Adobe Animate: End of Life and Support Timeline
UPDATE
Yesterday, we shared an update with Adobe Animate customers on the future of Animate. What we
shared did not meet our standards and caused a lot of confusion and angst. Please read this update that shares changes to our plans for Adobe Animate and its status and our commitments to ensuring that you always have access to your content.
See this post with the latest update.
Adobe Animate has been a product that has existed for over 25 years and has served its purpose well for creating, nurturing and developing the animation ecosystem. As technologies evolve, new platforms and paradigms have emerged that better serve the needs of the users. Acknowledging this change, we are planning to discontinue the sale of Adobe Animate effective March 1, 2026.
Existing Animate users may continue to use the application. Support for enterprise customers will continue for three years, through March 1, 2029. For all other customers, support will continue for one year, through March 1, 2027.
Customers with a Creative Cloud Pro plan can use other Adobe apps to replace portions of Animate's capabilities. Adobe After Effects supports complex keyframe animation using the Puppet tool, while Adobe Express offers one-click animation effects that can be easily applied to photos, videos, text, shapes and other design elements.
We thank our Animate users and encourage you to share feedback with our teams on the Adobe Support.
For more information, and instructions for downloading Animate during the support period please see visit the Animate HelpX page.
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