Adobe AIR vs. Adobe Animate

Adobe AIR

67 Reviews and Ratings

Adobe Animate

165 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe AIR	Score6 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A
Adobe Animate	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Animate (or Animate CC) supports but replaces the former Adobe Flash, and allows users to design interactive animations for games, TV shows, and the web. With it, the vendor states users can bring cartoons and banner ads to life, create animated doodles and avatars, and add action to eLearning content and infographics. With Animate, users can publish to multiple platforms in many formats, and reach viewers on any screen.	$20.99 per month

Pricing

Adobe AIR

Adobe Animate

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Annual Plan, Paid Monthly: $20.99
per month
Monthly Plan: $31.49
per month
Annual Plan, Prepaid: $239.88
per year

Pricing Offerings
Adobe AIR	Adobe Animate
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Adobe AIR	Adobe Animate
Considered Both Products	Adobe John Mihaila Software Manager in Information Technology at Santa Clara (Government Administration, 10,001+ employees) Chose Adobe AIR Adobe AIR does not support Windows phones but works well on both Android and Apple iOS. It enables developers to build and deploy good quality applications to mobile platforms for a majority of mobile users and allows developers to build working prototypes in a relatively … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Cookson Junior Animator in Social Media at MediaMonks (Animation, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe AIR Generally stacks up fairly negatively, program definitely has its place, I appreciate what it can allow but now most desktop apps are fine enough as browser based experiences or for personal use mobile is the way to go. Air isn't the best environment for that. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe AIR Originally, Adobe Air was a great choice for us to build mobile titles from prior web titles when compared to tools such as native iOS with cocos2d. We were able to get games stood up much faster than our competition and out to market to make money. That said, as Unity improved … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Gorence Software Developer in Engineering at Intelity (Entertainment, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe AIR Since Adobe AIR can be used with the Flash IDE, there are not many other solutions with such a robust toolset. The ability to import layered photoshop files directly onto the stage, and then ability to animate and create movieclips within that IDE is an extremely valuable … Incentivized Helpful?	Adobe Stephen Hustedde Interim Dean of Academic Innovation in Information Technology at South Mountain Community College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Illustrator has a lot more drawing capabilities and features than Flash, but for most tasks, I prefer to use Flash. For cross-platform development, Xamarin offers a true full, native development environment, but Flash is good for prototyping. The big diadvantage here is … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Cookson Junior Animator in Social Media at MediaMonks (Animation, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Animate ToonBoom Harmony has a lot of the compositing stuff from AfterEffects built in and it has much stronger rigging tools than Flash. It's great because it lets you do a mix between both puppeted and animation that is tweaked by hand. However documentation on how to use the program … Incentivized Helpful?
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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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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Adobe AIR	Adobe Animate
Likelihood to Recommend	5.7 (9 ratings)	8.0 (28 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)