Adobe Acrobat is by far the worst program I've ever used

Report · Nov 17, 2021

Updated almost weekly with minial feature advancements or performance improvements in sight, this horrific tool needs a re-write.

I cannot believe the industry tolerate such garbage.

Report · Sep 05, 2025

I second, third and fourth this message despite providing no details. I think it truly covers it... I am an IT Director, I have been working in web development since web, and I am a pro photographer. I could/would write a BOOK on how unintuitive, slow, clunky, driver incompatible, etc., Adobe products are if I hadn't already wasted literally hundreds of hours on dealing with figuring it out. Editing PDFs is both SIMPLE and TEDIOUS, SLOW and FRUSTRATING simultaneously.

Great example of how poorly coded these apps are. Lightroom Classic on my Alienware is slow to detect faces etc. It's unusable on standard laptops without discrete graphics. But, they Android Lightroom? Does the same detections nearly instantly... It's not WHAT it does, but HOW it does it.

Oh - and the billing is terrible. It takes me so long to find all my invoices to pay them with our enterprise account... They are all over the place. IDK. They can only rely on laurels so long in the AI era.

Report · Sep 08, 2025

Hi there,

Hope you are doing well and thank you for sharing your feedback.

We’re sorry to hear about your frustrations with Acrobat, Lightroom, and billing. We know how important it is for tools to work smoothly, especially when you rely on them every day.

PDF editing/Acrobat: If you can share details like your OS, app version, and when the slowdown happens, we can try to investigate further.

Lightroom performance: We understand the difference you’re seeing between desktop and mobile. We share feedback like this with our product teams so they can keep improving performance.

Billing: For enterprise accounts, invoices should be available in the Adobe Admin Console. If you’re still having trouble finding them, please reach out through your Admin Console support so the billing team can help directly.

Your feedback is very valuable, and we’ll make sure it’s passed along to the right teams.

Regards

Amal