# Adobe Creative Cloud Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/adobe-creative-cloud/ 9 people recommended Adobe Creative Cloud in Hacker News comments, 22 had mixed feelings and 114 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 12 months, in 7 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** More people criticize it than recommend it. Industry-standard design, photo and video apps that people say are reliable and worth paying for. Main caveat: annual plans sold as monthly, with cancellation fees for early exit. Summary written by Claude from the comments below. ## What people warn about - Hard-to-cancel tactics and early cancellation fees (5 comments in the sample): "Of course they're trying to get you hooked, pricing at a point to minify budget issues, and recurring year-round to avoid expense approvals." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827339)) "The scummy subscription dark patterns like "sign up to the $50pm plan but also it's a yearly agreement with termination fees teehee" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821533)) "They offer click-to-cancel, but then charge a cancellation fee equal to what you would have paid for the rest of the one-year term." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047373)) - Bloated, buggy, poor support (2 comments in the sample): "Customer support is just a forum where 98% of the offered "fixes" for bugs in their software is "revert to previous version" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46030765)) "only to see the product get more bloated, less stable and any bugs/feature-requests you file go to /dev/null." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035628)) - Runs as admin, stores documents in cloud (2 comments in the sample): "The Adobe Creative Cloud app runs as admin, and does automated updates (when it's working as intended) without further requiring a password." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898040)) "by default Creative Cloud stored copies of any documents edited within an Adobe cloud account - with no opt-in" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633743)) - Annual contract advertised as monthly (1 comment in the sample): "They don't even offer a monthly subscription contract - it's purely annual, but they advertise and promote monthly with fine print." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048219)) ## Why people recommend it - Good value for full suite (2 comments in the sample): "Adobe is cheap, you can get the full suite for a very reasonable price." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827604)) "it is certainly cheaper to keep up with the latest CC than it was before" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140629)) - Industry standard tools for design work (2 comments in the sample): "Adobe has encroached upon every corner of this industry, pretty much all of their apps are the standard tools for any given design job" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921634)) "any graphic designer will kick and scream if they're not given the adobe suite" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977963)) - Best software for its field (2 comments in the sample): "I’ve used their software during my Multimedia studies and continued paying for some of it because it was just very, very good." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830995)) "They made the best software for their specific field and have been reaping the rewards for a long time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985633)) - Reliable, well-supported, actively developed apps (2 comments in the sample): "a familiar line of stable, well-supported, interoperable, and actively-developed products" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029009)) "Adobe's apps are pretty solidly reliable, if uninspiring in places" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068897)) ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html) ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Adobe Creative Cloud", https://hackerapproved.com/p/adobe-creative-cloud/ (9 recommend, 22 mixed, 114 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.