# Adobe Digital Editions

> eBook reader for all your Adobe DRM protected books

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.adobe.digitaleditions](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.adobe.digitaleditions)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.adobe.digitaleditions`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Adobe
- **Category:** BOOKS\_AND\_REFERENCE
- **Downloads:** 4,326,692
- **Rating:** 1.61 / 5 (12,214 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Last updated:** 2023-12-20
- **First published:** 2015-09-28
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 21 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.digitaleditions)
- **Website:** [http://www.adobe.com/](http://www.adobe.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.adobe.com/special/misc/privacy.html](http://www.adobe.com/special/misc/privacy.html)

## Description

**Adobe Digital Editions (ADE)** offers a seamless eBook reading experience for all your Adobe DRM protected books across Android devices, iPad, Mac, and PC. This free and ad-free app supports both EPUB and PDF formats, allowing you to read online or offline. Borrow eBooks from public libraries and organize your digital library with a beautiful, customizable interface.

ADE enhances your reading with support for EPUB3 standards, offering consistent rendering of audio and video content, interactive quizzes, and dynamic image resizing. Transition effortlessly between devices with automatic syncing of fulfilled books using the same user ID. Customize your reading experience with various font sizes, page modes, bookmark and highlight features, powerful search capabilities, and display options like night mode and adjustable brightness.

## Rankings

- #26,861 — Overall
- #20 — adobe flash

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`

## Review summary

User reviews consistently describe an unstable app with crashes and bugs, license server issues blocking access to purchased ebooks, a poor UI with few readability features, device compatibility problems, and broken download/sync behavior. Overall, the Android Adobe Digital Editions experience is viewed as unusable for most readers relying on DRM ebooks.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and freezing make the app unreliable.
- License/DRM server errors prevent access to purchased books.
- Very poor UI/UX with lag and missing essential features (no font customization, no dark mode, no text-to-speech or accessibility options).
- Compatibility and installation problems on tablets and newer devices, with reports of being unable to install or run.
- Download, sync, and file handling issues such as ACSM files not showing and auto-download toggle not working.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.adobe.digitaleditions)