Adobe Animate vs. Adobe Illustrator CC

Adobe Animate

165 Reviews and Ratings

Adobe Illustrator CC

1,574 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Adobe Illustrator	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Illustrator CC is a vector-based graphic design software.	$20.99 per month

Pricing

Adobe Animate

Adobe Illustrator

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

Yearly - Billed Monthly: $20.99
per month
Monthly: $31.49
per month
Yearly - Billed Upfront: $239.88
per year

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Animate	Adobe Illustrator
Free Trial
Yes	No
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 Animate	Adobe Illustrator
Considered Both Products	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? Teresa Evans Graphic Designer in Marketing at Wild Arch Design (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Animate works best for advanced animation and cuts and works well with the entire Adobe suite. There is nothing that compares when it comes to working within the same product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Animate We haven't used any other animation software to compare. We only use Adobe Animate because it was included with our software suite. We do sometimes use Canva to create animated collateral and graphics, but they are already designed templates for the most part, so it's not a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Animate Adobe Animate is extremely coordinated across different stages and programs, versus its rivals. Like Adobe Animate, HTML5 incorporates playing highlights for sound inside sites. It additionally has versatile help. In any case, I don't believe it's very there yet and is by all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Animate Unfortunately, it doesn't! While there are some disadvantages to HTML5, it's overall just cleaner. Since it's cleaner, browsers prefer it. And again, Flash animations will no longer be supported in a couple years, so users really don't have a choice but to part ways with the … Incentivized Helpful?	Adobe Heather Miller Senior Graphic Designer in Marketing at Oregon State University Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator CC has so much more options and tools to create the perfect vector graphics when compared to other programs. Illustrator is often the program that I use to create graphics, and then insert those files directly into the other programs listed. The other programs … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Power Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator at NYC Department of Education / Francis Lewis High School (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator CC only has one major competitor in the industry and it is a free software tool. The difference is that Adobe Illustrator provides a wider range of tools and functions. Being able to take Adobe Illustrator objects or designs and move them into Adobe InDesign … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe Animate	Adobe Illustrator
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (28 ratings)	9.1 (107 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (2 ratings)	7.2 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (25 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)