--- title: Adobe Acrobat Reader Reviews meta_title: 'Adobe Acrobat Reader Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 1764 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Adobe Acrobat Reader works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 1764 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-10' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Adobe Acrobat Reader Reviews **Vendor:** Adobe **Category:** [File Reader Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/file-reader) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 1,764 ## About Adobe Acrobat Reader Do more with your PDFs for free. Adobe Acrobat Reader is the free global standard to reliably view, sign, comment, and print PDF documents. Subscribe to use premium tools to create, edit, request signatures, organize and protect PDFs. Start your free 7-day trial at Adobe.com/Acrobat. ## Adobe Acrobat Reader Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Adobe Acrobat Reader's **ease of use** invaluable for both personal and professional document management. (8 reviews) - Users find **easy access** to documents through Adobe Acrobat Reader convenient for both personal and professional tasks. (6 reviews) - Users value the **abundance of features** in Adobe Acrobat Reader, enhancing PDF editing and collaboration across devices. (5 reviews) - Users find Adobe Acrobat Reader's **cloud services** invaluable for convenient document access and seamless work on-the-go. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy cloud storage access** of Adobe Acrobat Reader, enabling seamless PDF management across devices. (3 reviews) - Tools (3 reviews) - Content Creation (2 reviews) - Data Management (2 reviews) - App Variety (1 reviews) - Collaboration (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Adobe Acrobat Reader to be **expensive** , especially for smaller businesses needing multiple licenses. (6 reviews) - Users find the **subscription costs expensive** , particularly for individuals and small businesses needing basic features. (3 reviews) - Users find Adobe Acrobat Reader to have **complexity issues** that can complicate its otherwise amazing performance. (2 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve challenging** , requiring time and resources to master Adobe Acrobat Reader's features. (1 reviews) - Users find Adobe Acrobat Reader's interface **overwhelming at first** , sometimes leading to a steep learning curve. (1 reviews) - Slow Internet Speed (1 reviews) - Software Performance (1 reviews) - Storage Limitations (1 reviews) ## Adobe Acrobat Reader Reviews ### 1. Simple PDF Tool That Just Works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sneha S. | CyberSecurity Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I like that I can open and sign PDFs quickly. It’s easy to use and works on both phone and laptop. I don’t have to worry about losing files—they’re always there when I need them. Sharing documents is also simple and fast. It just makes work a lot easier. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Nothing much to dislike. Sometimes it can be a bit slow to load, but overall, it works well and gets the job done. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me a lot with signing and sharing documents without needing to print or scan. I can just open a file, fill it out, and send it right away. Everything stays in one place, so I don’t have to search around. It’s quick, simple, and saves time, especially when I’m not at my desk. ### 2. Easy PDF Access, but Limited Features Without Purchase **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The images are normally very clear and it is easy to navigate. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I dislike some of the features available and being restricted from certain functions which are only available for a purchased or licensed copy. Sometimes I do run into issues opening documents at first because they will not automatically open in reader. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a go to software for most of our PDFs across out campus, and helps us share documents easily ### 3. Simple and Flexible—A Joy to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Enmanuel M. | Assistant Research Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The simplycity and the freedom of use that's what I love the most. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Honestly, there is nothing that I dislike persue. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** PDF reader ### 4. Very good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Casey C. | Cashier Customer Service, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Helps me with everything I need to do when it comes to pdf files and other documentation files **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Nothing wrong with it I have no dislikes **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me with my documents and pdfs ### 5. Adobe Acrobat Reader is a great solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe Acrobat Reader is and easy to use solution to handle my PDF's. It allows me to view and search for content as well as sign documents. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I have no complaints about Adobe Acrobat Reader. It is a straightforward PDF solution that has consistently met my needs. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adobe Acrobat Reader allows me to view, read, and sign PDF documents, which is an essential part of my daily business tasks. ### 6. Adobe Acrobat Reader for Business **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe Acrobat Reader makes it easy for us to view, print, and fill-in PDF documents. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe Acrobat Reader is a good tool, but managing updates as an administrator can be difficult. Documentation is hard to find online. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adobe Acrobat Reader allows our organization to create, edit, and view PDF documents. ### 7. Review for adobe document cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MMG C. | Senior Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Document Cloud?** Adobe Document Cloud best for its ease of use and access across devices. which help to manage document easily **What do you dislike about Adobe Document Cloud?** Adobe Document Cloud complex interface, and the burdensome subscription model and its cost is very high **What problems is Adobe Document Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** benefits users by increasing efficiency, saving time and money, and improving security and collaboration ### 8. Adobe as my personal team mate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asfa F. | Marketing executive , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Best thing I can do with adobe is anytime editing of documents and reports **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Likely nothing is like this personal to dislike but one thing is type writer that it shows fonts which are not suites with the whole data fonts and sizes but it is adjustable much better than apps which doesn't support this tool and feature. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems solved are editing a report or cropping a page , it helps me in extraction and addition of pages as well which I like the most ### 9. So helpful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oneeka K. | Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It is easy to use, and it is easy to implement in my work. I use it a few times every few weeks and it has a lot of features that helped me integrate this into my everyday use. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** you have to pay for a lot of features which is not great btu still a great porduct **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** it allows me to sign documents very easily and also order pages easily ### 10. Unmatched PDF Tools and Options **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It offers lot of options and tools to do with my PDF compared to other softwares **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The subscription fees are very high for yearly **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easily allowing me to edit, view my PDF ### 11. The original and best, but at a cost **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brent A. | Senior Director Information Systems, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Fantastic quite of software. Full featured and users know how to use. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Very costly and can be quite difficult to administer **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** A standard PDF software suite ### 12. Love me some Adobe Document Cloud!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nickie H. | Digital UX Performance Analyst, Consumer Goods, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I love the fact that that the service has preloadable documents that are helpful and after you fill it out you can load it to your cloud for later use. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe document cloud does not have a print option that is the downfall. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem that adobe document cloud is solving is filling out documents that we need ahead of time and saving them to the cloud... ### 13. Adobe Document Cloud User **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shirlene S. | Cancer Advocacy, Professional Volunteer, Caterer/Helper., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I can go this app and get the file I want without any problems. I can choose the document that I name quickly. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** At the present time I don’t have any dislike **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to go straight to a file I need turn it into a PDF or anything else I need to do with a particular file. ### 14. Quick and Efficient PDF Opening **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It is quick to open PDF documents **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Unfriendly interface and exaggerated installation time. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** The editing of PDF documents ### 15. Robust document generation and customization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MeganThomas P. | Marketing Manager, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Lots of well defined and heavily utilized features **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Needs more AI- there could be a ton of value in unlocking better OCR **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reliable document tools to search, edit, format, manage, protect, sign and send documents ### 16. REVIEW FOR ADOBE DOCUMENT CLOUD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MMG C. | Senior Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** document management capabilities, seamless integration with other Adobe products **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** high subscription cost, particularly for individuals or small teams **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adobe Document Cloud addresses problems related to inefficient document workflows by providing a centralized platform for creating, editing, sharing, and signing documents. ### 17. Easy use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** A powerful tool for anyone who works with PDFs regularly, especially in professional settings. Worth it if you need advanced features, but might be overkill for basic use. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** cost a bit elevated eome times slow and overwhelming at first **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** While Adobe Document Cloud had its challenges, the platform has steadily improved. It’s now much easier to use, especially for mobile users, people working remotely, or anyone needing quick and secure document handling. ### 18. ease of use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** lots of prompts and help to guide you through from beginner to intermediate level. Can handle word, PDF easily and convert **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** it could be cheaper to have a subscription **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** often i need to convert PDF documents into WORD documents and this makes it very easy ### 19. Writer **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aparna M. | writer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Great alternative for reading pdfs but could be better **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Gets stuck and doesn't open at times.... **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pdfs ### 20. Adobe - A beautiful concept **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olayinka D. | Data Analyst , Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** its comprehensive suite of tools for managing, editing, and sharing PDF documents. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The subscription model can be expensive, especially for individuals or small businesses who only need basic features. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solves several problems related to document management, collaboration, and workflow efficiency among which we have the -PDF Editing and Conversion , It allows for easy creation, editing, and conversion of PDFs, saving time compared to traditional word processors or manual document handling. and the E sign concept is beautiful ### 21. Why use any other PDF reader? **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paula L. | CEO | Creative Strategist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** This reader integrates seamlessly with your Microsoft package and can be used on most PCs and other devices. It very seldom crashes and always gives me a great experience. I probably use it every day for one reason or another. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader only allows users to view and annotate PDFs. Editing and advanced features like converting or merging files require the paid version of Adobe Acrobat Pro. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adobe Acrobat Reader solves several key problems when working with PDFs. First, it provides a reliable way to view and navigate PDF documents across multiple devices, ensuring that formatting and content remain consistent. This is especially important for sharing professional documents or forms. Additionally, it offers tools for annotating PDFs, such as highlighting, commenting, and filling out forms, which makes collaboration easier. The benefit for me is the convenience of accessing important documents anywhere while maintaining their original format. It's also helpful for quickly reviewing and marking up materials without needing to print them out. For advanced needs, upgrading to Adobe Acrobat Pro gives additional capabilities, but for everyday use, the free version handles essential tasks effectively. ### 22. Save tree-Use Adobe documet **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijay K. | Senior Human Resource Executive, Manufacturing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I personally and professionally using adobe for my daily work. I can scan or make document and can access anywhere. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Yet, I Did'nt find anything bad for this. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** I generaly change my devices and loss my docs which is stored in device. I get this adobe cloud. Now I need my login ID and can access all the documents that is uploaded in ther. ### 23. Wonderful App for my graphic design and video editing. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dylan N J. | Logistic Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** This App have helped my small business when I need to do all my digital work,E- signatures and documentation. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I can't complain about using Adobe because it have absolutely helped my business **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick document upload,document signature,digital documentation. All of this are done electronically. I don't have to wait on a mail delivery service. ### 24. Good for editing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawan Y. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It's is used for reading and photoshop of documents and image **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It's not free so it's difficult to use this product **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reading and writing documents ### 25. Amazing - but could always be better **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Skye D. | Storyteller & Strategist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2025 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Super handy with great customer support. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Sometimes unnecessarily complicated. But overall amazing. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** A feature-packed way to handle PDFs and other documents. Editing capabilities beyond the norm. ### 26. My go-to software for accessing PDFs! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vaibhav S. | Web Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe Acrobat Reader is a good app for PDF files, having a good user-friendly interface that makes reading and viewing easy. It has a tool for highlighting to help in the marking of text, adding comments and sharing documents with other people whom one works or lives with. It is easily compatible with computers so that one can apply these useful functions without any difficulties. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Although it performs well for PDF viewing, Acrobat Reader does have problems performing well with larger files. No matter how slowly I scroll or load a large text document, it every time appears unresponsive for some few seconds. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently using Acrobat Reader as my default software when it comes to PDFs since it offers a better experience than other softwares and it allows for annotation that is very helpful! ### 27. good program for portable documents **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Les Y. | Director of Pre-Construction, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** easy to manipulate, standard to be referenced **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** not enough tools, cant always manipulat items **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy to use, quick application ### 28. Best platform for the perfect doc space **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varun J. | Marketing intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe document cloud is one the most convinent platform to use for the daily formal worklife **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** ther is nothing such to dislike about adobe **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** the problem of uploading and editing in file is solved by adobe document and also keeping the data safe ### 29. Best PDF viewing experience on any device **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Umang D. | Channel Technical Manager - West, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It's very simple and easy to use for any person who is new to computer. User friendly interface and design of buttons are also looking great. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Some of the useful features are paid. Large files handling is very much slow in work. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software is mainly used for opening pdfs, viewing, commenting and quickly review documents. Due to its compact size and user friendly interface it is widely used in daily reviewing work. ### 30. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kayla W. | Website manager/social media, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Keeps all your documents organized & in order. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** No complaints as of yet, will update review if necessary. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes using PDF's way easier & time efficient. ### 31. Adobe Document Cloud: A great tol easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** For me,what I like the best is all the features it has that allows its users to edit and manage PDF files; as well as its easy storage access across different devices. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** There are a lot of features hidden behind a paywall, which is understandable seeming as its subscription based; but it should allow for small free trials for the users to see if they want them. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to make and edit digital documents, which allows for an efficient information management. It also reduces the use of paper in my office since we can manage most things digitally. ### 32. The best tool for high-grade work with pdf documents. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Сергей . | Художник компьютерной графики, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The best thing I love in Adobe Acrobat is PDF editing and compiling PDF forms for further text processing. It is very attractive for the simplicity of the interface and its accessibility. Attractive design, quite a lot of functions and user-oriented, which allows it to work comfortably. It ought to be remarked the ability of the program to work with complex files of a large size, also unique functions that make the work easier and more original. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I would like to refine the interface of the program in which there are definite lacks, more precisely, these are windows for definite program functions that can not be moved and expanded. Also a very important feature that cares me personally when you copying the PDF forms it is no unique name of this forms. Then you need to rename a large number of fores long. Otherwise, the text in the created form is repeated in all the copied forms. Also what I would like to refine, it`s put windows with functions into a separate panel that made it also moveable and conveniently disposed. **Recommendations to others considering Adobe Acrobat Reader:** I highly recommend this program since it is one of the best programs in PDF editing and i think the best. Set of features and ease of use will help you in your successful work. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** This program helped me to create complex files and lists that are easy to edit without using complex graphics programs. Thanks to Adobe Acrobat, these files can be permanently edited on a tablet, smartphone or computer using simple PDF editors. ### 33. Easy to use now **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle M. | Research Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Still learning, but it is an easy function that i do use quite a bit **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** still learning, so not too much that i can dislike - yet **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** it has been an easy way to load my docs and read them while needing to print as well and save ### 34. Seamless Document Solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barath P. | Talent Acquisition, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** User friendly inrterface and seamless pdf management **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Performance issues, complexity in usage,file size restrictions **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Document accessibility, organised doc management ### 35. Adobe never fails **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric H. | Customer service rep, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I've been using this for as long as I can remember and I've not had one issue with Adobe Reader. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I have no complaints as I've never had an issue with this sevice! **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to make notes, highlights, etc. directly onto POs I'm working on makes my order entry process much more fluid when processing larger orders as I can keep track of my work right there in Adobe! ### 36. Best app for pdf reading **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** CSB Bhupendra M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I like the way it opens any pdf file from any folder is very easy and smooth. This app is also very useful for editing the pdf file in a customized way. It can be used by anybody without any rigorous training. So it is very useful for college students and working professional. So I like it most. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Some editing option is only in premium version, that's why I don't like it, otherwise it is good pdf reader app. **Recommendations to others considering Adobe Acrobat Reader:** yes, go for this app for reading **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Adobe Acrobat Reader to open pdf files and to edit them. Since all these process is very easy so I use it so much. Since I have to study online and many books are in the form of pdf, so I use it a lot and it is very useful for me. ### 37. Highly Recommend! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariafelix V. | Legal Assistant, Law Practice, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I've been using Adobe for years now and I have never had any issues. It is easy to use and I love that it lets me edit documents and all the other convenient features. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I don't have any dislikes. I haven't had any issues using it. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing me to open any PDF files to read, comment, edit, and more. It is extremely useful on a daily basis. ### 38. An Avid User And Continuous User Of Adobe Reader **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amber H. | Owner/Computer Trainer/Consultant/Speaker, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I've been using Adobe Acrobat Reader for quite a while. It's simple to use, whatever is created on it is easier to read, it's also easier to download, it doesn't take up much smartphone, tablet, or hard drive space, and you can zoom in and out when you're trying to read and/or see objects. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** There aren't too many downsides with Adobe Acrobat Reader except for the following. One of them is that I wish it would automatically come with an editor feature. Secondly, there had been .pdf files that had been difficult to ready because the original copies weren't clean. Finally, there had been times when the font on the documents were so small that even zooming in didn't help. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** I would again mainly say that when you have large documents to download, once they're converted to .pdf files, they're easier to download, and don't take up a lot of space on your devices. ### 39. Reading\Editing PDF Made Easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh S. | Graphic Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The best thing i like about using this software is its simple user interface and reading and editing the pdf is also easy using it. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Its free version us limited. Overall everything works fine. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Signing a document is not easy in any of ther other software except this one. ### 40. The full featured PDF reader **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Germán Andrés C. | Content Marketing / Technical Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Acrobat Reader is truly a reliable companion for managing PDF documents. It's a greate tool for reading PDFs. The features for highlighting, adding notes, and digitally signing documents are intuitive and easy to use. The fact that it's freely available adds to its appeal, making it an indispensable tool for anyone dealing with PDFs regularly. Acrobat Reader's performance and functionality make it a valuable asset for efficiently handling PDF files. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe Acrobat Reader has a relatively large file size and sometimes resource-intensive. This can result in slower performance on older or less powerful computers, which can be frustrating for users seeking a lightweight and faster alternative for opening and viewing PDF files. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** PDFs ara very commond document file format and I read PDFs on a daily basis, so Adobe Acrobat readers solves just that, you can read and annotate your documents easily and if you are digitally signing documents is a very robust alternative. ### 41. Acrobat has been improving a lot and making really good changes. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derwin V. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I love the interface and how the tools are implemented to give you a faster usage. You can get a lot of things at the same time without worrying to loose something important. I also love the way it works with other Adobe Tools combined so you can get faster results. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Basically there isn't something I dislike, maybe would be the color palet, since gray is not the best color. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Is helping to be able to manage the reports faster. Whenever you need to check something, you can open it and even look for keyworks and then print it out immediatelly, it's amazing. ### 42. Adobe Document Cloud is Streamlining Document Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David A. | Senior Digital Account, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe Document Cloud has been a game-changer for our digital marketing efforts. What I appreciate most is its seamless integration with other Adobe products, such as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Sign. This integration allows for a cohesive workflow, making it incredibly efficient to create, edit, and manage documents, especially when working on marketing collateral. The collaborative features are a standout for me. Adobe Document Cloud simplifies team collaboration, enabling multiple stakeholders to review and comment on documents in real-time. This is crucial for our marketing team, as it helps us maintain consistency and ensures everyone is on the same page when working on campaigns and strategies. Additionally, the ability to convert documents to various formats, including PDF, Word, and Excel, is a significant advantage. It's incredibly useful for repurposing content across different marketing channels and platforms, saving us time and effort. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** While Adobe Document Cloud offers an impressive array of features, it can be on the pricey side for smaller businesses or startups. The subscription costs can add up, especially if you require multiple licenses for team members. It would be great to see more affordable pricing tiers or flexible plans tailored to the needs of smaller businesses. Another area that could use improvement is the learning curve for new users. While Adobe Document Cloud is a powerful tool, it may take some time for team members to become proficient in using all its features effectively. More comprehensive onboarding resources or tutorials could help address this issue. Overall, Adobe Document Cloud is a valuable asset for our digital marketing operations, but it may not be the most cost-effective option for all businesses. Despite these drawbacks, its features and integration capabilities make it a worthy investment for teams looking to streamline their document management processes and enhance collaboration in the marketing landscape. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** In order to summarize every encountered problem and Adobe solution: 1 - Streamlined Document Workflow: Problem: Prior to using Adobe Document Cloud, our document workflow was disjointed, involving various tools and platforms. This led to inefficiencies and version control issues. Benefit: Adobe Document Cloud has provided us with a centralized platform where we can create, edit, and manage documents seamlessly. This streamlined workflow has significantly improved our document management process, saving us time and reducing errors. 2 - Enhanced Collaboration: Problem: Collaboration among team members, stakeholders, and external partners was challenging. Coordinating feedback and approvals on marketing materials often led to delays. Benefit: With Adobe Document Cloud's collaborative features, multiple users can work on a document simultaneously. It's easy to share documents, gather feedback, and track changes. This has improved communication and accelerated our content production and approval processes. 3 - Document Security and Compliance: Problem: Ensuring the security and compliance of sensitive marketing documents, especially when dealing with customer data, was a concern. Benefit: Adobe Document Cloud offers robust security features, including encryption and authentication options. This has helped us maintain document security and meet compliance requirements, instilling confidence in our clients and partners. 4 - Content Repurposing: Problem: Repurposing content for various marketing channels and formats was a time-consuming task. Benefit: Adobe Document Cloud allows us to easily convert documents into different formats (e.g., PDF, Word, Excel). This flexibility has been invaluable in repurposing content for websites, social media, email campaigns, and print materials, saving us significant effort and resources. 5 - Integration with Adobe Suite: Problem: We used multiple software tools for document creation, design, and e-signatures, leading to compatibility issues. Benefit: Adobe Document Cloud seamlessly integrates with other Adobe products like Acrobat and Sign. This integration ensures that all our marketing materials are consistent in design and can be easily signed and distributed. It streamlines our entire marketing ecosystem. ### 43. Best PDF Editor Period **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heather B. | Senior Executive Assistant, Entertainment, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It's free, easy to use, has the ability to fill and sign existing forms, allows you to comment/strikethrough/insert/highlight parts of the documents, and allows you to work from anywhere with its Mac, PC, and smartphone apps. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Not much, to be honest. It's fantastic for the simple needs it's designed for and is hands down one of the best PDF apps. I prefer Adobe Acrobat Pro for the sheer amount of increase in functionality and tools to create PDFs but I utilize Reader often when needing to view or comment on a PDF. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of needing to track changes in a Word doc and clean up the version to finalize, I save a lot of time by utilizing Acrobat Reader's comments and highlights, as well as by sharing the PDF via link to others so we can work collaboratively and more efficiently. I also love that the Fill & Sign option is free as it saves so much time when needing quick e-signatures from those that may not have the Adobe Acrobat Pro version. ### 44. One of the best PDF editors **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe Acrobat Reader is widely recognised for its convenience and streamlined custom viewing capabilities. Quickly open and browse large files with the handy tab key, or have text-to-speech technology read aloud. Sign documents digitally with no extra effort, as the signature functionality is now built into the programme itself. Edit pdfs in a variety of ways; highlight important words, make annotations and copy images easily, all within the great user experience of Acrobat Reader. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** I don't like the fact that translating a document in Adobe Acrobat Reader is not always accurate or easy. It's limited in what it can do, but unfortunately it's also quite expensive. When converting from Word to PDF, image quality can sometimes suffer, which is very frustrating - although fortunately this can be solved by making minor adjustments in Adobe Pro and adding photos during conversion. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Adobe Acrobat Reader, I'm able to securely store and share files in the cloud, easily transform data, and add digital signatures. ### 45. Truly love it its help reading the pdfs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aydon S. | Ghost Content Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** This can read any type of pdfs and help you to edit it. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Nothing is theire to dislike about Adobe acrobat reader **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** All my pdf are one place and it helps me read it any time. ### 46. THE software for managing PDFs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Acrobat Reader has pretty much become the gold standard for reading PDFs. When connected into the full suite of Adobe services, it can also become a powerhouse for managing print services and editing files. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** One of the current challenges I have with Reader software is Adobe's insistence on selling their subscription services. (Nothing unique these days but it's frustrating to be pressed into subscribing when all one wants to do is read a file.) **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reader allows me to send files to clients I'm working on that are secured in the ways that I need them to be. There are times when I want someone I'm working with to review a file but be able to make limited changes - having them use Reader to view accomplishes that. It's also usable by folks who aren't tech savvy for the most parts. ### 47. Adobe Acrobat Reader **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit S. | Frontend Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It is useful to read the pdf file on the single place easily accessible to open that file without facing any issues **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** All the featres are quite too good nothing behind this to dislike **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collect the files kept on a single place and helful to read anywhere . ### 48. "The only PDF document software I know since beginning - Adobe Acrobat Reader!" **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin S. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** Adobe Acrobat Reader is a synonym for PDF for most of us! This is the best software for PDF documents as I get all the features of editing, and creating PDFs from other formats and vice versa. We can get add-on packs like Adobe PDF pack for the features we need. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The viewer is free and the best one to use, however, to edit a pdf document and other features, we need to pay a subscription fee. It would be great if we get the editing feature for free. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** PDF file is my preferred method to store documents on my device, on the cloud, and for sharing with other members or clients. It is also best for printing documents as you need not do any printer settings like we have to do in other formats like word or excel. ### 49. Document Hadling made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohd Izhaar K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The most likable feature is to edit pdf when ever I want whereever I want. The adobe cloud helps me to view my document from all my devices and I can edit it on the go. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** The only issue with adobe is their pricing which at sometimes can be costly for the consumers other than that everything is absolutely great with the product. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adobe scans the pdf very thourughly it is very easy to look for any particular point even if the pdf is a 1000 pages, the Adobe pdf signature is something that has been of absolute help!! ### 50. Best software for PDF files **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit Ranjan S. | Freelance Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** It's an all-in-one PDF editor. You can view and also edit your PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Upgraded Acrobat Reader can now convert PDF files to many known formats such as JPEG, PNG, etc. **What do you dislike about Adobe Acrobat Reader?** There is nothing that I can write negative or cons of this software. But the price of this software is a bit high. It has to be more affordable for every user, as it's a prevalent app/software nowadays. **What problems is Adobe Acrobat Reader solving and how is that benefiting you?** PDFs are now very popular nowadays. Most of the documents are now shared in PDF files. And here, Adobe Acrobat Reader comes in very handy. 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