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- Industry: Internet
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
the DAM that has changed my life forever
Reviewed on 2023/07/06
The ability to share and collaborate in real time with my team has transformed the way we work...
The ability to share and collaborate in real time with my team has transformed the way we work together. No more communication delays or confusion about which file to edit.
Pros
The first thing I should mention is its organizational functions. I can easily categorize, tag, and search all my images, videos, and documents with just a few clicks. No more wasting time searching through endless folders! But that's not all, the ability to share and collaborate in real time with my team is just amazing.
Cons
The first thing I should mention is the price. Oh my gosh, that's a bit excessive! I understand that quality comes at a cost, but I think Canto could consider more affordable options for small businesses or start-ups.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Canto is Great!
Reviewed on 2021/05/05
Pros
First of all, having a single source of truth is truly a game changer. Having that one file that is mirrored in other places makes having to edit it so much simpler. Additionally, the Portals are such a nice feature so that we can "share" our assets, specific ones, to different vendors or departments within our organization takes a lot of the mundane aspects of our previous requests off our plates. There are truly so many things I love about Canto and these are just a small taste of them.
Cons
We are using Canto in the hopes that it can serve us in several ways. One area that we would like to see is more of a desktop app that functions similar to Dropbox in that we can access our files in our Finder vs. the Canto Connector for Adobe. Also, the ability to be more granular with our user permissions and rights management. And more customization with the Presets as well as the ability to designate the Focal Spot on an image. (We have lots of ideas to help improve and add to Canto but these are the top ones)
Reasons for Switching to Canto
While most of the products were by and large the same, it came down to the User Interface, the details in the features, the customer service, and the price. Canto has been incredibly helpful and supportive from day 1.- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Canto is not the best, but better than nothing
Reviewed on 2018/09/20
Canto helps our team manage thousands of photos for our business as well as share with our teams...
Canto helps our team manage thousands of photos for our business as well as share with our teams around the globe. Overall, Canto is better than nothing, but certainly the budget level service and frustrating at times. You get what you pay for.
Pros
Canto is way better than trying to sort through photos on Finder or Dropbox. You can tag images and put them in folders and search for key words. I like that you can also sort by pending/approved/rejected. It helps us keep photos organized by style, season, color, etc. I like that you can share folders with certain people.
Cons
The software is not very intuitive. The sorting by date hardly works, it is very finicky. The "zoom" boxes are more distracting than useful. Portals don't sync well. Portals should have more granular access and control. The interface is basic at best. Text runs off the screen, menus don't actually expand. Certain email providers can't get access.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Saves time - very easy to collaborate + share and receive files online
Reviewed on 2020/09/28
Pros
Several features have really simplified my photo management role. Metadata is customizable to your needs - and while it takes careful thought initially, when set up is easy to apply. 'Upload links' allow outside people to add photography directly to the system in a controlled manner - this has significantly helped with timeliness and ease of receiving photography. I love the branding portal, and the versioning capabilities. I also love the Facial Recognition feature - no more tagging the same people over and over. The company consistently improves the software and innovates - releasing frequent feature updates.
Cons
While it is fairly intuitive, there are aspects (of the portals for example) that need to be explained to a new user - this can be time consuming. I have been frustrated that new features are sometimes expensive paid add-ons, even when they were discussed as 'coming' during the research process (features I thought would be included with upcoming releases). As much as possible, try to envision future features you will need and consider that in your contract discussions.
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WoodWing SwivleReasons for Choosing Canto
We needed a more innovative software with greater flexibility, collaboration, and time-saving features. Also, to make it accessible to we wanted more user accounts.Reasons for Switching to Canto
They customized the contract to our meet our needs and budget. We needed a lot of user accounts to make it accessible to our internal community.- Industry: Music
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Versatile and easy to use DAM with great features and product support
Reviewed on 2021/11/15
The business problem that we were trying to solve with Canto was the presence of disparate data and...
The business problem that we were trying to solve with Canto was the presence of disparate data and media availability, depending on the author. Media was being shared inconsistently across the organization and needed to be accessed in various ways instead of having one standardized way of working with our digital assets. Canto has essentially solved those problems completely internally, with the added benefit of being available to be used to share assets outside of our internal team.
Pros
The features available within Canto are well designed and well implemented. We needed a solution for managing various types of digital assets for different use cases, and Canto fit the bill exactly. In addition to the great product, Canto's implementation and support teams were fantastic and helped our implementation to go extremely smoothly.
Cons
There is very little to dislike about Canto. All of the features promised to us during the sales cycle were available, and we found no "gotchas" or surprises. We could have used some more guidance about how/when to use the Portals feature, but that ended up being a minor issue in our case.
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WebdamReasons for Switching to Canto
More fully featured and better implementation process- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Honest review of Canto
Reviewed on 2022/05/11
We've had a good experience with Canto. The best part is the company listens to its users and...
We've had a good experience with Canto. The best part is the company listens to its users and creates new features based off of the input. I have been responsible for a number of features in recent releases.
Pros
Canto is very well designed and easy to navigate.
Cons
Everything can always be cheaper, but Canto prices are competitive.
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BynderReasons for Choosing Canto
Dropbox didn't give us enough features.Switched From
Dropbox BusinessReasons for Switching to Canto
Canto had a better implementation of it's features. Plus, Canto makes it easy to share assets internally and externally.- Industry: Sports
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Canto makes DAM a breeze
Reviewed on 2021/02/25
Canto has allowed our organization to better manage our digital assets, which in turn saves time...
Canto has allowed our organization to better manage our digital assets, which in turn saves time and money. It can be extremely time consuming searching for images on a shared drive, but the search and tagging function on Canto helps our employees to be able to find images quick and efficiently. Sharing photos with external partners and stakeholders also used to be time consuming, but now we are able to share photos instantaneously through the share link or through the partner portal, allowing for external partners to feel like they are in the loop.
Pros
Canto was extremely easy to implement into our business. Previously, we stored all of our photos/videos/files on the shared drive, external hard drives and servers. Canto has allowed us to ensure all employees who require access to digital assets have access to them, regardless if they are at the office or not. We really like the convenient options for sharing files with external stakeholders, especially the sharing link. It eliminates the need to upload files to dropbox and worry about storage issues.
Cons
No cons. Each time I have had a technical issue, the Canto support staff has helped me very quickly and ensured my problem was fixed.
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MediaValetReasons for Switching to Canto
Price (we are a Canadian company, so it was important to keep price top of mind, especially with the conversion), similar time zone for technical support, tagging/AI technologyResponse from Canto
Thank you for your review, Breanne! We're very happy to know that Canto is so easy and effective for your team.
- Industry: Paper & Forest Products
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Easy & Straight Forward to Use - Evaluation of Integration Process Required
Reviewed on 2021/05/06
The sales process was a pleasure to go through and I would rate Canto number 1 in creating an...
The sales process was a pleasure to go through and I would rate Canto number 1 in creating an enjoyable, no pressure experience. We have other vendors that I would be happy to continue my working career never speaking again to due to their practices and lack of overall respect.
Pros
The product itself is straight forward, easy to use and fairly customizable. The tagging system works great, file storage is good (once you identify what you would like), upload links are beneficial and the portals are key for deliverable.
Cons
The configuration of SSO does not allow enough control for the administrators of this tool, it also caused quirks for administrative accounts, where one experience via login vs via SSO was different for the admins; and the system didn't recognize licenses as being used when configured via SSO. Overall, we had to disable it for the time being which is a big loss/hit to our change management process.
The Style Guide tool is a great idea, but needs some work and should not be used as a deciding factor in the tool. It needs some more work and analysis on managing font, including details on using logos, etc. to be a proper style guide. It works well for corporate colours, and that's about it.
Lastly, the integration process needs some evaluation on the Canto side. It is lengthy, the "integration specialists" cannot answer questions that we can figure out ourselves with ease, and it doesn't seem like there is much support or guidance. In all honesty, we could do it ourselves must faster.
Reasons for Choosing Canto
We needed a centralized system that allows improved access, tracking, tagging, and the ability to more easily upload and download content.Reasons for Switching to Canto
Canto offered a price point that we needed to close the product, with a full service solution. However, Image Relay was an awesome contender.Response from Canto
Thanks for your feedback on the onboarding process, Kayla. We're always working to improve our processes and this information helps us out so much!
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A Good DAM Solution
Reviewed on 2019/12/12
We originally used personal hard drives and shared network drives for our asset management. Working...
We originally used personal hard drives and shared network drives for our asset management. Working with vendors for graphics was done via email. We've been able to transfer most of that over to Canto now. A week after launching Canto, HR came to use looking for photos of colleagues. Previously this would've taken hours to find what they were after. However, the AI Smart Tagging made it very easy to do a search for "people", then we added a couple of filters. Within minutes we had hundreds of photos that we sent to HR.
Pros
Interface is very intuitive. There is a really good balance between having a turnkey solution and being able to customize things. Custom tags and multiple ways of tagging assets was my biggest priority. There were a few solutions that provided more customization, but would've required more oversight as well. Our small team didn't have the bandwidth for that.
Ability to create portals and upload links has been a gamechanger for us in asset distribution and collection. Just hosted a large community fundraiser. We gave each photographer an upload link with the option of some quick tags. We had thousands of images tagged and uploaded into the platform effortlessly. This used to be very time consuming for us.
Cons
Facial recognition is pretty weak. They are the larger customer of AWS facial recognition tool. If Canto switched to Google's tool, I feel it'd be much more reliable and function the way it's intended to. As of now, we just opt not to use it.
Support could do a better job at recognizing the shortcomings of their product and recommending product enhancements. I often have to request multiple times for something to be an enhancement. I haven't had any follow-up yet, so not sure if they're going to implement things though.
Reasons for Switching to Canto
Canto did a great job at balancing a turnkey solution that had options for custom tagging that other products in this price range didn't offer.- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Canto - Best Decision of 2020
Reviewed on 2021/03/04
Canto reps are easy to reach out to and quick to offer help and trainings. This made set-up and...
Canto reps are easy to reach out to and quick to offer help and trainings. This made set-up and rollout very easy. The interface and overall experience is aesthetically pleasing and easy to use. And, most importantly, the functionality is exactly what we needed in terms of versioning, sharing, tagging, and search.
Pros
As a project manager, what I like most about Canto is the ability to search through metadata and quickly and easily find an asset I was looking for. I also like the ability to easily share assets, through email, dropbox, links, etc.
Cons
I wish the level of access we are paying for would allow more "power users" and more storage. But, we can always purchase more as the need arises.
Reasons for Switching to Canto
The overall interface and simplicity is what made Canto our favorite. The interface allowed us so many customization options so that we could set it up like our old server so that the transition from our team was seamless. We also liked Canto's integrations with Adobe, share ability, and search/tagging/metadata functionality, as well as the ability to make and integrate portals and style guides.Response from Canto
Thanks for the review, Elizabeth! We love that our customers are able to customize Canto to fit their specific needs!
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Can be a file management blessing, if maintained properly.
Reviewed on 2020/09/17
Asset management with so many powerful features, they can become a burden: the learning curve is...
Asset management with so many powerful features, they can become a burden: the learning curve is steep, even if you're doing simple tasks with the program.
Pros
Keyword tagging and album features are great and make organization so much more manageable for very large media libraries. The features offered are extensive and very comprehensive. Search filters also help users find specific files faster.
Cons
– The number of features presented all at once can be overwhelming. The home screen displays too much information, icons, and files all at once.
– Multiple iterations of a design or photo file get repetitive when scrolling—A feature to identify those very similar files, then group + collapse them together would be an improvement.
– Features can be easy to miss/forget with such an extensive system.
- Shortcut options aren't available for the most performed actions for individual users (or organizations)
- Downloads could be easier, without the extra popup screen—an option for one-click downloads.
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Working smarter not harder!
Reviewed on 2020/04/03
We are just getting started with Canto but LOVE it! We have over 15,000 assets uploaded to our...
We are just getting started with Canto but LOVE it! We have over 15,000 assets uploaded to our system to-date and have only been using the product since March 1, 2020. Every day we are learning some new functions of Canto and how to better organize and tag our assets to make magic happen! Canto is worth the cost and I'm excited to keep exploring all the functions it has to offer to us and our clients!
Pros
I love Canto's Facial recognition feature! We have a lot of assets where we need to identify people and facial recognition has changed everything! now we can search for people by name and access every photo asset we have of that person! Game changer! I also love being able to relate files and add custom fields to assets. This has come in so handy when we need to connect people's images to their stories and FOIP information. Canto has really helped us work smarter and not harder to find all of the assets we have in a more dynamic way!
Cons
We have found the uploading of assets to be a little more work than anticipated. The Canto Connect desktop application is helpful but when initially setting up out canto product it is a lot of work. When you have over 20,000 assets to upload it takes a team of people to make that happen and a good amount of time to get everything uploaded.
Reasons for Switching to Canto
The cost was much more financially accessible and Canto offered the facial recognition feature which the others currently did not. Also, Canto was able to connect to our Drupal websites and Adobe creative suite without much of an additional cost. Overall Canto offered the most features and the lowest cost!- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Canto serve as it's promised
Reviewed on 2023/07/28
Pros
Very easy to setup. Canto's tagging images feature is impressed me. Also i can assessable from anywhere.
Cons
Canto's delivery system and speed need to improve to keep our workflow smooth.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Canto is no-brainer for file storage/sorting/sharing
Reviewed on 2021/03/03
We are able to share whole folders if images with our team members as well as with outside clients...
We are able to share whole folders if images with our team members as well as with outside clients from one platform. We assign work to each other from here as well. Sharing with outside clients is one of my favorite points. I can share a link to the content with them without having to reupload images to Google Drive or Dropbox or Onedrive. I
Pros
I really enjoy having the shareable links that can direct outside parties to folders that have their content in them. This way I don't have to use another third-party tool like Google Drive or Dropbox to share documents with clients. Downloading content is easy as well. The My Collections function is great in that it allows me select save files to the My Collections folder. This can help make it easier to find images and documents that I use most often.
I also like being able to filter by keywords and tags. It is important that your team utilize these correctly and have unified definitions in place before using this, though. However, this can make it much easier to find what you're looking for.
Cons
The search function does leave something to be desired. I have found it hard to find past documents, images, graphics, etc. But honestly part of that could be just how our team names those folders and files.
While the My Collections function is great, the Following and My Selections functions seem redundant. Another downside is that the shareable links that we use to share the content with outside clients does expire. I know this is for security, but if the client does not access the content in a timely fashion, which happens often, then we have to resend it.
Response from Canto
Thanks for the review, Benjamin. You can share links without expiration dates as well! In the share window, instead of adding an expiration date, simply click "Never".
- Industry: Sports
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
File/Photo Cloud Storage
Reviewed on 2023/01/13
Great solution to working collaboratively for one person to upload photos, the editor to grab them...
Great solution to working collaboratively for one person to upload photos, the editor to grab them off Canto, and then to upload the finished product to be pushed out.
Pros
How easy it was to upload photos and the amount of space that you get. Canto is a great place to upload all working files as well as photos & videos to share amongst co-workers and clients.Has a great A.I. smart tagging system to add tags to your photos so you don't have to.
Cons
Scrolling through long lists of photos, sometimes when you download a photo it will but you all the way back to the top of the list. If you're going through a list of 1000 photos it can be frustrating, however it happens not very often.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Canto is an excellent media storage solution for business
Reviewed on 2021/02/25
Canto provided us an easy to use platform to store a large number of videos, audio files and PDFs...
Canto provided us an easy to use platform to store a large number of videos, audio files and PDFs and allowed us to share them easily with clients, designers and plugged into our company wordpress for fast upload to our sites.
Pros
File finding and searching on Canto is very easy and highly effective (provided that your naming and tagging is up to scratch) and the implementation and sharing of permissions, accounts and controls is very fluid and clear cut.
Cons
Uploading and ensuring the right metadata is attached to files can take time and slow large uploads, but is key to ensuring that files are easily found later.
Response from Canto
Thanks for the review, James! We agree, adding metadata is key to the upkeep of your digital asset library.
- Industry: Printing
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Good product for the price.
Reviewed on 2020/07/15
Generally a good program. Doesn't always work seamlessly and in exactly the ways we would want it...
Generally a good program. Doesn't always work seamlessly and in exactly the ways we would want it to, however, Canto has provided our company with important capabilities for our price point and are responsive when we have issues that arise.
Pros
- Easy/intuitive layout and general interface that allows users to search via a search bar or through a more traditional folder layout.
- Branding Customization
- Customization of the tags/categories to our specifications (custom fields)
- Very responsive to feature requests and program is updated with new additions frequently
- Curated views allow us to "sort" our photos in an order that makes most sense within an album.
- IT support is very responsive to issues. Makes sure to follow up with you to make sure things are functioning correctly.
Cons
- Integration has been somewhat challenging figuring out how to get the searches to yield results in the specific ways we want.
- Wish there were more specific/fined tuned permissions for individual users beyond the main 3 categories
- Facial Recognition doesn't work that well and in fact we have stopped trying to use it. Sometimes the photos will be almost exactly the same (head shots for example) and it doesn’t recognize them as the same person or will misidentify. The interface when it comes to both applying and searching through names is also very clunky.
Smart Tags – Have not been relevant for our business since most of our photos are of events not products we well. Our smart tags identify things like "human" "clothing" "accessories" which has no relevance to what people of our company will search. We end up having to go in and put in the tags manually.
Response from Canto
Hi Emily, thank you for the review of Canto! Your account manager will be in contact soon to help with the integrations and discuss permission options.
- Industry: Farming
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Canto, where have you been all my life?
Reviewed on 2020/03/26
It's no exaggeration to say that Canto is My Hero right now! We finished migrating our assets and...
It's no exaggeration to say that Canto is My Hero right now! We finished migrating our assets and started using Canto just a few weeks before our US team was ordered to work from home due to the Coronavirus (our international team has already gone through this). I don't think we would have all been able to keep working with the product we were using before. With Canto, our domestic and international teams can work together seamlessly from anywhere. And those of us with access to domestic servers can continue to load new assets that were previously unavailable to our design team overseas. As a provider for the agriculture supply chain we are considered an "essential business" and this is becoming a very busy time for us. I'm grateful we've been able to get up and running so quickly, and that Canto is so easy to use that the learning curve is almost nonexistent. You guys rock!
Pros
The best thing about Canto is that it just works exactly the way you expect it to. Even before I went through the official training, I found it super intuitive -- easy to upload files, easy to find them again, easy to use them with a huge range of design tools (we mostly use it with Adobe Creative Suite). Version control is going to be very helpful for us. I’m also stoked that it’s so easy to customize for our workflow. And the customer service we’ve experienced so far has also been top notch -- friendly, knowledgeable, and FAST. Thanks, Canto!
Cons
Nothing yet! The default settings include a lot of options we won't need, so until we finish customizing the interface it's visually distracting to see them. Still, how can you complain about having "too many" options -- especially when it's so easy to focus in on only what you really want?

- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent DAM tool for marketing teams
Reviewed on 2022/05/24
Pros
Canto is excellent for digital asset management- it’s very visual and fast. Easy to share links with outside people. Very searchable. Our marketing team loves it!
Cons
Some of the settings can be hard to find but you have an assigned account manager to help with anything you need!
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Easy to use, slow at times
Reviewed on 2021/02/25
Pros
The best part of Canto is how easy it is to use. We add tags and put assets in a folder. But, it's easy for people who aren't using these assets every day to use the search function and find what they're looking for.
Cons
I really wish there was a Canto app so it's easier to download things from Canto to my phone for easy social posting. It's also slow a lot of the time. It sometimes takes a long time to upload videos and load big files.
Response from Canto
Thank you for the review. Glad to hear that you find Canto so easy to use! Watch out for updates in the coming months!
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Dependable and Easy to Learn
Reviewed on 2020/07/15
Overall it's been really great. It helps us store and share all of our high resolution images for...
Overall it's been really great. It helps us store and share all of our high resolution images for our company.
Pros
I really enjoy Flight's user interface the best. It has been extremely easy for all employees in our company to quickly learn the ins and outs in a short period of time. I have received many compliments from employees spread across various departments about how much they enjoy Flight and how easy it is to use.
This has greatly increased productivity of our marketing department by allowing other employees easy access to our assets. I also love the tagging feature! Tagging our location photography with our product numbers has been a game changer!
Cons
Every once in awhile they will implement new features that don't work great for my organization. For example, Canto gives you the ability to upload different versions of a file. However they add an extremely long extension at the end of the file. Say you upload a file called 'image.jpg' and you eventually want to add a new version. So you upload the new version, but the new file name becomes something like 'image.jpg.3823273827389273"

- Industry: Events Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Canto is one of the best tools in my business!
Reviewed on 2020/11/12
As a business that relies on visuals, having collateral at our fingertips of our pieces in use is...
As a business that relies on visuals, having collateral at our fingertips of our pieces in use is invaluable.
Pros
I love that Canto makes it easy to store, search, and manage our digital collateral. This streamlines so many of our tasks when it comes to sales, marketing, and administrative tasks!
Cons
Nothing! Works great for us... in fact, when we recently had our renewal meeting, we mostly talked about how we utilize the software in our company and how it has improved our processes!
Response from Canto
We appreciate the feedback, Morgan! We know streamlining tasks is important, and it's great to know that Canto is helping you do just that.
- Industry: Cosmetics
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
One stop shop for digital asset management and sharing
Reviewed on 2022/02/24
Canto has helped us to share assets across the team in an organised fashion. I love the ability to...
Canto has helped us to share assets across the team in an organised fashion. I love the ability to tag and sort the images as we see fit and use the custom tagging features to ensure the team can search by whatever is easiest for them. You can easily find all assets for a particular product by searching for that product name, or all content featuring the same model. It's also been helpful in the post-production process for shoots, whereby we can have conversations with the photographer via Canto comments. This has saved a lot of back and forth! The team love it and it's made our lives a lot easier since we've been using it.
Pros
Custom tagging
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Easy to share assets
Cons
Adding more power users is an additional cost that I would like to see reduced
Adding more custom keywords could be a little more user-friendly but it's still easy to use as is.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Ease of use for asset management
Reviewed on 2021/11/23
Great, loved being able to jump in and find assets I needed to share out to partners or to download...
Great, loved being able to jump in and find assets I needed to share out to partners or to download for presentations. Easy to share groups of large files.
Pros
Able to get in, get out, share out link to assets for business partners making it easy to share huge files. Able to find certain images easily to share out and by the search function.
Cons
We had TONS of assets on Canto which created some speed problems. Images began to load slowly.
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Software that does what it's supposed to … and little else
Reviewed on 2019/02/06
Overall, Canto is simply too cumbersome and glitchy for something that should be as "simple" as...
Overall, Canto is simply too cumbersome and glitchy for something that should be as "simple" as storing and quickly accessing photo libraries. I'd recommend more of a rows/columns type of user interface for albums, instead of the left side dropdown menu types of navigation. Compared to Canto, I'd prefer Google Drive or Google Photos for asset management.
Pros
Canto allows our team to store, share, and access digital assets and photography efficiently enough. Ability to create albums, tag photos, large storage capacity – all of these are appreciated and well-received.
Cons
The Canto interface seems a bit clunky and glitchy much of the time. The left sidebar to navigate through albums isn't very intuitive or responsive. Often, when clicking on an album name to open its drop-down menu, there will be no response. So the use has to continue clicking and clicking on it. Scrolling down through each album's photos, the loading of preview images usually lags. And the longer you scroll through the pics, the more it lags. To bypass this, often you need to refresh your browser … which takes you all the way back to the top of the album … and you have to begin scrooooollling dooown through all the photos again. (I've tested several browsers – same issue with each one)