Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Adobe

The 20 closest creative software alternatives to Adobe, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Adobe? The closest matches are Envato®, acrobat.com and Canva. 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.

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01 · Entity

About Adobe

Adobe macromedia.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: former American graphics and web development software company

Top 1K · #196 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Adobe

Summary by Claude

Former Macromedia domain that now redirects to Adobe's site, which sells creative software subscriptions (Creative Cloud, Photoshop, Firefly generative AI), PDF and document tools (Acrobat), and marketing and customer experience software for businesses.

Who it’s for
Designers, creative professionals, businesses, students
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

BazaarvoiceMarketoScribdCreative CommonsFigmadoxygen.orgSemrushCanvaacrobat.comEnvato®

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Adobe

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Adobe, thumbs down if it isn’t.

  1. 01
    Envato® envato.com Top 10K English

    Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets

    Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.

  2. 02
    acrobat.com Top 10K

    PDF service from Adobe

  3. 03
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

  4. 04
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English

    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.

  5. 05
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  6. 06
    Figma figma.com Top 1K English

    Figma: The collaborative canvas for design, code, and AI

    Figma is the canvas where design, code, and AI come together. From first idea to shipped product — go from concept to production with your whole team, in one place.

  7. 07
    Creative Commons creativecommons.org Top 1K English

    Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons

    family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work

  8. 08
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

    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.

  9. 09
    Marketo marketo.com Top 10K

    software company providing market automation software

  10. 10
    Bazaarvoice bazaarvoice.com Top 10K English

    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.

  11. 11
    Autodesk autodesk.com Top 1K

    American software company

  12. 12
    monday.com Top 10K English

    The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com

    Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.

  13. 13
    magnific.com Top 10K English

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    stock photography site

  14. 14
    Copy.ai copy.ai English

    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.

  15. 15
    Behance behance.net Top 1K

    design website

  16. 16
    quark.cn Top 10K

    夸克_AI旗舰应用官网

    夸克pc/app为你带来极速、智能、安全、高效的搜索体验,找答案,找资料,找工具,办公,学习,工作必备应用。夸克提供浏览器搜索引擎、网盘、AI扫描王工具及小说阅读等高效功能,为你提供稳定,安全,流畅的浏览环境和优质的产品服务体验

  17. 17

    Web App - Unavailable

    subscription to a range of office software products from Microsoft

  18. 18
    Salesforce salesforce.com Top 1K German

    Salesforce: Das führende CRM mit KI | Salesforce DE

    Salesforce ist das führende CRM mit KI. Es hilft Unternehmen, sich auf völlig neue Weise mit Kund:innen zu vernetzen, indem es die Daten, Apps und Agents zusammenbringt, die das Unternehmen am Laufen halten.

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    Flipsnack flipsnack.com Top 10K English

    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!

  20. 20
    DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English

    DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community

    DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to macromedia.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.

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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