Adobe Acrobat vs. Foxit PDF Editor

Adobe Acrobat

3,214 Reviews and Ratings

Foxit PDF Editor

126 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
Foxit PDF Editor	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Foxit PDF Editor is a solution for creating, editing, organizing, and securing PDF documents. Designed for professionals and businesses of all sizes, features include editing capabilities, OCR, collaboration tools, and security options like redaction and document encryption.	$10.99 per month per user

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Foxit PDF Editor

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

Foxit PDF Editor: $10.99
per month per user
Foxit PDF Editor +: $13.99
per month per user
Foxit PDF Editor: $129.99
per year per user
Foxit PDF Editor+: $159.99
per year per user

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat	Foxit PDF Editor
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
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	Foxit PDF Editor
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is the gold standard and you pay for it. It is easy to use and works how you expect it to. The alternatives are cheaper, but don't offer as many features, and require retaining everyone to switch applications. Incentivized Helpful? Muhammed Ronaq BS Founder of Finite X Reality in Information Technology at Finite X Reality (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat stands out because its more powefull and feature rich as compared to these free tools. and it offers more compatibilty, security and many other editing options in a single software. which is much suitable for professional work rather than these cheap alternatives. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I selected Adobe Acrobat because of the following reasons.. 1. It provides the Ai powered features and straight forward cloud integration which is not available with other providers. 2.Adobe Acrobat has global certifications of market standards for security and compliance areas. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Both of the alternatives Nitro and Foxit, lacks some functionalities. Eg: Foxit doesn't have a very user friendly UI, thats' the same issue Nitro as well. Also, Nitro's licensing is a bit complex. Adobe Acrobat is a plug and play product. The UI is friendly, one can learn it … Incentivized Helpful? Adeeb Siddiqui Brand Manager in Marketing at HL Agro Products Pvt. Ltd. (Food Production, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Foxit PDF Editor was one of the alternatives we were considering while going for Adobe Acrobat. However, it was not a good choice for data import/ export and secure data storage for our organisation. Also, the interface of Adobe Acrobat is simple & more user friendly as … Incentivized Helpful? Moheen Akhter Data Engineer in Information Technology at OZI Technology (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is great at assembling separate documents into a single document, replacing pages, and optimizing file sizes for web presentation. We can easily import our signatures on documents through Adobe Acrobat. It is essential for our everyday business use, in particular … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat They are equivalent - Adobe Acrobat might have a slight advantage in some areas, though the recent updates may make me go back to Foxit. Incentivized Helpful? Cheryl Shelton CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at Mott Community College (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I found this software to be very difficult to navigate. I really wanted to love it because it is less expensive compared to Adobe and is easier for our institution to license. Unfortunately, the learning curve was too steep to implement within our organization. I am usually … 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? virender kundu CM(MS&IT) in Information Technology at ACD-HAL (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is more user friendly and having more features and part of bigger ecosystem which makes it preferred brand over competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat is very popular in the world and secure software, so it is easy for the client to open confidential documents in Acrobat and design the document. Acrobat has a modern view, which is very easy to use. Acrobat takes less time to execute different operations in comparison … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Foxit editor is cheaper and handles very large documents better Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat allows licenses to stretch across one account rather than just one device, and works across both Mac and Windows, as opposed to some of the other options. Incentivized Helpful? Rudy Fulmer IT Field Services Manager in Information Technology at Jackson Hospital (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat They have a superior product that works better and more reliably when it comes to working with PDF files. Adobes' Achilles heel is the restrictions and requirements imposed on the user and software by their administrative and legal teams that drag down what otherwise is a … Incentivized Helpful? Shane Peek Instructional Technology Facilitator at Greenville County Schools (Education Management, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat In my experience, Adobe Acrobat offers more advanced features and security safeguards than competitors. It may come at a price, but you feel that you can trust in the brand and the abilities of the platform when compared to competitors. With that in mind, some users may find … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat is overall, the superior PDF creator, editor and compiler. However, DocuSign is easier and more reliable as a document signing program. This tool is Acrobat is much harder to use and has caused some errors in documents in the past. It also does not work well with a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Foxit PDF is a strong competitor to Adobe Acrobat. However, users coming from older editions of Adobe don't like too much change and will want to stay with Adobe instead of changing to a new competing product. We did evaluate Foxit, but end users couldn't or didn't have the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We find Adobe Acrobat very easy to use, and the software performs that it has to do with no bad surprises or format problems. Helps so much to create forms, edit documents, sign documents, other important feature is sharing documents to peers, you can have the control and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Overall, Adobe has a better reputation than Foxit PDF Editor; while many of my colleagues prefer the features of Foxit (over Adobe), Adobe remains more secure and provides our organization with a higher level of comfort. DocuSign is a great tool for requesting signatures on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We actually use adobe alongside Bluebeam to supliment some of the layer features when looking at plans and layouts. We still use Adobe for ease of use for documents or contracts. Incentivized Helpful?	Foxit Software Tim Edwards General Office Accounting Administrator in Finance and Accounting at Magnetic Shield Corporation (Mining Metals, 11-50 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor Foxit PDF Editor meets all of our business needs in terms of a PDF editor software. The price for Adobe Acrobat Pro was cost-prohibitive. Incentivized Helpful? Steven Sheasby President in Corporate at Integrity Mortgage Licensing (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom) is cheaper and easier to purchase and renew. It's layout is easier to navigate. They have used the same type of layout as Microsoft Office products so it is easier for Team Members to find what they need. It also has a few more features than Ad… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor FoxitPhantom PDF is a no-brainer when compared to Adobe Acrobat. It is extremely cheaper for virtually the same product. It has all of the features that I loved about Adobe Acrobat, but for a fraction of the price. I would say FoxitPhantom PDF isn't just competitive - it's the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor We were looking at ways to help reduce our license costs, and that is what made us look into alternatives to Adobe Acrobat. The license costs about half of what we were spending for Adobe, so it was a straightforward choice for us to make. Aside from a learning curve associated … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor FoxitPhantom PDF is a cheaper alternative to Adobe Acrobat. It can get the job done with basic PDF needs, but the user experience is not a slick as the Adobe products with the recent updates. Foxit was ultimately selected to reduce the costs for a basic PDF reader and editing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor FoxitPhantom PDF has all the same basic features that Adobe Acrobat carries, except I have personally found the editing and annotating features to be superior with FoxitPhantom. Not to mention it feels like Adobe Acrobat comes with more bloated software, whereas FoxitPhantom … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor In my experience, Foxit Phantom PDF offers the exact same functions and abilities that Adobe Acrobat does. Our company chose Foxit because it was significantly less expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Julián González Production and Operation Manager in Manufacturing at Bloomstar (Wholesale, 201-500 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor I would say that when you want to get a bigger share of the market and take business from long time consolidated applications like Acrobat, you really need to try harder and give something more to the user to be able to change their mind and switch to Foxit. In our case … Incentivized Helpful? Nick Bencivenga Chief Operating Officer in Information Technology at Dharma Merchant Services (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor Acrobat doesn't get close. It feels like the kid version of what a PDF viewer/editor should be. Features are mangled, they're not intuitive, and things are unnecessarily locked down. FoxIt gets rid of the BS and gives you the tools you need to edit your docs like a pro, for a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor FoxitPhantom PDF is better Adobe Acrobat DC. I just like that is cheaper and easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor In our case Cost was the deciding factor. We don't have a need for any advanced tools or features. Our use cases involve merging or splitting up documents, e-signatures and simple markups. Incentivized Helpful? Douglas S Bush Owner, ITMSP/MSSP, and Lead Consultant in Information Technology at Hearthside Business Systems (Information Technology Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor Foxit PDF Editor had the most tools that I frequently use and it had them right where I expected them. All of the others that I demoed either lacked tools I use often or were not nearly as intuitive to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor Foxit PDF Editor is much more intuitive than Adobe and Apple Preview and some other PDF editors. The interface and UI are easier to manage and collaborate with, and export cleanly. It is also a good tool for more simple design projects. It's easier to merge multiple PDFs and … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Johnson IT Administrator in Information Technology at Direct Lenders, LLC (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor Better value with the same functionality, often exceeding in many ways. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor Foxit comes with an offline solution that can be deployed across the company. The price is good, compared with Adobe but a bit less competitive than Kofax. The interface compared to other mentioned tools is easy to deal with and seems to be intuitive for the users who uses … Incentivized Helpful? Brant Legendre Attorney in Legal at Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys (Law Practice, 51-200 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor I have used Adobe is the past, and it worked just fine. However, I felt that in order to complete the tasks I needed to, I was having to take 4-5 steps just to do one thing. With Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom), most of the issues I ran into with Adobe were one simple click … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor FoxitPhantom contains all the functionalities that you want from Adobe such as creating PDFs, editing PDFs, sharing PDFs, encrypting PDFs, and being a cheaper alternative. The user interface is very intuitive and matches up well with other common software like Microsoft Word … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor Foxit has its own use. Compared to Bluebeam, Foxit is a way more affordable option. Foxit is a great and affordable solution for most users. The program doesn’t quite stack up against Bluebeam as far as features go. But that’s also why Bluebeam costs $350 and Foxit only costs … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor Can't beat the cost and quality when compared to the more well known competitor software suites. Also much better than the random, not so well made and supported similar software out there. FoxitPhantom PDF is a solid tool to have on your computer, you will not be disappointed. Incentivized Helpful? Jay Werth Principal / Campaign Manager at Convergent Nonprofit Solutions (Non-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor FoxitPhantom PDF does everything Adobe does and much quicker from the program opening to saving files. Incentivized Helpful? Marc Shaffer CEO in Corporate at US DataVault, Inc (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor Simpler to use, just as functional if not more so. Better, smoother integration. We went with it because of its wide functionality and client support. Overall, for the money, it is better and more reliable software. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Hopper Account Executive in Sales at Method Technologies (Computer Networking, 11-50 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor Same functionality for less cost. Not as pretty as Adobe, but gets the job done all the same. Incentivized Helpful? Jeremiah Alexander Systems Manager in Corporate at Alexander Screw Products, Inc. (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees) Chose Foxit PDF Editor FoxitPhantom PDF works just as well for a fraction of the price, and I feel more secure not using an adobe product on my computer. While the feature sets are very similar Foxit is both easier to use personally and easier to teach to new employees. We used Adobe for several … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Foxit PDF Editor All the features we need without being forced to overpay for Adobe. Lightweight on system resources. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Adobe Acrobat

Foxit PDF Editor

Comparison of PDF Editors features of Adobe Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor
Feature	Adobe Acrobat - Ratings	Foxit PDF Editor 8.8 3 Ratings
Edit Text and Images	00 Ratings	8.63 Ratings
Merge or Split PDFs	00 Ratings	9.73 Ratings
Add Annotations	00 Ratings	9.33 Ratings
Text Recognition (OCR)	00 Ratings	8.93 Ratings
Page Management	00 Ratings	8.33 Ratings
Form Creation and Editing	00 Ratings	7.93 Ratings
Secure PDFs	00 Ratings	8.73 Ratings
Convert to Different Formats	00 Ratings	8.63 Ratings
Comment and Review Tools	00 Ratings	9.03 Ratings
Undo and Redo Actions	00 Ratings	9.03 Ratings

User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	Foxit PDF Editor
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (481 ratings)	8.5 (33 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (26 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (237 ratings)	8.7 (7 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.1 (8 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (56 ratings)	8.9 (11 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.6 (9 ratings)	- (0 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)	9.0 (1 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)