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Adobe Animate: End of Life and Support Timeline

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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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Rook36805667nf5g

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Hello. I am very disappointed to log in at work today to find out about this. This is a program that I use professionally at my job and is irreplicable. Please reconsider your decision to discontinue this product.

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Sammy Red the Betta Fish

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please do not discontinue adobe animate how why every time I need adobe animate really bad so will you not discontinuing Adobe Animate, I need it is very important files are in there also in my USB drive so will you not discontinue Adobe Animate please? also please keep it forever please? I need also is in creative cloud pro plan will you not Adobe Animate please? also, adobe animate is 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐stars for me 😫also please do not discontinue the adobe animate I love it so please announce do not discontinue adobe animate please? do not discontinue adobe animate please it for me very important to me. do not discontinue adobe animate please? Please reconsider your decision to not discontinue this product.

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Sammy the Red the Betta fish

just.emma

Inspiring

This is hugely disappointing. I saw this posted on Reddit in case anyone wants to sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/ve-adobe-animate-don-t-let-this-essential-creative-tool-disappear

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Pepper2676

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Photoshop is replaceable. there’s plenty of other image editors, I do like photoshop but I’ll make do with gimp if pushed.
premiere and audition too, plenty of good options, even completely free ones for both. I already own a bunch of them and rarely use audition anyways. vegas is somehow far more stable now than premiere, which is a shocking twist based on history being the opposite for decades before.

flash IS the only thing keeping me on creative cloud. if I cannot open my local fla files after the end of the support period, I will no longer be subscribed to creative cloud. same for a team of three dozen individuals with active cc subs I’m a part of, we NEED flash/animate whatever you want to call it.

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NeilTee

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As a working animator who relies on Adobe Animate to make a living, this is a huge blow to your user base. Adobe Animate is the only reason I subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud, and I find this extremely short sighted. Every animation studio that I’ve worked for relies on this software, and has a huge amount of time, effort, and resources invested in reuse libraries in the FLA format - that would be non-transferrable to any other software program. I genuinely ask you to rethink this decision, for the good of your users, and for the fact that ending such a vital tool is a great way to alienate your entire user base away from ever using any Adobe product ever again.

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joyceb92663589

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The main reason we have been using the creative cloud is Adobe Animate CC. From the overall creative cloud usage, 95%is for Animate CC. Is there a way of getting the software offline? Can we download adobe anime cc, I believe we can use it without Adobe support.

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gersan-2

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They are implying that they will block users from opening and working with their animate files after 2027 or 2029 March. That means blocking access to thousands of creative projects, that are privately owned IP products. FTC would possibly find Adobe’s action unlawful.

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kglad

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adobe’s never done that (with any of the other discontinued apps). heck, users are still finding ways to use muse.

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Screenhog

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I am a current subscriber to the Adobe Creative Suite, but I started with Flash back in 2000.

Adobe Animate is one of the few irreplaceable apps that you have. There are alternatives for Photoshop, video editing, effects editing… but vector-based animation in the way that Adobe Animate handles it? It’s been vital to my workflow for a long, long time.

If Animate gets cancelled, so does my subscription. Period. To say that I won’t even be able to open my working files despite the app clearly still being able to do so is beyond infuriating.

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Lucaksic

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They are stupid stupid stupid. Just look at the support page, they are shitting on us they can’t possibly be serious. How can you be so out of touch with your customers

Customers with a Creative Cloud Pro plan can use other Adobe apps to replace portions of Animate functionality. 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.

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teelee779

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iloveai

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NO.

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leahp57410938

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Not much notice there Adobe. Also as someone who has been animating professionally in flash/Adobe animate since 2013, you’re recommending using after effects to animate in as an alternative program? Do you know anything about animation? They do completely different types of animation. The animation industry has had such a rough few years. This is honestly the cherry on the cake. I hope Adobe pops with the AI bubble. Disgusting behaviour. Will be leaving Adobe as soon as animate does.

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Lucaksic

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They honestly have no idea, they are so out of their mind. Animating is after effect is pure hell, how can you even do hand-drawn animations there.

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Stu-art Bos-ley

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Hi Mohit and the community.
I understand that Animate hasn’t been a focus for Adobe and the lack of updates to Create JS seem a sign of that, however, the lack of updates also suggest that it’s a very stable solution. Grant Skinner and the Adobe team should be very proud of the long run they have had and the many creatives they have empowered. From 1997 I was a Flash developer then I became an Animate developer, so for me this is very sad news.

At least 30 people on my team still use Adobe Animate every day. So I very much still need Adobe Animate, however, I must accept it will no longer be available.

So what can I do... Well I will build a replacement.
When Chrome was introducing the sandbox we were considering building a replacement, now it seems we must.
Mohit, please reach out via my Adobe Account details if Adobe would like to collaborate and to all in the community, Please comment so I can understand the demand better.

Thanks

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gersan-2

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I don’t want to lose access to Animate 2023, the last stable version. I built interactive infographics to support NSF projects with it. I would build a 2GB molecular animation, convert parts of it to webm videos, and publish as HTML5 canvas documents under 10MB each. Animate 2023 is a terrific tool for infographics. I want to keep using it.

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