What's more than the kitchen sink? Canto!
August 25, 2023

What's more than the kitchen sink? Canto!

Bruce Milton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Canto

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.

Pros

  • Ease of uploading material
  • Ubiquitous/can use in any browser or platform
  • Fairly intuitive

Cons

  • workflow. I still have to fumble around a bit to figure out what I want to do
  • robust storage
  • ease of use
  • ability to configure clean, simple interactivity for sharing files
  • Saved time on finding solutions to share media files
  • helped increase communication and collaboration within the agency and with partners
Canto support have been amazing with follow up and availability when we've needed it
While I've only done demo versions of the listed products and others, I can say that Canto was one of the most easy to use yet robust toolkits I encountered. It can do everything you want and more, but not be too bogged down in using it. That said, some of the workflow and mechanics can be confusing but you end up figuring out what you need to do fairly quickly and support is VERY good to help you with what you don't know, including tutorials and suggestions on the website.

Do you think Canto delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Canto's feature set?

Yes

Did Canto live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Canto go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Canto again?

Yes

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.

Canto Feature Ratings

Uploading assets
10
Downloading assets
10
Categories
7
Asset storage
10
Asset sharing
10
Asset search
7
Tagging system
8
Content editing
Not Rated
Embed codes
Not Rated
Metadata
10
Collections
8
User access
10
DAM Integrations
Not Rated
DAM API
Not Rated
Workflow automations
Not Rated
Related asset discovery
Not Rated

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