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Adobe Creative Cloud for Mac

Access Adobe apps from the cloud with a monthly fee.

$54.99
In English
1.7
Based on 43 user rates

MacUpdate professional review by Yar Yan

Updated on August 28, 2024

Adobe Creative Cloud

A go-to toolkit for artists, designers, illustrators, filmmakers, digital marketers, and creative people in general.

Adobe Creative Cloud is a bundle of 20+ desktop and mobile apps for photography, graphic design, video editing, UX design, drawing and painting, social media, and more. From turning a selfie into a work of art to creating a whole movie from your last vacation videos—any creative task becomes easy with Adobe Creative Cloud apps.

Adobe Creative Cloud apps

Below is a list of web services, desktop, and mobile apps included in the Adobe Creative Cloud toolkit:

  1. Illustrator CC is a powerful tool for creating vector graphics and illustrations. It offers artists endless opportunities to detail and scale their work.
  2. After Effects CC is ideal for creating cinematic visual effects and fascinating motion designs.
  3. Photoshop CC is the industry’s highest-standard app for image editing. It gives artists creative control and the ability to manipulate photographs, designs, etc.
  4. Premiere Pro CC is a video production and editing software that lets artists craft high-quality videos with comprehensive features, effects, and audio integration.
  5. Acrobat Pro is a versatile PDF editor that helps create, edit, and collaborate on documents. It lets you showcase your work in a polished and professional format.
  6. InDesign CC is a go-to tool for page design and layout, giving artists the tools they need to create print and digital publications.
  7. Dreamweaver CC lets designers create responsive websites and apps by providing a flexible platform to showcase their work and expand their digital presence.
  8. Audition CC is an advanced audio editing software that allows artists to refine and enhance soundtracks, podcasts, and other audio projects.
  9. Bridge CC serves as a centralized hub for organizing and managing creative assets. It helps artists access files quickly and efficiently.
  10. InCopy CC is designed for copywriters, editors, and colleagues who need copy for their projects. It provides a collaborative platform for writing, editing, and reviewing content to ensure seamless integration with design layouts.
  11. Lightroom is an AI-powered photo editing tool that offers artists intuitive controls and advanced features.
  12. Media Encoder CC helps convert audio and video files into various formats while keeping their quality at its highest.
  13. Adobe Stock is a library of images, videos, and photos that provides a vast resource for creativity and inspiration.
  14. Adobe Express employs AI to generate engaging content for social media, making it a quick and efficient way for SMM professionals to create eye-catching graphics and videos.
  15. Adobe Firefly is an AI-powered Adobe Creative Cloud app that offers innovative tools and techniques for artists to push their creativity boundaries.
  16. Adobe Fonts offers a diverse collection of fonts to integrate into your projects.
  17. Frame.io enables team collaboration and a feedback culture. It allows professionals to refine their work using valuable input.
  18. Adobe Fresco offers a digital canvas for drawing and painting. It is an easy way to create digital artwork with realistic brushes and textures.
  19. Adobe Color helps artists create and explore color palettes. It offers inspiration and guidance in selecting harmonious color schemes for their projects.
  20. Capture helps designers convert images into vector graphics quickly and easily.
  21. Behance is a vibrant online community for presenting creative projects and connecting with fellow artists or potential clients. It offers vast networking opportunities to grow your career.
  22. Portfolio offers a base of customizable website templates and provides a professional platform to attract clients and collaborators.
  23. Animate is a tool for creating animations. With its advanced features, it allows artists to bring characters and scenes to life.
  24. Character Animator simplifies the process of creating 2D character animations. Character Animator presents intuitive controls and features for artists to explore and use in their work.
  25. Aero empowers artists to design augmented reality experiences. It offers innovative tools and capabilities to create interactive and engaging AR content.
  26. Mixamo is a versatile tool that helps artists create 3D character animations.

Adobe Creative Cloud free trial allows access to mobile applications and a variety of fonts. You can upgrade your subscription by adding plans for individual apps or opting for the Creative Cloud All Apps paid option whenever you wish.

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Adobe Creative Cloud description

Introducing Adobe Creative Cloud desktop applications, including Adobe Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC. They're the next generation of CS tools. Get hundreds of all-new features. Keep your entire creative world in sync: files, feedback from team members, fonts, settings, and updates. And, as always, your applications live on your desktop, not in a browser and not in the cloud.

With Creative Cloud, your entire creative world is synced and organized for you across multiple devices. Track comments posted to shared files, keep tabs on your work and your followers on Behance, respond to invitations to join a project folder, manage your fonts, download the latest product updates, and more.

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StrongTequila
StrongTequila
Oct 15 2021
5.6.0.788
1.0
Oct 15 2021
1.0
Version: 5.6.0.788
2021 most buggy version ever
orsobou4
orsobou4
Dec 27 2020
5.3.5.13
2.0
Dec 27 2020
2.0
Version: 5.3.5.13
What has got into Creative Cloud? The most recent version of Bridge, in particular, does not work at all on my system, a MacBook Pro with the latest Mac OS, Big Sur 11.1, installed. When I try to open a folder in Bridge, the colored wheel keeps on spinning, and the process gives up. After my latest attempt to install it, and one successful opening, the software crashed every time I tried to start using it. I had to cancel the subscription long before expiration time, which has set me back 480 SEK for nothing. Adobe's owners must be greediy mafia bosses! I have now switched to using Pixelmator Pro instead.
skybaisne
skybaisne
Sep 16 2019
4.9.0.519
1.0
Sep 16 2019
1.0
Version: 4.9.0.519
This is the most evil software I've ever seen that is not, strictly speaking, malware. It's spyware, bloatware, and adware. Spyware? On launch, it connects to about 40 hosts, including analytics company New Relic. Bloatware? Installing it downloads about 460 MB per computer. Adobe Application Manager, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud Experience, and Adobe Sync (all in /Applications/Utilities) together take up 448 MB. This might be foregivable if the Mac had no good package installer, but Apple provides a quite decent package utility. But it's worse. Almost every time I launch Creative Cloud Desktop, it tells me an update is available, and all updates seem to be mandatory, so that's another 460 MB or so per computer. It puts updating my software on Adobe's schedule, not mine. When a new update is released, I selfishly wait a while to let others do the beta testing. That's especially true for Creative Cloud Desktop, which in the past had a bug that randomly deleted files. So say a new version of Photoshop is released. I wait a while, then launch Creative Cloud Desktop to update Photoshop. But I discover that Creative Cloud Desktop has just been updated, so I wait a while before risking downloading it. By then, Photoshop has been updated again and I'm back to the beginning. It's even worse. I wanted to uninstall an old version of Photoshop to free up some badly needed space. I ran Uninstall Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 and Creative Cloud Desktop launched! Of course with a mandatory update. I had to install new software to free up space. I might have been out in the field, with no Internet access, desperately needing space, and unable to uninstall an old version of Photoshop. Adware? Every time I launch Creative Cloud Desktop (when there's not a mandatory update), it's telling me about some wonderful new Adobe software or service of absolutely no interest to me. What I really want is just to download three packages (Photoshop, Bridge, Camera Raw), then use the Mac package utility to install them on all my computers. I download once on my schedule and install on my schedule. Creative Cloud Desktop launches automatically after installation or an update. If it contained any malware, the malware has already run. I want to install a package, scan the installed application for malware, and only then launch it. Finally, I have to log in to Creative Cloud Desktop, meaning I have to trust it to transport my credentials securely. If I don't trust Apple's TLS implementation in Safari, I can use a different browser, including an open source browser. With Adobe I have no choice. If I were younger and not hopelessly trapped in the Photoshop ecosystem, I'd be seriously looking at alternatives like GIMP, Skylum Luminar, or Capture One.
Eric•Woehler
Eric•Woehler
May 12 2019
4.8.1.442
0.5
May 12 2019
0.5
Version: 4.8.1.442
The hate is based on the fact that once they have you and your files, you are locked into Adobe's parasitic bleeding - and what a surprise, the fees doubled overnight last week. Pay up or lose your work. Parasitic work practice - may be good for bottom line but not for thinking users, especially when Pixelmator (USD$30) offers features of Photoshop and Illustrator .
bdikkat
bdikkat
Feb 11 2019
4.8.0.421
5.0
Feb 11 2019
5.0
Version: 4.8.0.421
Simply cannot understand the hate. Adobe CC is brilliant.
blakeaanaya
blakeaanaya
Nov 6 2021
5.6.0.788
5.0
Nov 6 2021
5.0
Version: 5.6.0.788
StrongTequila
StrongTequila
Oct 15 2021
5.6.0.788
1.0
Oct 15 2021
1.0
Version: 5.6.0.788
orsobou4
orsobou4
Dec 27 2020
2.0
Dec 27 2020
2.0
Version: null
incrzr
incrzr
Oct 17 2019
1.0
Oct 17 2019
1.0
Version: null
skybaisne
skybaisne
Sep 16 2019
1.0
Sep 16 2019
1.0
Version: null
Eric•Woehler
Eric•Woehler
May 12 2019
0.5
May 12 2019
0.5
Version: null
SteveGosselin
SteveGosselin
Mar 21 2019
4.0
Mar 21 2019
4.0
Version: null
bdikkat
bdikkat
Feb 11 2019
5.0
Feb 11 2019
5.0
Version: null
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Oct 17 2018
5.0
Oct 17 2018
5.0
Version: null
Treaclecat
Treaclecat
Mar 27 2017
0.5
Mar 27 2017
0.5
Version: null
WetNet
WetNet
Mar 26 2017
0.5
Mar 26 2017
0.5
Version: null
Bigboysdad
Bigboysdad
Jan 28 2017
0.5
Jan 28 2017
0.5
Version: null
Igor-Freiberger
Igor-Freiberger
Oct 29 2016
0.5
Oct 29 2016
0.5
Version: null
Kaz219
Kaz219
Jul 4 2016
0.5
Jul 4 2016
0.5
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mhasman
mhasman
Jun 13 2016
0.5
Jun 13 2016
0.5
Version: null
Wunderhorn
Wunderhorn
Apr 20 2016
1.0
Apr 20 2016
1.0
Version: null
cjred
cjred
Apr 14 2016
5.0
Apr 14 2016
5.0
Version: null
Godefroyr
Godefroyr
Jul 1 2015
5.0
Jul 1 2015
5.0
Version: null
cvdesign-1
cvdesign-1
Oct 8 2014
0.5
Oct 8 2014
0.5
Version: null
Pik80
Pik80
Jun 3 2014
0.5
Jun 3 2014
0.5
Version: null
Beto-Boton
Beto-Boton
Jun 2 2014
0.5
Jun 2 2014
0.5
Version: null
PC-Mac-Dr-
PC-Mac-Dr-
May 30 2014
0.5
May 30 2014
0.5
Version: null
ToddL1632
ToddL1632
May 30 2014
0.5
May 30 2014
0.5
Version: null
JamesHarrisPhoto
JamesHarrisPhoto
May 30 2014
4.0
May 30 2014
4.0
Version: null
Mikebenda
Mikebenda
May 30 2014
0.5
May 30 2014
0.5
Version: null
Leonledragon
Leonledragon
May 30 2014
0.5
May 30 2014
0.5
Version: null
twinturbine
twinturbine
May 30 2014
0.5
May 30 2014
0.5
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Salitt
Salitt
May 30 2014
0.5
May 30 2014
0.5
Version: null
CrazedLeper
CrazedLeper
Mar 23 2014
1.0
Mar 23 2014
1.0
Version: null
-rick-v-
-rick-v-
Mar 22 2014
5.0
Mar 22 2014
5.0
Version: null
ejrb
ejrb
Mar 22 2014
0.5
Mar 22 2014
0.5
Version: null
Iturtle
Iturtle
Mar 22 2014
0.5
Mar 22 2014
0.5
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Sgginc
Sgginc
Jan 17 2014
0.5
Jan 17 2014
0.5
Version: null
Fringewood
Fringewood
Jun 19 2013
0.5
Jun 19 2013
0.5
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RavenNevermore
RavenNevermore
Jun 19 2013
0.5
Jun 19 2013
0.5
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cubanpete
cubanpete
Jun 19 2013
0.5
Jun 19 2013
0.5
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Rondfranks
Rondfranks
Jun 18 2013
0.5
Jun 18 2013
0.5
Version: null
Cowicide
Cowicide
Jun 18 2013
0.5
Jun 18 2013
0.5
Version: null
themesser
themesser
May 31 2012
5.0
May 31 2012
5.0
Version: null
Caproberts
Caproberts
May 29 2012
2.5
May 29 2012
2.5
Version: null