Adobe Acrobat DC

I just saw the current pricing for Acrobat DC, and I'm not even sure if Adobe are just pulling our legs at this point. They're asking $30/mt. for the full package. Given the generally abysmal quality of the software, that might be somewhat justifiable for a lifetime license. But a monthly recurring fee? They have to be kidding. Acrobat is outclassed and outperformed by pretty much every third-party offering out there, and I don't think any of them exceed $200 for a one-time payment (excluding major upgrades, of course). You'll have spent more than that on Acrobat after half a year, and in return you'll get to deal with the many bugs, poor rendering performance, faulty printing integration, and Adobe's ironic inability to properly support their own document format. The number of PDF compatibility issues I see whenever I use Acrobat DC at work, is very amazing compared to the relative robustness of third-party tools.

From a simple PDF reader Acrobat evolved to an unbearable software that tries to much to achieve too little. It even fails at the simplest of its tasks: open PDF documents.
Every now and then it forces us to sign in again - always at the worst possible time: it needs the passwords, the phone number, an SMS code... This is not a joke, and all of this to open my own document on my own computer.
On top of that it runs an insane amount of tasks 24/7 to do god knows what. And do not forget the Adobe Cloud, the last useless piece of this software which on top of consuming resources, confuses users of our company that are supposed to use Office365.
As soon as we find a simple alternative, we are out.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended impressed me today with how small a PDF file it makes. Tweeked the settings carefully and got an A4 page B/W 300dpi - 20Kb. Other PDF software was gobbling up disk space, especially the free stuff that came with the Lexmark printer.

Very good PDF tool but too expensive for personal user.

I needed this product for one task, so i got the free trial. It did what i needed it to fine, then i was convinced i did what i needed to to cancel the trial. 3 months later, i figure out it wasn't cancelled. There were 3 $15 bills i hadn't noticed. This would be stupid enough of me on its own, but in the contract that you've got to sign to get a free trial for this program, you're roped into an ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP. If you want to cancel before the annual membership expires, you have to pay a $29.98 CANCELLATION FEE.
If you need this product for your work, it seems to be functionally solid, but don't let this company STEAL YOUR MONEY because they will do just that if you let them.