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Adobe Express Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.8 out of 10
Score
8.8 out of 10

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Pros

Ease of Use: Users have found Adobe Creative Cloud Express to be incredibly user-friendly, with an intuitive interface that simplifies the creation process for various types of content. Many reviewers appreciate how easy it is to navigate the platform and create engaging materials effortlessly.

Endless Customization Possibilities: Customers have praised the platform for offering a wide range of customization features, allowing them to personalize their content extensively. The flexibility provided by Adobe Creative Cloud Express has been highlighted by users who value the ability to tailor their marketing material to suit their specific needs.

Vast Template Selection: Reviewers have emphasized the convenience of having access to a diverse selection of templates within the software. This extensive library of templates enables users to kickstart their projects quickly and efficiently, saving time and effort in the creative process.

Reviews

245 Reviews

Fast clean and developer friendly editing tool.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being a software developer and not a designer, I still use Adobe Express quite often as it offers variety of features. Needing clean and precise visuals for explaining features, documenting flows, presentations or sharing updates with the team, it fits perfectly in my work environment. I always use Adobe Express while making POC on a latest tech or any topic along with documentation. It helps me with annotations, highlight important UI sections and visually summarize the flow. I also use it to create small slide like visuals, clear enough to get the point during the demos. Overall it is very important and handy tool in explaining technical things visually and reducing dependency on designers for small tasks.

Pros

  • AI powered design and content generation
  • Provides professional templates with strong design quality
  • Video and animation tools
  • Very good multimedia support
  • Quick actions to get your work done very fast and swiftly

Cons

  • Mobile experience is not as good as desktop
  • Generative tools are good but not perfect and needs improvement
  • Need more precise template search and filtering

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited:

1- when you need clean visuals for sprint demos

2- quick edits for documentation and JIRA tickets

3- Creating release notes or feature highlight graphics

4- social media content edits (used for personal experience). Less appropriate:

1- when you need advance design with full creative control as it has shallow animation control and limited typography controls so when you want pixel perfect precision it is not ideal.

2- when you rely heavily on AI as even paid plans have limits .

One Tool for all

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe Express to streamline the creation of on-brand marketing and internal communications content across teams. It addresses the business problem of slow, design-dependent workflows by enabling non-designers to quickly produce social media graphics, presentations, flyers, and short videos using brand-approved templates. The scope includes marketing, HR, and sales teams, supporting campaigns, internal announcements, event promotions, and sales enablement materials while maintaining brand consistency and reducing turnaround time.

Pros

  • Flyers
  • Business Cards
  • Project Presentations
  • short Clips for youtube

Cons

  • more Presentation features
  • small recording button for Tutorials and screenrecordings
  • more Templates

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Express is an all around Tool. It can create all kinds of material for marketing, Internet content, etc. Adobe Express is easy to use for all users and many can collaborate together. only for very longe documents like books or very longe videos over 1h or so it is better to have local installed software.

Multimedia Specialist

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Pros

  • I have used Adobe Express to help maintain my creative catalogs and files, brand management by saving my color scheme palettes, to have full access to its free assets and huge template library.
  • The main business issue is brand consistency and accessibility, and Adobe Express helps greatly with both of those by providing an option to create brand libraries for various projects, and it has a huge Adobe font catalog to accommodate basically every brand and project scope.
  • I like how I am able to create a project folder for storing various iterations of a graphic or logo, and being able to view thumbnails of each iteration below the current graphic that I am working on. Plus, it also allows for easy thumbnail rearrangement for exporting selected images in the order of my choice. And it has many editing tools such as a generative AI tool using prompts to help create original art, and both the Effects and Animation tools have many options for colorations and animations. Plus other awesome and easy to use tools such as the Quick Action tool that easily removes backgrounds, and other tools like the Resizing, Quick Replace, Translate, Bulk Create.
  • Another feature of Adobe Express that I like is its ability for video creation and editing which is available via a mobile device or desktop computer. The footage editing process is very easy and allows for only one track for both video and audio.
  • Adobe Express allows for the project assets to be either imported via ones on file systems or straight from the Adobe Royalty-Free assets which includes; videos, audio/music, graphics, photos and even a voice overs capability using a "Text-to-Voice" option. And after the video has been created Adobe offers its very easy "Download" option, where you can select what file type that you want the project to export as.

Cons

  • The only improvement that I wish that Adobe Express could make would be to increase the number of video and audio tracks their Video application could have. Even adding one extra track for both would totally increase the overall professional output of the video, while allowing for a more engaging and memorable product.

Likelihood to Recommend

Basically, I truly find that Adobe Express is pretty much great for all professional scenarios because it offers many creative options and comes with an extremely robust collection of assets (stock photos, videos, music, and graphics) all of which can be edited and enhanced within Adobe Express if needed. One project that it was quite helpful with utilizing was creating a logo for one of our clients. I was able to create the prototype and then offer several iterations of said logo to help the client quickly decide on its official branding. By having all of my assets neatly stored right on my Adobe Express project folder it was very easy for me to remain organized when creating various outputs.

Adobe's most intuitive tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a solopreneur graphic designer / art director and I use Adobe Express for me and my clients :for my own business, I use it for creating my social medias posts, and I use it to create templates for my design clients so they can use on their own social medias account

Pros

  • templates creation
  • integration with other Adobe software
  • very easy to use

Cons

  • video features limited
  • some crash sometimes
  • quality of the designs for the templates could be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend it 100% to someone who already has an Adobe cloud subscription, as the integration between all the Adobe tools is just so seamless. It feels useless to go through canva when you have access to all functionality here. I think it is also more professional for designer to have a process through an Adobe workflow, than Canva, that is great but more used by amateurs

WHY ADOBE EXPRESS AND NOT CANVA

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Express for designing social media content, appreciating its ready-made templates which save time and effort. It solves creative blocks by providing design ideas, and I love its voice character feature for making animations. However, the layering feature feels basic compared to Photoshop. I switched from Canva due to Adobe Express's aesthetics and interface. Setup is easy, taking less than an hour to learn.

Pros

  • Social Media content
  • Production Schedule
  • Infographics

Cons

  • blending mode
  • layers options
  • Align to selection

Likelihood to Recommend

I like Adobe Express for its ease of use in designing social media content with ready-made templates, which makes designing faster and easier for me. I really enjoy the voice direct feature, where I can choose a character, like a cartoon character, and have it lip-sync my voice. It feels super cool and fun to create an animated avatar in such a short time. The learning curve of Adobe Express is very easy, and I appreciate how quick it is to learn the interface, with menus and elements neatly displayed. I also love the templates, the aesthetic, and the interface, which are compact compared to other products.

An Honest Review from an Adobe Community Expert

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I primarily use Adobe Express for quick content creation. I do a lot of social media advertising, and the time it takes to prep a template in Express is way faster than in other programs. I also love the scheduling tool integrations that are included with Premium, as they make prepping and posting my content way easier. The scope of my use case is mostly for B2B sales, and small business owners, so I mainly use it for smaller projects.

Pros

  • Template Creation
  • Brand Cohesiveness
  • Scheduling tool
  • Google Drive add ons

Cons

  • User interface
  • Social Media video assets
  • Template variety

Likelihood to Recommend

I find that if you're mostly working with non-designers,Adobe Express is a fantastic use case for them. If you're working with designers, it's great for quick, easy tasks, but nothing particularly in depth. It's not the best for social media videos, it lacks a bit of the functionality that CapCut or InShot has, but overall it's fairly good for getting the assets to add to a video, but not being the final export.

Design your next Masterpiece

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Express for most of my graphic design needs. From building restaurant menus to social media posts, Adobe Express speeds the rate in which I can get stuff done. I especially like that you can group multiple designs under a single file and then download them to a single folder. This makes campaign creation really easy and less opportunity for confusion when passing it along.

Pros

  • Graphic design
  • Social Media design
  • Access to Adobe Stock

Cons

  • More shape building options
  • Updates to Auto-animation
  • Dark Mode!

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Express is well suited for many tasks: 1) set up the graphics for a social media campaign, 2) basic graphic design layout, and 3) template inspiration! ... I regularly use Adobe Express for all of these. You can also order prints direct from your files on Adobe Express and invite others to leave feedback.

One app for everything.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe Express for social media templates. I like the brand kit where I can place all of the company's logo, color palette, as well as fonts, and I use that almost every single day when creating social content. I also love that I can edit Photoshop, InDesign, or Illustrator files directly in Adobe Express.

Pros

  • AI assistant
  • Creating content fast,
  • Video editing.

Cons

  • More animation features.
  • More interesting elements (graphics, shapes, etc).
  • More interesting templates.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Adobe Express is perfect for the team that is not able to use other design software, for example, our social media manager and sales team. I think as a designer, we can't rely on Adobe Express alone.

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Adobe Express
5 years of experience

Adobe Express Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Express to create carousels for social media; it has features that streamline the process and centralize tasks within a single platform. The fact that it's online also helps me a lot, since adjustments often arise when I'm not in the office, and it's possible to modify a project started on my desktop directly from my cell phone. Express is fast, dynamic, and straightforward. Excellent for quick tasks.

Utilizo o Express para a criação de Carrosseis para redes sociais, ele possui recursos que agilizam o processo e centralizam demandas dentro de uma unica plataforma. O fato de ser online, também me ajuda muito, visto que muitas vezes surgem ajustes quando não estou no escritório, e é possivel alterar um projeto iniciado no desktop, diretamente do meu celular. O Express é rapido, dinamico e direto. Excelente para demandas rápidas.

Pros

  • Carousel for social media
  • Image adjustment via mobile phone
  • Creating images with AI
  • Carrosel para redes socias
  • Ajuste de imagens pelo celular
  • Criação de imagens com IA

Cons

  • Integration with AI and PSD files with automatic updates, just like with installed tools.
  • Exporting layouts for editing in Illustrator and Photoshop.
  • Integração com arquivos AI e PSD com atualização automatica, como acontece nas ferramentas instaladas.
  • Exportação de Layouts para edição no illustrator e Photoshop

Likelihood to Recommend

It's an excellent tool for those who work with quick posts. The branding feature, which allows you to customize your color schemes, fonts, and even images, greatly speeds up the process of adapting the layout to your visual identity. The multi-platform aspect, where I develop the layout on my desktop and then can make small adjustments to this layout from my mobile phone, greatly streamlines the material approval process.

É um excelente ferramenta para quem trabalha com postagens rápidas. O recurso marcas, que permite personalizar seus padrões de cores, fontes e até imagens agilizam muito o processo de adaptação de layout para a sua identidade visual. O fator multiplataforma, aonde desenvolvo o layout no desktop e depois posso fazer pequenos ajustes neste layoutu a partir do meu celular, agiliza muito o processo de aprovação de materiais.

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Easy and time-saving tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Express is a design tool that I mainly use for collages and videos. It saves time: actions are quick to perform and the software offers a very large library (vectors, photos, music, video, etc.). What's more, the templates available often help me improve on my initial idea, which is why I sometimes start testing a few ideas on Adobe Express before moving on to Premiere for large video projects and their teasers. In addition, Adobe Express also offers all existing formats for social media posts and makes it very easy to adapt a visual to different formats.

Pros

  • social media post
  • typography animation
  • layout
  • video

Cons

  • drawing

Likelihood to Recommend

I love using Adobe Express to create simple video posts :- like a sequence of images and text with typographic animation- short video edits to present a process or doing a tutorialIn both cases, the choice of effects and music is always very interesting in order to quickly create impactful content. <div>You don't need a highly experienced graphic designer to achieve professional results.</div>

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