Adobe Acrobat vs. Microsoft 365

Adobe Acrobat

3,214 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft 365

7,168 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
Microsoft 365	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a Microsoft Cloud subscription service that includes Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access). The software can be installed across multiple devices and ensures that users always have the most up-to-date version of the included Office applications.	$5 Per User Per Month

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft 365

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

Business Basic: $5.00
Per User Per Month
Individual: $5.84
*Per Month
Business - Apps: $8.25
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - F3: $10.00
Per User Per Month
Business Standard: $12.50
Per User Per Month
Business Premium: $20.00
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - E3: $32.00
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - E5: $57.00
Per User Per Month

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat	Microsoft 365
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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*When billed annually.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Adobe Acrobat	Microsoft 365
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe stacks up very well against Microsoft 365. In addition, it also integrates well with many of the tools offered through our Microsoft 365 subscription and in many cases increases the value and functionality of those tools and programs. Adobe Acrobat serves to fill out our … 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 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? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat It offers functionality that the office suite just doesn't really seem to dabble in e.g. locking down documents or proper redaction abilities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat has more features and very convenient to use. Aside from that, because of the software integration of Adobe Acrobat. You can convert everything using that. The security feature of Adobe Acrobat is very reliable. Then you can access that with other Adobe Products … 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? Rajbhushan Sharma team lead in Human Resources at Largeton (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Because of its manyfeatures, intuitive interface, sophisticated functionalities, and wellestablished industry standing, Adobe Acrobat is the program of choice for managingdocuments in our company when compared to other programs. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Doeschner Counsel & Firm Administrator in Legal at Law Offices of Greenberg Burzichelli Greenberg PC (Law Practice, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat We have always used Adobe Acrobat so I cannot compare it to other comparable programs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat N/a Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Being the industry standard, Adobe Acrobat exceeds other platforms as the common file format all parties can read and comment even with only the free reader version. Incentivized Helpful? Denny Marlin Executive Director in Marketing at Saint Francis Ministries (Non-profit Organization Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat is the standard. Why consider any other? Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I have not used products similar to Adobe Acrobat. Incentivized Helpful? Jan Ponzio Accounting Manager in Corporate at Ivester Jackson Coastal (Real Estate, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Abode has just been my go to for many years and I dont plan on changing that Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is the leader in the ability to create professional grade documents to distribute internally and externally. The challenge is the pricing and the ease of use is not as ideal in relation to these other products. The learning curve can be steep and time consuming which … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is much more user friendly that the Microsoft print to PDF feature. Just having everything go right into Adobe Acrobat instantly is a huge time saver in our office. 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? Laci Fitch Marketing Coordinator in Marketing at Beckenhauer Construction (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I prefer Adobe Acrobat to Bluebeam because it has the functionality that I need and because I use so many other Adobe products, it's an easy transition for me. Bluebeam is much more cumbersome and really just has more construction-focused functionality that I don't need on a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Microsoft's products have become cumbersome, especially for organizations. The requirement of having two log ins for each user is a headache, each and every time someone tries to use it. We have slowly been transitioning away from Microsoft, and are hopeful that Adobe … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Gail Dutchess Diretor of Operations in Corporate at Capriccio Elite, LLC (Civic & Social Organization, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC definitely has its place in our business but is not good for productivity, documentation creation, or gathering data and running formulas. Incentivized Helpful? Phil Blake Director of IT in Information Technology at Recourse Communications Inc (Staffing & Recruiting, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Device compatibility and enterprise level voice isn't as readily available with Google Voice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is in almost all cases the best option for office solutions in a professional environment. If there is a budget for software like this, I would generally recommend Microsoft Office. However, where your requirements for features are basic, you might enjoy free … Incentivized Helpful? Luci Fortune Assistant Public Information Coordinator in Marketing at Las Vegas Valley Water District (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft has all the tools you need in one place, easily accessible and easy to use. The Teams app is reliable and doesn't glitch or make it hard to hear someone on a meeting like Google Meet does. Zoom has vulnerabilities making it not as reliable or me as comfortable using it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft has quite a bit more functionality versus Google Sheets. Plus there are times that I want to work locally and not be connected to the cloud. Microsoft 365 allows for that. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 We have tried using an in-house Microsoft Exchange server as well but ultimately moved to using Microsoft 365 because it decentralized our email and gave all the users access to Microsoft Excel and Word programs at the same time. It also gives each user 1 terabyte of cloud … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Google Drive and Google Docs I believe is the biggest competitor to Microsoft 365. However, if you really want to unlock the power and potential in your business you need more horsepower behind you and that is what the MS365 suite of products provides. Google Docs is … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Mazur Attorney in Legal at Matthew Mazur, P.A. (Law Practice, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 No comparison, we can do more with Microsoft 365 and we are more efficient. The pricing model is very fair. We don't have to worry about updating the software on each machine, the updates are handled by Microsoft directly and the Microsoft 365 programs seem much more stable and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 We really haven't evaluated other Office-like productivity suites/collaboration tools, since Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) does everything that our organization needs for the work that users do on a daily basis. This combined with the fact that it is the perfect … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 It's all about the network effect. Since everyone else at my school using Microsoft 365, eventually I had to bite the bullet and join the crowd. Using the officially supported file syncing and sharing solution solves a large number of problems right out of the box. Other … Incentivized Helpful? Tim McCafferty, MBA, MSL General Manager in Corporate at Leaf Enterprises, Inc. (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is far better than LibreOffice, though we keep Libre for backup. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Google Docs, Sheets, Calendar, etc. were not available in the listings, but to me, these would be Microsoft's competition in this space. Google seemed to have basically copied what Microsoft has done with these apps [and] made them web-browser friendly and cloud-based. … Incentivized Helpful? Heather Hicks Instructional Designer & LMS Administrator in Information Technology at State of Vermont Agency of Human Services (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is a complete package. If your work is business more than creative than it 100% suits your needs. The pieces it offers, the desk top apps available on demand, and the integrations are far reaching and hard to match with other products. It's clear they've been used … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Staley MIS Administrator in Information Technology at AC Controls Company, Inc. (Wholesale, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Please consider our consideration of alternatives dates back seven years ago, so the alternative offerings today are likely to be rather different. We did consider continuing with Exchange on site, but deemed the increasing cost and complexity to justify adopting [Microsoft 365 … Incentivized Helpful? Joelyn Brickner Content Manager in Marketing at Brotman Law (Legal Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 InDesign is more powerful than Microsoft Word as a publishing software, but fewer people use it, so I use Microsoft Word more frequently. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 I have tried open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice but compatibility issues arise sometimes. We selected Microsoft 365 because it is the business gold standard of office productivity suites and nothing else comes close. Incentivized Helpful? Indy Gill Accountant in Finance and Accounting at Native Land (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Skype is a similar communication tool to Microsoft Teams, however Microsoft is more commonly used in our business so it's easier to use a product that communicates and works with the other products you have Incentivized Helpful? Mark Goodman CEO in Corporate at e-Conversation Solutions (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Thought about using Teams in certain situations, but have been concerned about universal access to content. Often feel that third party applications that are not aligned to a specific format are better. Users are not favored if [there] are Google or Microsoft or Apple people. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Using Dynamics as a business application was the best decision I ever made. Between all its functionalities we are able to connect any Office 365 tools into your personalized app and you do not have to leave your page, it’s all right there. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hecox Business Owner in Marketing at Lucky Whisker LLC (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 I like these applications, but Google does them for free. You can't beat that. I still use OneNote frequently, but for most work, Google is a winner here. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Thomas Digital Learning Analyst in Information Technology at Springfield Public Schools (Primary/Secondary Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 It's more secure and has more powerful tools for the classroom and it integrates well with our LMS. Office 365 provides our students with the ability to work on or offline and having a tool that has the immersive reader, translator built right into the system is extremely … Incentivized Helpful? Graham Green Commercial Manager in Sales at Solution IP (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 It's different. Oracle is used by big corporate clients where the security of the financial data is paramount. Manhattan was a more specific property management system and Office 365 didn't appear to have a natural fit. Business Objects is a reporting tool designed to sit over … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	Microsoft 365
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (481 ratings)	7.8 (240 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (26 ratings)	9.5 (6 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (237 ratings)	7.2 (8 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.1 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (56 ratings)	8.9 (54 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.6 (9 ratings)	9.0 (2 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)