Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Plan to Replace All Apps Plan
Creative Cloud Pro comes with the benefit of everything Adobe can offer to creatives. All the Adobe apps you can think of, including over 20 desktop-based apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and the like. The Pro plan also exclusively includes all Adobe mobile premium plans and web-browser versions of apps.
This is inclusive of Adobe’s recent additions, such asintroducing Photoshop to mobilefor the first time in March 2025—which itself comes with an exclusive Mobile and Web Photoshop plan. It’s hard to keep up with all the Adobe plans available, especially with this new introduction.
Creative Cloud Pro will cost $69.99 per month for an individual plan with no discounts or Teams bundle. This is a $10 per month increase compared to the current All Apps plan.
All Creative Cloud Subscribers Are Affected
While there’s no option to stay on your current All Apps plan, there is the option to switch to a new Creative Cloud Standard plan instead of moving to the Pro plan. This newly introduced plan costs $54.99 per month—a $5 discount from an All Apps subscription—but it strips away some features and access compared to the All Apps plan.
In short, you have three choices:
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Creative Cloud Standard Plan Offers Fewer Features
It might seem like opting to move to a Creative Cloud Standard plan would keep you in the same position you’re currently in, and have the benefit of paying $5 less per month, but, of course, Adobe has other ideas.
The Standard plan does cost only slightly less. It’s not enough for me to say it’s a benefit of choosing this option, though, because it does still cost $55 per month.
You’ll lose access to Premium features in most Adobe Mobile tools, such as Adobe Express, Lightroom Mobile, and Photoshop Mobile. However, in some weird benefit, Adobe Acrobat is available in full from the web or mobile on this plan.
AI features in Acrobat require a separate subscription anyway.
The Creative Cloud Standard Plan also silently removes most of your access to generative AI features across Adobe’s tools. While I personally think we are seeing too many AI features, and it’s good to move back to more organic methods of design and creativity, I do use some features myself. A Standard plan only allows for 25 credits per month, a huge drop from the 1000 credit monthly allowance of an All Apps plan.
These credits can only be used in Photoshop and Illustrator, from what I can understand based on Adobe’s word choice. You won’t be able to use more premium AI tools like Firefly features with generative video or audio—this is reserved for Pro users only.
Is a $5 discount worth 975 AI credits per month and a loss of access to Premium features in your favorite Adobe phone apps? I say, not at all.
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It’s Time to Make the Switch
Adobe frequently makes mass overhauls that leave you in a tough place between affordability and creative exploration. Ditching Adobe can save you a lot of headaches—not to mention, there’s a ton of great free creative software out there that’s honestly better value than sticking with their bloated ecosystem.
In March 2025,GIMP released 3.0 pushing it closer to Photoshop’s abilities. You can do so much with GIMP than you might be paying to do in Photoshop. While you don’t have to make the switch to open-source tools, there are also great proprietary software that offers many similar features to Adobe’s tools.
Pixelmator Pro for Mac or Affinity creative toolsare options that sit between Adobe’s expensive and frequent overhauls and free oropen-source software like RawTherapee, Krita, Inkscape, and GIMP.
Getting out of an Adobe contract is usually a nightmare, but when big changes hit, it’s actually one of the rare moments you can escape with fewer penalties. Right now, Creative Cloud Pro and the death of the All Apps plan only hit North America, but if you’re elsewhere (like me), you’ve got a little breathing room to explore alternatives before Adobe inevitably drags everyone else into their mess. Use the time—don’t wait until you’re backed into a corner.
Adobe is known for price hikes and having a monopoly on the creative industries. While it feels like you have fewer choices with Adobe’s latest changes, remember that there are always options available. You may even benefit from the changes to a Pro plan and want to take it on board, but it’s equally an option to ditch Adobe entirely and move to an open-source creative workflow.
