Adobe Acrobat vs. Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat

3,214 Reviews and Ratings

Adobe Acrobat Reader

257 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Acrobat	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	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).	$29.99 per month per seat
Adobe Acrobat Reader	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Acrobat Reader is a PDF viewer and converter, available as a free download from Adobe. Users can view, sign, collaborate on and annotate PDF files, or edit and convert PDFs into file formats like Excel and Word.	N/A

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Acrobat Pro for Individuals: $19.99
per month
Acrobat Pro for Teams: $23.99
per month per user
Acrobat Studio for Individuals: $24.99
per month

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Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat	Adobe Acrobat Reader
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Adobe Acrobat	Adobe Acrobat Reader
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is the younger brother to Adobe Acrobat DC and acts purely as a PDF reader. Although Acrobat Reader DC does its job well as a PDF reader, Acrobat has a clear advantage over it with the extra features it has on top of just being able to view PDFs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I feel like Adobe Acrobat does it all from converting files to and from PDFs while it preserves the formatting. although Adobe Acrobat Sign and Adobe Acrobat Reader are pretty self explanatory i just feel that Adobe Acrobat has and does it all. This is what i love the most. Incentivized Helpful? Gina Monthes Operations Manager in Product Management at Iron Horse (Architecture & Planning, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Both read documents through Adobe, which is better for security and because the service is more optimized. Incentivized Helpful? James Bishop Nonprofit Marketing Consultant in Marketing at James Bishop Co. (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat PDF readers allow you to access PDF files, but that is a bare minimum in my work and not sufficient for my needs when preparing content, adapting it, or even combining content into new PDF files. I've not encountered any application that works as well or intuitively as Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Wilson IT MANAGER in Information Technology at Howard Butler Ltd (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I found Adobe to be richer in features than Foxit or Soda, more intuitive to learn and more reliable when in use. Both alternatives were more prone to crashes or had needed features missing, which is how i made my decision to go with Adobe Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Not as friendly to use. Not many are familiar with this software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat still stands head and shoulders above because of the robust features combined with a user-friendly interface. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hein Information Technology Director in Information Technology at CIH (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat allows files to be edited, and works very well at doing so. Incentivized Helpful? Sara Schleske Marketing in Marketing at Livermore Ford (Automotive, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe helps aid in keeping financial records in order when you organize documents digitally, which helps make it easy to search for items such as spreadsheets, receipts, payments, expense reports, and other documents for tax or billing information. Plus there is much more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I have used other PDF editors through the years to test them against Acrobat, but Acrobat always wins due to the amount of usable features that it offers, as well as ease of use. Aside from Reader, I don't remember the names of the other software unfortunately. Incentivized Helpful? Tyrell Jordan Recruiter in Human Resources at 4M HR Logistics LLC (Staffing & Recruiting, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat Reader is an amazing product as well. I like Acrobat DC better because of the functionality of the product. I believe it's easier to edit documents and create documents in general. Incentivized Helpful? TOWANDA STEWART Graduate Assistant at Capella University (E-Learning, 501-1000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat This is another great product! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat All of Adobes products work cohesively together making projects seamless. Adobe Acrobat DC is my go-to software to share files and documents with others that I know don't have access to more involved Adobe platforms such as InDesign or Illustrator. I know that users will be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat DC able to edit.. Reader can't Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We do use Microsoft Office for document creation, but documents are always concerted to PDF prior to being distributed outside of our organization. We find PDF to be a better file format for sharing as opposed to docx files. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I tried to find the other .pdf software that I've used in the past but it was not all in the drop-down menu for selection (i.e. CutePDF writer). They've all been reasonably competent at creating and editing .pdf documents but Adobe is still the top dog in features and security. Incentivized Helpful? Amit Javiya Process Engineer in Manufacturing at Highly Electrical Appliances India Private Limited (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat There are many pdf viewers and editors in the market but none of them can compete with Adobe Acrobat DC. This software also gives good services but many of them are not for only pdf like Acrobat. In many applications, you can view or edit but can not sign and secure documents. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Reader and Microsoft Edge (default Windows PDF file reader app) offer limited functionality compared to Adobe Standard DC. For colleagues that do not need extended the functionality of Adobe Standard DC Adobe Reader has been installed on their computers. Adobe Reader … Incentivized Helpful? Jay Apple Co-Founder in Corporate at TenantMagic (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I did not evaluate any other pdf management programs other than Adobe Acrobat DC. I was familiar with other Adobe pdf products and never thought to explore any others. I have been very pleased with Adobe Acrobat DC and have not seen the need to look at other pdf management … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Not used any other product Incentivized Helpful? Lisa A Lewis Owner in Finance and Accounting at Money Matters Bookkeeping, LLC (Accounting, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is more robust and does much more than Reader. Reader is basic but, I think Adobe Acrobat is a huge step up. Incentivized Helpful? Jodi Christiansen President in Professional Services at RC Engineering & Construction Management (Staffing & Recruiting, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Not enough flexibility for editing Incentivized Helpful?	Adobe No answer on this topic
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	Adobe Acrobat Reader
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (481 ratings)	9.2 (74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (26 ratings)	7.2 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (237 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.1 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (56 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.6 (9 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	8.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	6.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	4.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)