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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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$0.00

Cloud

Premium

$9.99 / $99.99

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Monthly / Annual, prepaid

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express has been a great tool for my personal brand within my org. My company does not use the service, however individual sales teams are allowed to use it to put together marketing graphics for LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc. I utilize the app over the webpage due to its ease of use. Within a few minutes, I have new marketing material I can post on my personal social media that ties into my business. Being able to personally put together marketing material without having to hire a team is cost-saving, and given the user-friendly platform on the app, it's easy to accomplish.
  • Ease of use
  • Lots of templates already established
  • Free options available
  • Professional looking marketing material for new users
  • web platform is difficult to use, stick to app
  • the function which allows you to change fonts using the circle, great tool but you can never go back to a previous font so scroll very slowly until you find something you like
  • I don't see a LinkedIn post option, just a LinkedIn story option
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
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is used widely within our organization. We use it for anything from video editing, photo editing, and even webpages design. Typically the apps that we use more often are photoshop express and sparks express. We use these two applications to create vibrant photos and slideshows that we can use for our organizational website.
  • Photo edit
  • Video edit
  • Create webpages
  • The tools can be a bit more simplistic finding.
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 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe creative cloud express is a design and creative app that allows us to make graphics for social media pages, short vids, and web pages. It is easy to use because you can just drag and drop so it is not a big learning curve for us to efficiently use this product.
  • social media graphics
  • creating short videos
  • creating logos and flyers for clients
  • More support and easily accessible as well if in need of help or If i have questions
  • more tutorials and help features
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.
Corina Manea | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It helps me create visuals for my brand and my clients' brands in a very easy way.
  • Easy to use.
  • Cool effects.
  • Easy to remove backgrounds.
  • Easy resize.
  • Would love to see a way to add subtitles to my videos in the app.
I'd like to emphasize how easy it is to use Adobe Creative Cloud Express. You don't need to be a designer or even be a creative person. It's my go-to app when I need to create a cool designs for my clients.
Mary Burke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Spark provides a quick and easy way to make graphics and engaging posts for our social media outlets. It's intuitive to use so the user does not need to be familiar with other Adobe products. It's helped our workflow since our student workers are able to use the program with barely any training.
  • Pre-sized social media templates
  • Easy to use
  • A large gallery of "stickers"
  • Easy photo editing
  • Fun video graphics
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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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We began experimenting with and implementing Adobe Creative Cloud Express in an attempt to make a more dynamic online curriculum for our students and programming recipients. The hope was that it would provide us with a more fluid and visually dynamic alternative to a typical presentation/slide platform like Powerpoint or Google Slides.
  • Integration with abundant Adobe suite of services and platforms
  • Fluid, scrolling content as opposed to static slides
  • Nice inclusion of video, photos with more visually-centered focus
  • Limited text, font stylings and customizations
  • Limited integrations with other non-Adobe apps and platforms compared to best in class products
  • Limited customization, even in paid version, when it comes to styling, visual accents, coloring, etc.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create and share social media graphics and videos for the University Athletics social media pages. This makes it quick and easy to post information faster and provides a steady stream of templates and design choices that increase engagement with our social media followers, as well as our athletes.
  • Lots of good designs and templates
  • Easy to use
  • Several exporting options
  • New updates allow for more editing choices
  • More templates could be good
  • More sports options
  • Needs better save points to allow us to revert to a specific point of editing
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
I have used the newly updated Adobe Creative Cloud Express, and the previous version of Adobe Spark since it's initial launch. It is an amazing resource for our team to create professional images, videos, and other digital design elements quickly and easily. We use it for social media content, email and blog headers, promotions, and so much more. It is a valuable resource for any team of any size.
  • Professional Templates
  • Various size and format options
  • Easy to access cloud based projects
  • Access to Adobe creative elements
  • Template database interface
  • Smart resize to adjust elements to proper size
  • Image replace function is glitchy sometimes
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.
Subrat Sahu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is been used for creating digital content such as landing pages, email content which consists of hero images, brand logos, etc. Earlier we were using separate tools for image editing, webpage design, however, with Adobe Creative Cloud Express we use a single tool for a digital content journey which includes the creation of content for social media posts, offline marketing in sync with our digital offers, content used in search engine marketing and also helping in collaboration between teams.
  • Out-of-the-box templates save a lot of time and effort for designers and new users.
  • Collaboration to share resources and monitor task status centrally.
  • Great design elements bring a wow factor to digital content.
  • Single design tool for all types of content design.
  • The pricing of Adobe Creative Cloud is a bit on the higher side as compared to peers.
  • Customer service is not supportive at times leading to reported issues taking much time to resolve.
  • The hardware requirement is higher for running Adobe Creative Cloud Express.
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it for designing social media posts. It makes it easier to design to start from templates instead of from scratch. It gives quick editing functionality. I find the interface is limited and sometimes difficult to navigate, but it is still an alternative for quickly coming up with a social media post in general.
  • Suggest design templates
  • Suggest color combinations
  • Remove background
  • More flexible color choices
  • Easier navigation and options
  • Need more blending modes
  • More effect capabilities for more design functions
  • Selection is difficult when element s is clustered
It is well suited to design a generic poster for an Instagram campaign when you are away from a computer and only have an iPad or phone at your disposal.
Rebekah Buchterkirchen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my previous role, the Marketing and Communications department solely used Adobe Creative Cloud Express for all of our social media content needs. It was truly such a time savor as neither I nor my teammates were trained graphic designers.
  • Graphic Design - especially for people like me who have no background in it
  • Organization - very easy dashboard to view projects made and easily recreate ones you liked
  • Ability to use and build content from either your laptop or your phone - both work great!
  • When building content on your phone, there are certain features that make it difficult to edit the content
  • It would be great to see more templates created and offered for projects outside of social media tiles (brochures, posters, invitations, etc.)
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

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David Faustina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From social media graphics to online advertising creative, Adobe Creative Cloud Express streamlines content creation for all departments and clients. Often, time is the number one challenge when it comes to content creation for social. The second challenge is getting stuck in what the creative should look like. It is hard to constantly think of new creativity and then create it. Adobe Creative Cloud Express takes care of both challenges for you so you can get social and get it out now. The templates get the creative part moving, and the sky is the limit.
  • Templates for social are easy to find and use.
  • Branding presets allow logos and colors to fill in automatically, saving a ton of time.
  • Mobile-ready apps allow the use of Adobe Creative Cloud Express on the go and on the road.
  • Community designs keep the content fresh and trending.
  • Layout constraints that demand you use a preselected layout make it near impossible to layer and go off-book with a design.
  • Presets give nice color blends and palettes but limit personal choice on a mix of colors for a design.
  • Video editing is done frame to frame and that goes for audio as well. The audio feature does not allow for continuous recording, instead, it makes you record each clip to each individual frame.
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
It is being used mostly by content creators across our sister stations. I am the only one that uses it on the Sales/Digital Side. It is great to use for quick graphics and videos that I need to make for our social media and website. I also use it to create web banner ads as well as Facebook ads.
  • There is a great design asset library, including free photos, icons, and illustration graphics.
  • Great for keeping your brand consistent across documents.
  • Great crowdsourced templates to choose from for quick unique content creation!
  • Great new photo editing tools to quickly customize a photo.
  • The tool panels unnecessarily cover the workspace at times.
  • The text shapes haven't really changed since I started using it, but it's still useful with the icons tab.
  • The structure of the workspace changes a lot, sometimes without notice. It affects the UX sometimes, but it's normally somewhat easy to adjust to.
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
I use Adobe Creative Cloud Express for projects with middle school students. I think it's important for them to learn how to use graphic design tools, and Adobe Creative Cloud Express is a kid-friendly option with a lot of different design choices. I use it in my classroom, and all of my students sign up with free accounts.
  • Design
  • Template Options
  • User-Friendly
  • Editing is not always easy
  • Movement and size-changing does not work like Google
  • Final product has watermark without paid subscription
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'm not sure whether Adobe Creative Cloud Express is used across the organization, but we use it within the marketing department of our faculty. It helps us create our own templates that we can share between users so we can keep our branding consistent across many social media accounts. It's easy to share our concepts with teammates and get feedback so we can further develop ideas.
  • The user interface is really simple and straight forward.
  • The product is being continually updated and seems to be responsive to users "wish list" items.
  • It's super easy to create a brand, so you're always using the right fonts and colours.
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Express's video possibilities could be improved - I'd really like to see more options for animating text. Animoto is a great example of this. But the video is already improving, so perhaps these options are coming!
  • Sometimes images don't download properly from the web app and I have to download using the phone app and then transfer to my desktop for scheduling.
  • It would be cool if there was an approve / feedback option, so you could request feedback from a team member without having to share a link and send a separate email.
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.
Paul Gully | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is primarily used for our clients' work where we need to create graphics and assets in real time at events. With its mobile app, we are able to easily update and complete assets for social media whilst at live events and sports fixtures. It has solved the problem of us being able to complete this work quickly and easily in real time, enabling us to enhance the quality of the work and the services we can offer.
  • Ability to work in real time and on the fly
  • Quick and easy to use
  • Separating brands out and setting up templates for each accordingly
  • Great starter templates when needed for inspiration
  • Having better use of layers to build graphics
  • Some expansion of the video editing side - especially overlaying text
  • More stability and reliability for the mobile app version - sometimes non responsive
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is a great tool for quickly building up templates and designs. Especially suited for social media assets. It is very quick to learn and get going, with some great inspirational templates. So for a quick work flow and creating good designs, it's a great addition to other programs you may use. If you are just looking for quick and basic videos this is the answer, but if you would like a bit more depth to your editing and features, this would not be the best answer. Overall you can achieve some amazing end results, especially for your social channels.
Aniket Kumar Chaudhary | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a content writer and digital marketer, I have to stand out from the crowd with the unique graphic ideas that help me and my organization to grow. Adobe Creative Cloud Express is an easy-to-use graphic design and content creation tool. It has an image editor, a website builder, and a video-making tool capable of creating simple, yet beautiful and impactful content that requires no prior design skills or spending time learning their forms. In short, Adobe Creative Cloud Express is an all-in-one web application for creating and sharing visual stories that will amaze your audience from whatever device they access.
  • Templates: Once you select the template, just edit it according to need, which makes it a huge time-saver.
  • Intuitive design: In case you don't want or can't find a template that you like, you can freely design in Adobe Creative Cloud Express. The software focuses on very straightforward functionality, with custom fields and alignments of buttons with very clear labels. The whole design is quite intuitive and guides users from one step to another without the need for many instructions.
  • Autosave: It may seem unimportant, but the fact that Adobe Creative Cloud Express saves all the changes you make automatically and constantly frees you from any worry.
  • Includes free high-resolution images from Unsplash, as well as prepaid high-quality stock photos from Adobe Creative Cloud Express.
  • No skills needed: It is incredibly easy to use in that you don't need prior knowledge.
  • Content and print management offered.
  • In the free version, all pages and videos are branded with the Adobe Creative Cloud Express watermark.
  • Access to Android is limited to the graphics creation tool.
  • Videos are only 30 seconds long.
What sets Adobe Creative Cloud Express applications apart is that they are much easier to use than most Adobe tools. Unlike its more popular and specialized counterparts, like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, or Dreamweaver, the Adobe Creative Cloud Express learning process is so easy. Among Adobe Creative Cloud Express Page, Post, and Video, each task has its own iOS app in the app store, but only Adobe Creative Cloud Express Post is available for Android at the moment.
Stacey Stearns | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create short videos about our programs, and for social media posts. I love that it is easy to use and allows me to make professional videos without the skills of a videographer. There are stock photos available in the software, and I use the stock music that's available from the software as well. It offers tips as you are creating your video, and overall allows you to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time.
  • Easy to use.
  • Creates a professional quality product.
  • Stock images and music within the software.
  • A preview link can be sent to colleagues for editing and review.
  • There are limits to how/where you can place the text.
  • The stock music selection is limited - I'm running out of choices.
  • It's meant for short videos - nothing too long.
  • The default on each slide in a video is two seconds - remember to increase the tie if you want to hold viewers for longer.
Content creators, communicators, or anyone with a message to share and a story to tell. We use Adobe Creative Cloud Express regularly to create educational outreach materials, share our impacts from programs, or to inform audiences about our work. The software is easy to use and has helped us expand to new mediums in a budget-friendly manner.
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