Update on the status of Adobe Animate

About 5 years ago Adobe promised Animate is doing fine and wil not be discontinued! I can’t even believe what you did. It’s like kill Photoshop or After Effects. There is no other tool for doing web interactions with timeline and suitable for animation. Or where you can easily paste  quite complicated svg or shapes from Illustrator without problems. Years of work will be lost. I can’t trust You and there is no way i will pay for Your AI.  FREE ANIMATE !!!! 

You killed FLASH because it was insecure, said jobs ( not because this way games can only run in controlled stor $$$ environments iApplStore play )

now you are killing Flash 2.0 -- Animate! if you don’t want it!  free it in github

let others mantain it! for Free!! 

I wonder what is the CEO thinking in to doing this…...

I appreciate that Animate is being maintained. However, I am no longer able to export the file to video. It worked fine on 3/17/26 to post my St. Patrick’s Day cartoon, but would not function two weeks later to post my Easter cartoon, which I spent several nights creating. The program is worthless to me without the capability of converting to video to post to social media.

I did transfer the file to After Effects which converted it to mp4, but I lost the movie clips and the sound. Unless Adobe corrects this situation, I’ll be forced to rethink using the Adobe suite since this was the main software I subscribed for.

Well since 2022 the price for Adobe shares dropped from 688$ to 244 !!! Have a guess … Why is that ?

Product Suggestion: Adobe Animate Free for Beginners and Young Artists

Hello Adobe Team,

My name is Pietro, I am a young artist and I use your tools to create cartoons. I would like to suggest a new version of your software: Adobe Animate Free.

This version would be focused on beginners and children who are starting their journey in animation. It would help many artists who cannot afford the full subscription yet but want to become famous creators using Adobe's technology.

I have even designed a concept logo for this version (attached to this email).

Thank you for your time and for making great creative tools!

Best regards, Pietro

Although After Effects is more powerful, Animate is such a great animation app for vector based animation. Many certain animation projects can be done in Animate much more efficient than After Effects. 

I’ve been working with adobe products since 1997. But for more than 10 years nothing really new except driving existing customers or potentially new ones to other solutions : figma, davinci, etc… New updates and products are so poor in terms of functionnality (i.e the poor ia you invested in, or the 3d solutions). You’ve been killing your potential step by step. This decision is one more step backward. Compare yourself to Unreal, Da Vinci, open source, Google fonts, stock resources, etc...→ The benefits from your products (from A.E to Photoshop, via illustrator) are vanishing, facing an increasing price and loss of time. Example given : the useless audio treatment in Premiere, no improvement in vector and anchor points management & alignment in AE. I use Animate in movies industry, while it has not being really improved for a long time it’s still one of the best way for building apps in this department, especially with the integration of Illustrator and the ability to add programming. But IT IS NOT THE ONLY ONE. Should this happen, I’ll definitely spare my CC subscription.

As a blender user, i thank adobe for removing one of the lastreasons to avoid switching! And thank you for mentioning using different tools!

Don't even think about closing Animate! This is the only good program from Adobe! If you close it, why do people need Adobe at all?

I didn’t receive the first email. I learned the news from Moho Animation rightfully taking up the baton. The fact that you are continuing it was news I happened upon while checking if there are alternatives planned. This should be an email making it absolutely clear, but don’t I feel like a valued customer that you don’t communicate any of this to me. This comes a few months after I resubscribed to another year. I’d have to wait till November to bow out. I guess I should take this as a reminder to look for alternatives.