Adobe Acrobat Studio, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Standard comparison

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Adobe Acrobat Studio is an all-in-one productivity platform combining Acrobat Pro, Adobe Express Premium, and Gen AI-powered document intelligence. Acrobat Studio helps reduce tool sprawl, speed up decision-making, and ensure work flows smoothly from start to finish without compromising on security.

	Adobe Acrobat Standard	Adobe Acrobat Pro*	Adobe Acrobat Studio
Turn your documents into action with Acrobat AI Assistant and PDF Spaces.			Most popular
Chat with your digital document (PDFs, presentations, and other non-PDF file types) to get high quality, easy to understand responses with attributions.			■
Chat with scanned documents to obtain crucial data and insights.			■
Summarize long and complex documents to extract key points.			■
Generate content for emails, blogs, presentations, and more.			■
Interact with multiple documents at once to capture relevant themes and get strategic insights.			■
Automatically detect specialized document types like contracts and meeting transcripts to generate insights tailor-made for those document types.			■
PDF Spaces: Bring together files, web links, text, and documents, as well as goals, insights, and next steps in a single workspace so clients, partners, and teams can quickly align, contribute, and move work forward.			■
Integrated into Microsoft Teams and Zoom to quickly summarize meetings and identify action items.			■
Create scalable, fast, on-brand content with Adobe Express.			Most popular
Access 280M+ curated assets and 350k+ templates to create high-quality, engaging content.			■
Enhance content with generative AI—effortlessly create and integrate images, videos, and animations.			■
Advanced content editing capabilities: Remove background, generate captions, animate from sound, crop/trim/export video, record voiceover and publish to social accounts.			■
Boost efficiency with GenAI features like bulk create, text/image generation, and generative fill.			■
Publish and schedule to multiple social media accounts.			■
Customize on-brand templates quickly for local markets—no need to start content from scratch.			■
Adapt content for any channel with instant resizing and translation—no additional tools required.			■
Design across all content types, including PDFs, presentations, flyers, banners, videos, social posts, and web pages.			■
Stay on-brand & create stunning visuals and slides 3× faster with approved templates.			■
Advanced brand controls with role-based approvals, project sharing, and real-time editing and comments.			■
Centralize asset storage with CC Libraries and seamless integration with Adobe AEM assets.			■
Streamline workflows with built-in integrations across PDF, Creative Cloud, Workfront, AEM, Slack, and storage platforms like Box and Google Drive.			■
Ensure enterprise-grade security with encryption, access controls, watermarking, and IP protection throughout the content lifecycle.			■
Create content with generative AI that's commercially safe and backed by indemnification.			■
	Adobe Acrobat Standard	Adobe Acrobat Pro*	Adobe Acrobat Studio
Edit and manage PDFs from where you are.			Most popular
View, create, edit, and comment on PDF content from your desktop, mobile device, or web browser.	■	■	■
Access a list of documents you need to view, review, or sign along with detailed information about the task.	■	■	■
Store, manage, and share files online with instant access to recently viewed files across devices.	■	■	■
Access, edit, and store PDFs in Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and SharePoint accounts.	■	■	■
Access your most important files easily across devices by starring them.	■	■	■
Create PDFs from any application that prints.	■	■	■
Convert documents and images into PDFs; convert web pages into interactive PDFs with links.	■	■	■
Convert PDFs to other file formats from your computer, mobile device, or web browser.	■	■	■
Turn Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Illustrator (AI), or InDesign (INDD) files into PDFs from your desktop or mobile device.		■	■
OCR converts scanned documents & images into searchable, editable PDFs with fonts that match the original.		■	■
Combine multiple documents and file types into one PDF file.	■	■	■
Compare two versions of a PDF to review all differences.		■	■
Edit text and images in a PDF with full-page paragraph reflow from your desktop.	■	■	■
Add audio, video, and interactive objects to your PDFs.		■	■
Turn paper or Word files into fillable PDF forms.		■	■
Create numbered or bulleted lists without reformatting.	■	■	■
Add Bates numbering to legal documents.		■	■
Preflight and prepare files for high-end printing.		■	■
Send documents for e-signature.			Most popular
Sign and collect unlimited signatures and track responses in real time.	■	■	■
Create and share reusable templates.	■	■	■
Send one agreement in bulk for multiple people to sign.		■	■
Post PDFs and documents to your website with web forms that customers can instantly fill, sign, and submit.		■	■
Customize signature requests with your own branding.		■	■
Control e-signature settings at the account level.		■	■
Collect signatures from customers with an option to collect payments with Braintree (where available‡), in a single transaction.		■	■
Protect PDFs and make them accessible.			Most popular
Create password-protected PDFs.	■	■	■
Create, protect, and send PDFs in popular Microsoft 365 desktop apps on Windows, Mac, and online.	■	■	■
Prevent others from copying, editing, or printing sensitive information in PDFs.	■	■	■
Protect PDFs with Microsoft Purview Information Protection viewing and labeling.†	■	■	■
Redact to permanently remove visibly sensitive information in PDFs.		■	■
Convert or validate PDFs for compliance with ISO standards like PDF/A or PDF/X.		■	■
Create and validate PDFs to meet accessibility standards for people with disabilities.		■	■
Prepare PDFs consistently with guided actions.		■	■
	Adobe Acrobat Standard	Adobe Acrobat Pro*	Adobe Acrobat Studio
Securely collaborate on PDFs.			Most popular
Share PDF links so others can view, comment on, or sign, and get notified when the recipients take action.	■	■	■
Collect group feedback in one PDF file online with no reviewer login required.	■	■	■
Add comments to PDFs with a full suite of annotation tools including text editing, highlighter, and sticky notes.	■	■	■
Initiate Shared Reviews connected to SharePoint folders.	Partial capability	■	■
Fill, sign, and send forms faster using data from your autofill collection on your computer or mobile device.	■	■	■
Review and comment on PDFs in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams.	■	■	■
Deploy and manage across your organization.			Most popular
Use the web-based Adobe Admin Console to add, remove, reassign, and track licenses. Manage users and groups and set up multiple admin roles.	■	■	■
Deploy Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Standard, and Acrobat Reader products and updates from your local server with AUSST and deploy automatically with RUM.	■	■	■
Use virtualization tools with support for serialized or named user licensing for Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, VMware Horizon, Microsoft App-V, and Microsoft Windows Terminal Server (WTS).	■	■	■
Safeguard systems and data with application security and sandboxing technology.	■	■	■
Customize features and settings with the Acrobat Customization Wizard and Acrobat Enterprise Toolkit.	■	■	■
Deploy and update with Microsoft SCCM/SCUP and Apple Remote Desktop.	■	■	■

* AI Assistant for Acrobat is available as an add-on purchase.

‡ Note: The Braintree service is only available to merchants in specific countries. Please refer to the Braintree international guidelines to determine if your country or region is supported.

† Requires a separate purchase of Microsoft Purview Information Protection.