Adobe Acrobat vs. pdfFiller

Adobe Acrobat

3,214 Reviews and Ratings

pdfFiller

89 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
pdfFiller	Score9 out of 10	N/A	pdfFiller is a cloud-based platform with a comprehensive digital toolkit used to handle PDFs, and to edit, sign, store, manage, and collaborate on documents. Documents are stored in the cloud and can be accessed anytime, anywhere, without worrying about losing data.	$20 per month (for an individual user)

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

pdfFiller

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

Basic for Enterprise: $8
per month (annual commitment) per user (minimum 20 users)
Premium for Enterprise: $10
per month (annual commitment) per user (minimum 10 users)
Basic: $20
per month single user
Plus: $30
per month single user
Premium: $40
per month single user

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

Optional

Optional

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Up to a 70% discount on individual plans for annual billing.

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Key User Insights
	Adobe Acrobat	pdfFiller
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat, in my opinion, is the gold standard - the pioneer and household name for all things PDF. However, in the last several years competitors have emerged who offer very similar functionality, solving the same problems as Adobe. Sometimes Adobe performs better, and in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat All the other applications in the market are replications of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe is the original one. The work on Adobe Acrobat with all the updates does not allow competition from other applications to work. Adobe Acrobat has many features in this applications that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Although I have personally worked with some other PDF editor applications throughout the years, the ease of use and versatility of Acrobat combined with Adobe's reputation and history in this sector made them the natural choice for my research group's activities. The features … Incentivized Helpful?	airSlate, Inc Brad Jay Senior Business Development Advisor in Sales at ISN Network (Insurance, 1-10 employees) Chose pdfFiller I find it much easier to use and more user friendly than Adobe Acrobat Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose pdfFiller I used Adobe Acrobat at a past job for one project. It was a quick use, so I do not have a lot of experience with it. PDFfiller seemed like the preferred, go-to software and seemed the easiest to use, which is why I recommended it for use at my current company. Incentivized Helpful? Manuel Aguilar Geophysical Analyst in Engineering at GMA Proyectos Siglo XXI C.A (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees) Chose pdfFiller I have used other editors such as Adobe Acrobat and, in my opinion, for the money Adobe costs, if the need is just to edit pdf I would go with PDFfiller. It is a really easy tool to use. It's learning curve is not that steep and it does pretty much everything I need from it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose pdfFiller better price Incentivized Helpful? Lakia Wilson Owner in Corporate at Star Training and Consulting (Business Supplies & Equipment, 1-10 employees) Chose pdfFiller I have not used any other products listed to provide feedback. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose pdfFiller easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Sherry Scott Office Support Manager in Human Resources at Ardent Family Servies, Inc (Non-profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees) Chose pdfFiller PDFfiller is more user friendly and doesn't need anything extra in order to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Robert Vidal Employee Benefits Advisor in Sales at Hilb Group Of NY dba Bentson & Co (Insurance, 501-1000 employees) Chose pdfFiller I like this better than Adobe but not as much as DocuSign mainly b/c DocuSign is more readily accepted for electronic signature and also DocuSign has better name recognition. Incentivized Helpful? Nicole Fischer Director of Finance in Finance and Accounting at J3 Construction Inc (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose pdfFiller Adobe isn't user-friendly in my opinion. I can't save a pdf easily when I want to only select certain pages. PDFfiller is much faster and does everything I need and the interface makes more sense to me. Incentivized Helpful? Mitchell Terpstra Copywriter + Marketing Strategist in Marketing at Indiana Design Consortium (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose pdfFiller Honestly, I'm not sure I could assert that PDFfiller is necessarily better than the competition. It's definitely adequate enough for the tasks I need it for that I quit looking for another service to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose pdfFiller PDFfiller gives me convenience in many ways. It allows me to edit my documents hassle-free. And it also help me to convert those pdf documents into other office formats whenever I require. It also has advantage to source my documents from a URL. With this feature I can source … Incentivized Helpful? Joanne Grams Client Relations Manager at Inspiring Educators (Education Management, 1-10 employees) Chose pdfFiller I think PDFfiller has more functionality that I haven't or don't need to tap into - and it is wicked easy to work with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose pdfFiller It's comparatively cheap and has more features than DocuSign. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	pdfFiller
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (481 ratings)	9.1 (52 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (26 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (237 ratings)	9.1 (25 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.1 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (56 ratings)	9.1 (29 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.6 (9 ratings)	9.1 (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)