Adobe Story Discontinued
Adobe’s cloud screenwriter — deleted, with everyone’s scripts, in 2019.
At a glance
- Maker
- Adobe Inc.
- First release
- 2010
- Discontinued
- 2019
- Status
- Discontinued — the app is dead
- Platforms
- Web, Windows, Mac
- Pricing
- Was free tier + paid Story Plus
- Native format
- Adobe Story (.astx)
What it is
Adobe Story CC was a genuinely good cloud screenwriting suite with scheduling hooks into Adobe’s video tools. Adobe announced its exit in January 2018, closed the service on 22 January 2019 — and deleted every user’s data. Only pre-exported .astx files survived.
What people are saying
The good
What users praised was real: cloud collaboration for co-writers and a pipeline into Premiere and Adobe’s production tools that writer-director-producers found genuinely useful, at a free tier that made it a common first app.
The bad
The cloud-only model alienated exactly the writers it courted (many refused to keep scripts on Adobe’s servers), it trailed dedicated tools on core writing features, and when Adobe exited the business the servers closed with every account’s data deleted. Anyone who missed the export window lost everything.
Paraphrased consensus from user reviews, forums and retrospective coverage across the web.
Where it came from
Part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud video push of the early 2010s; users got exactly one year to export before everything was erased.
Worth knowing
The canonical cautionary tale of this entire site: a trillion-dollar company deleted your scripts on schedule, and .astx rescue exists because of it.
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