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Adobe Creative Cloud Express vs Photopea: Which is a better fit?

Updated on January 19th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 13,190 reviews from Graphic Design users.
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Content Import/Export
NA
Image Editing
4.7
Drag & Drop Editor
NA
Design Templates
4.5
Pattern, Color & Art Storage
NA
% Fit
High performer
Feature ratings
Content Import/Export
4.7
Image Editing
4.6
Drag & Drop Editor
4.3
Design Templates
3.9
Pattern, Color & Art Storage
4.5
User satisfaction
4.6
User reviews1,185
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.4
4.5
User reviews101
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.8
Customer support
4.0
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Free trial
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Photopea can be used by both beginners and professionals. It fully supports PSD and other file formats. Use it on your desktop, Chromebook, on your iPad or on a phone!

User reviews
pros & cons
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Video reviews
Jared H
Graphic Designer
5.0

Jared: My name's Jared, I am a graphic designer and I give Adobe five stars. For more reviews like this, click the link below. When I initially started trying to figure out social media graphics for my company. I was using Adobe Photoshop and I was also using Adobe Illustrator, but what found was that those solutions were kind of complicated and they're also hard to train people on. So I was looking for something a little bit better, a little bit more streamlined, and something meant for social media and Spark fit the bill perfectly. I chose Spark because I'm able to access it on my phone, my tablet, it in my computer. And everything's saved in the cloud so I could literally be creating something anywhere in the world and have access to it from any of my devices. And that was a super cool feature that kind of changed the game for what I did in my business. So with Adobe libraries, if you were already using Adobe products, it's incredibly easy to onboard. But even if you didn't use Adobe products in the past, and you're just looking for a solution for social media or doing any graphics for that matter, it's incredibly easy to get started. They make it super simple and the user interface is actually really cool to use, it has all the options laid out pretty easily. There's nothing complicated. There's no hidden menus. So it was really easy to get started and get other people in my business involved in using it. If you're considering using Adobe Spark for your business, I would say literally just take a day or so to get used to everything, but you're going to become a professional very quickly. They've made it really easy to grasp not only of the basics, but even the advanced mechanics of making graphics for social media and really graphics for anything else. I think it's something you definitely to give a little bit of time initially to, but you're going to be a professional once you just jump right in and start using it.

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Tanner K
Lead Sales & Marketing Analyst
4.0

Tanner K.: Hello, I am Tanner. I am the lead sales and marketing analyst at Form Tech Concrete Forms. We are a construction warehouse where we rent concrete forms and all the accessories that go along with it. In this review, I'm going to be reviewing Photopea. I give it a good four out of five. I have used in the past, originally coming up in graphic design doing Photoshop. It was a pretty heavy supplied software. It's very expensive, and especially for a company of my size, having a free version like Photopea is a great alternative. It lets me do everything that Photoshop allows me to do without the cost. Photopea is great because we use it for a lot of graphic design work, anything that is customer facing. We didn't really have a platform other than outsourcing it. Me, as an individual, was able to use my prior knowledge in Photoshop to transfer into Photopea as a free option to continue to supply the company with that great accessories and products, photos, and doing basic graphic design work throughout the whole company. Photopea is almost a strict clone of Photoshop. It has all the same tools that it uses, same layering functions. It's really close to the existing Photoshop, so if you really know how to work Photoshop, Photopea is a great alternative just as a free option. There are a little bit of ads, but if you can ignore those or turn them off sound-wise, and from there, it's pretty much like you're using Photoshop. So with Photopea, it has a lot of the same file capabilities as Photoshop. So keeping that organization of your brushes, your previous work tools, and being able to reuse graphic design projects to cut and paste onto new projects saves a lot of time.

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Prioritize real-user-identified key features according to your needs to find your best fit.

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3D Digital Asset Management
207
Important
API
388
Important

Adobe Creative Cloud Express

9/34
  • 3D Digital Asset Management
  • API
  • CAD Tools
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Content Import/Export
  • Custom Brushes
  • Custom Fonts
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Visualization
  • Design Management
  • Drag & Drop Editor
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Interactive Content
  • Mobile App
  • Multi-Language
  • Pattern, Color & Art Storage
  • Presentation Tools
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Social Media Integration
  • Text Editing
  • Version Control
  • Watermarking
  • Workflow Management
  • Content Library
  • Content Management
  • Customizable Branding
  • Design Templates
  • Image Editing
  • Preview Functionality
  • Print Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Video Editing
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Adobe Creative Cloud Express
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
Photopea
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 Creative Cloud Express
  • By Adobe
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1982
Photopea
  • By Photopea
  • Located in Czechia
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