Canto Reviews & Product Details

I really appreciate how user-friendly Canto is, thanks to its UX format and layout. It's also very visual, which I like. The search capabilities are fantastic, making it easy to find stuff and search for phrases and words in documents. I find it great for organizing our current version of graphic design materials. Plus, it offers good visibility to other departments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the portals in Canto a bit limiting. You can't really control who can see them since it's just public or private, which isn't flexible enough for my needs. Also, important details like version history don't show up, which would be really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it's a clean UI that integrates all file types into a visually indexable catalog for my team to navigate. It pairs with Adobe products, and is easy to share living links to folders internally and externally with speedy load times and all around accessible web based systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are times when the options for organization actually can lead to organizational missmatch. Because onboarding tiers are part of the pricing scheme, for a smaller firm we are required to self-onboard from the only seat that was present in the Canto-led onboarding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Portals is a great feature and it’s easy to manage users, user groups, and content. We’ve built almost 20 portals for different audiences, both internal and external. Version control is important to us, and we use Canto links to add documents like brochures, spec sheets, and similar files to our website, so we only need to update a single file in Canto. Upload links are also very useful for collecting content from different sources and getting it into Canto. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Smart tags could definitely be improved. It would help if there were a way to feed the AI references, instructions, and guidelines up front so the functionality is more accurate and consistent. With our products, smart tags have mostly been a miss so far, and it would be nice to fully automate tagging instead of relying on manual input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Canto allows our teams to work cohesively with our media, ensuring everyone has access to the most recent files for the best success. Not to mention the easy-to-use portals have become invaluable to us what started as a small benefit, quickly became widely used not only by our team, but to our outside members as well. Oh and the customer service could not be better! Everyone I've worked with at canto has been fast to respond, considerate, and all-around helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost is high, but the features they offer make it hard to argue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that our Teams can share files with people outside of our organization and update Share Links live without having to resend a new link. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have a company overview presentation that gets updated almost weekly and our sales team has to check their notifications often to see if there is a new version of the presentation to download. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s been really helpful to give our sales reps access to a large library of assets that they can easily search by keyword and quickly share with clients when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My main issue is creating share links. It’s the one feature I really wish worked more like Dropbox. Also, there are quite a few functions and features included that we don’t really need, or that we’re not sure what they’re for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The portal interface is very user friendly! Duplicate detection and asset versioning are very useful for us! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We wish there was a better way to separate teams within our organization that share the same library. RIght now, all the teams within our org share the same library, but we all have very different use-cases for the library, so there are additional considerations we need to make. It'd be ideal to have separated library spaces, where we could control the settings within our team's library without affecting the settings of another team.

Also, there are too many clicks when downloading from the main library. I wish we could change it to a one-click download. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the visual layout and the filtering options. However, the UI/UX can sometimes feel visually overwhelming. I also like the integration options—we’ve been able to connect it to Adobe and Canva tools for faster workflows.

Performance is okay overall, but it can be glitchy at times. The filtering can also be confusing, and images loading and reloading sometimes makes it difficult to navigate content smoothly.

The pricing/ROI seems fine overall. We use it as our enterprise tool, and I like that there are a lot of different ways to use it, such as creating small websites or landing pages. Support has been great as well; I’ve had team members call in and get help in a timely manner.

As for the AI intelligence, it’s great for tagging images so they’re easier to search for and navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The navigation and loading can be glitchy at times, which makes using the app challenging sometimes. The UI also feels very busy, in my opinion, and that can make it harder to find what I’m looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about Canto is that everything is organized and easy to search through. We have both a folder for marketing stock and brand assets, and I do not have to spend too much time finding exactly what I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The one thing I dislike is that a lot of our content is outdated. However, this is not at fault of the software, this is a my entity problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Adobe integrations have been most helpful when creating content. I also appreciate the ability to safely create and share links of specific content with certain parties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The load speed has been consistently troublesome. Instead of uploading content and leaving it, I return to see that several uploads failed and I have to restart, or it's so slow that hardly any progress is made at all. I have to then upload a handful of photos at a time, check back, and when it's complete, I return to upload more. When dealing with hundreds of photos, it gets old! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.