In the background
Creative CloudAdobe Creative Cloud
◐ Close the app instead
Keeps Adobe apps signed in, updated and synced.
What it is
Adobe’s background services for licensing, updates, fonts and syncing libraries.
If you close it
Adobe apps may ask you to sign in, and syncing pauses. Quit it from the Creative Cloud menu instead.
The verdict
◐ Close the app instead. A part of an app. Closing it alone breaks something, so close its app.
In Activity Monitor
Creative CloudAdobe Desktop ServiceAdobeIPCBrokerCore SyncCCXProcessCCLibraryACCFinderSyncCreative Cloud Helper
From Procession’s guide, in the words the app shows.