System requirements | Adobe Acrobat Reader

Last updated on Jan 10, 2025

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Acrobat Reader 32-bit on Windows

Component	Requirement
Processor	Intel or AMD processor (1.5GHz or faster)
Operating system	Windows 11 (64 bit) Windows 10 version 1809 or later (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows 8, 8.1 (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows 7 SP1 (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows Server - 2022, 2019 (64 bit), 2016 (64 bit), 2012 (64 bit), 2012 R2 (64 bit), or 2008 R2 (64 bit)
RAM	2GB of RAM
Hard disk space	4.5 GB
Monitor resolution	1024x768 screen resolution

Acrobat Reader 64-bit on Windows

Component	Requirement
Processor	Intel or AMD processor (1.5GHz or faster)
Operating system	Windows 11 (64 bit) Windows 10 (64 bit) v1809 or later Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 (64 bit) Windows Server 2016 (64 bit)
RAM	2GB
Hard disk space	900MB of available hard-disk space for English 1GB of available hard-disk space for other languages
Monitor resolution	1024x768 screen resolution

Acrobat Reader on macOS

Component	Requirement
Processor	Intel processor; M1 Apple Silicon processor
Operating system	macOS v12, macOS v13, macOS v14 (Sonoma), or macOS v15 (Sequoia)
RAM	2GB of RAM
Hard disk space	380MB of available hard-disk space
Monitor resolution	1024x768 screen resolution

Note:

Pre-August 2019 versions of Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Reader 2017, and Acrobat Reader 2015 can't be licensed on macOS 10.15 Catalina and later versions. You need to update Acrobat Reader to the latest release. To do so, go to Help > Check for updates and follow onscreen instructions to complete the update process.

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Language versions

The Acrobat Reader desktop app is available in the following languages:

English	Danish	Turkish
French	Finnish	Hungarian
German	Norwegian	Ukrainian
Japanese	Simplified Chinese	Romanian
Italian	Traditional Chinese	Slovak*
Spanish	Korean	Slovenian*
Dutch	Czech	Croatian*
Brazilian Portuguese	Polish	Basque*
Swedish	Russian	Catalan*

* Available on Windows only.

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