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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Customers express widespread dissatisfaction with subscriptions, pricing, and cancellation processes. Many consumers feel the cancellation process is intentionally difficult and confusing. People report unexpected charges and hidden fees, particularly regarding trial periods and early cancellations. Furthermore, reviewers mention issues with payments, highlighting that the payment methods are not working correctly. The general consensus is that the product itself is not worth the price.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Arrogant and entitled attitude. Wouldn't trust them to sit the right way around on a lavatory leave alone handle my subscription. An absolute bunch of liars who twist and turn at every possible opport... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Adobe makes it way too hard to cancel a free trial. The cancellation flow is confusing, buried in multiple menus, and feels designed to make you give up. I spent far longer than I should have just try... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

NON USATE ALCU PRODOTTO ADOBE, SONO SOLO DEI LADRI, NON REGISTRATEVI, SCAPPATE DA LORO VI RUBANO SOLO I SOLDI!!! BISOGNA DENUCIARE QUESTI CRIMINALI!!! DO NOT USE ANY ADOBE PRODUCTS, THEY ARE JUST THIE... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Fine print billing, super aggravating. Cancellation fee for a montly plan? They constantly complain about payment method not working and don't let you cancel the plan until you add a payment method. A... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I'd give zero. Totally useless at communicating and setting up a contract so it can be cancelled within free period. Suggest everyone now escalate this to their MP as it seems so common that it's an i... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Quite useful software developed in the 90s with a bunch of completely useless, malware-like add ons from recent years. Creative Cloud interface is forced upon you, all kinds of ridiculous AI tools t... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I have been an Adobe user for over 23 years. Discontinuing Adobe Muse was a major mistake. Such a decision should only be made when a better replacement is ready. Muse was removed, yet Dreamweaver r... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Their products have become disgustingly expensive over the years, and they have like many, engineered it in a way you have to subscribe to things you don't need or want. I went to finally decouple... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Stay well clear.....do not get drawn in with the 7 day free trial, absolutely impossible to cancel if need to. Customer service is horrendous, nothing is clear. Cant cancel on line like they tell sa... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bunch of crooks, 14 day free trial cancelled in 24 hours, email confirmation received 19th June. Charges started from 27th. June, cannot cancel without paying huge cancellation fees. Currently disputi... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Zero stars for predatory practices. The trial membership cannot be canceled and they also refuse ti delete my credit card from their site after I canceled. Check out Reddit for more info; this is a... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have utter contempt for this company. Although they claim there is a free Adobe Reader for PDFs, there is no FREE way to use their 'rip off' of PDF (an open standard (ISO 32000)). Given that you are... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Whoa! Followed the directions they provide to cancel the trial and then kept getting billed. I was given an email to contact them (support@adobe) and it came back undeliverable. The desperate tactics... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful bloated software at an inflated subscription price. Trying to edit a document the text is so small, faint and greyed out its barely visible and the interface is awash with complicated windows a... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

There are a lot of reviews regarding unfairness with free trials. I actually pay to use Adobe and the software is usually brilliant for all sorts of tasks. It was a game changer for us, enabling us... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Little tip for anyone else trying to get out of their shackle and chain contract with these scumbags.... remove your payment methods, add a bank account with nothing in and just let them keep trying t... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Got a trial subscription as were advertising that they can enhance a 1080p video to 4k. After watching turtorials i couldnt manage to do that. Could be my fault as Im not used to it but I seen that th... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ive been using Adobe products since their creation (20 plus years) and Ive never hated them more than how I do today. Terrible customer service and greed subscription set up has left many in the indus... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Spent the better part of 3 hours trying to cancel a free trial subscription today so as to avoid being charged on something I’m not using nor will I use. Still no success, even though my online skills... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Doesn't deserve even 1 star - do not subscribe to Adobe: they will rob you of your money: when you want to unsubscribe they charge greedy cancellation fees. Clunky, user-unfriendly apps. They pose as... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Adobe products are good (hence the two stars) but their billing tactics are really underhand. For a second time now I have found they have added a second subscription which I didn't know about, along... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Most horrendous, imbecilic, dishonest people I have ever worked with. Long waits to get into help line, then untrained, stupid agents respond to questions with silence. When pressed for help, they h... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Appereantly I bought Adobe Stock, which costs around 35 $ a month. I can't remember ever buying it. Cancelling it costs 144 $. I feel scammed. Lightroom as a program is fine, but I hate Adobe behind... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Signed up for an Adobe Pro to design labels. The characters in the label I designed were illegible and so the 'Pro' features were of no use to me. They also added an 'AI' membership which was useless... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

A truly evil, despicable company contributing a net negative to the world by existing. It is not possible for Adobe to repair their brand perception even if they made their products completely free. T... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I signed up for Adobe’s free trial and cancelled what I believed was the subscription. I was later charged because Acrobat Pro and the AI Assistant are treated as separate subscriptions, which was not... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The website only listed one year commitment subscriptions on their website. Use deceptive wording to hide that you have to keep it for year, charge an absurd amount, and hide cancelation fees. The peo... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If I could give less than 1 star I would. Terrible company, appalling customer service. If I could give less than 1 star I would. Very over priced for poor unreliable software. Awful customer services... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is day 3 of being blocked from using Creative Cloud due to a payment failure. I submitted valid card and billing info, but Adobe’s system keeps rejecting it with no clear reason. I contacted... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Draconian cancellation fee that makes no sense, and no option to opt out of autorenewal. If you signed up for the annual plan, you're locked in unless you pay several months worth of the subscrip... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Just spent about 40 minutes trying to use this expensive software *to edit a document*. Clicking could select a text box, create a text box, move a text box, change shape of a text box, none of it h... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The cancellation fee is one big bad joke..Unbelievable..As greedy as they come..I regret learning this software early in my career because its kind of hard to swich now but rest assured i will be tryi... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Adobe has by far the worst user experience of any software I have ever used. The constant paywalls for the most simple stuff at every turn, constantly asking me to make it my default pdf view when its... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Adobe crashes on me no matter the device, laptop, countless reinstall, customer support calls, etc. I have never hated a product so much. I'm pretty much doing 10+ times the work because preparing 1 d... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It has asked for a review and for me to share experiences multiple times. I keep sending a message saying I can't in good conscience give a good review. Today I decided to be upfront about this terrib... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This year marks 19 years I’ve used Adobe software, and I HATE IT!!!! I used to love it, but once again, I’ve just been kicked out of my account because I forgot to log out of my other computer yester... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I regret ever getting involved with Adobe. After reading all the negative reviews, I now understand why people are frustrated. Their plans are impossible to cancel without facing excessive cancellatio... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

only decent app that they maybe have is psd and AI. but still i'm really doubting them as a company as they haven't improved much in the years and you still pay them premium price tag. for example pre... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I came here on Trust Pilot only to give this review. We are bound to Adobe programs as an industry standard, but what are you doing with this early termination fees - charging me MONEY because I refus... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Been a subscriber for many years actually since the day CreativeCloud was launched! Still can't belive the sneaky ways Adobe tries to con money out of people! Constantly increasing prices but with... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I cancelled this product but they’ve been deducting £20 pm for over 5 months and it’s impossible to cancel. Going on website to sort out cancellation sends you to other sub websites which doesn’t help... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

What an absolute rip off. Where did this cancellation fee suddenly come from?? These corporations have run riot. Apart from anything else - most of the recent updates are just irritating. I d... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Signed up for a free trial and cancelled immediately, email to prove. Adobe have continued to bill me past two months, which is fraud. I've contacted my fraud department at my bank who have continued... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Profiteering scumbags. An almost 20% monthly subscription price rise overnight. If you can find other software that will serve your needs I would highly recommend doing that. They have us all trapped... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Good software but awful to try and cancel. Didn’t realise that you have to pay 6 months upfront if you try and cancel, very well hidden in T&Cs. When needing to cancel due to not being able to afford... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I've been paying $240/year for a while now. I needed Adobe for my profession. Thankfully I no longer need it. I experienced wonky, non-intuitive controls and features, regular locking up of my enti... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The most awful support service, non-existent. Various Bots come up with useless answers to my product problems and say they are still learning. It took a day to persuade a Bot to get through to a Hu... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful software, Once was great, now really buggy, it insists on you using their awful file interface, nothing is logical or easy to find, even deleting a file is a project in itself. Adobe was the bes... See more


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Signed up for 7 day Free trial then…

Signed up for 7 day Free trial then cancelled after 2 days. Received confirmation email to confirm. Then it had tried to take the fee, thankfully there was no money in the account. but it's extreamly difficult to cancel, I had to block them as a payee and as for the virtual assistant, DO NOT BOTHER. Shocking, would turn me off ever signing up for a free trial of anything again.

January 29, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ridiculous Cancellation Fees

They conveniently hide the exorbitant cancellation fees so that if you are not happy with their product they screw you over. They also signed me up for another service I didn't sign up for initially. Absolutely horrible customer service. Be very cautious for what you sign up for with this sh*tty company.

February 12, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Be careful.

I don't trust them at all. Have been burned. The signed me up for something recently. Hopefully a trial subscription. Now I had to cancel the renewal. Regarding subscriptions, the FTC has been aware and has intervened. The partnership with Apple for billing is odd to me. Apple is very ethical. And Adobe doesn't have much impact on the partnership. Maybe a good thing. There are lots of graphic design options. I have read that Affinity is good-- my next stop.

February 11, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Literally impossible to export pdfs as pdfs (eg locally save a pdf)

All I wanted was to safe the pdf file I edited locally on my computer. Why this is an apparently impossible task with adobe when literally every other pdf editing software allows it, I couldn't tell you. You can export a pdf as any other type of document, but there's literally no button anywhere to just transfer the pdf from adobe to your computer. So annoying. 0/10.

February 11, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Adobe - holds me hostage with registered software.

Having purchased perpetual licensed software in 2013 of Photoshop CS6, Lightroom and Acrobat Pro I have used these products without need to upgrade or buy the latest versions. At the time they were a significant investment. However, after my long used Dell PC finally died last week (post stormy weather and electric issues) I had to buy a new system.

I dug out my registered products and loaded onto new win 11 platform PC without issue - until a prompt advised me that my registered licence was ‘on too many devices’ and I needed to deactivate them. How do I do that on a dead PC I wondered - well, apparently Adobe do this remotely. I went onto their chat option and engaged an agent only to be told that they would need to manually deactivate devices but, as CS6 version is no longer supported, they can’t / won’t do this and recommended I but their new ‘cloud’ based subscription service.

So, the moral of the story is - when you believe you are buying a lifetime licence YOUR NOT. It’s ALL a big con selling you a 6 for a 9.

A perfectly functional piece of software - sabotaged by its makers just to hold their clients at ransom to keep spending money.

They can take their new cloud software and shove it up their backside hardware….sideways.

February 10, 2026
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I don't understand the development of Adobe anymore

I have been an Adobe user for over 23 years. Discontinuing Adobe Muse was a major mistake. Such a decision should only be made when a better replacement is ready. Muse was removed, yet Dreamweaver remains — something I still don’t understand.

The constant updates to Photoshop and Premiere often introduce confusing and unnecessary changes. For example, turning the simple act of saving a JPG into an extra “Save a Copy” step is one of those decisions that makes me wonder who thought this was a good idea. You keep on expending multiple not very important things but this what was important such as Muse, which was an amazing tool, was damaged and not updated.

February 10, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

deceptive

1★ — Extremely disappointed and frustrated
Tried to cancel my Adobe subscription but the cancel option was impossible to find and the support team failed to help me. Despite following all steps and attempting cancellation multiple times, Adobe continues to charge me with no clear resolution pathway. The customer service experience was poor, lacking transparency and almost impossible to navigate. I would not recommend Adobe for subscriptions due to their difficult cancellation process.

February 11, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

wow...just wow..

The cancellation fee is one big bad joke..Unbelievable..As greedy as they come..I regret learning this software early in my career because its kind of hard to swich now but rest assured i will be trying very hard to do so..

February 10, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Thieves

I never agreed to pay 50% more for my photography plan but you take my money regardless. This company takes the **** I don't think I ever want to use their products again.

February 9, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Engineered to take your money against your wishes. Theives

Their products have become disgustingly expensive over the years, and they have like many, engineered it in a way you have to subscribe to things you don't need or want.

I went to finally decouple and cancel and they require you yo update your payment method prior to cancellation. Doing so, would then charge for a year sub I don't need or want. They trap you in this loop. They make it harder than cancelling your cable. Just a an all around bad company.

February 8, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Stay away!

Wish I had read here first. Tried a free trial and now I cant get out. When I try to delete my account I just get eternal waiting screen. I will block my card/payment and take the battle with them.
Stay away!

February 8, 2026
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing program with premiere and…

Amazing program with premiere and lightroom. The service is great from their chat which is open almost all the time I think and helped me with specific problems i had. Use their chat and ask for customer service =)=)

February 8, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Zero stars for predatory practices

Zero stars for predatory practices. The trial membership cannot be canceled and they also refuse ti delete my credit card from their site after I canceled. Check out Reddit for more info; this is a terrible company that my have a good product but I will never deal with them again

February 8, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They have a system made to trap people…

They have a system made to trap people to pay adobe services and a cancel fee on top of that they raised the price of the package i have from 13 - 24 dollars and they just send and email 3 days before they make the price change, super scummy then they get u trapped to either pay a really expensive cancel fee or keep paying for the whole year, so i explained to 3 different people on support that i missed that email and BECAUSE you sent it 3 days before the price change and its an annual billing u cant just unsubscribe now, its a trap to trick people like me that missed the price adjusment and i didnt even confirm that i wanted to continue to pay after the price raise it was just a stupid email and they have been donig this for years this should litteraly be illegal yeah i got 2 months free whey whoo but i gotta keep paying after that :/

February 7, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Adobe makes it way too hard to cancel a…

Adobe makes it way too hard to cancel a free trial. The cancellation flow is confusing, buried in multiple menus, and feels designed to make you give up. I spent far longer than I should have just trying to find the right page and confirm the cancellation. Free trials shouldn’t come with this much friction—clear, one-click cancellation would be a lot more customer-friendly.

February 6, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Fine print billing

Fine print billing, super aggravating. Cancellation fee for a montly plan? They constantly complain about payment method not working and don't let you cancel the plan until you add a payment method. After which they immediately bill you for past usage and then spring the cancellation fee on you which was "part of the agreement" when you want to cancel. Don't give these guys your money if there is ANY alternative.

February 6, 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Money Grabbers / Stealing...

Money Grabbers / Stealing...
Today 06/02/26 they took £19.99 from my account, The subscription is monthly....
This Bill was due from the 18/01/26, i was only paid today, But during the time from 18/01 to 06/02 i have not be able to use there services due to non-payment.... (So that's fair, i have not paid....so i do not get to use)
However, now that my payment has come out on the 06/02/26, it now says my plans next payment is 18/02/26...(12 days time), so you are basically now you are stealing from me...as you have not allowed me to use the services for the time period that i did not pay, but now that i have paid....you want to charge me for the time that you did not allow me to use your services...and then try and charge me again in 12 days time....FK off, Plan cancelled....stick it where the sun doesn't shine

February 6, 2026
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