Adobe Express: Create Anything

Adobe Express Review: A Wide Free Plan, Thin AI Credits, Cloud-Only Files

Free vs Premium: 30-minute videos, 5 GB and the $99.99 line

The Free plan needs no card and includes 4,000+ Adobe Fonts, image background removal, video captions, 5 GB of storage and videos up to 30 minutes long. Premium, at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year in the US App Store, stretches video to two hours and fonts to 30,000+, and it is the only way to export in 4K, remove a video background, keep a Brand Kit or resize one design into several formats at once. PDF tools stop at 10 Quick Actions a month on Free, and version history covers 10 days instead of 30. Premium storage is 10 GB; the 100 GB tier belongs to Firefly Pro. Check the current price in the app; it varies by region.

250 Firefly credits a month, and what they actually buy

Generative tools run on Adobe Firefly, whose models were trained on licensed content such as Adobe Stock plus public-domain work, according to Adobe. Free accounts get a daily allowance whose size Adobe does not publish, plus two lifetime text-to-video generations; Premium adds 250 credits a month and partner models from Google and OpenAI. Credits do not roll over. Adobe's Firefly rate card prices video by the second, from 20 credits at 540p to 100 at 1080p, so a month of Premium credits covers roughly 2.5 to 12.5 seconds of generated footage. Generate Text Effects, Generate Presentation and Clip Maker spend no credits. Outputs may be used commercially unless Adobe marks the feature as beta.

Your files and Adobe's terms after the June 2024 backlash

In June 2024 a forced re-acceptance of Adobe's Terms of Use drew complaints about what its license language allowed. Adobe promised revised terms by June 18, 2024, and its content-analysis FAQ now states that customer content is not used to train generative AI, Adobe Stock submissions excepted. Two caveats remain. Uploads are scanned automatically for illegal content, with human review if flagged, and files stored on Adobe's servers may be analyzed with machine learning for product improvement unless you switch that off at account.adobe.com/privacy; business and minor accounts are opted out automatically. Google Play's data safety section lists device IDs shared for advertising or marketing, and Apple's label lists identifiers used to track you.

Cloud-only projects and the 2026 slowdown complaints

Projects save to Adobe's cloud as you work, and an accepted answer on Adobe's community forum says the app was not built for offline use. Canva, by contrast, lets Android users edit designs offline for up to 14 days. The cloud dependence shows in Google Play reviews: of 261 English reviews from 2026 that we read, 19 complain of lag, freezing or slowness, and others report white screens, failed downloads and a four-minute video edit using 2.5 GB of data. Adobe's reply to a September review passed a landscape-mode request for video editing to its product team. Video Quick Actions accept files up to 1 GB, and Caption Video stops at five minutes.