Adobe Animate: End of Life and Support Timeline

This is a terrible mistake!! DO NOT END SUPPORT FOR ANIMATE! - many productions and studios still use this software daily to create beloved series like Hey Duggee and Maddie+Triggs for CBeeBies, among others. Not to metion private filmakers and animators. The disruption this will cause to the animation industry is insane … and to top it off by suggesting people look into Adobe After FX instead is just insulting. The fuctionality and UI of both softwares are completely different. Animate is the only software by adobe that actually stands out and stands the test of time, keeping users. Please reconsider this decision, or at least make it open source for film and animation preservation purposes.

I use Animate since 2013. We are developing 10 Apps in 7 languages for Windows, MacOS, IOS and Android. We just developed an APP we worked 13 Month.

What are you talking about ???

To move to after effects ????
to move to Adobe Express ???

You have NO clue, what that is doing with an company that is paying Subscription for over 12 Years.

We are using Animate to build APPS, with Harman, So its NOT about animations.

Exporting 300 Animations to MP4 is a solution for an APP ???????

Believe me. I will quit every Adobe Application in my company

And I will spread what Adobe is doing with customers

So tell me what I should do ??????

How long is Adobe Animate on my computer ? How long can I use it ????

its a disaster

are you insane.

I use Animate daily for work, what am I supposed to do now? Don’t remove access to the software! 

Awful. I have been using Flash since Macromedia 2005, pre-Adobe acquisition. 

I did not think it was possible for me to dislike Adobe even more than I already do. I will aggressively condemn Adobe at every opportunity with people in my network. Absolutely disgusted.

At some point, there won't be any apps left that make paying a monthly subscription worthwhile. I stopped using Dreamweaver. A few years back it was Fireworks. I sometimes find myself using macOS Preview instead of Acrobat. Now, Animate is going away... Which one is next? Maybe it's time to think about some other options besides Creative Cloud. 

don’t do it adobe, your foot doesn’t have room for any more bullet holes!!

Keep the software running without support at least. Many projects will not need an Adobe license at all if Animate goes completely. 

You write in the help article about the end of life that after march 2027, fla and xfl files will no longer be openable, yet it also says further down the program will still be accessible for those with it downloaded, do you mean adobe cloud hosted project files or ALL project files?

one of our team leads says there’s a check in the program whenever a project file is opened that phones home to creative cloud to check subscription status and that you’re potentially just going to be denying that check going forward and if thats the case it’s going to lock out not just the current version of animate, but all previous cloud versions too from ever opening an fla or xfl file after the end of support.

could you please patch that check out prior to end of support if this is the case? so that the current version would remain functional, but unsupported after end of life.

Your alternatives are not viable for the type of animation work we do, or the skillsets and knowledge of the animators we work with.

Why take away access to the application?!! This is NUTS!!
Adobe is going to lose a lot of subscribers by doing this. At least maintain access to Animate in perpetuity. Many of us would be willing to keep our subscriptions even if there are no plans to update it. Otherwise, there aren’t enough reasons to pay the monthly subscription. With cheaper and free alternatives to Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. I for one will be canceling my subscription as soon as I lose access to Animate in 2027, if not sooner, unless Adobe makes a commitment to keeping it going. How hard is that -- the application is downloaded to our computers and runs locally, so no web services are required other than license authentication.