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Photoshop

Design — The classic photo editing software, for Mac and PC
Designsubscriptionest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+32.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
6
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+32.0). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 88% of 17 probesavg response 3537 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
express.adobe.com
edge
direct origin
server
adobe
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Photoshop's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 6 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
CloudApp 4.0productivitytag-overlap83%8.00.0— unverified
FreshStockdesignsimilar71%16.00.0→ redirected
Stokpicdesignsimilar71%13.60.0— unverified
Creative Market Prodesignsimilar71%0.00.0■ inactive
Capture Onedesignsimilar71%47.00.0— unverified
Storytale 2designsimilar71%41.20.0● live
Paint of Persiadesignsimilar67%40.00.0● live
Glitch Photoshop Plugindesignsimilar67%40.0+32.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsubscription
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives1
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:20Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe1736alive
2026-08-19 14:15Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe2442alive
2026-08-11 00:49Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe2002alive
2026-08-08 06:44Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe3332alive
2026-08-05 19:02Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe4330alive
2026-07-30 18:17Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe2570alive
2026-07-23 09:40Z10014timeout
2026-07-17 09:44Z10004timeout
2026-07-11 09:03Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe3662alive
2026-07-04 13:00Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe2275alive
2026-06-23 14:09Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe2081alive
2026-06-21 17:14Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe606alive
2026-06-21 17:14Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe2215alive
2026-06-20 05:03Z200spark.adobe.com → express.adobe.comadobe2251alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Photoshop · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/photoshop · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.