adobe edge is a suite of web development tools developed by adobe systems that enhances the capabilities of their other applications, such as dreamweaver. the first application in the suite was released in august 2011 as a multimedia authoring tool designed to succeed the flash platform. in september 2012, adobe renamed the application edge animate, and announced edge reflow, edge code, and edge inspect. also packaged with the suite are edge web fonts, the phonegap application, and access to adobe's typekit service.