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Deandre Durr☀️
@dredurr · Growth Hacker
What's the difference between this and Adobe?
I'm a little biased because that's what I have always used 🙀
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Jonathan Rhyne
@jdrhyne · Co-Founder, COO, PSPDFKit
@dredurr - That's a great question. Thank you for asking!
The major differences come in the UI and UX of the two apps and what you get for free versus what you have to be a paying subscriber of Adobe to get.
Acrobat is honestly not great on mobile currently and not really built specifically tailored for each platform. For instance, finding various views of the file manager on Acrobat on iOS is difficult, importing from other cloud service providers beside DC or Dropbox is not easy, after you highlight a sentence of text you then have to reselect the highlight tool to highlight more text, etc. These are the little details that make all the difference in an alright user experience and a great one. We all know on mobile, if the UX is not delightful, people will just pull out their laptop.
The other difference is in paid versus free features. For instance, if you want to view a thumbnail summary of the pages, this is only available as a paid subscriber of Adobe's. Further, if you want to edit the document by rotating a page, deleting a page, or reordering pages, these are also not available without being a paid subscriber. We offer all these features for free and make it easy to use them.
I hope that helps you make the switch! I really hope you check out both apps and let me know what you like more about Adobe over us. Thanks again for the question.
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David Feng
@davidsfeng · Co-Founder at Reamaze
@dredurr I've always used adobe for pdf annotation before too. It gave me chills every time I anticipate using it. The experience has always been sub par. I now rely on preview but that's only a little better. That said, I still really only annotate on my laptop and not mobile. Will give this a try for a new experience! @jdrhyne
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