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Estimated visits per month, across the web app and mobile apps.Visits380.2M/mo
Largest visitor share — 25% of traffic from United States.Top region25%United States

What it is

Overview

Adobe Photoshop handles the photo editing and digital art creation that graphic designers, photographers, and digital artists rely on daily. The software combines traditional editing tools — precision selections, layer management, color correction — with Adobe Firefly AI for generative image creation and background replacement. Built as a hybrid product that layers AI capabilities onto decades of professional editing features. The 380 million monthly visits come mostly from creative professionals who need the selection tools and non-destructive editing workflow that reviewers consistently name as the strongest reasons to pay the subscription.

At a glance

Usability & Quality overview

Inputs
Outputs
Platforms

Best for

  • professional photo editing
  • image retouching
  • AI-assisted graphic design workflows

Watch out for

  • subscription cost
  • update-related workflow disruption
  • Adobe ecosystem fatigue
Real product, not a wrapperIndependent product

Adobe Photoshop offers substantial value beyond basic AI chat interfaces through its proprietary Firefly AI integration, decades of specialized development for professional photo editing, and industry-standard creative workflows. The tool provides advanced selection tools, layer management, and non-destructive editing capabilities that have set the benchmark for professional image editing software.

Strong evidence

Quality score

Updated monthly·13.4K ratings analyzed·2 sourcesHigh confidence
74/100
90-day trendStable

Adobe Photoshop Industry-standard photo editor for professional image work, but updates can disrupt workflows.

Score breakdown
=74/100
User verdict ×40 24Adoption ×22 22Honesty ×16 12Trust ×10 5Value ×12 6Adjustments +526 to reach 100

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Plans

Pricing

Pricing modelPaid
Paid options from$37.99/month
BillingMonthly

How free is free?

No free tier

Subscription only: $37.99/mo for teams, $99.99/mo for full Creative Cloud

Behind the paywall

  • Photoshop desktop, web, and mobile accessPhotoshop for teams ($37.99/mo)
  • 25 monthly generative AI creditsPhotoshop for teams ($37.99/mo)
  • 4,000 monthly generative AI creditsCreative Cloud Pro for teams ($99.99/mo)
  • 20+ Creative Cloud apps including Firefly AICreative Cloud Pro for teams ($99.99/mo)

Cost to actually use

Based on 93 classified review complaints about rate limits, credits, and billing.

CasualNo free option; requires $37.99/mo minimum subscription.
DailyProfessional daily use requires $37.99-99.99/mo subscription.
HeavyHeavy business use needs $99.99/mo for full Creative Cloud access.

Community feedback

Aggregated reviews

Ratings and quoted comments below are aggregated from third-party sources and reflect those users' views, not SearchTools.ai's.

4.70/5
13.4K reviews · 2 sources

What reviewers talk about

themes inside the Sentiment pillar — not score ingredients

64Output Quality48 mentions
Scored from 48 mentions · medium confidence
POSITIVE reddit

Adobe is still by far the best in vector graphics editing and raster manipulation. Regardless, I think they've lost a lot of market share. Figma and other competitors have taken a huge bite out of it. Video editing is a big pile of outdated junk. They've fallen behind on a lot of things. My personal opinion is that the Adobe UI is a teribble mess.

NEGATIVE trustpilot

For a company that charges an exorbitant premium subscription fee, their software stability is a absolute joke. A routine update completely destroyed the core Lightroom-to-Photoshop handshake workflow, rendering the standard 'Edit in Photoshop' feature entirely useless. When you try to bypass their broken code pathways, you are met with flat, washed-out colour profiles that fail to render correctly even when manually assigning the proper colour spaces. Adobe clearly does not test their systems

NEGATIVE trustpilot

Editing doesn't work correctly, I click on some words I want to delete and it looks fine and I hit the backspace to get rid of them and it switches to edit mode and messes everything up. Like all the letters get stacked on top of eachother somehow, like it is terrible. The Ai bot didn't help and no one helped me when I called service. Absolutely terrible

POSITIVE reddit

Do I like Adobe or their business practices? Nope! But do I think their tools are still the best there is, once you've learned how to use them? Probably. I wouldn't say I enjoy them like they're a hobby or something, though. They're complicated because they allow you to do complicated things. If you want to do simple things, there are many simpler tools out there and it's up to you to figure out where the line is and make the switch back and forth.

25Value & Pricing85 mentions
Scored from 85 mentions · high confidence
POSITIVE reddit

Super expensive? It's $9.99 per month. Though it does have a learning curve. I'd suggest watching some tutorials and learn what you can.

NEGATIVE trustpilot

Programa caro y con políticas de suscripción muy agresivas. Si algún día te vas a dar de baja de una suscripción anual que sepas que te van a cobrar el 50% de lo que quede del año. Aunque ya no tengas acceso al servicio, te lo cobran por la cara, basándose en una política de letra pequeña de la que no se informa adecuadamente. Jamás volveré con Adobe.

NEGATIVE trustpilot

The cost of my plan was raised by more than double this month and they attempted to charge me £100 to leave.

NEGATIVE trustpilot

Do not enter your payment details into adobe. I signed up for the ‘free’ adobe pro. After 5 days I cancelled the subscription. However they still charged me £63.

20Reliability27 mentions
Scored from 27 mentions · low confidence
POSITIVE g2

I have been using Adobe Photoshop since 2016 when I made flyers for my event agency. Currently, I am a graphic designer and I have my own digital marketing agency focused on social media, and I use Photoshop for absolutely EVERYTHING, every day. I have the entire Adobe suite, so I have Photoshop at an incredible price. AI is the latest of its integrations and is the best on the market, without a doubt. Adobe Firefly is the best generative image AI. The app's performance is incredible, very smoot

NEGATIVE trustpilot

For a company that charges an exorbitant premium subscription fee, their software stability is a absolute joke. A routine update completely destroyed the core Lightroom-to-Photoshop handshake workflow, rendering the standard 'Edit in Photoshop' feature entirely useless. When you try to bypass their broken code pathways, you are met with flat, washed-out colour profiles that fail to render correctly even when manually assigning the proper colour spaces. Adobe clearly does not test their systems

NEGATIVE trustpilot

Non riesco a loggarmi. non ricevo l email e nemmeno SMS. non da la possibilita di loggarsi con password. pessimi.

NEGATIVE trustpilot

Biggest piece of Garbage company out there. I edited my pdf tried to download it and it said I needed a subscribtion for that, so I go and do that. Only problem: my edited document isn't saved anywhere so I have to do it all again

5Support20 mentions
Scored from 20 mentions · low confidence
POSITIVE trustpilot

Once you got the subscription it's absolutely impossible to unsubscribe, the page simply doesn't appear!!! So you should text to support and after 1 hour of conversation you still aren sure it cancelled/ Their website is absolutely user unfriendly, but at least support team works.

NEGATIVE trustpilot

Editing doesn't work correctly, I click on some words I want to delete and it looks fine and I hit the backspace to get rid of them and it switches to edit mode and messes everything up. Like all the letters get stacked on top of eachother somehow, like it is terrible. The Ai bot didn't help and no one helped me when I called service. Absolutely terrible

NEGATIVE trustpilot

Ich habe den Kundenservice kontaktiert. 1. Unverschämtheit: damit ich überhaupt kommunizieren konnte, musste ich 1.€ zahlen für einen Chat zahlen 2. Überlasteter Mitarbeiter - antwortet nur alle Jubeljahre 3. Parallel ständig Angebote, einen Anruf für 16.-€ zu ordern. Das war die Spitze des Eisbergs. 4. Letztendlich konnte oder wollte mir der Mitarbeiter nicht helfen. Konsequenz: ich habe den Kauf der Software stoniert!

NEGATIVE trustpilot

DO NOT USE!!!!! Absolutely horrible, i just wanted to edit a pdf and ended up being trapped in an annual subscription I didn't sign up for and i can't cancel without paying a cancellation fee or starting another plan. Customer service also just ended conversation without notice. Don't expect help.

42Ease of Use41 mentions
Scored from 41 mentions · medium confidence
POSITIVE reddit

I've been using Photoshop and Illustrator for so long that I do not have to think to make them do the things I want them to do. My greatest fear is that Adobe redesigns these programs entirely and remove some of the more archaic features that I've been relying on for the past 30 years, mainly in Photoshop. I do not care about the AI features, at all, and the only time I have used generative fill was to add an 1/8 of an inch of bleed to a full bleed poster so that it could be trimmed correctly. I

NEGATIVE trustpilot

I canceled my free trial two days before it ended, navigating a painfully slow and buggy cancellation process. Despite finishing the steps, they attempted to charge my card two days later. Fortunately, the transaction failed due to insufficient funds. When I logged back into my account, the subscription was still active—and the system refused to let me cancel unless I updated to a valid payment method! Over the next four weeks, they attempted to charge my account 36 times. Three weeks in, they

NEGATIVE trustpilot

Do not trust this company! Have to pay almost CHF 30 to cancel a subscription!! Never ever seen that before!! Make your Website easier for people to navigate through!!! I am only 25 yo and even I didn’t understand what I bought! (I almost never write negative reviews but this is outrageous). It is also not that easy to cancel a subscription.

NEGATIVE trustpilot

A huge step backwards compared to the previous versions. It’s unnecessarily complicated, not intuitive at all — an absolute disaster.

50Trust derived from dimensions + predator detectionview math

A composite of the quality dimensions weighted by mention volume, then capped by predator / abuse-detection rules.

Reasoning

mixed complaint zone (posterior 0.258, billing-complaint tripwire at raw 27%, ceiling 50): indepRating=95(w0.30) claimAlignment=70(w0.28) vendorReply=55(w0.20) support=5(w0.12) → trust 50

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Video content

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Capabilities

Key features

Photo & Image Editor

Edits and enhances photos by retouching, adjusting, and modifying image content

Graphic Design

Creates layouts, posters, and visual designs from prompts and brand inputs

The honest take

What users love & flag

Distinct themes surfaced across 13.4K reviews from 2 sources — each grounded in real review text, ranked by how often it comes up.

What users love9
Industry-standard precision selection tools and masking capabilities
Advanced layer management and non-destructive editing workflow
Adobe Firefly AI integration for generative image editing
Comprehensive toolset for professional photo manipulation
Seamless integration with other Adobe Creative Cloud applications
Extensive plugin ecosystem and third-party compatibility
Professional-grade color management and correction tools
Powerful automation capabilities through actions and scripting
Cross-platform consistency and file format support
What users flag9
Aggressive subscription model with difficult cancellation process
High monthly/annual costs compared to alternatives
Frequent software crashes and stability issues
Poor customer support responsiveness and quality
Unauthorized billing and charges after cancellation attempts
Complex interface overwhelming for beginners
Forced cloud integration and online authentication requirements
Automatic subscription renewals with high cancellation fees
Performance issues and slow rendering on some systems

Questions

Frequently asked

What is Adobe Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is an industry-standard photo editor with generative AI capabilities designed for teams managing marketing materials and assets. It provides professional-grade image editing tools enhanced with AI-powered features like Generative Fill and Generative Expand, along with business features for team collaboration and brand consistency.

How much does Adobe Photoshop for teams cost?

Adobe Photoshop for teams costs $37.99 per month per license when billed annually. This includes desktop, web, and mobile versions of Photoshop, an Adobe Express Premium plan, 25 monthly generative credits, and 100GB of cloud storage.

What AI features does Adobe Photoshop include?

Adobe Photoshop includes Generative Fill technology that allows users to seamlessly blend new content into existing scenes, and Generative Expand which lets users expand images beyond their original borders. Users can remove distractions, add new elements, and create composites using these AI-powered tools.

What platforms is Adobe Photoshop available on?

Adobe Photoshop is available on desktop, web, mobile, and iOS platforms. The team subscription includes access to all these versions as part of the monthly license.

What business features does Adobe Photoshop for teams offer?

Adobe Photoshop for teams includes 180-day version histories, centralized admin console management, and asset control capabilities for intellectual property protection. Teams can use shared Creative Cloud Libraries for maintaining brand consistency and collaborative review tools.

What types of marketing materials can I create with Adobe Photoshop?

You can create web banners, email graphics, brochures, social media posts, print advertisements, and composite materials using Adobe Photoshop. The software includes precision editing tools and templates specifically designed for marketing teams and product photography needs.

How many generative AI credits do I get with Adobe Photoshop for teams?

Adobe Photoshop for teams includes 25 monthly generative credits for AI-powered features. If you need more AI capabilities, the Creative Cloud Pro for teams plan offers 4,000 monthly generative credits along with 20+ apps.

What's the difference between Adobe Photoshop for teams and Creative Cloud Pro for teams?

Adobe Photoshop for teams ($37.99/month) focuses on Photoshop with basic business features and 25 AI credits, while Creative Cloud Pro for teams ($99.99/month) includes 20+ apps, Firefly creative AI for images, video, and audio, plus 4,000 monthly generative credits for premium AI features.

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