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Dropbox Sign vs Adobe Acrobat: Which is a better fit?

Updated on December 4th, 2024
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 24,247 reviews from Digital Signature users.
% Fit
High performer
Feature ratings
Electronic Signature
4.9
Data Security
4.8
Multi-Party Signing
4.8
Authentication
4.7
Mobile Signature Capture
4.7
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Electronic Signature
4.7
Data Security
NA
Multi-Party Signing
4.6
Authentication
4.6
Mobile Signature Capture
4.6
User satisfaction
4.7
User reviews1,440
Ease of use
4.7
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.5
4.7
User reviews3,886
Ease of use
4.6
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
4.3
Price starts from
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Free version
Free trial
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Dropbox Sign is for leaders who believe requesting and sending agreements for signature should be a simple, secure, and integrated user experience for both senders and signers.

Education, government, construction, insurance, creative professionals, legal professionals, and IT departments

User reviews
pros & cons
1 / 4
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Video reviews
Arianna W
Owner
4.0

Arianna W.: Hi, I am Arianna. I am the director and owner of Eos Dance School in London. I give Dropbox Sign a rating of four. Before using Dropbox Sign, I tried or considered RightSignature and DocuSign. In the end, I chose Dropbox Sign because it's the best compromise between price and features, and I think is probably one of the best softwares in terms of value for money. To us, extremely easy to integrate the software. Just a matter of signing up, and it will work for you straight away. I would recommend to just start using it and explore the features and all it has to offer. As I said, it's very easy to use it, to install, so there are no major skills required, just a little bit of understanding on how to place fields and how to send invitations, templates. But, it is again, very easy to get the hang of everything.

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Bernhard H
owner
5.0

Bernhard: Hi, my name is Bernie and I'm a business and executive coach, and I work with business owners, executives in all different kinds of companies and their leadership teams, helping them to be more successful at what they do. And I like Acrobat DC. I give it a five rating. I've upgraded from an older version of Acrobat and of course the Acrobat Reader, but those are... And I've tried some other programs from time to time to try to work with sort of PDF files, but I find none of those have the functionality or certainly the ease of editing like Acrobat DC does. I have been using an older version of Adobe Acrobat, and the functionality just doesn't work. It didn't work for me anymore in terms of being able to print different things. So I love in the newer versions you have many more options for printing, like printing booklets and things like that. Also, the ease of editing text. Those were all cumbersome in the older versions. So it was very easy to get started with Acrobat DC. Downloaded it. It was very intuitive. I'd like how the upgrades are easier. Or the changes certainly from the older versions are much easier to find in the way they've laid out the menu structure. So I was up and running with using it very quickly. And I quickly noticed how you can now highlight the different fields and move things around. So it was much easier to get to know than I remember when I first started with the old one. It was fairly cumbersome to figure out in which menu you could do what kind of access, what sort of tools. It's very nicely laid out now and very easy to use. Yeah, I'd recommend everybody use it. I think PDF files are ubiquitous at this point. We're always getting them. We always need to go in and make some edits on them. And certainly the free reader, everybody has that, but it doesn't help you except to be able to read it. Also for creating forms, sometimes you can edit things when somebody else has given it to you that they want to give you information. But if you want to set that up, create your own forms to have other people fill in and just manipulating the documents that you're getting, creating new documents, I highly recommend it. I think it works very, very well.

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Dropbox Sign

Top Features
22/35
  • Compliance Management
  • Contact Management
  • Contract/License Management
  • Document Conversion
  • Email Management
  • Encryption
  • Forms Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Signature Capture
  • Signature Creation
  • Template Management
  • Version Control
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Approval Process Control
  • Archiving & Retention
  • Audit Trail
  • Authentication
  • Customizable Fields
  • Data Security
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Signature
  • File Sharing
  • Mobile Signature Capture
  • Multi-Party Signing
  • Reminders
  • Single Sign On
  • Status Tracking
  • Team Collaboration
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Workflow Management
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Adobe Acrobat

3/35
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Dropbox Sign
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Adobe Acrobat
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Dropbox Sign
  • By Dropbox
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2007
Adobe Acrobat
  • By Adobe
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1967
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