Adobe Acrobat vs. PDF Studio

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
PDF Studio	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	PDF Studio is a PDF editor that aims to provides all PDF features needed at a low cost. PDF Studio maintains full compatibility with the PDF Standard. Users can: Create PDFs from Scan, MS Word, Text and Images Annotate PDFs with Comments & Text Markups Create, Fill In & Save PDF Forms Secure Documents with Passwords and Permissions Merge, Split & Assemble Documents Apply Watermarks, Headers and Footers Create Bookmarks / Table…	$99 one-time fee

Each user license key can be used on 2 computers (for the same user) on any of the supported operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux). Each user license is perpetual and allows to continue using this major version of our software (version 2018) as long as it works on your operating system. Payment is a one-time fee, with no monthly or yearly subscription or commitment. Any upgrade to future major versions is optional.

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	Adobe Acrobat	PDF Studio
Considered Both Products	Adobe Joey Harman Sales Assistant Manager - Project Consultant in Sales at Coval Homes LLC (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I've had very little interaction with these other three, PDF Studio was probably the most I've played with. But honestly, I just wasn't impressed really. Not impressed enough to see much of a difference or improvement. Adobe has always been the chosen one for our company so … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Reader DC is much easier to use than PDF Studio Viewer, the menus and icons make more sense and there is much less clicking to get things done. Although Adobe charges more for their software, I believe it is well worth the extra cost. We have tried both of these software … 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? John Mihaila Software Manager in Information Technology at Santa Clara (Government Administration, 10,001+ employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat DC offers many features including ease of use and greater versatility. Adobe's feature set is great and Adobe's customer support consistently delivers good support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat DC has security features that are better than other products. I also like the touchscreen, tablet mode, for handwritten text integration within the PDF. Better file compression ratio as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Ultimately I chose Adobe because I can access it via the cloud on all of my devices. I also chose it because I can cancel the software immediately and switch to something else if I need to. Adobe constantly has some better features and although I wish it was more intuitive, … Incentivized Helpful? Gregory Palenschat Product Consultant in Sales at North Star Surfaces, LLC. (Building Materials, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is a bit more expensive than these others but for me and my company, the ease of use is why Adobe is the best. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is widely known and is an approved software of our company Incentivized Helpful?	Qoppa Software Verified User Chose PDF Studio PDF Studio doesn't involve an expensive subscription, plus has all the features without the cluttered UI. It is intuitive to use and I prefer it to Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, PDF XChange, AcePDF, and others. Minimal design with refined tools. Frankly, I am just relieved to have a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PDF Studio The user interface is much easier to work with inside of PDF Studio as compared to Adobe Acrobat. Load time and ease of use is what made me select the product over Foxit Phantom PDF. The price for PDF Studio is extremely competitive and makes it the best alternative towards … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	PDF Studio
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (481 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (26 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (237 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.1 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (56 ratings)	8.5 (2 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)	- (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)

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