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Users find Adobe InCopy easy to use, enjoying its intuitive interface designed for seamless publishing collaboration. (2 mentions)
Users find Adobe InCopy intuitive, making the publishing process straightforward and familiar, akin to using Github. (1 mentions)
Users find the team collaboration in Adobe InCopy straightforward, enhancing their publishing workflow effectively. (1 mentions)
Users find a heavy dependency on the internet challenging when using Adobe InCopy alongside InDesign. (1 mentions)

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Adobe InCopy Reviews (67)

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Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"InCopy is an easy to use tool"
5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

I like that I don't have to wait on my design team to make small edits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

There is nothing I do not like about this product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Alexis C.
Editor of Little Rock Family magazine
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Doesn't Go Above & Beyond"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

InCopy is basically a simplified version of InDesign. It allows you to do the bare minimum in regards to editing files. In some ways, this is beneficial because it prevents an InCopy editor from making any adjustments to the design or altering things that the original designer/creator wouldn't want changed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

I wish InCopy allowed you to make other minor design edits if the InDesign file owner allowed it. Some changes would be easier made if they were just permitted in InCopy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Seemless Integration"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

The fact that InCopy allows seemless integration with InDesign, whilst allowing Editors and Designers concurrently on the same file(s) is super useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

Issues with lock files using content platforms such as Egnyte. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Graphic Design
UG
Verified User in Graphic Design
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It's pretty great!"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

I love the real time editing capabilities that InCopy allows for, it really makes group work a piece of cake! The collaborative space is tailored towards those who are wanting to have multiple changes but not have to continually access just one file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

What would make it more user-friendly would be providing more tools for change, it does feel pretty limited as of now. It doesn't necessarily show you when changes were made, which would be nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jonathan W.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Incopy focuses on writers needs "
3.5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

Always visible, real time line and word counts, and configurable word substitution.

Both Designer and and editor can work at the same time in the same document. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

Not everyone uses it. I have to go out my way to get other users to use this application instead of indesign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Patrick M.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use and dependable"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

I use Incopy to format articles for a local newspaper. Once you set up your fonts and formats, Incopy is easy to use. It requires little effort to format your article professionally, and that's good. You can save most of your brain power for the content of the article at hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

Like most Adobe programs, it's nearly impossible to open and revise a file created in an older format. It would be ideal if you could open up something made in CS5 in CS6 for instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Incopy is more useful than we realized"
5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

I love that Incopy can allow designers to edit copy but it can also allow copywriters and proofreaders access to the copy without disrupting the design. This is especially handy when reviewing. It saves the step of annotating copy and having the designer make the change...the proofreader or copy editor can do it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

Not as easy to learn as I'd like it to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Danica K.
DK
Danica K.
Graphic Designer
Marketing and Advertising
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Work Seamlessly and Simultaneously with Editors on Large Print Projects"
5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

As a designer, by far my favorite thing about InCopy is that it allows me to work on a print project seamlessly with my editorial team from start to finish. InCopy allows the editor to open the file and see the layout a designer has created, while at the same time allowing the design team to tweak layouts if needed to fit editorial copy or vice versa. These two parts of the process, that sometimes have to be done one after the other, can happen at the exact same time, maximizing product and team efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

Sometimes InCopy can have issues updating, which means that my editorial team will not see the layouts I've created once they open a given InCopy file. This in turn means that they can't edit content to fit a layout properly, and have to use more time to go back and make tweaks at a later stage of the process. Fixes to these issues usually involve the designer manually updating and refreshing links in the Assignments palette, and sometimes restarting the Adobe InDesign program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Media Production
UM
Verified User in Media Production
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great for book layout, makes it easy to work as a team"
5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

Very user friendly. Allows my team to all share and edit a document. This totally changed how we work as a team to edit copy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

Sometimes it will say someone has the item checked out - when they don't. Which can take some time to figure out how to fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Justin B.
JB
Justin B.
Creative Design Director
Sports
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Features continue to improve"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Adobe InCopy?

Ability to adjust photos, captions and other "display" elements without interrupting the design process; individual check-in and check-out features; the ability to assign stories and elements to other team members; in-depth inch counts in Story view; addition of the eye-dropper tool to newest versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe InCopy?

Tracking can be a bit slow; the inability to change the color scheme (including the "overset" menu, which is hard to read for our color-blind colleagues); difficulty copying text when "notes" appear within a particular body of text; tables are clunky and difficult to edit; it would be nice to be able to relocate text boxes up or down a gridline from inside InCopy (especially if a little extra space is needed during the editing process). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.