Adobe Digital Editions Negative Reviews

Adobe Digital Editions App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Adobe Digital Editions app received 215 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Adobe Digital Editions? Can you share your negative thoughts about adobe digital editions?

Adobe Digital Editions for Negative User Reviews

✓ Pésima appNada amigable.MumanapVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Absolute garbage appThis deserves 0 stars. Didn’t even use it for reading, because I spent 30 minutes troubleshooting how to even upload ONE BOOK FILE INTO THE APP, only to have the app reject my Adobe ID. There is no in-app way to upload files. Let me just repeat that, once more: *THERE IS NO IN-APP WAY TO UPLOAD FILES*. This is a READING APP. An app for reading books!!! And there is NO WAY TO IMPORT. You have to do it manually, through your device’s files. “Did you google it?” Of course I did, and adobe only has instructions for their desktop app version, because they clearly think this app is trash not worth explaining, too. And did I mention it didn’t even accept my Adobe ID? Garbage, trash, a dumpster that’s not even worth setting aflame because of how absolutely useless it is..Holland EWVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Waste of my time!This app crashes, I can't use anything without it crashing on me..GoddedVersion: 4.5.1

✓ Won’t syncDownloaded this so I could read my book after forgetting my Kobo. Does not sync books and after reading Adobe forums this seems to be a common problem..NytmarVersion: 4.5.8

✓ Do not buy downloadable PDFs that require this terrible softwareSpent addition $20 on an online college textbook for the downloadable version. Terrible terrible choice. I ended up only being able to use it on this app with is horrible. I cannot even enter a page number to jump to. And don’t worry, because when you want to scroll to the page, a stupid bar pops up that blocks you from seeing any page number, so you have to wait until it goes away to see the number. Idk who would create this program with 0 functionality. I cannot believe the managers who approved this project either. Massive joke. Will be seeking a refund for my college textbook..ChocaCookieVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Absolute rubbishA book I wanted was only available in this format. The reader is useless on an iPhone. You can’t change the text size so you have to pinch to zoom in which then makes it too big for the screen. Also when most pages load they are blank or like a ghost of the page - some times they eventually appear, sometimes they stay blank. Awful awful program..MarkSladeyVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ The world’s worst appIs there anything less than zero stars? I wanted to read a book published by UToronto Press and it forces me to download this reader. Needless to say I still haven’t read the first letter of the book because I can’t figure out how this App works. Seriously, am I being pranked?.Insolvencylawyer1972Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ This really is a terrible app-from Adobe? Makes no senseI just download this because my local library uses this app to be able to read ebooks that you’ve downloaded. Well no matter what I do the book won’t open to be readable. It shows it’s linked with the app cover but nothing. Plus when I try to read the manual in the library of the app, it showed the first few pages but then they all went blank and then one page looks like someone erased half the content (just visually) and now I can’t get any of the pages to load. And that’s on 5G. So no idea how to even use this or read my book!.Pumagirl1978Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ How is this possible?I am amazed that this is an Adobe product and that it is allowed to be on the App Store. Truly, it is a worthless piece of junk! I purchased an ebook from a small, independent press and this is the app it’s compatible with. (I’m assuming the publisher is paying Adobe for the privilege… if so, Adobe should give them their money back plus compensation.) I opened the book and it appeared they’re was no content. However, at the bottom of the blank page was a page number. So I zoomed in and then outlines of letters appeared. Then I zoomed out and the words disappeared again. Then I tapped the page and the words reappeared. (Sometimes. Other times it takes more zooming and moving the page around.) I have to go through these motions on almost EVERY SINGLE PAGE! I am so glad the book is only 50 pages long! I am on page 20 and am so frustrated with trying to get the words to appear that I may give up and go buy the paper copy. It’s a shame, and I feel sorry for anyone who bought an expensive and decently long book and was expecting to be able to read it. Adobe usually stands for quality… what happened here??.OnAWhim1Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worst reading app everI hate every time I am forced to use this horrible app. Can you please fix it? Students have to sometimes borrow books digitally and your broken app makes it impossible to read them. My books don’t load properly: blank pages, pages not rendered. Just learn from Kindle, please. It’s not hard..SklieszsczVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Literally the Worst App I’ve Ever UsedI tried our Adobe Digital Editions because it seemed easier than waiting for the library to open and go through all their COVID restrictions to get a book. Why get a physical copy when I have a perfectly good iPad and the library is offering an eBook? Well now I have to go get the physical copy because Adobe Digital Editions only lets me read roughly five pages at a time before it glitches and won’t advance a page. Only gets stuck on a blank white screen. It’s not a simple fix either. Closing the app and reopening it doesn’t do anything. The book is now “expired” despite the fact I just checked it out an hour ago. I’m shocked this is even an Adobe product. They should be ashamed of how poorly it works. A group of college freshmen could probably make an app 100x better than this, or at least one that works MORE than this Adobe product does. Jeez..Nich.amVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Doesn’t do the one thing it needs to do …I’m a grad student and am for some reason required to download this app to access books that I need for class. The process of downloading/making account etc. in the first place was inconvenient enough, but even after getting the book to download most of the pages are LITERALLY MESSED UP TO THE POINT THAT I AM UNABLE TO DECIPHER ANYTHING. I know it is not something wrong with the Downloaded book because the messed up pages are different every time I reopen the book. This app is not good, literally does not perform the singular function that it exists for and now I’m unable to complete my readings. Would give -5 stars if I could….Jjt 1015Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Not compatible with screen readerI tried using Apple's built-in screen reader to read books on this app, but the app does not allow it to work at all. No matter what book I try to read, it will only read the page number and nothing else. I'm not sure if this incompatibility is specifically with Apple or if other screen readers don't work with this app either. Regardless, it is extremely frustrating, especially since this app is the only way I can access ebooks through my university's library. Clearly Adobe did not give the slightest consideration to accessibility when creating this app. Strangely, it is only the mobile app that has this problem. The desktop app works perfectly fine on my Macbook, which is how I know that the mobile app is the problem, not the books I downloaded..AseudosVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Hands-Down Worst App I’ve Ever UsedThere must be quite the financial incentive for publishers to use this app instead of Kindle or one of the others, because I increasingly find it to be my only option with some library books. Its basic, no-frills format would not be a big deal if the danged thing actually worked! But it’s SO FRUSTRATING to use, with the constant freezing and constant absolutely blank pages. Which I guess is freezing, idk- I’ve waited very long periods of time but the words won’t populate until I take some further action. Absolutely horrible. It took me forever to even figure out why “EPub” stopped being available in the EPub app! I could not figure out what I was doing wrong until finally located the painful instructions in Support. There have been so many digital library books that I waited a long time for, and when I see that it’s an “EPub” book after finally reaching the top of the wait list, I decline it. I read for pleasure; ADE makes reading excruciating. I just finished reading 2 that I had waited weeks for - F-bombs frequently flying during the course of it - and it will be a long time before I do it again. I feel very badly for students who have no alternative, for their e-textbooks..SusanroarVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ What even is this?I only downloaded this because I had to for a uni book, and I still can’t even access it. Is this really an adobe product? I have the creative cloud since I’m a design student and use a multitude of adobe apps with ease. Nothing has caused me more frustration than this app. If you have an iPad don’t bother with this. I am now having to view my book chapter by chapter while studying for an exam because at least this way I can view it on pdf viewer. The introduction book on this app doesn’t load properly, half the pages are faded, pixilated and hard to read. I have deleted and downloaded this app multiple times and the issues stayed the same. Don’t bother with this app, save yourself the headache and look for alternative solutions..UI/UX studentVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Reasonably uselessConstantly crashes, can’t access pages searched (blank page shows up), won’t sync to computer, but so many academic websites require this app to read books. Slow and limited..RowsburnVersion: 4.5.10

✓ Uggh.I purchased a book months ago and read it. As it was a reference book I am wanting to read it again and there are only a couple of pages opening. Some are blurred out and other pages are patchy or blank. Not happy. All I want to do is read the book I purchased. Tried to put app on my other device using correct password and purchases don’t even show up there. If I could have downloaded it into iBooks I would have but adobe didn’t give me that option. This is just blatant stealing. I now have no book and will never use this terrible app again..FaylorrVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ What happened?This app needs some fixing. I can read my books only by changing the background options, by using the default white background the pages are just empty. Also this app doesn’t allow “Split View” which is essential for taking notes during the reading/studying. Is Adobe going to take care of this or they just can’t bother as it’s a free app? This app used to be an amazing tool for students and it’s still quite advised in schools and it’s such a pain witnessing the decline. I know my review is not going to be taken in consideration by Abobe but do I have to remind you that most of us are Adobe customers/users?.Marcello De ChiricoVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Do not use if you want to sync across devicesThe app is okay to use if you’re on one device only. But it is impossible to sync your library between devices. A 4 yr old thread on their forum has been left unanswered by an support staff. Syncing does not work as stated in their blurb..DoesnotsyncVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worst app I have ever usedI was required to use this app for my university reading and it is quite literally the worst app I have ever used. First, creating and using an Adobe ID is so confusing and not explained at all. It was never made clear to me that the password of the gmail account I used to sign up was not my Adobe ID password, so that took 20 minutes to figure out. Then, once I figured out how to actually import the book into the app (another 20 minutes), it was unreadable because the bottom two-thirds of every word is cut off. I followed the troubleshooting guidelines but absolutely nothing worked. This is such an embarrassment of an app, and Adobe might as well delete it and start over. It is beyond saving..ConnorcwolfeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Not fit for purposeI bought this as it was recommended as the best by Nick Hern Books. After writing this I will be requesting my money back for the play I wanted to read. Half the pages appear blank. If you scroll backwards pages will appear as largely white like through a thick fog. All the other reviews are similar but I ignored them you should not. Keep clear.VincibusVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Has no functionality and it is disgusting!I travel a lot and only have an I pad for a computer, it works fine with almost everything but whenever I need adobe for something it is a mess. I have the most recent I pad and it is just as powerful as a computer but for some reason adobe removes basic functions of applications in the I pad IOS. I have been trying to trouble shoot so I can authorize my e-reader with adobe using my i pad so I can download library epubs, there is no way I can trouble shoot this and now I need to hunt down someone who will let me run ADE to download simple library books, this is ridiculous and furthering my disgust with adobe products. Adobe do better and stop limiting I pad IOS, this has been an issue for years now and honestly I am beyond fed up, there is no reason with the power of current I pads to limit them like this, they function essentially as computer..A.Robin18Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Not impressedReally unimpressed with this app, only reason I’m using it’s because it was the only app I was allowed to use with a student website for borrowing ebooks. Crashes regularly, the highlighter sometimes won’t work and it’s really slow when I’m trying to select words. You’d think it’d be good considering it’s from adobe. And it’s not like it offers anything too out there! I don’t have another option, but there are beeeetter apps out there. I do like how straightforward it is, but it’s still not worthy.FranashVersion: 4.5.9

✓ Fundamentally brokenI saw the reviews and thought “it can’t be that bad, can it?” Then I tried to use this to do some background reading for uni. It’s simply unusable: crashes whenever a page is turned; resizes the text so that it’s illegible; and at times even decides to return to the beginning of the book just for the fun of it..Stillbored01Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible!Is this really being recommended as an application to read documents with? I only got this because one of my uni books is an Ebook and reading it has been nothing short of a nightmare! This is so clunky. Can’t believe it is an Adobe product!.Core CCVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Doesn’t work for meI borrowed a book from Open Library and tried reading it in this app. It simply doesn’t work: the app just shows several hundred blank pages. I followed the tips in the Getting Started guide to try fix the broken book, but the book remained blank in Adobe Editions. However I can see and read this book just fine on the Open Library website. It’s only broken in Adobe Editions..CharlesgutjahrVersion: 4.5.8

✓ Strangely crap app from AdobeTaking intuitive to the next level. This app seems to be relying on some sort of telepathic understanding of what the hell to do in order to get a book on it. Adobe - seriously poor app from someone with enough money, knowledge and skills to make something a shed load more functional, useable etc etc. whatever department made it - kick up the a”” for you ..Kafalou budgeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ How to return books to the library?Is there a way to return books to the library on the iOS version of Adobe Digital Editions? I don’t have a computer and I don’t find any options to return books from my iPad... Such a pity!.KaspR18Version: 4.5.9

✓ Bane of my existenceI truly have no idea how Adobe have tricked every higher education provider into using this program to rent out their ebooks. I have used so many other free readers that are fully functional. This program won't even allow the most basic functions (e.g. continuous scrolling). Heaven forbid I try to highlight text or search a document - it crashes instantly. This is just on the computer - I can't even open books from my university on my iPad at all. Pointless and awful. Are universities paying Adobe for this??? I certainly hope not..LP RulezVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ How are you this bad at what you do?I am amazed at how truly awful this piece of software is. It constantly crashes. Bought books disappear. It’s unstable the two times I’ve actually got a book open in it. It’s a terrible reading experience. I’m genuinely baffled by how bad it is. Maybe they had a competition to create the worst app imaginable. And to have Adobe’s name attached! They clearly couldn’t care less about user experience. This makes me want to avoid everything with the word Adobe attached. Seriously guys, if you’re not interested in making an app that WORKS, get another job..Ghost of Jack LemmonVersion: 4.5.11.1

✓ CrashesHi, this app is my only chance to read a book which I bought. But I can’t use it because it’s crashing all the time. I can’t even open the book anymore. I just started reading and reached second page and the app crashed. I started it again, but when I try to open my book it crashes again. I restart my device but no result. I reinstalled the app with no luck. Same problem with crashing still stays.Daniela TsonevaVersion: 4.5.11.1

✓ Avoid ebooks that require this app!I bought a book for IT vendor technical education that requires this app, but I have found it is missing complete pages on the iPad platform! I tried the Mac app and it seems to be ok. So the workaround is to use a screen sharing app to access my Mac running the Mac version of this app from the iPad which then requires me to zoom into the screen, or just use the Mac directly if you can… but the iPad app is useless and I wish I would have bought the hardcover version of the book instead. Even on the Mac app the quality of the images is poor, and it appears Adobe has no plans to maintain this app and should just tell those companies publishing training manuals to find a new ebook format!.Buck it upVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Wow.When I first began to use ADE, I thought there was no way the ratings could be true - that this app was somehow THAT bad. On desktop versions, it won’t allow you access to an “account” page to even figure out what email you’re “licensing” under, which makes it near impossible to use the same account on other devices. It is INCREDIBLY counterintuitive. Now that I’m having to read textbooks for my courses on here, and frequently using the highlighting function, I find that every few minutes the app will crash. When it crashes it not only sends me BACK to the page I was on minutes before the crash, but it will also ERASE all of my highlighting. Why any service would voluntarily provide .acsm format ebooks (looking at you University of Chicago Press) when the app is THIS bad, and not give you ANY alternatives ie beyond me..SacrimonyVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Adobe, PUH LEEESE give this app some attention…I have recently needed to download this app since an ebook was only available through Adobe’s DRM. So far the MacOS version is serviceable—not the best navigation but you can get around. The iOS version is unusable. It crashes during searches, pages are missing or unreadable (don’t know if this is a scanning issue, but why then does it work on the macOS version?), and navigation is neglible. Many many people read ePubs on a tablet like the iPad, so it boggles my mind that a company like Adobe wouldn’t put some effort into this product. I imagine with Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iBooks taking a lot of the market share, perhaps there is not enough market left to tempt them. But I suspect that there are plenty of authors/publishers who would like to skip the massive fees that both companies impose, so there is a real Power-to-the-Author-People market that can develop here if they play their cards right..SunnerLifeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Embarrassingly bad...Worst reader I’ve ever used. Bought an online textbook that would not allow Kindle or IBooks and makes you download the App. It works ‘okay’ on Mac computer, but is horrendous on iPad. The page number won’t change. The table of contents link won’t work to take you to a specific page. I’ll be on one page, move one page ahead, the page number won’t change but it skips ahead to a random page in another chapter. Was so frustratingly awful I almost threw my iPad out the window but alas, Not iPads fault. Whoever built this app should be ashamed. Work harder to get a product to at least work, if not have the functionality of iBooks..HartmaaaaVersion: 4.5.8

✓ Should be 0 starI downloaded this app in order to read a university prescribed text book. I paid extra so I could do this. This app is useless and does not work, and it looks like the developers are not interested in helping their customers. Adobe should be ashamed of themselves. This had made me wary of buying any of their products as their back up support is zero!!.Bee26beeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ GarbageWhere you got those idiot developers?.MikeinUKVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ PDF files only partially legibleI have used the app in the past to read books in pdf from the internet archive, but ecently the books are illegible in ADE. Most pages are “faded out” and unreadable, although a few appear as normal. I opened a pdf from another source to determine if this problem was related to Internet Archive downloads. A similar problem occurred when I opened a pdf of a HP printer manual in ADE. (Quite a few pages appeared as normal, but latter pages in the document were “faded” and unreadable. Opening the same pdf in Adobe Acrobat was successful and the document was legible in it’s entirety. Unfortunately, DRM pdfs cannot be read in Acrobat. Update: I purchased the Bluefire reader app & my book looks perfect now in Bluefire..JavkieannieVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ I figured the app would at least kind of workIt did not work. it did not tell me it did not work, but it did not tell me anything. i tapped on everything, i opened an ascm file, and it just kinda didn't do anything. no feedback on if i'd done anything right or wrong, nothing. also my phone is fast as hell but typing my email into the adobe id field was very laggy. what a mess.GentlemoonbeamVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ BadImpossible to read with fluidity a book.MissT2991Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Very FrustratedI concur with other reviewers who have down rated this app. My advice: if there’s a digital book that you want to buy that requires Adobe Digital Editions, just don’t buy the digital book! Find another format to buy it in if you can. This app has given me so much frustration and it’s only getting worse. I don’t think the developer reads these reviews or cares because there have been no updates to the app in over a year now. This is the reason performance of the app just keeps getting worse. Publishers also need to STOP OFFERING DIGITAL BOOKS REQUIRING THIS APP. It becomes very unfair to the buyers of your products. How Adobe can associate its name with this - I have no idea. If you don’t want to update this app can you please just render it obsolete and stop wasting everybody’s time & money..Tessa79Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Ne lis pas les livreL’application ne reussit pas a lire les livres. Même le livre de adobe nest pas entièrement lisible..Julie Côté AudetVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Truly awful not fit for purpose!As some of the other reviewers have mentioned, this is just so bad. I’ve bought a ProTools learning document for music production software learning. I’m assuming the publishers feel that using Digital Editions keeps some level of distribution control. The problem is the documents that I’ve downloaded are unreadable on an iPad with Digital Editions via this app. Blank or jerky screens then you try to read, magnify view and the pages partially becomes visible then disappear etc. Absolute rubbish. Fine on windows laptop. Not on iPad which is even more frustrating as the whole point of it is to be able to read the docs on a mobile reader! Disgraceful!.IKamjiVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ What a poor AppFull of bugs and dysfunctional. You’d think Adobe would know what they are doing in this space but this is a massive fail. I’ve downloaded and reloaded, authorised, deauthorised and reauthorised and tried private and public wifi but it just won’t download books. Given up and deleted and found a reader that does work..C1234 0987890Version: 4.5.8

✓ What a piece of rubbish!Can’t even display its own manual properly. Simply doesn’t work (on iPhone 13 mini)..Hamster CollieVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ I expected better!I had to use this app to read some scripts that are in epub format, and all was well for a while, and then errors started to creep in such as blank pages, corrupted script, and pages not rendered properly. Uninstalled and reinstalled the app, re downloaded the books, but the errors are still there. And now the IOS 15 upgrade has broken it completely. Come on Adobe, you can do better than that, I’ve had to buy the paper versions of the books, so I’ve ended up buying them twice. Not good enough! A thorough rework of this app is needed if you expect people to use it to read material they’ve paid for, because there’s a a good chance they won’t be able to. Not what I expected from Adobe..Guzzi Man.Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Very stressful to useI’m still trying to get an e-book from Heineman into this app! My next communication will be with Heineman! Very unimpressed..AdobeuselessVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ UnusableI’d give this app zero stars. It’s absolutely useless. Its DRM policies management is cumbersome at best. When you get past the DRM labyrinth and fulfill a request (add a document to your library), the downloaded document is unreadable. I’m talking about blank pages throughout the document or pages with only bits of text—pieces of letters scattered about the pages—or text sliced into columns across multiple pages, as if a kidnapper was creating a ransom note out of letters he cut out of a magazine. You’d think Adobe would have put just a wee bit more care into developing this app, but clearly that’s not a priority for Adobe. By extension, neither are its customers, many of whom might just have no choice but to rely on this app to access educational content through their colleges, universities, etc. Thanks for nothing, Adobe..SoManyLongingsVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Simply does not workThis terrible app simply does not apply the digital rights properly and fails to load the book. Is using ebooks website, just view through a browser on a large screen. Forget this pathetic app.Foot dodoVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Colour Highlighters and support Apple PencilI want it easier to use, with different highlights colour. I had to use this app to read text boom from our uni library. But it so annoying that I cannot use Apple Pencil to highlight it directly. I want more options for highlights and draw..GellupthVersion: 4.5.11

✓ Please improve this appLike other reviewers, I have to use this app to view library e-books from online catalogues. Yes, it works fairly reliably and has a few nice features, but there are several issues: 1. Very limited customisation. You can change font size, the viewing theme/colour, and the size of the margins, but that’s it. Amazon’s kindle app goes much further with font, spacing, more colour options etc. This may seem trivial but is essential for the viewing comfort, ease, and speed required when reading for work or research. 2. The interface in general is poor. Only swiping changes page, tapping just brings the (again limited) UI/overlay up. Menu icons are small and difficult to hit (on the iPad mini at least). No keyboard support… alright it’s a tablet app but if you’re using a keyboard surely the arrow keys should change page… 3. Often books will fail to render in certain viewing/colour modes - you get a bizarre washed out page as if someone has partially rubbed everything out with an eraser. 4. Books often duplicate and cannot be removed in the library..DonHewyVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Poor formattingThis app is truly terrible. Not only is it’s entire reason for being to implement clunky DRM, it doesn’t even work well. Pages are formatted poorly. Scrolling and turning pages often doesn’t work. Heaven forbid you try and rotate your screen to see a picture better. Adobe should fix this!.ConnornickelVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ The worst app ever seenDon’t waste your time. This app doesn’t work. Negative -10 stars..KDog32890Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Deleting this app was a unique pleasureIt’s a shame that this app is still required to read ebooks you’ve already paid for. Normally I would reject downloading any kind of app created for the sole purpose of enforcing ludicrous DRM restrictions but this was a new release and I had to read it for work. The process of getting this working on multiple devices is a callback to a distinctly 1990s technology experience. Once you do it never really works or looks good and the UI is abominable. Remember opening Word docs on a Mac in 1996? Like you COULD but it was sluggish and awkward and you had the fear that if you clicked anything the whole thing would crash and bring the system down with it? It’s like that. Deleting Adobe Digital Editions was a really satisfying experience, certainly more enjoyable than any single moment of using this awful thing..CaligulaMDVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Difficult to useYou can’t do anything with this app, it completely restricts any sort of text to speech feature so is unaccessible and kind of discriminatory. Also the feature to highlight text is garbage, says to tap and drag the part of text you want to highlight but doesn’t work because the drag motion is also used to flip between pages. So I waste like 2 minutes just trying to highlight one part of text as eventually it does highlight but no idea how. Would be easier if there was just a highlight button. I wish I could use a different app but it’s the only one I can download books from my uni reading list onto..SnuehduehuhVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Ridiculous !I’ve just downloaded this app and there seems to be no way t9 use it for downloading books from my library to my Kobo Nia reader. I had to give it something, so 1 star - which was too much. This app is rubbish and I’d like Adobe to sort it out and make it useable..AhSeeBooVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worked great for the last year until this weekEverything’s been working without issue for over a year. Then this past week it began to randomly fail with pages wouldn’t turn, black text on black background, unable to advance to next chapter, advancing to the next page would be 3-5 pages ahead, etc..BolshoichVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ WorthlessIncredibly slow reader which requires an adobe id login in order to read a pdf file. Literally any browser or any other reader works much better..DsqsmtVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ FrustratingIt’s taken me nearly two weeks to get to page 61 of a 157 pages online book. I don’t normally leave reviews but just had to. This is the most frustrating App I’ve ever used. I’ve canceled my book subscription because I don’t want to use this App.Jordy_awesomeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ So frustrating. Worst app I’ve ever used.I never write reviews for apps, but this app is so horrible that I felt compelled to write a review. Where do I even start? Every time I try to change my place in the book by using the “contents” tab and selecting a chapter/section, it freezes. After every few page turns, it freezes. After every few highlights, it freezes. Sometimes, the app would crash and I would lose some of my highlights. I was not able to use the search feature because every time I pressed on one of the search results, the screen would go blank and I would have to fully close and reopen the app. I hated this app so much, but I had to use it because it was the only app I could download my textbook on. Using this app was extremely frustrating. I wasted a lot of my time fully closing the app and reopening it every time it froze. I am so glad I am done with my class and do not have to use this anymore. Adobe, why won’t you fix this? So disappointed..MacyNishVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Wow people weren’t joking (very bad app)I just wanted to read an e-book from my local library and had to download this app to read the book. I saw all the one star reviews and got a little freaked out but I still gave it a try because I really wanted to read this book. There’s no real tutorial on how it works but I figured it out on my own after 10 minutes. Got the book into the app and there’s no way to actually read it? I read the title page, the acknowledgement page, and then the remaining pages after that were blank? Like blank pages or blank pages with like black smears? I guess the pages don’t display properly on the screen once the book is in the app. I mean there were literally no words on the remaining pages after the acknowledgment page. Don’t even waste your time. Even if you do everything right, once you actually download and open the book, you won’t be able to load the contents of the book. Would give 0 stars if I could but hey at least maybe I can save someone time with my review..Sad BookreaderVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ As bad as an ebook reader can getI understand why online collections need DRM. But oh my goodness, can someone please create an ebook DRM format that allows you to access the book in other apps???? This app is downright awful. I prefer to use apps that give you a set of nice fonts to use; that gave animated page turns: etc. Because ultimately I prefer physical books, but ebooks are so convenient and often the only option available. This app is about as ugly and barebones as an ebook reader can get and even then, it seems that people often have problems with it. Seriously I find myself accessing books err... "Another way", which I won't go into detail about... And sometimes I will buy the ebook if I know I'm going to read it all (not feasible for uni research though) even though I would otherwise happily use the library's resources. Purely because I really dislike this app and its PC counterpart. Given that this is Adobe, the same company that produces Photoshop, how is it that the ONE DRM compatible app for ebooks is so.... This??.Kate.Kaixin.XieVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Pages missing or fadedI finally settled down to read the book I paid good money to download to the iPad. After reading the first few pages, I was glad I finally had some time. As I flipped the page I was like “ what the f@#k, the page is blank. I flipped through the book, and all my books and learned that many pages were blank. How does a multi billion dollar company screw this up so bad? It was bad enough going through the very unused friendly process to get the books I purchased downloaded. Now this. I think the management team at Adobe needs to look through all these wonderful reviews and learn from them instead of counting all their bonus money on the golf course..Awesomexyz22Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Awful.I made the mistake of purchasing an Ebook that requires me to read off this app. The smallest text is still huge so there’s like 20 words per screen, and there’s no scroll function so I’m having to swipe pages every 5 seconds. What an awful idea to make people who purchase books be forced to use this program..No12456678Version: 4.5.10

✓ Not for School or RecreationThere are problems that me and all of my classmates mentioned while we were using this app. The main problem is that it lags and stops a lot if you are using it offline. When you flip through pages too much, it starts to freeze for a while before you can flip the pages again. So when we were looking for a certain page in our ebook, the app lagged every 10-15 seconds. This happens less frequently with internet connection, but it can still happen. Especially if the app has not loaded certain parts of the book yet. Another problem is that there isn't a simpler way to find a certain page. Even though the app has a scroller that helps you jump through the pages, it doesn't indicate which page you're going to flip to. If there's a way you can do this in the future, that would be good as well. TL;DR I don't recommend this app for anyone who wants to use this for ebooks. Whether for educational or recreational purposes. It's better if you find an app that can do so much better until Adobe fixes these problems. It's not worth it..LeahIrvingVersion: 4.5.6

✓ Dead App!! How not to design an e-reader appUPDATE: You should know this app is no longer under development. If you can, email your ebook’s publisher and ask for an alternative to this app… If you’ve ever thought to yourself, how can we make the process of obtaining a digital copy of a book more difficult and then, once the poor idiots figure out how to do it, how can we make the experience as excruciating, rudimentary, and utterly disconnected from the rest of the 21st century as possible... you probably designed this app. The designers haven’t even figured out how to fit pages onto your device. YOU CANT EVEN READ THE PAGES CORRECTLY, because the app hasn’t been updated to Apple’s own screen real estate standards. The notch on my iPhone fully obscures the top of every page. What person who wants to read would actually choose this app? Has anyone from Adobe who actually reads books tried to use this app? My guess is no..EmoEric87Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Buggy as hellReally hard to bring up the menu. Does the long press have to be an exact duration or something that’s impossible to figure out?! And when I tap on my new book in the library, the closes (goes into the background) every time. The only thing I can read is the Getting Started guide. Utterly useless!.CuriousaurusVersion: 4.5.11.1

✓ Pure trashHow an e-reader app can be this bad is beyond me. Laggy. Crashes constantly. Unnavigable. I can’t wait to never have to use this app again..Total.sbVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ HorribleYou’d think Adobe would see the terrible feedback here and get straight to work but for those of us who have no choice but to use this crap, but until then is students will have to suffer. The lags and freezes are frustrating. On both my iPhone and iPad pages of my textbook mysteriously vanish, so as I go to the next page, it’s the previous page and the sentence does not make sense. This results in me losing a minute while I try to flip through pages to somehow urge the reader to produce the missing page. What a waste of time! I just want to study, not be constantly stopped because the reader is complete junk. Adobe—hurry up and fix this issue!!!.Emcow MinkaVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Absolutely Horrible!I HAVE to use this app for the books for my class. This is the absolute worst experience I’ve ever had trying to access my course material through digital means. The font is so small, and when I attempt to zoom in out it, it skips like five pages forward! This is extremely difficult to do my homework while on vacation, actually the only reason I’m leaving this review is because all of a sudden the book froze on the app, I tried to reinstall the book it’s self without reinstalling the entire app, it didn’t work! So then I deleted the entire app, and in doing so noticed the poor reviews and decided to leave one myself. I’m annoyed. I’m shocked that as big as a company Adobe is, they thought it was ok to develop this crappy app!!!.GorgeeusVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Beware of the zombiewareUPDATE: The issue with accessing my purchase was resolved without explanation, so I can’t tell whether Adobe, the bookseller, or both caused the problem. Now I just have the lousy interface to deal with. STILL no update since 2018. Tip: Before clicking on a footnote, remember your page number. After reading the footnote, you’ll have to navigate back to the page you were reading by typing in the page number. POSTED IN 2020: This a barely adequate ebook reader. It is difficult to use. It frequently loses track of users’ books. And as I learned today, Adobe refuses to support it. Want help with Digital Editions? You’ll be referred to an online forum where someone else has already posted about your issue — in 2017, with no response since. Active development of this app appears to have ended in 2018. Using it is like working with the walking dead. The book I purchased in 2020, which is only accessible through this app, has disappeared. Oh, the book still exists in the cloud. I can still authorize the app with my Adobe credentials. But the book cannot be recovered, for reasons that will not be explained. Adobe could not possibly care less about my lost purchase. They already received their percentage. Thanks to this experience, Adobe has lost my business for life..AlarobVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ WORST APP EVERWish there was 0 stars rating. I am so frustrated I paid money for a textbook that I cannot even read because this app is so horrible. How is anyone actually supposed to use this?! Can’t highlight or make notes with apple pencil. Can’t even turn the page!!! USELESS! This app is a joke!.Kat___________Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ This wretched app crashed my iPad repeatedlyI was trying to use Adobe Digital Editions to read publisher’s advance review copies because they have DRM and require a reader with Adobe ID. This app is, frankly, garbage. It got to the point where it finally wouldn’t do anything but crash my iPad whenever I opened a book. After discovering an alternative to this wretched app, I have successfully downloaded the Bluefire Reader App instead and will be using that in the future..Melinda in PGVersion: 4.5.11.1

✓ What even is this app?Honestly baffled as to how a twenty-four BILLION dollar corporation can produce such a comically terrible app. The text is partially covered by the iPhone’s notch and is so small that you need to be an ant to read it. No resize option, but there is a buggy zoom feature. Crashes randomly. Figured out that you need to quit the app, safari, download, share, open with digital editions, enter adobe ID just to import books, possibly twice depending on whether or not it actually appears in your library. Oh and the UI text is completely misaligned..Aidan_donaldVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible appI spent hundreds of dollars on an etextbook through the publisher’s website, not knowing this would be the app it used. Not only is this app not available on MacBooks, making it hard to study with, 80% of the pages will not load. Even if I am on full wifi or mobile data, I am lucky if even half of a page is legible. I have never been ripped off more in my life. Stay away from this app..Yoel5577Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Wow AdobeGiven I was prompted to use this app for a digital book from my local library, I have the following observations: - why? it’s just a pdf file I’m reading - glitches in the ipad version: much like Apple itself, Adobe has insufficiently developed (or licensed to be developed) this app. The book is legible, scrollable, and all ways functionable on my pc. One problem with restricted licensing and hoarding -Apple makes life tough for others..Me445t33@Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Can’t use it on my computerComplete garbage.Noemiie93Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ I can’t believe how poor this app isI gave up after trying countless times to get this app to download a library book. It is certainly not intuitive in any way. The instructions are arcane and the “sign in procedure” is quite difficult. I can’t give zero or negative ratings otherwise I would. I will delete it and give up on BorrowBox from my library. If this is the future, I hope I’m not around long enough to experience it fully..FFSeven this won’t workVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ TerribleThis is the worst reader i have ever used and unfortunately cannot open my files in anything else. Does not have a text to speech option which is just astounding, highlights keep disappearing. would give negative stars if i could. the developers don’t even care.Aaassshhhllleeeyyy1736Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Needs updatingThe software description says this app is compatible with IOS13 and was last updated a year ago. Says it all really. My iPad recently upgraded to IOS15 and now I can’t read any of my DRM-protected eBooks - instead I get random blank pages, scrambled text and only the occasional readable page. Quite simply, Adobe Digital Editions in its present form is not fit for purpose. A one star rating is too generous for an app that doesn’t work..IvarBennettVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Just as bad as everyone saysWay behind all the other readers. You can’t even SEE anything when you have it on black or white filter, forcing you to use sepia mode. The book doesn’t adjust to your device screen, crops way up, and doesn’t keep the zoom throughout reading. No tapping to get to next page, there’s really nothing to like about this reader..FJuu7258Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Astoundingly Bad!I would have to say this is probably the most frustrating app I have ever used in my entire life. I literally have to pray each time that when I flip a page that it will actually go to the next page, won’t go blank, won’t skip around, won’t lose my place…. please save yourself so much headache and do not bother downloading this app. If this is the only way for you to read a book, just go borrow it at your local library or pay a couple of dollars for the Kindle edition. Trust me that five dollars or whatever you may spend rather than reading for free on this will be worth every penny because you won’t pull out half of your hair trying to get this ridiculously buggy stupid worthless app to work. Literally the absolute worst app I have ever used..Caleigh BirdVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Truly awful, fatally unstableMy experience with this app pretty much echoes that of other reviewers. The app crashes so frequently that it's completely unusable. It crashes on launch; it crashes when you turn the page; it crashes when you tap the screen to get a menu. Basically it's not even up to the standard of stability that you'd expect from a beta release. I had to use Digital Editions because I have bought a £70 book that is requires Adobe's DRM. I would have liked to read it on my iPad, but I will be forced instead to use my iMac. At least ADE is stable on that platform. If Adobe are reading this, come on guys, you urgently need to fix it!.Ricardo Juan CarlosVersion: 4.5.8

✓ The most appalling app I’ve ever usedI have tried this app on two different IPads both before and after the recent IOS upgrade, it simply doesn't work. It doesn’t seem to actually download the book so you turn a page it disappears altogether and then flips back several pages. It freezes frequently. I can’t even read the instruction manual as it doesn’t download properly. It’s the most frustrating experience I’ve ever had trying to read a book..Darwin128Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Another failure by AdobeTell me Adobe made this app without telling me Adobe made this app. Frequent crashes. Extremely slow. Download failed due to “connection error” without having any connection error. Can’t properly handle pdf (their own file format). Does not display the pages in the right order. Missing pages. Colors are all messed up. When reading (or should I say trying to read) a comic, bubbles and even images are not properly aligned. Doesn’t open automatically it’s own files. Takes 2 minutes to download 50 MB. Latest version update: 2 years ago. If you are an ebook provider, please select another company to manage your products..LebdaveVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Absolute GarbageKeep in mind that Apple forces a star eating and I’d like to give this a -1,000,000 star rating. This is single-handedly the worst app on all of the App Store. It is amazing that Apple allows this hunk of garbage to remain while other much more fit apps are denied. In addition to the clunky reading experience, the fact that you are trapped to using it if the publisher in their infinite wisdom has chosen to use the simply awful Adobe DRM is absolutely disgusting. Adobe has simply been missing the mark from one instance to another. I have stopped using all of the products that use to use except photoshop and that’s on its way out. It seems that adobe doesn’t want survive the next decade with the awful premiere pro, after effects, illustrator, acrobat, and now this trash program. It is simply awful. Even their express doesn’t hold a candle to other online programs like candle. Adobe, you are trash.KoricancowboyVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ The worst app to dateHow utterly useless this app is. Almost like it’s designed solely to get your data and point you to adobe other products. Unnecessary amount of hoops to jump though to ultimately be told it’s unsupported. Even though ProQuest will only accept his app to download EPUB loans. If your here to read your online books on your tablet don’t bother. You’ll Just waste your time and end up having to read it online anyway..Sambob-bodgeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Only using cause I have toAs someone who has had to continue using this app on desktop and iOS for years now because I teach from a textbook that is only available in this app digitally, I can honestly say, it’s the worst. It feels from experience like Adobe is doing the bare minimum to keep the app alive. A list of things I experience: -Random pages that look fine on desktop look blown out and unreadable on iPad or iPhone. -Authorizing e-books can take multiple attempts and restarted the app before they appear. -Navigation and scrolling through the book is clunky only at a single speed. -Clicking and dragging to highlight text (YES it does actually have a HIGHLIGHT feature!) is clunky: Saved highlights have disappeared and you have to click and drag above a sentence to highlight it as if the entire alignment of words is off. So if I want to click and drag, I need to do so an inch or less above the actually words to effect them. -Hidden adware install on the desktop version. If you are not careful it comes with Norton Antivirus which will install with the program if you aren’t careful to hit no on install I could go on. I have asked my textbook manufacture to use another product. I ask Adobe to make this app, at least functional, but preferably at least competitive to other e-book readers. For now, I suffer through..WonnovVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Completely unusable. Don’t bother.Can’t even read the getting started document that comes with this thing to figure out how to get my books to work because half the pages appear blank or as if someone’s turned the exposure and contrast all the way up. Can’t sign in to adobe either as it says my username/password are incorrect (I’m trying to sign in with my student account) despite the fact that I’ve successfully been able to log in to every other adobe app using these. The app is so bad and it absolutely astonishing that this comes from Adobe of all companies..FifuieividkfigVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Won’t load pages or remember my placeI’m trying to read this book and every time I get to a new chapter it won’t load the pages at all. And then eventually it will just take me all the way back to the beginning of the book and the only way to get back to my place is to use the bottom page scroller to get to the page I left off on (so I need to be constantly aware of what page I’m on). And also when I leave the app it doesn’t remember my place in the book! If you have an alternate, use that app.Z0Z0333Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Extremely worst.I bought an e-book requiring me to download this app to read. But this app is horrible when it seems completely unreadable—less function, slow process, crash suddenly.., And I realise that this app even has not been upgraded for a few years. Most reviews are bad from 2017 till now, but nothing has changed..This is a horrible app everVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ AwfulWorst app ever. If I could give 0 stars I would.DEH5499Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ A shameThis would be such a useful app if it worked. So many sites recommend using this app to store and read books online . But it hasn’t worked for me which is a shame!!!.MidwarksNZVersion: 4.5.11

✓ GlitchyTrying to read and highlight my first downloaded study book, using Apple Pencil. First it highlights, then it doesn’t, then it freezes, then it highlights everything, then it freezes, then it won’t bring up the edit menu to delete the everything highlight! Really not helpful when you have a huge amount to read!.Sunscreen98Version: 4.5.11

✓ So restrictive it’s uselessWhat’s the point of highlighting an ADE pdf when you can’t extract, save, or even get an annotation summary of your highlights. The app also has no capability to recognise hyperlinks within the document. Highlighting text is as painful as dragging fingernails on chalkboard. ADE doesn’t even sync books across authorised devices. I had no choice but to use ADE because that’s what my library uses. What a waste of time using this app when I can’t rerieve the info I need for my research!.PtresdghknffrrscvbVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ I Never Write Reviews…But this app is so bad I felt compelled to do my part to drag it down, and possibly, hopefully, lead to its eventual demise. My library uses OverDrive, and OverDrive decided to use this app for EPUB books (never mind that they managed fine before without it). I’m grateful, both to my local library, and to OverDrive, for building a world with “digital libraries.” However, this app is so poorly designed, structured, and engineered, that it almost feels like Adobe made intentional choices to make the EPUB format as brutal to use as possible. And OverDrive, which is owned by Rakuten, which owns Kobo E-Readers (which natively support EPUB… take that in for a minute. This is a company that has their own E-Reader software), eagerly embraced this reality..Bobbles007Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Dont downloadThe app does not work, can’t do a thing with it DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME LIKE I HAVE.YourboisylvieVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worst app I have ever usedI just purchased an eBook and it required me to download this app to read it. I spent $40 on it. I want to share my extreme dissatisfaction with the quality of the eBook format. It was ridiculously challenging to download and I spent nearly 40 minutes trying to figure out how to download it. I finally figured out what the issue was by looking at the comments on the IOS reviews page from several others that had similar issues. The trouble was that you cannot use safari to download it so I had to get an all new internet browser to download it. Then once it was finally downloaded I was incredibly disappointed in the quality of the e-reader itself. The content in the book is great. I know because I have the paperback version. But I was looking for an electronic version that I could take on the road with me and easily access when away from home. When you read the book in the eBook format it looks awful. Words are cut off, you can't even finish reading complete sentences because the formatting is all wonky. This app is absolutely is ridiculous. The quality is so poor it is completely unreadable..ShambriciaVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Staggeringly bad appSeveral hours spent trying to understand why many pages were rendering in a totally illegible way (it turns out that they engage a thresholding process by default that is difficult to turn off and makes pages illegible). For library management, sorting and filtering is both woefully short of features and also dreadful at showing what you’ve got in the thumbnails. Truly, one of the worst apps I’ve used in a long time..XgretschVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ AwfulPage swipes to random parts of the book. While reading, text suddenly disappears. Other times, it renders in a tiny square in the screen corner. Seriously the worst app I’ve ever used on an iPad. I mean, it’s been nearly 50 years since a programmer first output “hello world” to a computer screen; in all that time, Adobe can’t get text to render properly?!?.HenryandruthVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Who designed this stinker?I have been reading books on my phone for more than a decade, and I’ve use lots of different apps to do it over time. This feels like the worst of a first generation app: The majority of the screen space is blank around a tiny narrow column of text that looks ridiculous justified, because it truly creates distracting volumes of white space down the middle of the page. Better apps designed for actual readers go closer to the margin of the screen, allow you to stop justifying the text when doing so avoids that distracting white space that literally makes it harder to read, or to keep the justification when it is appropriate for the text. Adobe’s name is synonymous with graphic design, programs like Photoshop are now so powerful and flexible that that very flexibility is intimidating to many new users. It seems clear that they forgot that flexibility when creating this terrible implementation of an e-book reader. It forces screens to look like weirdly distorted printed and pages and ignores years of experience that make better readers actually a pleasure to use..NitNicked in LAVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ DisappointingDownloaded this specifically to view an actuarial ebook but parts of formulae don’t display correctly. Some actuarial notation displays fine, which is surprising given how generally uncommon it is, but more common things such as the upper limit of an integral are corrupted to the point where it is unusable. If anyone from Adobe cares enough to read these reviews and would like me provide specific feedback so they can fix the problems I would be happy to help..Sol0000001Version: 4.5.7

✓ Horrible experienceI recently purchased a professional therapeutic evaluation tool in digital format that is published and accessible only on the Adobe Digital Editions app. The material was not inexpensive. I had never heard of this Adobe app before, but I followed the instructions and downloaded the app so that I could have access to my purchased material. The app is terrible. It does not render pages clearly. There is no way to print a page, which is a vital feature of what I purchased. Scrolling is choppy at best. There is nothing redeemable about this app at all. Adobe needs to do some serious work to make it usable. In its current state it is completely unusable. If I could rat it negative 5 stars I would..Hookem92Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ The worst ebook app everI’ve tried quite a few app to read ebook, but so far none can be distantly disappointing as this one. Horrible interface, no setting available but to authorize/link you adobe ID, worst user experience I ever had with ebook app. If it’s not compulsory to read textbook for my uni, I would delete it right the first try. Never been disappointed in an Adobe product before, but this one looks like they don’t even bother to try to make it usable. I really hope that it gets deleted from app store, cause apparently Adobe don’t care..Danielle0203Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Don’t waste your timeThis is useless. It doesn’t allow you to read any files you download on the same device. Allegedly, if you have two devices and the right wire you can download on one, then transfer it to the where the reader is located. Not that the user guide tells you this, it skips past the impossibility of actually loading a file into intuitive things like how to search inside the file you can’t open!.BikingbillVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Doesn’t download books properlyI am a teacher and have downloaded a book in French for a student who doesn’t have a word of English so that they can access our lesson. It doesn’t download the book properly and has pages that will not load one time but will the next and have other pages missing or too blurry. Please fix!.ClarepopeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Pire logiciel de tous les temps!C’est totalement inutilisable..Bien mais pas génialeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Completely unusableImagine a place made entirely of nightmares, where everything you reach for remains ever out of your grasp and every step forward brings you three steps behind where you were. That is the experience this so-called reading app offers. The book repeatedly failed to load, or would load for two pages and then somehow disappear again, pages would only show one tiny portion of the text, turning one page would either take you forward or backwards three pages. I can’t even rate the user experience because it wasn’t usable enough to experience anything but pure, unadulterated rage. If you have a book that can only be read on this app, give up now before you too fall into this pit of despair. You don’t need it, and chances are you won’t be able to read it here anyway..Chi FaeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Shockingly badThis was the only app offered to read my library book. The pages disappear, jump forward, backward and basically ruin the reading process. I can’t believe this is still used. Very disappointing and frustrating. Don’t bother..HowatsdownunderVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Still garbage.It took me half an hour just to sign in, and then it can’t even display a 7-page PDF properly. Empty pages, images that briefly show up and then fade to nothing, impossible to zoom. Trash..PumezaVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Absolute flopThis app is just unworkable, I had to download it for a uni textbook I bought and the quality is atrocious. The pages don’t follow one another, and the text is often blurred, it’s impossible to read. Avoid buying a book in this app at all costs..Lauren LylaVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Keeps freezing and bouncing aroundI have to use this app for a required textbook for a class and it’s horrible. It keeps freezing and will jump around to random pages in the book. When you go to “turn” a page it will sometimes skip back and forth over the page you are trying to get to - it will go forward 2 or 3 pages and when you try to page back it will go back 2-3 pages and it can take a dozen or two tries to get the page you need. If you try to access a page through the table of contents it takes you to some other random page. I do not have these issues with the program on my Windows laptop, it seems to only be an issue with iOS..Nevermore1976Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Very poor programming by AdobeHad to download to redeem an ebook, can’t believe how poor this app is. Freezes often, when reopening the app, sometimes opens at the wrong point in the ebook. Simply moving from one page to the next is a clumsy affair, the app sometimes not registering touches/swipes, and when it does it either freezes or opens the next page which can be pixelated for a while. No way to change text size, background colour etc, devoid of any proper functionality. Would have expected a great deal better from a global brand like Adobe, redesign this from scratch guys, it’s awful..Robin CrossVersion: 4.5.8

✓ Terrible appIf this weren’t for the fact that this is the only platform the book I want were on, I would have nothing to do with this app. The best that I can say is that it will perform as expected: VERY BADLY.AlFrLaTaVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ TerribleHighlighting is spotty and won’t stop freezing. Can’t believe My school forced us to use this app for a textbook.KrisHolkVersion: 4.5.11

✓ Seriously?This is a real shame. The book will "open" but text isn't displayed. It is therefore of no use. If the text shows somehow, you only have to swipe to the next page for text to disappear once again. Trying to pinch zoom is a waste of time. How disappointing! The app looks to have been abandoned by Adobe as shown in the update history. At the time of writing this review (3 June 2022), the latest app update was over a year ago! Sad..PsLebbyVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Absolute garbageI agree with other users - this app is a piece of garbage. Even the help document from Adobe does not correlate with what is in the app. Any company that exclusively uses this reader for their product is crazy. A collection of snapshots of a page would be more usable than using this app. At least with a number of images I would not get the grey page/block which pops up now and again to block most of the page. And yes, there is no way to change text size..Tjh888Version: 4.5.10

✓ AVOID: Do not buy books in this formatI just purchased an eBook from a publisher and the app has timed out 4 times when I try to download it. It is not a big book. When it fails, it doesn’t even have the intelligence to resume the download. It starts from scratch and takes ages. There is clearly insufficient backend infrastructure in place to deliver something as simple as an ebook on this platform. This is the first time I’ve used this app, and I strongly regret purchasing an eBook in this format. Avoid like the plague!.Bart E SlartfastVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Adobe time to invest!It seems adobe are more interested in other areas and neglecting this one. I recently ended my subscription with them because of this. This app, appears to duplicate all my books and then prevents me from opening them at times and some pages appear blank. The only thing I have been able to fix to see them, is the colour when you tap the page, pressing the right hand sand gives you a cream background and this fixes it, but overall the app is terrible. Unfortunately I have just started using this having used VLE ebooks but they have pulled the app as in talks with apple! What an amazing platform no issues...such a shame..Angie vie en roseVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Do the app developers even care?I can read this off my laptop just fine. But I tried using the app for reading but it’s hard to read when the actual app doesn’t work. After seeing how many review express how terrible this app is the developers don’t even seem to care to address the problem. Perhaps you’ll have a larger interaction with your app if it actually functioned..Eden.2000Version: 4.5.8

✓ Horrible appKnowing Adobe app I was expecting much better. It’s not practical, there are many glitches, the scrolling through pages is terrible and more!! If I wasn’t stuck with it for school (since it’s the only app authorized for the book I bought) I would most definitely never recommend this app..KokoPerezVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Horrible et inutilisableImpossible de lire un livre acheter sur un Mac sur un iPad. Sur internet on peut ouvrir un compte adobe avec son identifiant apple. Ce n’est pas pris en compte sur l’app pour iPad . Sur l’app mac on ne peut pas saisir de compte Adobe. Conclusion sur le web j’ai un compte adobe sur iPad un deuxième et les droits sur Mac semblent géré encore d’une autre façon . Impossible donc de lire un livre légalement acheté sur un iPad . De plus l’application plante sans arrêt ..SekhmetVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Doesn't sync properly and so can't read items that are on my PC on iOSThis is utterly useless. The items "sync" from the PC version of digital editions, but aren't readable. Pretty damn useless. So ... This app basically does nothing at all. I know DRM is needed to stop piracy, but useless DRM like this is what drives people TO piracy..Dan from New ZealandVersion: 4.5.5

✓ THIS IS THE WORST APP EVERI have to use this to download my school books so i can have them saved somewhere. I only downloaded this app in the hopes of being able to print the eBook b/c the school didn’t give us a hard copy of the book its all digital. Adobe wants me to Pay for a subscription. However, there is a 30 day free trial. I do not want to have to go through the entire process of canceling it and potential not be able to cancel it. Also, having the possibility that everything you download to the app being canceled after you cancel the subscription. I created an account b/c it was free but, I can’t even log in. I am not paying money to log in not even knowing if I’ll be able to print things..ZOEYLEE12345678Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Does not work for local libraryBooks don't download, nothing opens. Zombie files are located in the program but can't be opened. What's the point of this app on iOS ? I only try and use it on iOS bcause my local library insists I use it, and it would be nice it it worked for that. But no, unfortunately it is the worst app on my iOS device..WickedDeskLampVersion: 4.5.2

✓ Poor document renderingOh Adobe Digital Edition.. You had one job - to let me read a book with (probably obsolete) copy protection, and I can’t even do that - lots of poor document rendering means I can’t even view the index of the book - I see a smattering of black ‘ink’ on the page as though the words had been on the surface of a lottery scratch card. Not good!.UKHaikuVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ TerribleUniversity requirement. Even DRM free stuff needed an account. Even then, the University library account didn’t work, needed yet ANOTHER account. No thanks. Also iOS version crashed a lot, not the same as the desktop version. Awful..ExcusesofPuppetsVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ The worstOne, if not the worst app for e-book. Some pages are missing and the app is slow.PaierroVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ RUBBISH!!It doesn’t work and has never worked. I downloaded this so I could read ebooks on my phone while I was out and I can’t. All I get is corrupted pages. I’ve deleted and reinstalled it but it still doesn’t work. So, I’ve just wasted £22 on three books I can’t read. This app is rubbish, absolute rubbish. Addition - I now have 21 versions that have auto downloaded and none of them work !! I don’t want 21 of them that don’t work, I only want one that does!!.AngelPaulVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible.Terrible app, really. My Kaplan course only allows us to access our book digitally through this app and I’ve had so many issues. You can’t even see most of the book unless you put it in the “yellow” mode rather than white or black. Even then, the app often crashes and I can’t even open up the book. Another annoying issue is that it starts to lag anytime I try to look something up, and then it just force closes. How is this app still available to use? How are company’s actually recommending this app when the reviews are terrible? I feel bad for those who bought e-books that can only be used on this app just to find they wasted their money (me!)..Dani1616828383Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Avoid it if you canIt crasos all the time.MssBossVersion: 4.5.11.1

✓ UnusableI had the same experience as the pinned app. I left my book for a while and when i returned to it, it was unreadable. Even before that, diagrams were illegible and there was a byzantine process of installing and validating my purchase. My advice would be to check that you won’t need this platform before buying a digital book.JackieAndradeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ TerribleApp keeps crashing; HUGE swathes of the book can be missing, if it opens the book at all. I can’t believe this is an Adobe app! How do you study when half the book is missing? Does anybody from Adobe read these reviews who can fix the issues, as I see I’m not the only one with troubles, who is forced to use a dodgy app..BooksaremybloodVersion: 4.5.6

✓ Unfit for purpose - a waste of spaceThis is amongst the poorest pieces of software I’ve ever had the displeasure to use. Furthermore it’s from Adobe which is a company that should take more pride in their products, free or otherwise. It’s almost totally unusable on my iPad on iOS 15.1, and renders the ebooks unreadable as there are pages not displayed at all, some display as if they’ve been produced with a shortage of ink on an inkjet printer. I’ve only got the app for a particular text book which I’ll dispense with as soon as I’m done with it. Adobe - raise your game and either fix it or ditch it. There are enough cr@p apps to wade through without you adding to the quagmire of useless electrons..FlySteveRVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worst app I have ever usedJust does not work. Pages are corrupted an unreadable. Duplicate documents download every time I open it. Navigation and features are dismal. It’s almost as if Adobe asked their most junior developer to knock it together one evening. It’s no wonder Adobe are being left behind by the competition on every front these days. I’m amazed this app ever got released..@mikepVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Shockingly badJust spent £22 on an ebook that I seemingly can’t read on my iOS 15 iPad as it requires this app, and this app scrambles the text on every other page. It is totally unintuitive - with a very old fashioned user guide which itself was scrambled on my device - I had to use Google to work out how to import my book in the first place. Really, really terrible..Thecommon8EBVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Barely worksTerrible user experience. I downloaded a university book and had a lot of problems. The text is missing in half the pages, and I got a “file does not exist” error. I cannot read the library ebook but unfortunately this is the only supported software.Danf80Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ ADOBE YOU CAN DO BETTER, this is probably your simplest app and biggest failureI deleted and reloaded this app numerous times thinking it had not loaded properly. On the iPad with current iOS this app continually causes the page to go blank as you are reading it (ie has loaded and the drops it) or fails to load the page when you swipe to the next page. It also hangs for no reason..MawsiepawsVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Really?I double checked to confirm that Adobe has really signed off on this product. This reader is amazingly unfunctional, awkward and fidgety. I have been forced to use it until I find something that actually works better, and would urge Adobe systems to use some of their resources to completely rewrite it. The pages show as tiny on my iPad, and I need to adjust the size of each page with my fingers in order to read the print, and then shrink it again to get to the next page, which is by no means certain. If the page wont turn, I have to close out the screen and reopen it to move to the next page. A smart high school student could write a better app than this. Adobe??.GroboraxVersion: 4.5.11

✓ Simply doesn’t workDownloaded as forced to use Editions by ebook publisher (or paid alternative). Seems to work on PC but doesn’t sync with other devices. I dont want to read a book on my PC. Why will the book not download to library on iPad? Compared with most Adobe products this is shockingly bad. Are they trying to run it down? How can a current actively maintained app be so poor? Look at the reviews and ratings Adobe, dont you care?.SteeviemacVersion: 4.5.11

✓ A necessary evilMy university library requires Adobe Digital Editions to access its ebook collection. The Mac and Windows versions work well. The iOS version is a pale imitation. Zooming in on pages is extremely janky. There is very limited support for annotation and none at all for Apple Pencil. The search feature usually does not work. At least it usually displays readable text 🤷🏻‍♂️ When I read ebooks from my uni library and I don't have access to a Mac or Windows machine I have to use this. It hurts though..HendawgFitzVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worst reading appI don't normally do reviews, but this app is by far the worst reader that I have used and unfortunately stuck with, because of some stupid licensing arrangements. Every time I turn a page it goes to another random page, all my highlights keep disappearing, can't turn a page properly, chunks of the book disappear and the list goes on. Try and avoid this app at all costs, it is rubbish..BrucesmitVersion: 4.5.8

✓ Complicated, annoying, and flawed!!!😩I can easily judge an app by how it makes me feel, and the impression it leaves, after I've used it for the first time. So believe it or not, this app actually DOES WORK on my Windows laptop. I purchased a DRM protected book, therefore I had no choice but to read it on this app, on my PC. It was cool to begin with. I was reading my book with minimal fuss and hardly any problems! I also still was able to read my previous book purchase. However, since l discovered this app was available for the iPad, my opinion changed dramatically! First of all, if you had an app that was available on at least two of your personal devices, then why wouldn't you want to have your data or books to be accessible on both. Which is why I don't understand why Adobe's policy for authorising computers/devices is so complicated, annoying, and dead hard to understand! I had to create, not one, but TWO additional Adobe ID accounts, to authorise both apps (on iPad and PC). After I authorised the iPad app for the first time, I couldn't download my NEWEST book, yet my other books were there!!!.MetalFingers!Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worst app everThis is absolutely the worst e-reader ever. My books don’t load properly and the app is just overall hard to use. Avoid using this app if possible..Fire ExitVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ HORRIBLE APPThis app is so terrible in functionality, I’d rather pay $19 for a book from Kindle than struggle with this app to get it for free. Really a terrible app. Impossible to login. Really terrible integration. The desktop version of this app is even worse. You cannot customize or change preferences. Impossible to do anything with this app. I would give it zero stars if I could..Andrewwillis89Version: 4.5.10

✓ Every 2nd page displays completely garbledUnusable on my 11” iPad Pro (3rd gen). Every 2nd page or so is displayed completely garbled, such that you can’t actually use the app for what it’s for: reading books. This happens even with the preinstalled “getting started with Adobe Digital Editions” ebook so not a download issue. I read most books in Apple’s Books app but Adobe foisted this DRM shtuff on us so could they at least make it work?.Sxc731Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Avoid. This app is broken and does not workI had to buy an e-book from a publisher were the only option was to use adobe digital editions. That was a waste of my money. I could read the book for about two days and after that Pages began to appear corrupted and I was unable to read the book. This is true on all my iOS devices and on my Mac laptop. I know that some people go over the top with a negative reviews but please take this seriously, this app really does not work at all..Andy82648262837463Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ The Worst Ever. Has me cussing & fuming with rageThis app is the absolute worst app I have ever had to deal with. It is insane how our institutions require this disgusting vile app to read books on. For iPhone, it glitches and lags. If you wish to highlight something, it highlights something else. This app is a walking nightmare that lives in the pits of hell. On laptop, it also lags and glitches constantly. My only advice to everyone who undergoes this suffering is to read on a laptop. It is painful, but it gets the job done. My condolences to whoever has to go through all of this pain. Curse whoever made this app..AfsharfagVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ PLEASE FIX THIS APPI need to use this app as it is tied to my university’s ebooks, but I would instantly go for another app if that was possible. It crashes frequently, it doesn’t save any highlights, there’s no way to link to my university account...PLEASE fix this app because it is making research and reading - what should be an enjoyable and at least not a frustrating process - a highly stressful process..MS1837392Version: 4.5.11.1

✓ Completely pointless, unintuitive and difficult to useI have to use Adobe Digital Editions to download library e-books to my old e-reader but it is so completely pointless and difficult to use that I am pretty much tearing my hair out. Yes I can just as well read the library books on my iPad but I quite like the e-reader as it’s much more like reading a real book with no distractions (email, games, news, messages …….) Now it suddenly just says download failed and when I try to return the book in BorrowBox to the library it won’t let me as it says I have to use ADE. I try to find how to return it through the ADE app but there seems to be no return button (or I couldn’t find it in the app even after extensive google searches) I did discover how to delete the books in ADE but that didn’t help at all as now I have no books in the app to return! Such a stupid, user unfriendly, unintuitive, pointless ….. need I say more..SpinninglizVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Crashes Every Time I Use It and Deletes HighlightingI only just recently had to get the app for one of my classes and it is by far the worst ebook reader app I’ve used. Every time I highlight something it crashes and closes out if the app and deletes all of the highlights I’ve made up to that point, it’s extremely frustrating. Also, this app doesn’t allow for split screening on the iPad Air so it’s difficult to take notes at the same time. This wouldn’t be so bad if the highlighting function worked and I could come back later to take notes, but it doesn’t. I’m glad I didn’t have to pay for the app, but the textbook I had to purchase for my course is basically useless to me because of all the issues with the app..Gc887Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ An April’s Fool joke surely ?First thing I did was ‘Go to page’ , entered 12. Instead of going to 12 It does a search for the word ‘The’ and displays all those pages. Worse still every page in the search results is labelled ‘page 7’. Too bad if you want to go to page 600 of a 1000 page book. Anyway I clicked on a random ‘page 7’ and clicking on a page does nothing at all..Retsu88Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Horrible appI can’t imagine an app like this from worlds one of the best creative company Adobe! Please try to use it yourself and see what I meant. Thanks.BlueskyCanVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Not only the app - customer support is worstI work at a library and the platform we use for eBooks is this app (or an equivalent). The books never look good and are illegible - even the “How to use this app” book that comes with the app. It’s very disappointing, though, that when tech support was called and I explained that I don’t have an Adobe account because I work at a library and can’t afford their products, they just dismissed me and told me to hang up, as they can only help paying customers. If this is the app that they want used for eBook that libraries use, they need to do better with the apps and their services. This is disappointing from such a big company and they should do better..Jason the LibrarianVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Very poorI have to use Adobe Digital Editions to view e-books I buy on Hive. I find it as terribly poor as the other 1-star reviews. Some pages are just blank; zooming in (eg to look at maps) screws the rendering; the page numbering is idiosyncratic, to put it mildly. And I notice that the app was last updated “2y ago”. This is an absolute disgrace and I’d be ashamed to put my name to such a piece of software..Shed53Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Horrendously bad app, Adobe should be ashamedCan’t even log in with my enterprise account provided by my university because the app says my password is incorrect WHEN IT IS NOT. Avoid this useless app.MehVmehVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Please Update appHas a tendency to lose your place in a book far too easily by going forward or backwards but still manages to be non responsive in other ways. In the last few days it has stopped even rendering the text on my books in the iPad app and they’re completely worthless to me in that state..MattT32674Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Avoid if at all possible.Minimal functionality, inability to usefully format how text appears on the screen and a ‘dark mode’ that flashes a full white screen each time you turn a page make this software a giant pain to use. Avoid unless your library required it’s use to borrow digital books..Irrregular_Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Thanks I hate itThis is somehow less competent than any app still running a version that came out in 2005. How shall I begin? 1. The entire aesthetic of it is terrible. It’s worse than goodreads 2. Each time you swipe to turn the page (when it works) the screen goes white 3. The text sizer is impossible to use and is also activated when you use two fingers 4. My notched phone (iPhone 11) has the text cut off at the top. Keep in mind the iPhone X came out in 2018, which means this app hasn’t changed that yet 5. Even though it is “downloaded” it will still buffer and blast a white screen in your face while it loads 6. The fact that adobe has the gall to push this to publishers as a “great way for digital arcs!” While the formatting is so terrible that my dead grandmother could have done better. Yes yes, your book is great. However, why is the text overlapping?? This is terrible and since it’s so bad (and has been bad for a while) I’m guessing they don’t care. Lovely. Lost all brand integrity in one single app.Grey_MarksVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ It’s so bad, I want to give you a 0But instead I’m giving you a 1.FluffyjimzebedeeVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Beyond UnderwhelmingI am required to use this app to access online resources from my university library. For one book, it took me an hour to go from reserving it at my uni library to downloading it onto my iPad. Once I did download it, I noticed that the rendering of the text is confusing and frequently misaligned or beyond the limits of the screen space. Scrolling at even a moderate pace causes freezing. Reading to study, I was naturally interested in having my highlights exported to add to my digital notes, but that's not possible. This app feels like something made over a decade ago. For a company that charges so much for most of its products and is so terribly hyper-vigilant about maintaining its siloed ecosystem, I expected better..M. HolmesVersion: 4.5.11.1

✓ Ne marche pasLes fichiers ne s’ouvrent pas ou c’est illisible..WicrianVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ One time userFirst time I’ve ever downloaded an e-book and this is my experience. I installed ADE on my Windows10 device and it works fine. I downloaded it on my iPhone XS, noticing the one star average, but proceeded anyway. After all, I haven’t got time for reviews. Can I just say, along with all the other one star users, the app is horrible. I thought it was just me, until I remembered the rating. I cannot believe this is an Adobe product. I wouldn’t have used it if the e-book I downloaded didn’t require me to! Unbelievable in today’s day and age that an app so unreliable from a quality brand exists. Shame on Adobe and shame on me for not just buying a hardcopy book instead..Swagga SinghVersion: 4.5.10

✓ Don’t buy thisAbsolutely terrible, slow and doesn’t even work properly.HidkffVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Orphaned appAdobe clearly gave up on this junk. Years of not being updated. Barely functional..ZptorontoVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible. iOS version useless, macOS version very poor.Not only did it fail to load an Oxford University Press book sold by an ePub book site specifically for this app. Downloading one of the sample books on the app’s own website resulted in that book appearing in iBooks, in which it cannot open. It did not appear in this app. The macOS version of Adobe Digital Editions (not on the App Store, i.e. beware) did work, up to a point. The typeface was terrible (very low res), navigation wasn’t a patch on Kindle’s, and the claimed ability to read the book on other devices defeated my ability to find it. How did this app get through Apple’s vetting?.Leighton008Version: 4.5.11.1

✓ Très problématiqueEt le soutien technique ne permet pas de résoudre les problèmes. Résultat: impossible de lire les livres empruntés sur une liseuse Kobo..Isa8404Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Crap app and even worse help functionThe book didn't synch between devices. I was told to log off the original device and log in again, which in itself want easy, and this way i lost access to the ebook completely. The help chat told me to use the forum as she didn't know what to do! Over an hour later, nothing back. I had to buy the book in paper version. Never again.AymemlVersion: 4.5.10

✓ Worst app everDoesn't work at all..FrancescaxoxVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible app, looks and runs like a 2 year old made itCan’t transfer my books from my PC to iPad even after authorising my adobe account on it, key features as promised by the app simply do not work. App also looks like a child made it, is this even made by Adobe??.Apple Application Reviews 2011Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Ludacris!For such a big name and major player your app does not meet the expectations. Your highlighter doesn’t work. In order for me to see the text I have to enlarge it (which is not the problem) I have to minimize it in order to highlight the text. I don’t feel your app meets the ADOA requirements to support someone with a disability. Why cant my highlight transfer over to my another device? This is Ludacris! Major educational institutions are relying on you guys and you are def letting them and us down..Nikki312312Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Just so badI had to use this app to download a book for uni. The website gave me no other option than this awful app. It doesn’t work! None of the pages downloaded correctly, it was just white pages with small smudges of black where the words were supposed to be. I couldn’t read a thing past the two first pages. I don’t know who decided this app was ready to be released to the public, but they were dead wrong. Don’t bother using this app, it’s the absolute worst. If you need a pdf reader/markup app, try CollaNote: it’s great, really easy to use, free, with no ads, and best of all, it actually makes readable pdfs!.Duvroneibtpv39)39?/6?30!:.Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ I would do 0 stars if I could!Basically a good way to waste a hour of your day..RudeRhombusVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Completely uselessAssuming you can actually log in, this app doesn’t do anything it is supposed to do. Unfortunately it’s the only format library e-books support, which means those books are unreadable. App hasn’t been updated in over 3 years, so that tells you something. DO NOT DOWNLOAD.SuperfoxxVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Bad, but not unusableOn first use, the app appears unusable (at least when viewing some books) as other users state. The default color scheme (middle button icon at the bottom when viewing a book, leftmost option) seems to be the culprit. The two other color options appear to display my book correctly. But even then, this is a very basic e-reader for DRM protected content. You can highlight in what appears to be only a single color, bookmark pages, view the table of contents, view all of your highlights and bookmarks, search text, and display content in two (functional) color schemes (white text/black background, and black text/brown background). That’s about it for functionality. Highlights are ugly and are broken up by the spacing between highlighted words. Recommend looking elsewhere; this app isn’t worth its free price tag..Talon110Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worst reader in existenceWhere to start? Faulty rendering of text at regular sizes, crashes, failure to exit from zoom modes, forgetting of last reading location, limited functionality and options, text size slider doesn’t work. And on and on. I bought an e-book in this format by accident, it’s non-transferable to Kindle, so the £27 I spent is appalling vfm through no fault of the bookseller. If there were negative star ratings available I’d give it minus five..Tihomir50Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Pure Garbage - Zero StarsThe app does not work. After downloading the app, I opened the introduction ebook that comes with it. It was unreadable. Scrolling through it, numerous blank pages, pages with faded text, pages with half or less if the text showing. I thought it might just be that file was bad. Nope. Downloaded the book I actually wanted to read — which works fine in an online reader — and it was even more broken. Other than all the same problems listed above, multiple pages were duplicated. After scrolling 20 pages I wasn’t even 10 pages into the actual book. This app is pure garbage. Zero stars..Yumideng213Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ The one star reviews are right - this is super buggyUnfortunately, the book I bought was restricted to Adobe Digital Editions (which was not disclosed). As the other one-star reviews indicate, this is barely a reading app and worse, it is extremely buggy. I opened the iPad version and there were blank pages and pages with very faint writing throughout - it turns out that this can be fixed by switching to dark or sepia mode, but this bug has been reported since 2021 and nothing has been done to fix it (or indeed even just to default to sepia mode so you don’t think your file is broken). In future, will always purchase paper rather than anything that is limited to ADE..RedranterVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Very disappointedThis is the only app available for downloading books from pro quest and it doesn’t even work. Even if the book does successfully download (it has only worked for me once), it only lasts 24 hours which is not long enough, especially when downloading a textbook..E.m.53Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible, frustrating, slow.This is a terrible app, and a mistake for publishers to force people to use it. It manages to make the process of reading a book frustrating. Turning a page is too slow, it can’t save hilighted sections, bookmarks or notes properly and changing orientation is clunky and buggy..IsEveryNickNameTakenAlreadyVersion: 4.5.6

✓ BrokenThis is a joke..iPhone 14 pro. Not loading a thing…how is this still available in the app store?!.Viewer151Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible appConstantly glitching. Probably quadruples the time it should take to read a textbook.JaymmmmmiacahekVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worst appThis is the worst app for reading my book. I only have it because I’m not sure of another option. Sometimes it highlights other times it doesn’t. Sometimes the pages just disappear all together. I doubt that any work or improvement has been done on this app at all. Avoid it like the plague..SasakompisVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ No zoom in optionWhy can’t I zoom in on text??! This is basic. 🤦🏽‍♀️.5542189007Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Absolute GarbageThe reviews are accurate, this app is rubbish. Slow and clunky to use, can’t reliably download whole books, can’t seem to go more than a few pages before it shows a blank page for no reason. Apple should kick this abomination off the iTunes Store till it actually works..MarkM177CVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Truly, truly horrendous appHaving spent hundreds of dollars on e-textbooks rather than physical ones for environmental reasons, I’m now forced to use this app, which consistently loads pages incorrectly, or is completely blank. This is going to cause me major disruptions in my university studies, and put me far behind the students using physical copies. I cannot believe this app was deemed appropriate for release..SydneyRoostaVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible appHow can anyone be expected to use this.Highlighting does not work. Can’t make notes with Apple Pencil. Why would a any company want to use this app for online learning? DRM Protection prevents using any other apps to open material. What a joke..GoodMusicFan44Version: 4.5.10

✓ Botched text - Apply dark mode.I’ve read a lot of the reviews and a common recurring problem appears to be the botched text from the downloaded books. A solution I’ve found is to apply the dark mode. The incomplete text becomes complete and perfectly fine. However I am using this app on an iOS mobile device and have downloaded the content from a uni provided source so issues with download don’t appear to be a problem so far. Discretion- this solution might not work for everyone. Hope this helps. (App is still wack tho). Problem: botched text. Solution: apply dark mode..Tertiary studentVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ The Quality Adobe is Known ForIt’s a pretty awful piece of software. I didn’t run into the crashing issue, but had to restart it anyway, because of the scrolling issue and the “sneak peek” feature (basically, you scroll to a page, and you get to see it for a couple of seconds before the screen blanks.) That’s Adobe - finding innovative ways to annoy you that just wouldn’t occur to ordinary developers..Aspiring TunaVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Terrible on phoneIs this actually made by Adobe? The screen isn’t compatible with a phone, it cuts text off at the top and bottom so you literally can’t read lines of text. You can change text size but can’t change anything about the screen so there is no way to fix this. There is also a really annoying line down the left hand side of the screen on some pages. Then there is the page turning animation which is super janky, for a second the entire screen just turns blank. Then as the text comes up you have a couple of seconds of the text being stupidly blurry. So as you turn a page you have to wait 3 or 4 seconds before you can continue reading. It’s not intuitive how to return to the home menu while your reading a book and I’ve really no idea how this passed any sort of testing what so ever. Just a few simple fixes and this could actually be useable.Nina WingateVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Don’t Download it!If you have an iPad becuase it doesn’t work. It’s rubbish. The books arrive in the library okay but when you open them you only get to see/read the first two or three pages - the rest are all illegible. It’s a pity as it works better on a laptop but even then the scrolling is glitchy..UoC uni studentVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ I just want to study!!This is the only app that my school has recommended we use for our downloads. my main issue is that when i download my slide notes, it will double and sometimes even triple the downloads and causes it to take up space and glitch out. if i try to delete the duplicates, my original file won’t work. i don’t understand why this is an issue. and even if i receive the one download, it won’t save correctly unless i flip through some of the pages before i return to the home screen. the only way i’ve found it to work is by downloading one thing individually and flipping through it when i just need to download multiple one after the other and THEN go back and read them. i only do this so i can access them offline at home but i can’t even do that..Toedoe4Version: 4.5.11

✓ Frustrating experience!!Been using this app for a while now on my iPhone and it is frustrating me to no end. It keeps syncing blank books to my device and then constantly crashes. As if that wasn’t frustrating enough, there isn’t a way to mass delete all those blank books and there over 400 of them! I went through and manually deleted them ALL.... then I thought I might uninstall the app and retry... nope... it just re-sync those 400+ blank books all over again. I would like to have all the hours of my life back that I invested into this app, but I’m doubtful Adobe can make that happen. Perhaps if they enabled two-page view and fixed the glitch where it keeps crashing and syncing blank books... I might be able to forgive them..TheStaffSergeantVersion: 4.5.11

✓ Where E-books Go to DieAn sad little application clearly forgotten by Adobe. They certainly don’t seem to be reading these reviews. Maybe it earns little revenue, maybe they don’t care. Who knows, but we are captive to its many tragic charms because so many libraries make it the only option. Please Adobe, put us out of our misery with an update, or at least let us see more than one page at a time..CordelierVersion: 4.5.11

✓ Worst productivity app I’ve ever usedTerrible interface and the app doesn’t even work properly. It is quite obvious that Adobe have given this app no care or attention. I feel like I’ve completely wasted the money I spent on the textbook I needed to use..LkjtdvktdgutVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ The worst app I’ve ever used.I was required to download this app to get the digital version of a textbook. The contents index loads fine - but the rest of the contents/pages do not load at all; the pages look like they are print jobs from a printer that ran out of its toner, and are completely illegible. The pages I skip to won’t load at all. Total waste of time and space on my phone (iOS). Whoever is responsible for maintaining/updating this app needs to fix the issue and should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to be complacent/not resolving the issue after receiving all the other negative reviews. I am also contacting my school so they can find an alternative to this app..K.NelsVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Why is this the standard?Such a bad app, same can be said for the desktop version. Adobe isn’t a small company either, nor are their other products designed with such lack of care. What’s worse is that there is no other alternative for borrowing books off certain websites. You have to use Digital Editions..Da-RainVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ AwfulTerrible loading glitches, constant highlighting and note glitches, such a shame to have to read a purchased book on here. Makes the book a waste of money..Whatever0990666Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ A middle schooler could do betterCan’t adjust text size. Sure you can pinch and zoom but then you have to scroll back and forth along every single line. The words are less than 3mm tall (yes I measured) because I’m trying to view an entire page on an area 1/3 the size of my iPhone. Also can’t read the top part of every page because the developers haven’t accounted for the bezel. Can’t believe I’m paying hundreds of $ for Adobe when they can’t even figure out text zoom.RealisticPruneVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ What type of joke is it supposed to be?As a professional who also works in both in the private sector and in the academia, I am oftentimes suggested to use this app as the only way to read things offline. What is the big deal here? Why does Adobe backs up this software at the same time they own blockbuster software of the modern world such as Photoshop and Acrobat? This app simply does not make any sense; everything stinks about it, from the very beginning (login interface) to the end (the end will be somewhere you can’t do anything further to progress and you become entirely stuck, because the app simply doesn’t work). Shame on the management who uphold such a failure of being still alive and untouched for more than two years. Failure for the science where so many people are interrupted from proceeding with their normal tasks because of the great barrier this app provides. It’s a shame..VitorgdVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ ADE needs much more work!I’m disappointed in ADE. I had no problem loading in DRM ePub and reading them. However, I find ADE very lacking in features. Features like word definitions, phrase translation, underlining and highlighting in various colors, ability to google and hotlink to places, people and art described in ebooks. I was a big fan and user for many years of Neosoar another DRM e reader. Unfortunately, they seem to be recently out business. It took a while for Neosoar to get to a point of near perfection with these features I’ve listed above. But the absolute best was your annotations were linked to Dropbox. So, any additions or notations or hotlinks would be saved in Dropbox. If you changed or upgraded your e reader you would upload the DRM e book and sync with Dropbox and all your annotations would appear. You would not lose any annotations. Neosoar is a great loss to those of us need an e reader that is fully connected to power of the internet. It is unfortunate that ADE does not measure up. In the future it could if Adobe puts in the effort..ElfmantooVersion: 4.5.10

✓ You’ve heard of user friendly, now get ready for user hostile!Despite its presence on the App Store this is a non-functional app in every meaningful way. Yes the software does run on iOS and does respond to user inputs but that is all that can be said. Page numbers in contents pages do not function correctly. You can’t jump to a page by pressing the page numbers which is fine if it’s a 10 year old pdf but unacceptable for content specifically made for the platform. The jump to page feature does not work at all, it’s purely decoration. Content will randomly not display at all depending on the zoom level. Each page seems to require a different degree of zoom to actually display content. This all complements the horrific DRM implementation: if you don’t sign in before downloading something you will permanently lock yourself out of opening that file! All this app is is a glorified pdf reader with DRM and it fails to do either. A legitimately unusable piece of software. It may be free but you pay with your sanity..FartatoVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Worthless piece of crapThis software essentially does nothing. It does not crash (for me anyway), it just does nothing except show you a manual that supposedly describes how to use it. But the manual as both wrong in many places, and it’s pagination does not even match its table of contents. The thing I wanted it to do most is share ADE’s with my the same software on my Mac, which the manual explicitly states is possible. But after working for a couple of hours at it, it seems impossible to do that. There are simply no commands to allow you to either share a library with the Mac or download books from the Mac library. In fact, there are no commands to do anything useful. You can’t search for ADE’s, or borrow them or purchase them or anything else. I am just stunned at how worthless this app is..DrjeffersonVersion: 4.5.6

✓ Total CrapAdobe Digital Additions is total crap. I wish I could give it a zero rating. If you can use any other program then do so. Adobe should be ashamed of this product. Apple has a far superior app for eBooks but my source in this case isn't compatible..AndrewGuggggVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ UnreadableMy library requires use of this terrible app. It doesn’t account for the cutout for the camera at the top of an iPhone screen, so you routinely can’t read the top line of text on a page. Also it stalls and won’t show your book 2 times out of 3 when you go to it. About what I would expect from Adobe: terrible, poorly developed and no work to fix bugs..SchwesterKatreiVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ DO NOT EVER PURCHASE A BOOK THAT USES THIS APPI purchased an ebook not realizing I would have to use this terrible app to barely be able to uses the book on my iPhone. Calling this app terrible is actually too good of a word. Even after realizing I would not be able to adequately view the book I purchased on my iPhone, I tried to download it to my laptop…and that was a disaster. Even though I used the same login as on my iPhone with everything identical on my laptop as my phone…you can guess, it didn’t work. Even after erasing, reinstalling, reverifying the credentials and every other possible thing I could, it did not work. I wasted money so hopefully you can save yours. Avoid at all cost, just buy the paperback version of whatever you are reading. I would give this app negative stars if I could..Grumpy Cat4Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Just terribleThis app is so buggy and useless. It crashes a lot and it doesn't save the words I've highlighted. It's very frustrating because a lot of students are required to download this app to access their textbooks and we have no choice but to tolerate this stupid app..JuicekodayVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Doesn’t read book nor downloads itIt cannot read or upload books. it can't even read it's own book which tells you the steps to follow in order to download your other books. When you think you figured it out, it doesn’t download anything from the operator you authorized..KaryneDGVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ UnreliableThe app always crashes or lags. I had to use this for a textbook, but if you can find your textbooks on any other platform such as kindle, I would highly recommend it.Catsgomeow_xo28Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Frustrating reading experienceI purchased a $40 ebook focused on math education instructional strategies PD. With the limited amount of time I have for planning lessons at school, I figured I could at least read the ebook on my phone while I use the stationary bike or elliptical at the gym in the evenings. Too bad it’s impossible to read on this app. Need to make the text larger? No worries, the app can do that, if you don’t mind turning the page every second because it shows fewer words on the page instead of just making the page longer/scrollable. Need to zoom in on a table/graph/diagram? No can do. So I guess I can do my cardio and read the sample dialogues, but I’ll have no idea what problem or diagram the dialogue is about. Useless..B.ruckVersion: 4.5.11.2

✓ Actually works, but it is incredibly unintuitive!If you are a student and required to download Proquest Ebook files, you have probably been pulling your hair out over this app. The first thing you have to do is download the related acsm files then manually share them with this app. You will probably notice a lot of blank pages when you try to read your ebook; to get around this issue you have to tap on the page to find a sun icon. Tap on that icon to change the text display, then the missing pages should turn up. I really wish Adobe would listen to all these one star reviews and make their app more user friendly!.Lordshrimp5Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ Unstable e-book reader app!Adobe’s iOS book reader app worked for a day then became unresponsive; currently it is working again. A quite reasonable but unstable e-book reader. I have an alternative non-adobe e-book reader which also provides adobe login and authorisation and is completely reliable, why can’t adobe get their own app right? It’s a very poor advert for their other products. Adobe’s MacOS version of this app is much the same and is very basic (2 stars) in terms of useful facilities. Bafflingly the two apps do not sync with each other whilst Adobe seems to claim, that if they are both logged in to the same adobe account, they do!.MenruaVersion: 4.5.9

✓ WorthlessRoyal pain to transfer between devices. App should just sync between devices. Does not work as directions indicate. App can not find books that are downloaded locally. Too bad you can’t give a zero. I can not only hope that software developers wanted to develop app that would discourage reading. Just stay with Kindle or iBooks. This just is not worth the hassle. When I rented a book in the kindle format of it just syncs over. With Adobe you need to download, connect devices and MAYBE it will transfer. There is no way to download directly to a mobile device that works. And of course much of the time it can't connect to the fulfillment server. Only way this app could be worse is if it didn't load at all..MjdindcVersion: 4.5.11

✓ Adobe should be embarrassed to have their name on this App - Do not waste your timeI am dumbfounded that Adobe would produce a product that is so bad and useless. It simply does not work. People are complaining about the lack of features but the main problem is that the pages do not load consistently. What is the point of an e-reader if the pages are blank? If this were my first Adobe experience, I would not use any of their products. Clearly, Adobe is not vested in this App as they have not addressed the complaints. There are so many books and so little time…I think I will just stick to my Kindle and ignore ePub formatted books! I much prefer reading on Kindle rather than in my browser..Travelgem2Version: 4.5.11.2

✓ GarbageThis app is terrible. Computer version isn’t any better. Crashes every 5 minutes, causing me to lose what I’ve highlighted. It will get slow and glitchy randomly and crash shortly thereafter. Unfortunately, this was the app I was forced to use to claim the digital version of the textbook I purchased..Bball BrennaVersion: 4.5.11.2

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