Adobe InDesign vs. QuarkXPress

Adobe InDesign

773 Reviews and Ratings

QuarkXPress

12 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe InDesign	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Adobe InDesign supports creating digital and print documents such as flyers, stationary, posters, and other types of media, with rich graphics, images, and more. Adobe InDesign is available standalone or as part of the Adobe Creative Suite collection of media management and creation products.	$31.49 per month
QuarkXPress	Score10 out of 10	N/A	QuarkXPress from Quark Software headquartered in Denver introduces modern responsive web design with Flex Layouts, reimagined Tables, and productivity-boosting design features.	$279 for the first year ($259 each year thereafter) per user

Pricing

Adobe InDesign

QuarkXPress

Monthly Plan: $31.49
per month
Annual Plan, Prepaid: $239.88 ($19.99)
per year (per month)
Annual Plan, Paid Monthly: $251.88 ($20.99)
per year (per month)

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Pricing Offerings
Adobe InDesign	QuarkXPress
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Adobe InDesign	QuarkXPress
Considered Both Products	Adobe amir tehrani Creative Director in Marketing at CBDfx (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator and QuarkXPress are great but also very limiting. I personally love illustrator but it's not meant to create page layouts when working on multiple pages and I'm used to working with QuarkXPress because of printers in the past but a majority of the printers … Incentivized Helpful? Veronica Rivera Graphic Designer at Capture Higher Ed (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign The others do not include the robust features of Adobe InDesign. Some of the subscription or pricing models are not affordable or would be an additional cost. Adobe has the most flexibility in regards to pricing. Microsoft Publisher is the least recommended product and is not … Incentivized Helpful? Courtney Birnbaum Senior Publications Specialist at Learfield IMG College (Marketing & Advertising, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress and Affinity Publisher work similarly in the big picture. The newest on the market, Affinity Publisher takes many cues from its predecessors but still remains a less sleek product. Still, I use Publisher on my own and find it to have great … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe InDesign Not fully integrated with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. We used Quark before we migrated to InDesign. Users don't want to go back, mostly because of hte tight integrations with the Adobe products. Even our freelancers and vendors use InDesign and would not go back to Qu… Incentivized Helpful? Trish Lofton Administrative Assistant at Curris Center Administration Office, Murray State University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign Until the development of InDesign, I was a faithful user of QuarkXPress. I knew Quark like the back of my hand. Once I decided to make the change, I realized how robust InDesign was compared to "old faithful." It took a little time to learn the nuances. Now, I can't imagine … Incentivized Helpful? Rand Habegger Creative Director in Marketing at Frontline Education (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign Microsoft Word is a standard business writing tool at ours and most companies, and we occasionally have to produce market-facing collateral using Word to allow for non-designers to easily customize it. We tried InCopy, but it was never adopted easily by Sales or other … Incentivized Helpful? Ruchika Save Graphic Designer at DaurCom (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign These mentioned softwares are great but also limiting. I like working on Adobe Illustrator but it's not meant to create page layouts while working on multiple pages. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe InDesign Quark used to be used much more. Adobe InDesign is now the preferred layout software for publishers. Canva is not as robust and does not have the same functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe InDesign I have previously used Quark Xpress, but as Adobe InDesign became the leader for professional designers, I transitioned to [Adobe] InDesign. I find Adobe InDesign a lot easier to work with. I have tried Affinity Publisher, but I have not [gotten] very far with trying it out. I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe InDesign InDesign is much more user friendly and is compatible with other Adobe products. InDesign is more versatile and more widely used. Compatibility with other designers, agencies, and promo companies makes work and collaboration easier. Incentivized Helpful? Audrey Hoffman Owner, Graphic and Web Designer at 617 Graphic Design (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign InDesign had more features and flexibility many years ago when I learned how to use it, and compared to Quark, I found it to be a better product and haven't gone back since. Incentivized Helpful? Paul Hughes Graphic Artist/Pre Press in Manufacturing at Stanpac Inc. (Packaging & Containers, 501-1000 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign The two big guns in page layout software are InDesign and Quark Express. At one time, Quark was the go-to software. A majority of Pre Press shops employed Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Quark Express. Over the years, though, InDesign has surpassed Quark. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Morimitsu Social Media and Marketing Adminstrator in Marketing at H2 Manufacturing Solutions (Aviation & Aerospace, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign Publisher and Quark both work, but they don't play well with Adobe products, which makes you waste a lot of time converting Illustrator and Photoshop files into bitmaps for use in them. This can lead to issues with image quality, on top of wasting time and energy. The … Incentivized Helpful? Maria Clara Daly Interactive Communications Director in Marketing at Love & Company (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign Quark used to be the go-to product for print layout design but I feel they really fell behind in the race against Adobe. The clunky user interface and what I felt were often limited options for adjusting fonts, tracking, kerning, leading etc really made it cumbersome, and … Incentivized Helpful? Chad Gabriel Sherpa of Purpose - Wake the World in Corporate at Tuthill Corporation (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign If you use the Adobe Suite you must use InDesign. Quark will work as a good standalone product, but my experience was that there are more available users and support for InDesign. Quark is an inferior product. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Muller Executive Vice President in Corporate at Stevens Advertising (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign InDesign is one of the best programs for design and there are not many programs that do what InDesign does. Affinity Publisher is one that is worth looking at and competes well. It has similar features but is a one-time cost. There's really no others that do what InDesign does … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe InDesign There is no comparison. InDesign blows it away. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe InDesign While Quark stalled out, InDesign continued to improve its product features year after year. Also, the integration with other industry standard software (Photoshop and Illustrator) is a no-brainer. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Dieguez Creative Manager in Marketing at Participant Capital (Investment Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe InDesign Quark is dated and was something I was learning back in 2007-2008. InDesign came out of the gate sprinting and has not looked back since. From a usability standpoint and because of industry standards, InDesign has become the go-to platform for multi-page layout documents, … Incentivized Helpful?	Quark Software Inc. Verified User Chose QuarkXPress QuarkXPress has more user-friendly features compared to Adobe InDesign where we can set up the page layout for any sort of medium. We can compress the pdf size here as per the requirement. Also, we can export pdf in a quicker manner by choosing it as a default output format. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose QuarkXPress QuarkXPress simply blew the competition out of the water when it came to pricing and scalability in our business. Every employee that uses Quark always speaks very highly about using the software. We are not a large company but, the amount of money saved on the cost of each … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose QuarkXPress My preference has always been QuarkXPress because I have more experience. InDesign is a similar program, just used differently for our journal layout design. Incentivized Helpful? Kim Guarnaccia 🔷 🔷 🔷 Owner in Marketing at HUZZAH LLC (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose QuarkXPress InDesign is a fantastic program as well; I just prefer QuarkXPress because I better understand how it "thinks"/is programmed, due to years of working with it. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe InDesign	QuarkXPress
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (98 ratings)	9.9 (6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (8 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (64 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)