What is Canto?
About Canto
What do you like best about Canto?
Canto provides fast, easy, searchable digital assets that are easy to update as products change. We use it to provide content for customer websites and sales materials, without having to check if the content is up to date by doing very simple version updates. We also like that we can apply several different types of search options for customers, websites and internal users.
What do you dislike about Canto?
We really haven’t found any downsides to Canto. We’ve found we use it for more applications than we initially expected and that will probably continue to grow.
Canto continues to improve and increase the options built into their structure, which allows us to offer more options to our customers.
Pros
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“As a company with many events it’s perfect for tagging and finding our participants. Their facial recognition has proven to be an excellent asset to us.”
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“I really like how easy it is to upload, organize and tag photos. The facial recognition feature is great when dealing with lots of photos of people, like we do as a university.”
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“Canto makes it easy to keep all of our creative assets in one place, and perfectly accessible by team members as well as the full company and clients.”
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“It’s a nice software once you get to know it. It’s a powerful alternative to Dropbox and has more robust features.”
Cons
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“Either the tags and descriptions would be off or not show up at all, or it would add the wrong information.”
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“Canto is advertised as easy to use for designers, and it is terrible.”
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“Also having some problems with the WordPress connectivity at the moment.”
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“The inability to work on Adobe files from the server.”
Canto features
Main features of Canto are:
- Keyword search
- Configurable admin tools
- Image and video publishing
- Easy configuration
- File transfer and sharing
- Social DAM
- Version histories
- Metadata extraction
- Editing and writeback
- Portals
- Collaboration portal
- Triggers
- Roles and permissions
- Workflow automation
- Powerful search
- Asset relations
- InDesign Client for Adobe InDesign
- Approval workflow
- Version control
- Analysis and reporting
Canto Benefits

Easy digital assets management
Canto is a media library that helps users manage digital assets. It enables you to store, collaborate and share files from one location and makes it easier to search for files and organize branded content. It is available as SaaS and provides different integrations to increase workflow.
Automated file sorting
Its Smart Albums help users organize digital assets through automatic file sorting. Folders, Tags, Smart Tags, Keywords and facial recognition allow teams to take charge of their organizational structure. The filtering and global search tools enable you to find exactly what you need, right when you need it.
Customizable branding
Branding in Canto is customizable to strengthen brand identity. Your files can be accessed from anywhere and the platform empowers you to send large files securely with Share Links. Create custom Portals to easily share content with external users outside of your main library.