Adobe puts Photoshop Express and Acrobat into ChatGPT for 800M users

Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) officially launched Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Adobe Acrobat inside ChatGPT on December 10, 2025, making the tools available to ChatGPT’s 800 million weekly users. The apps are free to use within ChatGPT across desktop, web, and iOS, while only Adobe Express is currently live on Android; Photoshop and Acrobat will roll out on Android later as well. Users can issue natural-language commands such as “Adobe Photoshop, blur the background of this image” and continue editing without leaving the chat interface. An Adobe ID is required, and Adobe has not disclosed any financial terms of the partnership with OpenAI. On the day of the launch, Adobe’s market capitalization was approximately $144 billion, with shares trading around $344.

By placing three flagship products into a funnel of 800 million weekly active users, Adobe is turning ChatGPT into a powerful distribution channel for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud. Instead of opening separate apps, users can now create and edit photos, posters, and PDFs directly through conversational commands powered by AI and Adobe’s processing engines. For OpenAI, integrating with a software company valued above $140 billion reinforces ChatGPT’s shift from chatbot to full productivity platform.

The launch reflects Adobe’s push into agentic AI and its adoption of ChatGPT’s growing Apps ecosystem. While competitors like Google and Microsoft focus on their own AI-native interfaces, Adobe is embedding its most widely used tools inside an external platform to reach significantly larger audiences.

In one move, Adobe has placed three core applications into a channel of 800 million users. For Adobe, it widens global reach; for OpenAI, it confirms that major software companies now treat ChatGPT as an application layer.