What are some alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud?
Updated March 2, 2022
Adobe offers several industry-leading creative applications, including:
While Adobe apps are high-end programs, they require a monthly subscription, making them quite costly. Fortunately, there are comparable, non-subscription alternatives to Adobe's most popular applications. Examples are listed below.
Photoshop alternatives:
- Corel PaintShop Pro (Windows - free trial)
- Serif Affinity Photo (Windows and Mac - free trial)
- GIMP (Windows and Mac - free)
Illustrator alternatives:
- CorelDRAW Graphics Suite (Windows and Mac - free trial)
- Serif Affinity Designer (Windows and Mac - free trial)
- Inkscape (Windows and Mac - free)
Premiere Pro alternatives:
- Corel Pinnacle Studio (Windows - free trial)
- Apple Final Cut Pro (Mac - free trial)
- Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve (Windows and Mac - free)
InDesign alternatives:
- QuarkXPress (Windows and Mac - free trial)
- Serif Affinity Publisher (Windows and Mac - free trial)
- Scribus (Windows and Mac - free)
Several of the above applications can open Adobe file formats, such as .PSD, .AI, .INDD, and .PDF. You can view a full list of each program's supported file formats by clicking the program name in the list above.