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What is Canto?

Canto delivers digital asset management capabilities while offering an intuitive experience for teams. Canto's AI Visual Search enables users to search their brand libraries using natural language.

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9 out of 10
March 09, 2024
Incentivized
We use Canto as a master photo library within the organization and share photos internally and with contractors.
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Encanto Canto.

8 out of 10
March 05, 2024
Incentivized
We use Canto for all photo and video storage and graphic assets such as logos. I create graphics in Adobe products daily, and the Canto …
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Canto Review

9 out of 10
February 22, 2024
Incentivized
We are still getting out Canto up and running, but I can see so many opportunities on how it will help us organize images, assets and …
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  • Downloading assets (24)
    8.2
    82%
  • Asset sharing (24)
    7.9
    79%
  • Uploading assets (23)
    7.5
    75%
  • Asset search (24)
    7.4
    74%

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Canto delivers digital asset management capabilities while offering an intuitive experience for teams. Canto's AI Visual Search enables users to search their brand libraries using natural language.

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Features

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

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DAM Features

Features commonly found in dedicated Digital Asset Management (DAM) Software.

7.1
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Canto?

A digital asset management (DAM), Canto allows organizations to centralize, organize, and share assets. With AI Visual Search, natural language can be used to instantly discover content without relying solely on metadata. Canto aims to empower brands to extract more value out of their content, maximize ROI, and accelerate time to market.

Canto's platform, supported by a flexible and transparent pricing structure, caters to a diverse array of industries. It empowers companies ranging from teams of 50 employees to global enterprises to fuel their content delivery, maximizing their ROI.

Canto Features

DAM Features Features

  • Supported: Uploading assets
  • Supported: Downloading assets
  • Supported: Categories
  • Supported: Asset storage
  • Supported: Asset sharing
  • Supported: Asset search
  • Supported: Tagging system
  • Supported: Content editing
  • Supported: Embed codes
  • Supported: Metadata
  • Supported: Collections
  • Supported: User access
  • Supported: DAM Integrations
  • Supported: DAM API
  • Supported: Workflow automations
  • Supported: Related asset discovery

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Content analytics

Canto Screenshots

Screenshot of the Canto AI Visual Search to discover digital assets faster.Screenshot of asset discovery with AI Visual Search, using natural language to instantly find the most relevant images and videos in Canto.Screenshot of Canto's integrations, including Adobe Creative Suite, Hootsuite, Canva, and monday.com.Screenshot of sharing tools to push on-brand digital content to teams, channels, and platforms while maintaining control with access controls and digital rights management.Screenshot of the organized, searchable content hub, where everyone can always find what they need, when they need it.

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Canto Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS
Supported LanguagesCzech, German, English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese (Simplified), Russian

Frequently Asked Questions

Canto delivers digital asset management capabilities while offering an intuitive experience for teams. Canto's AI Visual Search enables users to search their brand libraries using natural language.

Acquia DAM (Widen), Brandfolder, and Bynder are common alternatives for Canto.

Reviewers rate Downloading assets and Asset storage highest, with a score of 8.2.

The most common users of Canto are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 05, 2024

Canto Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Uploading assets for back up and to share with Sales and Marketing.
  • Options for searchability
  • Visibility of assets
  • Ability to create custom structures
  • Copy / paste is counterintuitive; ie, you must be "inside" a folder to copy it
  • Would love option to have multiple trees open to copy paste between without excess navigation
It has robust options, but requires good training and team alignment to determine best practices for all.
March 05, 2024

Encanto Canto.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto for all photo and video storage and graphic assets such as logos. I create graphics in Adobe products daily, and the Canto Connector tool allows us to work much faster and keep photos from shoots organized. It has enhanced our workflow as a creative team.
  • Asset organization.
  • Facial recognition and taggings.
  • Canto Connector app with Adobe.
  • UX - sometimes icons aren't intuitive.
  • UX - takes a lot more clicks than necessary often.
  • No keyboard shortcuts (that I am aware of).
Appropriate: all photo and video storage, sharing a few select photos or entire albums with people (you don't even have to have an account!). Less appropriate for us is storing active Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign files.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto as a warehouse for all our visual assets and logos. Our primary use is for communications team use, but all staff can access and use it. We find it especially useful in the creative process when looking for assets to accompany our storytelling.
  • Facial recognition.
  • Identification of objects within images.
  • Searching for specific images.
  • Too many options for grouping and tagging - super confusing.
  • Easier way to create a drop box for photos from staff.
You're making a PowerPoint, and you need some beautiful visuals. Canto is the best starting point.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Within our organization, the Marketing department takes the lead in utilizing Canto to manage, categorize, and distribute assets like photographs and graphic files. Access to Canto is extended to other departments, facilitating efficient searches and usage of media items. The platform's features, such as tagging, keywording, and facial recognition, enable swift and easy sorting through a vast collection of photographs, ultimately saving valuable time for project teams in need of these assets. Furthermore, Canto serves as a rapid and effective means of sharing files, even with external parties beyond our organization.
  • Categorizating.
  • Sharing content.
  • Facial recognition.
  • Keywording.
  • Search.
  • Tagging
  • Quick use of editable files.
  • Slow upload at times.
We appreciate Canto for its practical features like keywording and tagging, which make navigating our photo collection quick and efficient. The ability to select specific photos and generate shareable links is something we use regularly, streamlining our communication. The recent addition of facial recognition is a notable improvement. However, when it comes to swift file management, we've found that platforms with native desktop applications offer a more responsive experience, especially for tasks requiring instant access to files.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team uses Canto every day for our graphic design projects. It's a great media manager and has really helped us to streamline the process of sorting, tagging, and searching for photography assets. With the Adobe Creative Suite integration, we're able to import seamlessly into our signature print and digital work without having to download it to our devices. When my department first started looking for a DAM solution, we were on multiple platforms (Google Drive, Dropbox, Internal S: Drive) and it was difficult to find anything.
  • Facial recognition technology helps us tag key staff automatically.
  • The in-tool search and tagging features are very robust, allowing us to find the specific assets we need fast.
  • The AI driven auto tagging is a nice addition and helps broaden what we can look for.
  • The ability for outside vendors to seamlessly upload content straight into the tool saves a lot of work for us.
  • The ability to selectively share out specific assets or folders with other departments or principals is a great way to really capitalize on our assets without creating extra work for my team.
  • The price point is a bit high, so I'd like to see either more features to justify that or a price drop.
  • The Adobe Connector interface is functional but could be a bit more drag and drop, right now it's a little clunky, if effective.
  • Right now you can't share collections between users, it would be great if we could do that for major projects rather than having to create a new album or tag.
Canto is a really great tool for signature publications, like our annual magazine, the Minnetonka Alumni Magazine. While I oversee the design and layout, there is another staff who helps gather photos, make infographics, etc. By keeping everything in Canto, I'm able to really quickly and easily collaborate and locate the assets I need. It has been invaluable in helping my team improve our efficiency.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto to help us organize all of our media and make it easy to search. We have a bunch of different divisions that each have their own assets as well as content that is used across divisions. We were spending a lot of time searching for assets and Canto makes it easy for the end users to find what they are looking for directly.
  • Facial recognition
  • AI object tagging
  • OCR text recognition
  • The brand templates add-on is very difficult to use. It sounds great on paper, but when you actually try to use it you find out it's very clunky and limited.
  • Adding fonts to style guides is difficult. Would love to see some sort of integration with Adobe and Google fonts.
  • Duplicate finder only finds exact duplicates, so if a file has been run through processing of any sort it doesn't find it (ie Photoshop, Lightroom). Would be great if it could have some sort of optical duplicate finder.
After researching over a dozen platforms, I'm happy that we went with Canto. It has all the features that we are looking for and they are constantly making improvements to the platform. Their support is great and implementing it was very easy. Their recent acquisition of MerlinOne and integration of their capabilities will further enhance the already rich suite of tools that they offer.
February 22, 2024

Completely Canto!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto to collect videos and photos from international staff for marketing purposes in the US.
  • Smart Tagging
  • Portals
  • Customized downloading options
  • Easy Uploading
  • Could be easier to use
  • Setup
Its been great for us getting photos and videos from staff all around the world that's needed for our advertising in the US
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Canto for internal documentation of all types and for all departments. Use as a way to organize and improve the finding of correct documents
  • Flexible
  • Very powerful search engine (almost too powerful)
  • has features we can use
  • Search engine not intuitive
  • hard for my users to understand
  • VERY poor interaction with Adobe products, which we expected to be a main reason for us to get it
The work with Adobe products is not good at all. Very unintuitive. When it brings in images, it renames them, making it unusable for other documents sharing the same graphic. Also brings in some images at low res, making them unusable for export. If we could get tighter integration with Google Drives, that would be great. Having to wipe out entire drives and then reimport them again is killing me. People get way too frustrated when searching. I can't seem to figure out how to restrict their searching effectively.
February 22, 2024

Never Let Go of Canto

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto to give access to our retailers across the nation as well as store assets & files to be used internally for our sales & marketing departments. I also use it to add image links to our amazon store. This is incredibly helpful because the images allow us to use the URLs which are required by Amazon product templates!
  • Storing files, assets and images
  • Sharing files, assets and images
  • Allowing multiple in house users to operate seamlessly
  • Export specific URLs for each photo
  • Export specific metafields for each photo
  • Allow more than 5 admin users without additional charge
  • Allow more than 600 consumer users without additional charge
Canto gives our employees the ease and friendliness to navigate the dashboard and retrieve files, assets, images, PDFs, pretty much anything. Moreover, the Canto support team has always been there to shed light on sticky subject that we sometimes overlooked or did not take into consideration. Lastly, canto is also helpful in the way that we can download files and asset in bulk and easily be sent an email link with all of the assets.
Stephanie Thompson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We primarily use Canto to classify and store all company photo assets. We're currently starting to employ Canto for project flow and management as well.
  • Very pleased with implementation support
  • Would like to see some flexibility in adding admins to existing plans
  • Metadata import is sometimes messy
For our needs, Canto is an affordable, user-friendly product.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Canto for our marketing department Dam system. We liked that it was cloud based. It was being used to handle our photos, PDFs, and Videos. Our goal was to move approved assets off a local file server to a solution that was easier to search, tag, and organize our files for our team and our entire organization. We had about 2000 assets in the DAM.
  • Tagging
  • Search
  • Sorting
  • Viewing
  • Sharing
  • Linking files together
  • Overal UX/UI
It was good for a basic DAM solution. It worked off a file storage UX so for many people it would be a very familiar workflow. It was easy to add tags, and other info to files. Unfortunately the performance and UX/UI was not well suited for large asset libraries which made going through a lot of assets a pain. The file sharing solutions were not well handled. Overall the system felt very dated.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto to house and organize our digital assets. We purchased Canto to streamline our marketing processes. Canto allows employees to take responsibility for locating, downloading, and/or sharing of our digital assets and templates. It reduces the need for employees to disrupt the marketing team to request assets and templates, allowing the marketing team to focus on more important tasks. It has increased our marketing efficiency and reduced our time to go to market. We also use the portal feature to share assets with outside organizations that do not need to be password protected. We have also taken advantage of the guidelines feature to share our branding to ensure consistency across the company.
  • Organization of digital assets
  • Search features and functionality
  • Portals and style guides
  • Visual thumbnails to see assets
  • Not allowing you to upload images for thumbnails, some previews/thumbnails don't show up depending on file type so you can't see what it is without downloading it.
  • The organization of assets in the portal isn't as user-friendly as the main library. It can be difficult to find something once they enter the portal.
  • It would be nice to have more customization features and functionality in the style guidelines, it's very basic and doesn't look as professional as the main library.
Canto is a great solution for large companies with a multitude of assets and several employees. It's a great way to keep company assets safe and organized in a professional manner. It's user-friendly and has a robust set of features. I think the solution is more geared to larger/enterprise level companies. While I think any business could benefit from a solution like Canto, smaller companies with fewer assets and employees might find it overwhelming and unnecessary. Or a company with only a few different kind of assets that don't require multiple levels of files and folders to organize their assets.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We were looking for a solution to share large files inside and outside our agency with other stakeholders. A colleague of mine attended a workshop/conference and Canto was there, so she got the information. After a demo and some conversations, we decided to put out a procurement which Canto won. The best things I can say is that Canto is easy to use and it does exactly what the solution is meant to which is make storage and management -- and sharing! -- of media files easy and seemless. It's very intuitive and, admittedly, I haven't scratched the surface of what Canto can do so it can be a powerful tool. But it can also be a quick, nimble resource if you don't want or need to deep dive as well.
  • Ease of uploading material
  • Ubiquitous/can use in any browser or platform
  • Fairly intuitive
  • workflow. I still have to fumble around a bit to figure out what I want to do
It is perfectly suited for what we needed the solution for: to provide a place to store and manage, for now, photography assets for use by media and our colleagues. I could easily set up a page that could be accessed by anyone I sent a link to for approved, useable photos, and the page looked professional and clean in its interface.

The only cons I would say about Canto is that its tools are so robust we didn't need some of them but I'm glad they were there should we want to flex our muscles a bit.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Canto to provide resource directories for different groups within our organization. For example, we have a customer portal, a volunteer portal, a media portal, and an internal portal. Each of these portals houses different resources to help those groups interact with our brand and work as an ambassador on our behalf. This provides us the opportunity to easily manage resources across groups and target the information each group receives. We are able to do this without IT resources being involved and can change things at a moment's notice.
  • Separate Audiences
  • Visual Search
  • Resize Images
  • Better communication for what the page represents (more text)
  • Less file-like structure
Canto is best suited for providing targeted resources across different audiences.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto to store a variety of digital files, and use it as a quick-link library. We have created numerous "portals" through Canto, and have been able to provide different permissions to each portal, depending on our needs. In particular, we have created a public "service" portal for our customers, where product users are able to find manuals, tutorials, parts catalogues and more, all without needing to contact a member of our service team. This self-service tool has been incredibly successful for our business, and we have heard only positive feedback from our customers.
  • Ability to manage several portals and allow different users access to each.
  • Ability to customize each Canto platform or portal to suit all needs.
  • The platform is very easy to use, and while there are more complex components to the platform, users are able to use only the basics and remain very successful.
  • Would like to see an Android app in the future.
  • There are a lot of add-ons available, but most come at an extra cost. At the price we pay for the platform, I'd like to see more of these features included.
  • The ability to customize folder or album URLs would be helpful.
For our business, canto has been incredibly helpful. There are multiple facets to our business, and the ability to create customized portals for each use case has been great. I would absolutely recommend Canto to any company that needs to provide multiple files to different shareholders, including sales managers, dealers, customers, service managers and more.
Gina D'Angelo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto to share our print and digital marketing assets across 200 offices
  • Search terms
  • Portals
  • Security
  • Account management/Service
  • Adobe connect can be cumbersome to use
  • More live trainings
We were disappointed with the implementation training and the support we have received from our account manager has been slow and inconsistent.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We manage all our photos and graphic design elements and some video clips. This allows us to easily create links to share specific items with internal and external people.
  • Creating links to share media items
  • Creating a portal for others to view specific media items on their own time
  • auto tagging images
  • video file management is a little more cumbersome than still images
  • upload / processing of items seems slower than it should be
Canto works well for organizing assets and sharing those assets with others. It could improve in the speed of uploads and processing of video files.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto has become a crucial product for us to manage our photo and video assets. I can find what I need with the robust search tool in a few seconds versus viewing individual files in an online folder. It's saved me so much time. It's also extremely easy to share assets with others and provide them a link to upload theirs as well, if they are not users. The editing capabilities are the icing on the cake. I'd highly recommend Canto to anyone struggling with asset management.
  • Search capabilities
  • The app is an extra added bonus when uploading pics from mobile devices
  • Never any lag time when using Canto
  • Integration with Canva
  • On occasion I have files fail to upload through the app.
Sharing assets with anyone in our organization, whether they are a Canto user or not, is extremely easy. I use my mobile device for taking photos and videos so the app is crucial in my role. It removes the extra step of sending the assets through email and then save it to the appropriate folder. Although, on occasion, I do have file uploads fail. A quick phone reset usually takes care of that. I also love the integration with Canva as that is our design tool of choice. Having easy access to our assets saves an incredible amount of time.
Alison Weidemann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto to store and organize all of our image assets. Images in our library are tagged and categorized, and facial recognition is used to identify people in the images. This type of image organization will make it easier for our users to view, share, and search for photos and assets within our collections.
  • Facial recognition.
  • Public portals for sharing.
  • Supports single sign-on.
  • Image management.
  • More intuitive user experience.
  • Had upload errors when using the Canto connect.
  • More customization.
Canto is well suited for asset management if you have a large number of images to organize, although it does take quite a bit of time to add information and make the assets information-rich. We have a fairly small team using it, but it seems like a large team would be able to use it just as easily. Having everything in one place and the ability to share collections through the portals will work well, I see us using that feature often.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to upload and share event photos with attendees and speakers. We also use the platform to tag attendees and speakers and then use those photos for editorial purposes.
  • Photo tagging
  • Public portals
  • Photo library management
  • In my opinion, it is the worst UX I've ever seen, it's a very outdated UI.
  • Lots of functions could be improved. It wants to offer a lot but, in my experience, fails with almost everything.
  • I feel like there is a lack of product direction and focus.
It's a very small market, there aren't enough good solutions out there and Canto is still probably the best option among the worst.
Alison Harper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We previously used a VPN and internal server to store our digital assets. They were organized by folder and pretty much unsearchable. We had many versions of the same image in different resolutions. Sharing was difficult and we had to use other third party apps like wetransfer to send images. Canto replaces all of this with cloud-based access. We only need 1 version of an image (the original high res) and we can search quickly with the meta data. We can watermark images for outside use automatically. Canto has solved many problems.
  • Allowing users to download a resized version of an image self serve (eg. for social media)
  • Sharing collections where recipients can see and download high res images
  • Tagging to make searches very simple and eliminate complete folder structures
  • Tag all info about an asset in the data rather than trying to name images with this data
  • Seeing a path for collection images
  • sometimes in an upload link the only way to return to the main library is manual adjustment of the URL
  • More permission levels available.. not just Consumer or admin
I've already recommended and I will continue. I found it very easy to figure out. We're not using it for video much as I am concerned about how fast we'll fill up our storage limit.
October 03, 2022

Sierra Club Canto Review

Hillary Larson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto as a photo and permissions database. It addresses the lack of a centralized database.
  • Search function
  • Permissions function
  • sizing
  • The UX could be a bit better, it's a bit clunky
  • Ability to add written or multimedia storytelling
Canto is great for an asset search database to track permissions and resize. I wish it would be a bit more useful as a multimedia storytelling and tracking repository, with the ability to easily reach out to content owners.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto mainly as storage for our files, to share images with donors, and other departments or external partners, and to create portals for nonprofits to access materials during community events.
  • Tags
  • Portals
  • Support response time
  • Share links creation/customization/search
  • Face detection isn't that easy to use
  • Would be nice if there was an option to automatically upload files every night/sync files
Canto is good for sharing files and creating boundaries around the share links. It is good for storing files and the search function works well within the Library. The share links could use some work, and this is where our team spends a lot of our time within Canto. It would be nice is Share Links were customizable links, and if it were easier to search for past share links, via a search bar within the Collection Links section.
Graeme Nix | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto has provided us with an efficient means of storing, sharing, and finding relevant digital media across the company. It's really simplified the process of collecting and distributing our best photography to the teams that need it. Canto has also been very supportive of any issues we've had, and quick to respond when needed.
  • Sharing media internally and externally
  • Easy to search
  • Integration with MS Office and Adobe
  • Would like more control of who can download media with different DRM properties
  • Would like to use watermarks on some files, for only some users
Canto provides an easy to manage a large library of images that need to be used by people throughout the company. It's been a great way for us to share our best photography with proposal writers across the country. It's also made the process of collecting images much easier, and I can send out a single link to multiple users, who can all upload photos and collectively edit the metadata until they're ready to be added to our main library.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto to store our creative artwork files. Historically we used regular file folders on our shared drive and it wasn't easy to find them. When people left our team, is was REALLY hard to find their creative historical files. Canto is going to solve those problems for us going forward!
  • Save creative files in an organized fashion.
  • Make creative files easy to find with its taggable/searchable capability.
  • Provides for continuity of finding creative historical files even when employee members leave.
  • The tagging methodology seems VERY hard to grasp at first.
  • Our team is not yet sure if we should save flattened design files or "layered" design files into Canto.
  • We struggle on our team to know if we should save each draft of a file or wait until we get to a finished draft, then final draft round 1, final draft round 2, etc.
Very well suited in scenarios where a company has a lot of creative files and photographs. Also great for a company that revisits/updates its creative files frequently or periodically.
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