CantoReviews of canto.com

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. 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. 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.

First off, their customer service is amazing. I have a direct contact with someone at Canto and it's a breeze to get help with anything that comes up. Including questions that I have while I was discovering and learning the system. Our company needed a DAM system that was advanced. We needed it to be visual, intuitive for the users and have detailed meta data, and info attached to the assets. Canto does it all plus so much more! Some of the best qualities about Canto are its visual set up, UX, meta tags, search capabilities and organization. We are extremely pleased with the system. The only thing I dislike is the bulk uploader app. I thought it would save me time, but in the end everything got uploaded at once so I've had to go back and add all the tags, descriptions and information to the files. In retrospect I would have uploaded it in batches so I could add all the info at the same time.

Canto has served my team well. The tagging feature is particularly helpful.

I can't even imagine how many hours I will save since implementing this software. My company has nearly seven years of content on one non-searchable server. When we needed files it took hours and days to find what we needed. And in some cases we knew the content existed, but couldn't locate it so we had to redo it. Adding the tags and description to each file is time consuming, but I know after I am done I will never have to worry about finding that file again, even years down the road. The functionality of the file info page is a little confusing, if you scroll down on the page, a new and larger info page pops up out of nowhere. However, once you get used to it, it doesn't seem like a huge problem. The biggest struggle is trying to move files from one album to another. You can't just drag it in the new folder, you have to manually go in the file info, and search for the folder to add the file to. This is the only critique I have, which in the grand scheme of things is nothing. With the search capability, I won't need to access the different albums much at all. So far, I am super pleased with Canto and I am really thankful our company decided to use it. I would gladly recommend it to anyone.

We have saved so much time not hunting for our photos. Although the filtering and tagging system is a little hard to learn at first, overall the experience and customer service is great.

This Tool has allot of good features that filled our needs as an institution. Search drill down on keywords and Tags. Full resolution previews w/o having to download. Easy User interface. Easy Administration. Public Facing portals. Easy sharing to outside parties. Cons: Single Sign On reduces functionality. Support some what snarky.

Very useful tool and very intuitive for all levels of users. Great organizational structure/framework; great customer service; great development team - they listen to users' feedback and further develop the tool based on user requests and suggestions.

We recently switched from a different DAM company and Canto made it easy to import all our assets and keep them organized. The "Canto Connect" desktop app allowed us to upload assets and automatically create the same folder structure that we were uploading. This way we did not have to create the folder structure online beforehand. Support is also very responsive and has been able to help me with any issues that I have sent.