

Simply put, the Creative Cloud Desktop app is a way to “easily manage your Creative Cloud apps and services” in one place. What is the Creative Cloud Desktop App & Why Do You Need It? Your first step to working with your new Adobe subscription is to use the Creative Cloud Desktop app. Depending on the plan you purchased, you now have access to multiple Adobe applications and other subscription benefits.īut the real question is: How do you get to all of the apps and other benefits to start using them?įortunately, it’s not too complicated.

What’s new is a powerful built-in search engine that searches across Creative Cloud.So you’ve decided to purchase the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Like before, the new Creative Cloud app gives you access to Adobe Fonts and assets from Adobe Stock. You’ll be able to access help resources, videos, and compatibility information for each app. The Creative Cloud app’s former “Learn” tab has been replaced by skill categories and a Tutorials hub. The functionality of Libraries remains the same. Assets can be shared, managed, and deleted in a new “Your work” section of the app.

Once available only within individual Adobe apps, Creative Cloud Libraries can now be managed full-screen right in the launcher. You can still choose to download a legacy version of an application if available. There are four main components to the new desktop app:Īdobe has redesigned the apps tabs for a clearer view of which apps you have installed and which have updates. We haven’t gotten our hands on the new experience yet to see how it performs, but the interface certainly looks more Mac-friendly than before. The new app is still accessible from your menu bar, but now lives in a resizable window and has been designed to look like Adobe’s other modern Creative Cloud apps. The app behaved like a menu bar utility - always running and accessible with a click - but looked and felt more like a web app or port than a native Mac tool. Adobe hopes the new app will be a more intuitive way to launch and update apps and access your Creative Cloud files.Īdobe’s previous Creative Cloud desktop app was always a bit of an outlier on macOS. Starting today, Adobe is rolling out a new version of its Creative Cloud desktop app for macOS and Windows with an updated design and totally new organization.
