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About Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is the vendor family of PDF products. Acrobat Reader is free and covers viewing, printing, filling forms, commenting and signing on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and the web. Editing text and images, converting to and from Office formats and combining files are part of the paid Acrobat Standard and Pro subscriptions.
It is proprietary and freemium. The free reader is enough for most reading tasks; the subscription is what you compare against free tools such as Stirling PDF and PDF24 Creator.
Strengths
- Free Reader for Windows 10/11, macOS 10.15+, iOS 16+ and Android 8+, plus an Acrobat web app in the browser
- Reader includes commenting, highlights, sticky notes, form filling and Fill & Sign at no cost
- Paid tiers add text and image editing, PDF creation and conversion, compression, protection and e-signature tracking
- Mobile apps add OCR, merge and organize pages, and an AI Assistant on subscription
Limitations
- Editing text and images, creating and converting PDFs need an Acrobat Standard or Pro subscription
- Proprietary; Adobe logos may not be used without a license
- The Android Reader app contains ads and in-app purchases; AI Assistant is a paid add-on
- Desktop Standard and Pro prices are rendered client-side on adobe.com and could not be captured
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumAcrobat Reader is free to download and use without a subscription; text and image editing, PDF creation and conversion require an Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro subscription. Desktop Standard and Pro prices could not be verified: the plans on adobe.com/acrobat/pricing are merch cards rendered client-side and did not appear in the fetched page. Mobile in-app purchases listed on the App Store include Acrobat Premium Monthly $12.99, Acrobat Premium Yearly $69.99 and AI Assistant for Acrobat $6.99. Whether the Reader requires an Adobe account is not stated on the pages checked, so account_required and offline_capable are left null.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Adobe Inc.
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Web, Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application, Hosted service
- Best suited for
- Viewing, filling and signing PDFs for free with an upgrade path to full editing
- Categories
- PDF tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 14 sources on file.
Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat
Compare allSoftware that can replace Adobe Acrobat for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Stirling PDF
A self-hosted web PDF toolkit for merging, splitting, converting, signing and editing PDFs on your own server.
Stirling PDF is free and open source and runs on your own server, covering most editing and conversion tasks Acrobat charges for.
PDF24 Creator
A free Windows PDF toolbox with a printer driver and dozens of tools for merging, converting, compressing and editing PDFs.
PDF24 Creator is free Windows software for merging, converting and editing PDFs locally.
Sumatra PDF
A small, fast, open-source reader for PDF, EPUB, MOBI, CBZ, DjVu and other documents on Windows.
Sumatra PDF replaces only the reader part, with a much smaller and faster viewer for Windows.
