Official line
Adobe discontinued Muse and ended support in 2020.
Adobe · Productivity · Product
Adobe Muse
Discontinued
2012–2020 · 8 years in market
Launched
May 7, 2012
Discontinued
Mar 26, 2020
Cause of death
Strategic refocus
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
A no-code website builder in Creative Cloud. Killed as Adobe bet on Adobe XD, then webflow-class tools elsewhere.
Why it died
Editorial reading
Designers wanted components and CMS, not a desktop app that exported pretty static pages.
Founder takeaway
A website builder without hosting, CMS, and collaboration is a slice of a product.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
What replaced it
Webflow
Webflow
Visual development with a real publish path.
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