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FAILED
45/100
UNBOUGHT SCORE
CONFIDENCE 97.5%
Red Flags
A

Adobe

Industry-standard creative software suite for design, photography, video, and web
FAILEDCreative
Pricing
Paid
Learning curve
Steep
Time to value
Weeks

Adobe Family

63
Adobe Express
55
Adobe Illustrator
46
Adobe Animate
45
Adobe Photoshop
51
Adobe InDesign
51
Adobe Camera Raw
Gathering
data
Adobe Painter

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COMMUNITY SENTIMENT
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WORKS FOR

Creative applications like Lightroom and Photoshop, Graphic design/creative work

KEY INSIGHT

It's a powerful industry-standard suite, but the subscription cost and cloud-processing delays are significant trade-offs.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Quick tasks like resizing images due to slow upload/processing, Users unwilling to commit to a high monthly subscription

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FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

  • “I didn't "buy" access to the Adobe Creative Suite, I'm renting it.”

    NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-27

  • “It's better for everything with a timeline. After Effects, Adobe Animate, Ableton Live, every video cutting program.”

    POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-19

  • “I personally like Adobe Illustrator and GraphPad Prism the best”

    POSITIVE · Reddit · 2025-05-18

  • “Adobe I design is a precision tool. While acrobat and illustrator recognize text/editable elements, it can't reverse engineer text settings/kerning/tracking, image linking, etc.”

    LUKEWARM · features · Reddit · 2025-05-16

  • “Adobe is promising native versions of more applications from their creative suite, but I wouldn't hold my breath for their arrival and never purchase based on future promises”

    NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-14

  • “Ill stick to making them in Adobe from now on, maybe theyll do ok eventually”

    POSITIVE · Reddit · 2025-05-12

  • “I tried to login on Adobe with my email - "no account with the email"”

    NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2025-04-26

  • “I rely heavily on Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premier, and After Effects”

    MIXED · features · Reddit · 2025-04-26

  • “adobe give love to adobe animate and incorporate AI for the software so i can make my own dream animations”

    MIXED · features · Reddit · 2025-04-19

  • “I could not understand all the Adobe hate before, but they made a neutral person negative with that experience”

    NEGATIVE · support · Hacker News · 2024-08-14

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