence, however, that seems to be a scarcity these days.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is perfect for a single user that doesn't want to hire a marketing team. I use it to post all of my recent real estate closings, utilizing pictures and graphics to highlight the transactions. It may not be appropriate for somebody that has a large marketing budget and a team familiar with Adobe PhotoShop. Adobe Creative Cloud Express is great for smaller teams/individuals, and it may be a little too amateur for larger teams with budgets.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Many of our employees are usually tasked with either making some sort of content for our organizational purposes. Adobe Creative Cloud Express allows our employees to express themselves via any sort of creative tools that are offered. Whether it's from making a collage, videos, or shorts for our organizational website or providing learning material. Adobe Creative Cloud provides these creative-making features to our employees.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I find Adobe Creative Cloud Express helpful in creating invitations and announcements for our events. Although my needs are very limited, Adobe Creative Cloud Express can be used for marketing purposes, art design, and posters. Keep in mind this is a mobile app. which makes it extremely portable and very easy to share with a team.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's suitable for people looking to quickly graphics or assets for things like emails and social media. Especially good for people who are either on a budget (need low subscription pricing or don't have a computer that smoothly handles Adobe Suite software) or who can't get past the learning curve required by PS/AI/InD. Creative Cloud Express has the bare necessities, which is still enough if you know how to utilize it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would recommend Adobe CC Express, especially if the colleague were an established Adobe user. The interface is designed so that anyone familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, or any other Adobe software products, will be familiar. This is a product that competes with Canva, but it's great to have the simplicity of Canva with an interface that feels familiar from day one.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If I'm starting a new project from scratch Adobe Creative Cloud is a great tool, everything seems to be designed or thought of precisely that, from working on my computer to working online (uploading to the cloud). However, when I work to pick up projects uploaded to our company's SharePoint, it is more tricky and not seamless.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express has a lot of features and content to help you quickly deliver messaging and information to an organization. It really depends on your company’s specific needs though. If you have incredibly skilled designers who can take advantage of the full creative cloud suite, that’ll always be the go-to. However, Adobe Creative Cloud Express makes it easy for slightly less experienced designers to pick up and make some really cool stuff.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe creative cloud express is well suited if you are looking to make simple logos for a client or business however if you want more complex and professional looking things then this may not be the best option for you to go to instead. This tool would not be for someone who is not tech savvy at all.
Mary Burke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Spark is great for social media posting. Animated images, videos, stills, collages, and more can be made in a matter of minutes, even seconds. This program has helped declutter work from our FT employees and allowed the work to be parceled out to student workers. One does not need to know Adobe suite or graphic design to use Spark. It feels like a cheat code!
Score 5 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
It is a great option if you are already invested in the Adobe Suite of services. But, as a standalone product, it is not necessarily worth the cost when compared to best-in-class alternatives that provide more visual customization, ready-made templates, and the ability to seamlessly integrate with other platforms, media sites, and content hosting sites that help to create the kind of dynamic content that users expect to see these days.
Abid Sheikh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This tool is best suited for digital marketing make flyers, brochures, posts, banners, etc. To attract customers there are multiple predefined templates available for user to select make necessary amendments and create your own template. This tool also suited for logo designing. I found this product beneficial, only less appropriate thing is pricing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think Adobe Creative Cloud Express is great for those who do not have a lot of experience with graphic design or photography. I use it to post quick and easy images and information on social media. I would not recommend it to be used for more advanced graphics and more detailed posts.
Tom Mulhern | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you need to create stunning graphics quickly and access them easily than Adobe Creative Cloud Express is a great solution for your team. With Adobe Creative Cloud Express, you can easily collaborate with your graphics team to create professional digital media easily. Often times I use the tool to start my layout of a design, and then I transfer that design to Photoshop or Illustrator.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use a lot of interns in our department. This software is perfect for on-boarding new interns because the learning curve is very low. You don't need to be a graphic designer with years of training because their templates are right there for you to manipulate. I wouldn't use spark for high end print graphics.
Ashley Pauls | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you're looking to create a quick webpage highlighting a story or reporting on an event, then Creative Cloud Express is the tool for you! I would not recommend this to create a company's main website; this tool is better suited to one-off communications projects for special events, stories or programs.
Subrat Sahu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud express is well suited for organizations working on multiple digital content requirements on an enterprise scale. This is to match the pricing or subscription as an individual subscription plan comes with a host of limitations. It should be used across organizations for complete content requirements on a scale. It is easy to use even for digital marketers having no prior experience on the platform.
Emily Hammell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is an incredibly useful and robust platform. It offers easy-to-use templates, creates branding packages/templates, a variety of sharing and collaboration methods, and great font pairings. It is membership-based, so if your company doesn't use Adobe Suite very often, I wouldn't recommend this product, as you may lose your content.
Rebekah Buchterkirchen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are needing to create high-quality graphics for ongoing content to engage with your audience, Adobe Creative Cloud Express is truly amazing. I found it to be better than competitors for the ease of use and variety of templates/graphics. Adobe Creative Cloud Express might be less appropriate if you are only seeking to build printable content. While they had a beta PDF export feature when I was regularly using it, I found it wasn't able to be the high-quality print-ready file I needed.
September 23, 2021

Create a Spark

David Faustina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express offers one of the best mobile solutions to content creation on the go. The paid and unpaid plans offer a robust platform to create and socialize that content. Templates make creating easy to start and fun to finish. The app also integrates easily to Adobe CC, and your membership allows premium access to Adobe Creative Cloud Express. Overall, Adobe Creative Cloud Express gives incredible access to content that can be repurposed, edited, and created to allow teams to get social content flowing with ease.
Janae Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is well suited for social media and website/ blog use. Its branding tools are great for continuity across documents that are quick and easy to implement. They just recently added photo editing tools that can produce some really great graphics. It's mostly for quick and easy graphic creation, as well as videos. Adobe Creative Cloud Express could also be used to create more complex projects, but you may reach a few limitations within the tools, especially with video editing.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a really easy online design tool, so I would recommend it to anyone! I particularly like to use it in the classroom because I think it's a little easier than Canva--a tool that I would say is very similar. There are slightly fewer options, which can make it a little less overwhelming for kids.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love Adobe Creative Cloud Express for almost all my image creation needs. When I want to do really detailed work, I still use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. I wish Adobe Creative Cloud Express had a better slideshow-type video option, with animated text (like Animoto). I've created workarounds where I create animated images in Adobe Creative Cloud Express Post and then added them to a Creative Cloud Express Video, but that's a bit of a pain.
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