Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Adobe
The 20 closest creative software alternatives to Adobe, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Adobe? The closest matches are acrobat.com, Envato® and Semrush. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 15 ms
01 · Entity
About Adobe
Adobe adobe.com
Adobe: Creative, marketing and document management solutions
Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications.
Wikidata: American multinational computer software company
Summary by Claude
Adobe sells subscription software for graphic design, photo and video editing, generative AI image creation (Firefly), PDF and document management (Acrobat), and enterprise marketing and customer experience tools.
- Who it’s for
- Creative professionals, businesses, students and teachers
- Business model
- Software subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Adobe’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Adobe
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Adobe, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 Very close cos 0.925
- 02
Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
Very close cos 0.923 - 03
Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
Very close cos 0.909 - 04
American multimedia technology company
Very close cos 0.904 - 05
Canva
online graphic design platform
Very close cos 0.905 - 06
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Very close cos 0.902 - 07
Smallpdf - A Free Solution to all your PDF Problems
Smallpdf - the platform that makes it super easy to convert and edit all your PDF files. Solving all your PDF problems in one place - and yes, free.
Very close cos 0.902 - 08
Design, illustration, and productivity software | Corel
Explore creative and productivity software by Corel, from CorelDRAW and PHOTO-PAINT to WordPerfect, MindManager, WinZip, and beyond.
Very close cos 0.899 - 09
Docusign | #1 in Electronic Signature and Intelligent Agreement Management
Create, commit to, and manage your agreements all in one platform with Docusign IAM. Electronically sign for free.
Very close cos 0.898 - 10
Online Flipbook Maker - Create Interactive Flipbooks | Flipsnack
Create flipbooks online using our interactive flipbook maker. Flipsnack is the easiest way to make brochures, magazines & catalogs. Upload PDF or design online!
Very close cos 0.902 - 11
software company providing market automation software
Very close cos 0.898 - 12
American software company
Very close cos 0.898 - 13
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Very close cos 0.899 - 14
Celtra | Home
Celtra offers software solutions for marketers and publishers that want to leverage the power of automation and AI to drive ad performance and deliver the best results in the new era of digital advertising.
Very close cos 0.896 - 15
iLovePDF | Online PDF tools for PDF lovers
iLovePDF is an online service to work with PDF files completely free and easy to use. Merge PDF, split PDF, compress PDF, office to PDF, PDF to JPG and more!
Very close cos 0.896 - 16
Future proof your business with GTM AI
Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Ads conversion tracking
- Google Analytics
Close cos 0.894 - 18
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Close cos 0.893 - 19
online education platform
Very close cos 0.895 - 20
shutterstock.com
American stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools provider
Very close cos 0.897
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to adobe.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Adobe uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Adobe is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /content/dam/cc/
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=6fc5c32209614c905d88a1cff92d08be1eff034a63a75ebdf…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX adobe-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a1-217.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-sign-verification=9c3b7ea5e23da29a4a3d23d89c194c4914a70966bd944…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=9uYxhBbyOGbk9B1aIn6fheLO/Cg08iHVd7RwDua…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=4JjiCeoO4ZI71Wz54ZByVZYNBLNCDNPcLz4lv…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Rg8rw6QFcht0wbcstENHTQ3h5l_ujrfBPxhuE7cfBFE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=3rlk6hdq3nk34qcs4bsz8dua9a1hoa
- Miro TXT miro-verification=2a1b8fd92b346bd4b1d8e3d2e42517e031841d95
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-xsmU3ZeWiAU4L5v23bd1l0tS
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Adobe adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Atlassian 15/20
- Apple Business · not on adobe.com 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on adobe.com 13/20
- OpenAI 11/20
- Stripe 11/20
- DocuSign · not on adobe.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on adobe.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on adobe.com 7/20
- Miro 7/20
- Adobe 7/20
- HubSpot · not on adobe.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on adobe.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on adobe.com 6/20