Adobe Acrobat vs. Tungsten Power PDF

Adobe Acrobat

3,214 Reviews and Ratings

Tungsten Power PDF

855 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
Tungsten Power PDF	Score9.5 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	Tungsten Power PDF (formerly Kofax) is a solution to manage PDFs for businesses and individuals available with a one-time purchase with no subscription fees. It has a built-in eSignature integration with SignDoc and DocuSign for a complete end-to-end document…	$129 one-time fee per license

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Tungsten Power PDF

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

Power PDF Standard: $129
one-time fee per license
Power PDF for Mac: $129
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Advanced: $179
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Business: Get a Quote
per year per seat

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat	Tungsten Power PDF
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

Optional

No setup fee

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Desktop licenses are buy once, own forever. No subscription fees. Business server licenses are term-based or perpetual with optional maintenance & support contract. Volume and upgrade discounts available.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Adobe Acrobat	Tungsten Power PDF
Considered Both Products	Adobe Adam Montgomery Business Development Manager in Sales at Taper (Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat I just don't feel as comfortable using other PDF editors. They just don't have the same name and look as Adobe Acrobat and I worry about the security of using other software to work on our company's documents. They may have similar features as Adobe Acrobat but I don't see any … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Lawson Owner in Legal at Paralegal Consulting Services (Legal Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is well placed against Kofax. Its e-signing is hand-down easier and more robust. That alone gives it the edge. Kofax does some some easier tools to use and we have it as a backup. But Adobe is our go-to solution for PDF creation, processing and document administration. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I prefer the Kofax suite of products with intuitive interfaces, 80-90% of the functionality of Adobe Acrobat, a one-time purchase fee, discounted upgrades and system integration, and no reports of collaborators to open, use, edit or navigate PDFs. Kofax has been my choice for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat is our choice over Kofax Power PDF. It's just a better solution in our opinion. We use their Paperport application but pairing it up with Acrobat keeps out environment consistent and I think gives us better results. Not saying the Kofax PDF is a bad product, but I … Incentivized Helpful? Dave King Director of IT in Information Technology at Preis PLC (Law Practice, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat Kofax does just about everything Adobe does, but Adobe is more widely used so using Adobe helps with staying compatable with our customers. adobe also does the software functionality features a little better in our opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat For sure Adobe is one of the top products you can use but it is very pricey compared to other vendors. If it is not required by the company and you need basic functions such as comments or converting, then you can probably choose other vendors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Power PDF is very complicated and not intuitive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat This software has fewer features and is harder to use. The editing, redacting, combining, and organizing tools are much less powerful. It causes much more work and less efficiency when I have to use something other than Adobe to work with PDFs. This software also does not do … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Based on my experience, I like Kofax Power PDF better. I find it easier to use. I think that it does a much better job at converting documents into fillable PDFs. The price point is much more reasonable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Acrobat and Kofax Power PDF are largely very similar, though I do have a preference for Kofax when creating forms. Kofax is also much cheaper than Acrobat. From a cost perspective, I certainly recommend Kofax over Acrobat. However, I prefer the user interface of Acrobat as I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I like Acrobat because it feels like the company pays attention to it and improves it regularly without affecting core functionality. Kofax Power PDF was more difficult to use, and it felt neglected, only getting an update maybe once every year or so. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat excel at its e-signature capabilities. This beats both Foxit and Power PDF. However, it lacks native integration with accounting-specific tools like TaxFolder. TaxFolder allow one-click from tax software itself to send out signature request. Way more … Incentivized Helpful?	Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax) Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF Tungsten Power PDF is easier to use and more user friendly than Adobe Acrobat. Most versions of Adobe Acrobat either do not have all of the features that Tungsten Power PDF has, or charge a fee/premium for licensing. Tungsten Power PDF integrates all of these features into … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF Adobe Acrobat and Nuance Power PDF, which is the core of Kofax Power PDF. Kofax Power PDF generally performs as well Acrobat, without the high price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF Kofax Power PDF is cheaper than Adobe Acrobat and has better functionality when it comes to editing PDF documents Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF I have used (and still use) Adobe Acrobat (also named Acrobat DC) with customer computer. The use is fairly identical in function and use. Based on price model I prefer to pay a one time fee for Kofax Power PDF over monthly payment for Adobe. Incentivized Helpful? John Adlam Owner at Dove Associates (Horticulture, 1-10 employees) Chose Tungsten Power PDF Cute PDF, Free Adobe Acrobat. Cute PDF does not have all the features of Kofax. Adobe is all online, which in our countryside environment is slow. Having all the processing locally is much faster in our situation. Incentivized Helpful? EILEEN DELOUGHERY Owner at EILEEN MARY DELOUGHERY (Consumer Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Tungsten Power PDF Adobe Acrobat and Kofax Power PDF are similar enough to make transitioning back and forth easy. When I have had to use Foxit PDF Editor on someone else's computer, it has been disappointing in comparison. Online free PDF apps I see other people using tend to want you to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF I think Adobe Acrobat is very slow and does not perform well with large documents. I often have documents that are thousands of pages long and with Adobe it's very difficult to open and load the document, let alone make changes. Kofax Power PDF, on the other hand, responds and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF PDF exchange is much better because it includes more professional features needed for engineers And professionals. It also has a lot of features that makes the interface much more easy to use such as the ability to copy the file directly into your clipboard from the PDF … Incentivized Helpful? Nita Serrano, ACP, FRP, AACP Paralegal in Legal at Sefl (Legal Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Tungsten Power PDF More cost- effective. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF My CFO mandated Tungsten due to cost. I prefer Adobe, but no longer have access to it. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Hernandez IT support in Information Technology at Schenk, Schenk and Haines (Law Practice, 1-10 employees) Chose Tungsten Power PDF Just as powerful and easier to use, not bloated with features that are of no use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF Much easier to use. TBH I bought Nuance based on reviews and price point. A risk that proved worth taking. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF Just as good if not better than the Adobe product line with less cost. We needed a PDF writer and editor. Tungsten Power PDF allowed us the same functionality at a fraction of the cost. We thought it was worth trying and it was definitely a great choice for our business … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF Adobe is overly expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Robert Wert Co-Owner, Chief Strategy Officer and Counsel in Legal at Next Element Consulting, LLC (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Tungsten Power PDF Similar functionality, easier to use, less expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF Low cost with similar function Incentivized Helpful? Adam Bismej Director Of Operations in Product Management at DirectHCM (Human Resources, 1-10 employees) Chose Tungsten Power PDF Ease of use, dependability, local access without the need for an online connection or subscription, and general familiarity of the software after years of use. Nitro is difficult to use, never works right, and jumbles files where it is hard to find what you are working on. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF ease of use, cost savings, intuitive interface Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF We have had instances where we've used the other two products. Adobe did not offer a one time payment at the time so we did not go with that one. Most users currently use Foxit. I would not say that Foxit nor Kofax really beat each other out, some prefer one or the other based … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF Acrobat, however the cost was prohibitive. Incentivized Helpful? Joe Michels President/founder in Legal at The Michels Law Firm (Legal Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Tungsten Power PDF Adobe - but too long ago to compare it to anything Adobe does today. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF I think Kofax Power PDF is easier to learn. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tungsten Power PDF In my experience, noticeably more intuitive 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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Features

Adobe Acrobat

Tungsten Power PDF

Comparison of PDF Editors features of Adobe Acrobat and Tungsten Power PDF
Feature	Adobe Acrobat - Ratings	Tungsten Power PDF 7.8 15 Ratings
Edit Text and Images	00 Ratings	7.614 Ratings
Merge or Split PDFs	00 Ratings	8.815 Ratings
Add Annotations	00 Ratings	7.814 Ratings
Text Recognition (OCR)	00 Ratings	6.512 Ratings
Page Management	00 Ratings	8.115 Ratings
Form Creation and Editing	00 Ratings	6.511 Ratings
Secure PDFs	00 Ratings	7.911 Ratings
Convert to Different Formats	00 Ratings	8.314 Ratings
Comment and Review Tools	00 Ratings	8.113 Ratings
Undo and Redo Actions	00 Ratings	8.114 Ratings

User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	Tungsten Power PDF
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (481 ratings)	8.7 (587 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (26 ratings)	10.0 (111 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (237 ratings)	9.8 (46 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (13 ratings)
Performance	8.1 (8 ratings)	9.1 (13 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (56 ratings)	9.5 (428 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	3.6 (1 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.6 (9 ratings)	9.1 (33 ratings)
Configurability	8.5 (2 ratings)	9.1 (9 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	6.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (8 ratings)	9.1 (10 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (12 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	4.0 (3 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.5 (2 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)