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Adobe Flash vs SharePoint Designer comparison

Adobe and Microsoft are both solutions in the .NET Development Services category. Adobe is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5, while Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.9. Adobe holds a 18.3% mindshare in NDS, compared to Microsoft’s 11.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
Adobe Flash
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100% willing to recommend
SharePoint Designer
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82% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Adobe Flash and SharePoint Designer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Flash
Ranking in .NET Development Services
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SharePoint Designer
Ranking in .NET Development Services
2nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the .NET Development Services category, the mindshare of Adobe Flash is 18.3%, up from 11.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint Designer is 11.2%, down from 19.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Arpit Raj Senapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up with good functionality and adaptability.
I'm not sure how it could be better. It has everything I need for my work. It would be ideal if there was more research on the product available. We'd like it to have solutions within the product that can help us complete tasks a bit faster. It would be nice if the solution had some sort of bot or assistant within the solution to help us with work within the product. If we could deploy queries and get an answer faster, within 30 minutes, instead of within a day or two.
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Vivek Vaibhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Intuitive, customizable, and reliable
Exporting the whole SharePoint website is an issue. For example, let's say I want to deploy it in the client environment. Right now, this was based on our own company's environment and if I wanted to deploy that onto the client's environment. To do this, I will have to recreate everything from scratch, which takes a lot of time. There should be a way somewhere where I can download the custom designs I have made and upload them to the client servers so that we can configure them on their servers. Secondly, when you have uploaded data, for example, from an Excel spreadsheet, you download it in the form of a dot IQY file. This IQY file is a bit tough to work with as it's a server-side file. If there was any option where you could just download the flat files and work with them, that would have been great.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Adobe Flash is simple and easy-to-use software. It is very familiar and compatible with other Adobe software, making it easier to use."
"The UI is really good."
"With the alliance with Microsoft, the product is perfectly integrated."
"Without Adobe Flash player, I wouldn't be able to do my day-to-day functions."
"I am impressed with the tool’s documentation."
"What I found most valuable in SharePoint Designer is that through it, you can perform a lot of SharePoint functionalities, such as creating SharePoint lists and libraries, as well as customizing pages."
"Other valuable features are the ability able to update the master file, and creating the workflow."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Designer are integration and collaboration capabilities, such as allowing more than one person to edit a file."
"I would rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten."
"You can give document access to people based on their email addresses. You will also get notifications whenever the document is ready for review."
"Retrieving documents and uploading them is easy."
"The drag and drop feature is the most useful feature when using this solution."
"It's been stable for me. I haven't encountered any issues with the sites I've developed locally within the organization as long as the license remains valid."
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Cons

"Adobe can focus on the gaming side mode."
"It would be nice to have more integration and faster integration."
"At times it can be slow, but other than that it is a great and helpful product."
"It would be ideal if there was more research on the product available."
"It would be nice to see Adobe Flash as a separate application instead of embedding it with other apps. I want the product to be a simple app. The product’s scalability is also one of its weak points."
"It has a lot of bugs. It's also not very convenient. The UX/UI is not very user-friendly and not designed to be similar to other applications from Microsoft."
"The downside is the different versions of SharePoint which means we need to have different designers as not all versions are compatible."
"We'd like it if we got less frequent updates."
"It needs to align with PowerApps and Power Automate."
"The system can become slow which should be improved."
"The solution is a bit complex. They should work to simplify it."
"I would like to be able to use SharePoint Designer without having to buy other third party programs."
"SharePoint Designer could be improved by being more user-friendly. I think that they have a new release, but the focus is on Power Automate, not Designer. Designer's interface is somewhat classical, but it should be more user-friendly."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is okay so far."
"The tool’s pricing is fair."
"It is a free solution that does not require a license."
"SharePoint Designer's pricing is okay."
"SharePoint Designer is less expensive than other solutions we have used. We purchased Office 365 which SharePoint comes with the package."
"The entire package is expensive. There is no extra cost in addition to the standard license."
"I've never paid for SharePoint Designer. What I paid for, is the SharePoint license, the cava, and then the client accesses the line fee."
"The tool's pricing is cheap."
"Priced per user per month with different plans to choose from."
"We are using an enterprise SharePoint Designer license."
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Top Industries

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Government
17%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Flash?
Adobe Flash is simple and easy-to-use software. It is very familiar and compatible with other Adobe software, making it easier to use.
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What needs improvement with Adobe Flash?
Adobe can focus on the gaming side mode. They can customize the product because gaming is booming nowadays, and people can use it more for gaming by including programmers and designers to manipulat...
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What is your primary use case for Adobe Flash?
We use the solution for training and making small animations on Animate CC.
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What do you like most about SharePoint Designer?
It saved me big time once! My car got broken into and they took my laptop with all my files. But I didn't have to worry because everything was backed up on SharePoint. It was a lifesaver!
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint Designer?
I've leased Microsoft SharePoint Designer for the enterprise, not System Center. It's for private work, web development specifically.
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What needs improvement with SharePoint Designer?
For me, it's flexible enough for most things. But maybe they could improve the user interface to make it easier for everyone to navigate and use. That would be a big plus.
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Overview

The Adobe Flash Platform is the leading web design and development platform for creating expressive applications, content, and video that run consistently across operating systems and devices and reach over 98% of Internet-connected desktop users. The Flash Platform consists of an integrated set of technologies - including client runtimes, tools, frameworks, services, and servers - that provide everything you need to deliver applications, content, and high-definition video to the widest possible audience.
Adobe
SharePoint Designer is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers alike can rapidly create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. Advanced users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to Line-Of-Business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and human workflows, leveraging the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy to use environment.
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Sample Customers

France T_l_visions, Globaloria, Mixamo, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Pyrotek Inc., ICA, Deliver Australia, Secretary of Economy of Mexico, Aegon, ABB Switzerland, Ascent Yarns Private Limited, Bakewell Biscuits Pvt Ltd, Hitachi Consulting
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