The Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan is to cease availability for subscribers, giving Adobe fans little option on where to turn next. New plans benefit from large AI feature availability, with an expectant focus from Adobe to push even more energy into its AI offerings in the future.

Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Plan to Replace All Apps Plan

On May 15th 2025, Adobe announced a new Creative Cloud plan: Creative Cloud Pro. The Pro plan will be available to new and existing North American Adobe subscribers from June 17th, 2025.

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 as introducing Photoshop to mobile for 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.

The Pro aspect of this new plan is due to the huge generative AI focus. Creative Cloud Pro subscribers will receive unlimited generative AI credits across the board of the Pro suite. This is up from the current All Apps allowance of 1000 credits per month.

Creative Cloud Pro is to replace the current Creative Cloud All Apps plan on June 17th 2025. This change is currently only affecting existing North American subscribers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, but as with other Adobe changes, it’ll be expected in other countries in due time.

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

​​​​​​​ If you currently subscribe to an Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan, this new introduction of Creative Cloud Pro directly affects you.

The replacement of All Apps with a Pro plan will happen automatically for existing subscribers on June 17th, meaning your subscription will jump up in price—no surprise here from Adobe—unless you do something about it first.

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:

• Allow Adobe to take more money away from you with a Pro plan, providing mostly exactly the same features you currently get, but with the addition of more AI credits, which is only beneficial for those who use endless AI features.
• Drop down to a Standard plan for slightly less money per month, but you’re giving up access to features you already get in an All Apps plan, such as inclusive Premium access to other tools.
• Quit Adobe all together and move to other software.

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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.

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 tools are options that sit between Adobe’s expensive and frequent overhauls and free or open-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.