Adobe Acrobat vs. Nitro Productivity Suite

Adobe Acrobat

3,214 Reviews and Ratings

Nitro Productivity Suite

68 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
Nitro Productivity Suite	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	Nitro Productivity Suite combines electronic signature and general PDF editing, from Nitro, Inc. It is built around capabilities such as getting approvals and esignatures in seconds and sharing and reviewing documents from anywhere.	$9.99 per month per user

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Nitro Productivity Suite

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

Nitro Sign® Essentials: $9.99
per month billed annually per user
Nitro Sign® Advanced: $19.99
per month billed annually per user
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Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat	Nitro Productivity Suite
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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	Adobe Acrobat	Nitro Productivity Suite
Considered Both Products	Adobe Eduardo Freitas Product Design/Development Engineer in Engineering at NSG Flower (Design, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat We have eventually used Nitro Productivity Suite, it is a more advanced software and with many more functions than Adobe Acrobat DC, however it is much more difficult to configure and has tools that we never used, we chose Adobe Acrobat DC because it has an intuitive user … Incentivized Helpful? Graham Green Commercial Manager in Sales at Solution IP (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Having previously used Nitro Pro, we were pleased to gain the additional functionality that Adobe provides. Sending and tracking documents is much easier than on Nitro. The support function is slicker and quicker and there is a wider community of users to draw upon. I didn't … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Bullard, MPA SHRM-CP HR Consultant, Human Resources in Human Resources at City of Durham (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is altogether a more expensive system than Nitro or Qoppa, and as such, it is much more robust. There were many issues with downloading Nitro Pro 9, and it has much less advanced options. In addition, Qoppa is missing advanced redaction and form creation, which I find … 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 There's no comparison; Adobe does it better, faster and more reliable. It's interface is simpler, more intuitive and easier to use. Acrobat is an industry go to solution for business needs. We value its solid foundation, limited issues and dependability. 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 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? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe has been the first one that we´ve ever used and it has been established as the industry standard. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat is very popular in the world and secure software, so it is easy for the client to open confidential documents in Acrobat and design the document. Acrobat has a modern view, which is very easy to use. Acrobat takes less time to execute different operations in comparison … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We decided to go for Adobe Acrobat in the end as it is the most well-established product with the most support. Most of our staff already had experience with Adobe Acrobat in some form or another to it allowed us to integrate the product easily into the business with minimal … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Mejia Business Operations Manager in Marketing at Access Digital LLC (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat We used Nitro PDF and the online solution offered by Google Workspace through Google Drive to edit and download our PDF files. We ended up accepting our very old but powerfully known brand, Adobe Acrobat. Incentivized Helpful? Shane Peek Instructional Technology Facilitator at Greenville County Schools (Education Management, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat In my experience, Adobe Acrobat offers more advanced features and security safeguards than competitors. It may come at a price, but you feel that you can trust in the brand and the abilities of the platform when compared to competitors. With that in mind, some users may find … Incentivized Helpful? Dom Pullano PRESIDENT in Professional Services at PCM Associates Ltd (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Nitro did not always provide updates in a timely manner. I also had issues with it being available on multiple platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I have used nitro and abbyy for OCR usage and found similar results. Google Drive I've used for OCR recognition as well. From a usage point of view, I have found Acrobat to have a much more intuitive interface to manage the features I need like editing, page insertion, … Incentivized Helpful? Weronika Oesterreicher Account Director in Human Resources at Key Search (Human Resources, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat They have a much less intutive user interface and don't always provide a complete solution one stop shop for all the features that we make use of. 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 Adobe is the clear-cut market leader. Incentivized Helpful? Rod Padua Sr. IT Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Hashicorp (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat DC is what all our users are very comfortable using. We would need to provide training if we implemented something new. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat The majority of our “power users” - users that work heavily with PDF documents - were much more comfortable using Adobe Acrobat over Foxit and Nitro, so in the end we decided to go with Adobe Acrobat to make our users happy and ease the learning curve versus the other competing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We tried a few users on Nitro and found it to be less functional and user-friendly than Adobe. Ease of use is important for user acceptance, and with Adobe being more functional for our team, it has remained our internal standard. We also have not found any other clients who … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe DC seems much easier to use overall. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat We actually had Nitro before Adobe. While it made claims to offer more features and be intuitive, most staffers felt the opposite. And some of the Nitro extra features were completely unnecessary and we never used them such as the ability to customize certain tabs or create … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Sheasby President in Corporate at Integrity Mortgage Licensing (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is a bit more expensive, however, the user interface is a bit more refined. The major issue is that Adobe Acrobat makes it literally impossible to pay to renew your licenses, so I had to switch to another software vendor for PDFs. Foxit PDF had a very simple … Incentivized Helpful? Jose Gasca Help Desk Coordinator in Information Technology at HOPICS (Non-profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I would say that Adobe Acrobat offers a whole suite of of feature that Niro Pro just doesn't have. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is more expensive, but it has a complete and robust package. A wide range of integration with other platforms, including Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. All of Acrobat's features are advanced and industry standard. Nitro PDF is limited. It has less integration … Incentivized Helpful?	Nitro, Inc Grant Millar Financial Planner and Money Coach in Professional Services at Inspired Financial Planners (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Nitro Productivity Suite You need a subscription to use Adobe Acrobat. You can pay a one-off license fee to use Nitro. Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin E. Jerew Senior Content Manager in Marketing at One Car Payment, Inc. (Writing and Editing, 1-10 employees) Chose Nitro Productivity Suite I downloaded the trial versions of both Acrobat DC and Nitro PDF, and found Nitro to be superior in price, while Acrobat was superior in software features and user-friendliness. I knew I would be using Nitro for basic publishing and editing of PDFs, which both programs do well, … Incentivized Helpful? Rich Russo Network Engineer in Information Technology at Alliant Insurance Services (Insurance, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro Productivity Suite is able to perform just as well as Adobe. It uses less resources on my machine than Adobe. I think it is much easier to use than Tungsten as well. Incentivized Helpful? Austin Lin IT Operations Lead in Corporate at Providence Technology Group, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Nitro Productivity Suite I think Adobe is probably the best PDF solution since they essentially developed and own the PDF format, but Nitro is a very good alternative and is more competitively priced. If our clients didn't use PDF documents or sent us everything in MS Word, then our Office 365 would be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro is a more specified app with simple pdf editing use and a low cost. Incentivized Helpful? Francis kimani Finance Specialist in Finance and Accounting at Finacier (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Nitro Productivity Suite It has more functionalities compared to the other software Incentivized Helpful? Ariel Dunay Associate, Project Operations in Professional Services at Palladium: Make It Possible (Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro has probably 10x the features that Adobe does and just does it so much better. Ease of use is profoundly different. I won't ever go back!! Incentivized Helpful? John Plecki Construction Logistics Coordinator in Corporate at Stock Development (Construction, 201-500 employees) Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro was more simplistic than Adobe and a much better price Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Features are comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nitro Productivity Suite We selected Nitro PDF because the features that the organization needed were comparable and the annual cost for the on-premises version of the application was considerably less expensive at the time. When we selected, Adobe was not yet in the cloud. 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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	Nitro Productivity Suite
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (481 ratings)	9.3 (17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (26 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (237 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.1 (8 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (56 ratings)	9.2 (3 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.6 (9 ratings)	- (0 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)	5.0 (1 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)