App comparison
Add up to 4 apps below to see how they compare. You can also use the "Compare" buttons while browsing.
GetApp offers objective, independent research and verified user reviews. We may earn a referral fee when you visit a vendor through our links.
Our commitment
Independent research methodology
Our researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research, and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology.
How GetApp verifies reviews
GetApp carefully verified over 2 million reviews to bring you authentic software experiences from real users. Our human moderators verify that reviewers are real people and that reviews are authentic. They use leading tech to analyze text quality and to detect plagiarism and generative AI.
How GetApp ensures transparency
GetApp lists all providers across its website—not just those that pay us—so that users can make informed purchase decisions. GetApp is free for users. Software providers pay us for sponsored profiles to receive web traffic and sales opportunities. Sponsored profiles include a link-out icon that takes users to the provider’s website.
Recommended
Glenn O.
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
My overall experience with this application is in being able to simply and quickly read PDFs received via email for any operational purpose.
What I like most about this software is how easy it is to open and read any associated PDF files. It's easy and simple to use.
While I know other Adobe products offer field editing ability for data entry, I know that this application may not, and it has made me wonder, why have this application? Why not only put out Adobe Acrobat Pro, which can both read and allow editing. It's like saying, should we keep pennies or get rid of them? They may be applicable in sales and marketing strategies, like $4.99 or $1.99, but when we have larger coins and dollars that can accomplish something similar, then why have pennies at all?
Verified reviewer
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
My overall opinion and view of using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is satisfactory and recommended to others.
It's ease of navigation between functions and features. In addition, the ease of sharing between platforms.
One particular annoyance is the consistence in product updates which appear to have reduced functionality in being able to limit this. This is key when delivering the product on mass to the business.
Jolene H.
Education Management, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
My overall experience was very good. I continue to be very satisfied.
Adobe Acobat Reader is a must have for doing business. It enables individuals to view documents with the ability to edit and they don’t have to have a different software.
The reader is great the pro is way better. Some features that are in pro should be included in the reader. For example editing.
Deep S.
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Key feature of acrobat reader is that it can edit any pdf. It also allows image scanning and editing. It also provides feature to highlight any specific important portion in the document. User can also combine more than 1 pdf files.
I have not find any of the disadvantages of the product if I had to tell one I will say it would be better if we get some relaxation in the price.
Verified reviewer
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
It just works... I am frustrated when certain companies do not work with Adobe because there is nothing like them for reading, editing and sending pdf documents.
I really have no issues with them other than not being available in all areas. I use Google for lots of things and it sometimes does not work depending on the app and they try to make you use another product which usually doesn't work.
Verified reviewer
Biotechnology, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Acrobat Reader is so convenient to use and indispensable tool for any PC user. Final format of any type of documentation is always in PDF form so I use this software multiple time daily. I especially like edit, comment, and highlight function of this software which makes communication at work easier.
I wish there was 'merge' function. Right now I have to PDF merge function online.
Nikola M.
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Hardly can remember a time where this software escaped my sight, truly reliable and accessible, great aid to my work and study environment.
User-friendly, fast and light in terms of usage. Whether you want to merge PDF files together, complete and fill out forms or create quality review&comment content, this is the software for you.
Some features this software contains are part of Pro version which is not free.
April A.
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
I love the Dc pro pension and exporting!
I love the reader but I chose to buy the export to word feature. I can not imagine work without using this. I do not have to retype documents that I need to change. I upload to word make and track changes and send back to my clients.
I have no cons on the reader but I would like to see the export feature include edit pdf instead of having it separated.
Siddhanta B.
Financial Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Good for documents and also for reading books. Also supports leaving notes on documents and e-signatures . There is a free version you can download from Adobe's site .
Is expensive and I would recommend sticking to the free version ( unless your work relies on you doing edits ) .I also dislike that saving files takes a lot more clicks than it could .
Huong D.
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
It is a bit expensive to buy the program to enable passwords on documents. Other than that, it does everything I need it to do.
I enjoy the versatility of this software. I recommend this to many patients to use since moving to remote office protocol.
Features may be overwhelming to the non-tech savvy. I wish the price wasn't too expensive for premium options such as password enabling.
Chandrashekhar K.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
One of the best pdf readers in the market. Have been using it for 10+ years now and feel that adobe has done a great job.
Easy to use and implement. Great features and functionality. Good for editing and converting pdf. Great tool for office goers and students.
Price could be lower. It would be great if they increase the duration of the free trail. Could have a few more features.
Sandra M.
Mining & Metals, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
My overall experience with Acrobat Reader is that it's easy to use and I can edit and organize my documents without any problems.
I can edit my document easily without any problems and I can covert my word documents without issues.
What I don't like about this is when I try and convert a pdf into a word document it will change the format and the words as well. It doesn't copy the exact document.
Marty M.
Machinery, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
My experience with Acrobat Reader DC has been positive and I have been using it for years to send signed PDF's back to senders. It is used very often by me for business purposes and the need to send back to sender specific work orders and purchase orders.
Acrobat Reader DC is a very popular PDF file reader that most people use. It is very easy to use. I use it frequently for signing documents as it has a feature for doing that. The signatures can be your own which you create using your mouse. Then I just save the file and send it back to the sender.
I wish they had a feature where I did not have to sign into their system to have a signed PDF file emailed back to the sender; now I have to save the file and then email it back to the sender using my own email program.
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Excellent way to share documents and memos across varied platforms.
Free to use Allows highlighting, marking, commenting, signing Allows access controls - limiting document extraction, printing etc. Industry standard Connected to Adobe Document Cloud
Does not allow to split or join PDFs Does not have good screen reader functionality Does not have handwriting to text recognition capability
Suzanne M.
E-Learning, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Overall, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is a fantastic tool allowing me to create PDFs that I can submit for my job.
I use this software to create and edit PDF documents directly and export them to other softwares I use, like PowerPoint and Microsoft Word
I do prefer working with Word documents when possible, as I fin them easier to edit. But when I am working with PDFs, Adobe is certainly the best option.
Sheetal s.
Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
its nice and needed most of the time in job for read and write documents,
its the best when you need no editing in your documents.size of documents is small so you can send easily and store also in online drives and other document systems,
editing is bit difficult and needs different license type.cost is high .without reader cannot open documents due to lot of encryption,
Daniel M.
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
I think it offers great features but it has a monopoly on something that it shouldn't.
I like the functionality and what I lets you do. There are so many features and it makes work look much more professional.
The price. It's clunky. I just feel like it lacks some things and feels. I can't really put it to words but Adobe as a whole just feels like it's lacking something.
Svetlana N.
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
My overall experience with Adobe Software has been good, both for home and work use, as well as school which I recently started again.
What I like most of Adobe Software is it's a reliable name and easy to use. I know I will not be dissapointed ever.
What I like least about Adobe Software is that sometimes, the application does not want to open, for no reason. You need to restart the program again.
Rahul A.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used other for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Being a regular user I am very much satisfied with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
1. Opens the document very quickly . 2. Very easy to learn. 3. Various tools are available which performs the following, (a) This is a great tool for creating and editing the PDF documents. (b) Can easily convert the PDF documents to word or Jpeg formats. (c) It provides the feature of digital signature . (d) It helps in combining multiple documents into single one. * And lots of other features are available. 4. Due to the features and user friendly interface it is considered as the one of the most used PDF editors across the globe.
1. Majority of the tools are available only after the subscription. 2. The pricing is little bit expensive.
William R.
Retail, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Adobe Acrobat is a wonderful product that has really made sending and receiving documents with customers very easy.
Adobe Acrobat has made receiving, editing and sending documents a breeze. We rely on adobe to help send and receive documents between our vendors and customers.
Adobe can at times be difficult to change or revise certain documents but overall its a great product.
JEANIE F.
Education Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Working in a school district there are many documents that require proofing, signing, or collaboration between 2 or more co-workers. Acrobat Reader DC makes all that possible without anyone having to leave their office! So it's a huge time saver.
This program is extremely easy to use with great features that make sharing and communicating on documents a breeze.
Honestly, I can't think of anything that I don't like.
Hayden Y.
Research, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
I like that it gives me the ability to read Adobe PDFs. It serves that purpose well.
Not owning more adobe licenses is the biggest pain in the rear-end. Not being able to edit a PDF is the most annoying thing that I deal with on a daily basis. We have just the Reader for PDFs and it makes editing documents near impossible. I have to keep a word document saved that I can edit and then print into PDF.
Drew F.
Automotive, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
I use it and will continue to use it until something better comes along
The Acrobat Reader DC is so common and available it it has become a must use product for most of the things I need this type of software for
I have found that the Acrobat Reader DC takes a lot of time to load on some slower computers. There seems to be more information downloaded that is actually needed
Verified reviewer
E-Learning, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Acrobat Reader DC runs in the background and looks after itself. If you allow it to be your default PDF reader, It does everything for you.
I have never had an issue with opening and reading a PDF file using Acrobat Reader. It's free, and I think one of the essential programs for any computer user.
None really, occasionally you'll need to update the version - but your computer will let you know and it's a one-click procedure.
Ayo O.
Marketing and Advertising, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
Review source
Share this review:
Very good. easy to use as much as it is installed on your machine
I mean, everyone uses this if not, why not. Really use software that helps send a document to someone else and have the assurance that they will be able to read it.
The truth is, they have so many features now to even enhance your document but why do I have to pay for another software. C'mon man.