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# Adobe Acrobat Reader

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> Adobe Acrobat Reader is a cloud-based PDF viewer that enables users to read, print, search, and annotate PDF documents.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 10525 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Adobe Acrobat Reader?

Cloud-based is a PDF solution that enables businesses of all sizes to view, sign, comment, edit, export, and share documents with annotations and online storage.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 10525 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Adobe
- **Founded**: 1982

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$1,95
- **Pricing model**:  (Free version available)
- **Pricing Details**: Acrobat Reader DC is available for free.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Annotations
- Collaboration Tools
- Commenting/Notes
- Convert to PDF
- Delete Pages
- Digital Signature
- Document Management
- Document Review
- Electronic Signature
- Encryption
- Forms Management
- Optical Character Recognition
- Rearrange Pages
- Text Editing
- Watermarking

## Integrations (6 total)

- Box
- Dropbox Business
- Google Drive
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Word
- OneDrive

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [PDF Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31122/pdf/software)

## Related Categories

- [PDF Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31122/pdf/software)
- [PDF Editor Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/32779/pdf-editor/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Adobe Acrobat](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1012240/adobe-acrobat-dc) — 4.7/5 (4170 reviews)
2. [iLovePDF](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/173963/ilovepdf) — 4.7/5 (1750 reviews)
3. [Foxit PDF Reader](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/175376/connectedpdf) — 4.5/5 (945 reviews)
4. [Publuu](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/214310/publuu) — 4.9/5 (757 reviews)
5. [Smallpdf](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/172606/smallpdf) — 4.6/5 (951 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Great all-in-one PDF viewer" — 5.0/5

> **Ireshyn** | *07 January 2025* | Research | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Ease of use and integration within the operating system
> 
> **Cons**: Sometimes the software is buggy and causes the system to hang.

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### "The Best PDF Document Ecosystem" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *08 May 2019* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: This software provides a great suite of mobile scanning, document cloud and local PDF viewing. It has many basic functionalities that work well such as digital signatures, cloud syncing (Adobe and Dropbox). To make the best use of the software as a power user, scholar or student: one needs to be subscribed to the paid version for using document format converter features.
> 
> **Cons**: Mobile view bookmarks is not that easy to use for the quickest of navigation through a document that has sections, sub sections and more child sub sections. The cloud feature on mobile can slow a user down in events when internet connection is not stable and therefore become very unresponsive for users next steps.
> 
> I have realized that I can have all my PDF documents including books in reach using one Adobe account across all my devices, therefore be able to use it further for note editing and bookmarking documents synchronously.

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### "Ever head of PDF" — 5.0/5

> **Emmanuel M** | *12 February 2019* | Construction | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Everything, PDF editing has never been this easy
> 
> **Cons**: The price. A software like this must be free to use.

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### "Adobe is the most powerful PDF Reader i have used." — 5.0/5

> **Pershanthen** | *19 April 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Adobe Acrobat reader is so easy to use and i like the fact that we can fill in PDF Forms and add digital signatures to our documents even with the free version.
> 
> **Cons**: To be honest, i cant really find any cons to using this software. Other than the premium plan being expensive.

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### "Mostly great, sometimes a challenge..." — 4.0/5

> **Ann** | *23 February 2026* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Used across all kinds of fields for all purposes. Most people versed on its use, comfortable with accessing.
> 
> **Cons**: I currently dislike the feature of opening photos as a PDF, which requires me to use my Adobe subscription to export the created PDF as a jpeg file when it started out as an image file.  Can't find a setting to change it.
> 
> Fairly user friendly, but seems like features frequently have glitches or difficulty in determining how to go about making the edits I would like.

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