# Daminion Reviews **Vendor:** Daminion Software **Category:** [Digital Asset Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-asset-management) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 172 ## About Daminion Daminion is a secure and easy-to-use on-premise Digital Asset Management solution that helps marketing departments and creative teams from different industries fulfill their brand’s potential. Daminion is a hub for all your digital content—so your photos, videos, and other digital assets are always right where you need them. A central location for all your digital assets. We help over 800 companies around the world—from enterprise level to small creative teams. Benefits of using Daminion on-premise DAM: - Your digital assets are behind your corporate firewall. - Highest performance for heavy files. - No annual payments for storage space in the cloud. - Your internal IT team has full control over the system. - Remote access to the system for any device, just like cloud-based solutions. - You can choose a lifetime license or a subscription. Daminion is perfectly suited for: - Manufacturing - Architecture - Construction and Engineering - Educational Institutions - E-commerce - Game Development - Government Organizations - Non-profit Organizations - Video Production, Broadcast Media, and Television ## Daminion Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **ease of use** of Daminion, emphasizing its straightforwardness and speed compared to other programs. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **fast upload speed** of Daminion, highlighting its efficiency compared to other cataloguing options. (1 reviews) ## Daminion Reviews ### 1. Daminion's catalogue program is brilliant. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David F. | Photographer, Photography, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2017 **What do you like best about Daminion?** As a solo photographer with almost five decades of judo photographs including ten Olympics, I have found Daminion to be the best cataloguing program I have ever used. Over the years, I have tried many options, including iView Media Pro, ACDSee, Lightroom, PhoTools, Phase One, and Media Pro. None of them can match the straightforwardness and speed that Daminion Pro offers. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I would appreciate having a feature that allows for word autocompletion in captions, much like the system found in PhotoMechanic, which I rely on for importing images after a photoshoot and then include in the Daminion database/catalogue. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** The volume of pictures that it will handle and its ease of use. Also its ability to handle non-picture files such as PDFs and other document files. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing a vast image collection dating back to the early seventies, this tool makes it remarkably easy to locate photos of judokas, including those from ten different Olympic Games. ### 2. Ideal for cataloging, but requires improvements in backup. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Александр . **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2026 **What do you like best about Daminion?** I really like how Daminion is convenient for cataloging my personal archive of photos and videos. I have more than 25,000 files, and nowhere else have I found so many convenient features for attaching custom tags and using ready-made association templates. I also appreciate the functional interface without excess. It's very useful to have a floating window of recently attached tags, convenient switching between content display views, and a well-thought-out properties window. The functionality for creating sub-tags and tag groups is also impressive. The initial setup was very easy. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I still haven't figured out the backup process. When I press the button, it somehow redirects to the Daminion Articles website (I'm using version 6.7.0). I would like a proper backup functionality or instructions on how it should work. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daminion solves the problems of quick search and sorting by providing convenient management of tags and templates for my extensive collection of over 25,000 photos and videos. ### 3. Powerful and easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Individual & Family Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Daminion?** The best tool is picking the duplicated photos **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Having it free is really awsem and breaking the limit by review is good choice Cannot use face recognition easily **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** nothing ### 4. Daminion : Best system to organize my foto collection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Easy organaisation of great number of photo **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Not easy adding new images. Sometimes it happen to do confusion. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daminion help me to manage my collection of garden and plant photo, organize it in different index for grow my knowledge. ### 5. The best offer for us on the market **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Out of the 9 Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions that we compared, we found Daminion to be the most user-friendly with a brilliant support team. It has all the features that our team requires, including an on-premises version, AI tagging, face recognition, and an efficient search engine. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** We are currently testing the latest version and have not encountered any flaws yet. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are working on organizing our archive, and Daminion has proven to be a valuable tool for this task. Currently, only our marketing team uses Daminion, but they can easily find any file within seconds using its version control and face recognition features. ### 6. Best Software for my photo shoots **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Günter O. | admin, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Daminion?** The Software is easy to use and generates fast results in searching for Photos. I had the Standalone version up to now and uses mainly the search for keywords. The separation of the database and the actual mediafiles is a good idea. I like that the keywords are written directly in the media. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Updates are sometimes buggy. A better quality control would be helpful in this case. I hope this will improve in the server version. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** in my business i need fast access to photos. This is easy with daminion. I don´t benefit financially cause this is not my main job. Indeed the business performance increased. ### 7. It was the first time i use a real "catalog software" with all the things you need and no more else **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Clarity and efficiency. THe drag an drop from Daminion to my editing software **What do you dislike about Daminion?** The videos management but with the 7.x versions.. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** To find the right photo in a minimun spend time ### 8. Works well for basic cataloging **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Simple to use, very efficient for cataloging and tagging your images. Able to create multiple catalogs and move images between them **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Set up can be a little involved, not a simple one-click installation. Can be slow to add images to the catalog. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to catalog several thousands of images in a clean and efficient manner. Able to easily retrieve the needed images ### 9. Good, clear and efficient but always with bugs **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erwin S. | Chief, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Daminion?** The handling is simple and intuitive. After a very short settling-in period you get along very well. Use only the server version. The standalone version is not maintained and has many bugs. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I would like automatic version control. 1) RAW: 1234.cr2 => JPG 1234_LR.jpg => recognize as version when importing and link it. 2) Please note the sorting. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Test and then decide. The best thing is to create a requirements catalog and then verify whether Daminion meets enough requirements. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finally, I can manage my tens of thousands of photos reasonably good. I have my Daminion catalog on an SSD, so access is very fast. **Official Response from Murat Korkmazov:** > Erwin, thanks for the feature suggestion! Version Control term is already used in Daminion for the management of file revisions. Edited versions of the same file. We are going to add the "Variants" option so you can combine RAW + JPEGs or different variants (versions) of the same asset (logotype, ad banner, etc.). After that, we will consider automatic versions/variants based on file names. ### 10. Best photo managing software for me! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dominik U. | Wordpress Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Most of all - speed, tags, individual export settings, watermark implementation. When You work with 10-15 new galleries every day - Daminion is a good tool for You! **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Sometimes application can crush unexpectedly on Windows 10. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing galleries, sharing my thoughts about pictures with others, exporting in different formats. ### 11. An excellent program for file cataloging **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Medytox R. | Sales manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Visual design and performance speed. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** The price is a bit high, so I use the free license. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes the program crashes, but this likely happens due to an unstable network, as the archive is located on a local network on a NAS. ### 12. Daminion as a DAM **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lucian c. | videographer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Relatively easy to use, nice interface, i see they put new features constantly **What do you dislike about Daminion?** No cons yet, I am trying the new version **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to get together my 80K photos and maybe 1000 video ### 13. Managing my photos using a DAM **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Daminion?** I found the software very easy to use and with many useful possibilty of selection and search in the database. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** At the moment -I'm in starting phase- there's nothing to be blamed.... **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting managed all my photos without having to use e.g. Photoshop ### 14. Strong search station for documents (not only photos) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christiaan G. | Contracts/Claims Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Daminion?** The power to customize my own referencing system. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** A bit of a steeper learning curve compared to current software principles **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a very robust management programme for all types of media. It may actually also be used for a document management system for larger projects. ### 15. Very nice software for photo archiving **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Szymon S. | Optical Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Daminion?** - Easy to use - Simple, intuitive and functional interface without to much candy-like bells and whistles that only take attention and memory - Good access to all metadata - Tags inside metadata **What do you dislike about Daminion?** - up to now nothing really, there are some small interface features that are design choice and perhaps I would do it other way, but still the way it is is functional **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Archiving 10k+ private pictures ### 16. Found a nice way to manage my 80.000 pictures usind Daminion **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** BRATIERES J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Daminion?** The look is clean and direct compared to other solutions, functions are easily accessed with the most intuitive way (context menu, ...). Almost all functions I need are here. I mailed a question about the missing most important one to me (about metada). I had a quick answer (functionnality not available yet) and was asked to send test pictures, which I did. Problem was looked at and soon functionality will be available in Daminion ! **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Nothing I think, though metadata typing could be made easier. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had to change the tools I used before because I now use more raw pictures and few jpeg ones. I tested many tools and Daminion has the functions I need and its design is clean and pleasant (just compare with digikam for instance). ### 17. Looking for a fast modern DAM software managing my photos **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas H. | Softwareingenieur, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Daminion?** - A modern, fresh user interface - A fast local database - Sufficient opportunity to search and filter my photos - Simple and intuitive operation - no manual absolutely necessary **What do you dislike about Daminion?** - No reverse geo-naming - No geo-tagging of multiple photos with the help of a file with recorded coordinates **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Now it is easier for me to manage all of my photos of the last 20 years. That saves me a lot of time! ### 18. great for pictures management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Daminion?** - open system: tags are written in IPTC standard = you can review or use what you implemented in the tags in another soft, such as photoshop or the excellent XnView - you can upload the modifications in IPTC fields done through another soft in Daminiion - you have lost your database, or decide to go to another picture management soft ( in Linux for instance) ? rebuild the database is easy, as information is in the metadatas inside the picture. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** as all other soft I have used, spending a minimum of time/hours to understand how it works is a minimum, if you want to avoid troubles uploading the picture from your DC through Daminion by tagging the pictures is basiquely required = re-think the image management process flow . Once it's done, it's great. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** best in classe **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** main benefit is to tag pictures in a centralized open software. Management is easy once it's done ### 19. Use for personal image catalog **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jugchawin K. | Ophthalmologist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Great and easy for sort and collect image data **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Need some time to build catalog if data is large **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** For organize image ### 20. Great tool to manage my knowledgebase **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Daminion?** - the clean user interface - customisation possibilities - speed **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Nothing really important. The UI although very effective is a bit old-fashioned, but that's really ok for me! **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I manage all sorts of documents related to my interests. Daminion allows me to classify, tag, and, above all, find the things I'm looking for. ### 21. Great Tag Based Image Manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Couple things I like about daminion: (1) ability to create custom tags and use them to filter images (2) the sidebar lists all of your tags and makes it easy to filter/create queries (3) your catalogs are saved in .dmc files, which lets you encrypt them or save them onto USBs. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Not really much I dislike. If I had to complain about something, it'd have to be that the Recently Assigned Tag feature is kind of slow sometimes, but honestly it doesn't matter that much. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Let's me organize my photography DCIM project files much better. ### 22. Best DAM I have yet encountered. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Simplicity and elegance outperforms PM 6 **What do you dislike about Daminion?** It would be nice if it were possible to change the UI to a dark tone **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Every folder is where it should be. Excellent to pass the file to another software ### 23. Efficient, quick and reliable! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Daminion?** The ability to easily filter content (mainly pictures for me) based upon multiple tags **What do you dislike about Daminion?** It's that powerful I'd also like to use it for my personal digital asset management (pdf, doc, etc) as well but it's mainly built for commercial uses, and then is a little bit complicated for personal use! **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tag personal pictures and videos: persons, places, title, keywords, GPS Everything is directly written in Exif and IPTC metadata, and then directly reusable and compatible in other tools (in-house online gallery with piwigo for my case) The best way to protect your privacy: no GAFA tool automatically tagging the face of your child and using your data against your will ;-) ### 24. Best image catalogue for designers or photograpgers use I've ever used. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mikhail V. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Tagging people, places, keywords and events is very fast and convenient. Automatic tag creation based on directory structure. Very stable and blazing fast working with large catalogues (15.000 images in milliseconds). **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Daminion lacks Ai face recognition and automatic people/subject tagging. Some interface improvements may add some polish and style (less frames and borders since it is 2020). **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Trust it. It really can handle most tasks you need with handling your clipart of photo archive. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a huge archive of clipart and photos that we need to sort, find and re-use when we need to, instead of buying new images every time. Also it is very useful when you have an archive of photos and you need to find a photo by place, event or a keyword. **Official Response from Murat Korkmazov:** > Thanks for your feedback, Mikhail. In the latest Daminion Server 6.4 we have added AI tagging. We use Google Vision service for this. 1000 images can be auto-tagged for free, after that you can add your Google key and continue using this feature. ### 25. Catalog personal media files **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Daminion?** I was looking for a replacement for Microsoft Media Expression and I found Daminion! Perfect, it has all the features of Media Expression with a modern interface and more, besides accepting various formats of videos and files from Illustrator and Photoshop! **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I would like you to add Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer formats ... **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** A great alternative to Media Expression and an excellent complement to Adobe Lightroom. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I bought time, cataloging hundreds of photos and illustrations. ### 26. Easy to use and effective in searching **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giorgio P. | Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Daminion?** I found the software very easy to use and with many useful possibilty of selection and search in the database. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I did not find any serious flaws in the software. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Daminion to organise my research photos. It is easy to tag teh pictures and organise them or select a group of pictures to use in a paper or report. ### 27. worthy DAM contender **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph S. | Sr. SQL Database Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Daminion?** User interface is very intuitive and laid out well. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** can be a little slow importing thousands of images. Would also like to see automatic versioning of photos (think RAW + JPG), so that when i edit the metadata of the main raw file, all versioned jpgs/tiffs have the same metadata applied. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** In need of a DAM to manage my photos and videos with keywording support. Been using other competitors software, but have run into numerous issues such as slowness, corrupted metadata, and not enough features. ### 28. Best tool available when catalogimng archived film media **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Russ D. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2016 **What do you like best about Daminion?** User interface and functions for data entry are very intuitive: people (who), category (what). place (where), event (why), and when. Since film media has no electronic produced metadata, the Daminion app is perfect for :adding such metadata to your catalog. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Would love to see an addition to their great documentation: specifically a mapping between Daminion metadata vocabulary and the metadata systems that are supported - including Microsoft File Explorer, Adobe, and EXIF **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Try it. There is only one way to know for sure. Try it. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems at all. Love the metadata synchronizing options: manual per image, manual for all images, automatic. ### 29. Keeping track of photos for teaching **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** I need to organise a growing number of photos for teaching ecology and other topics in university courses. For that, i need a system with flexible assignment and subsetting according to categories and or tags. Daminion, and its predecessor, gives me that **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I dont like to be reminded every time i open the programme that i am on the free license - i know that ! **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Really worth getting into if you want to find way in your jungle of phots **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding relevant photos for teaching and teaching materials ### 30. Custom tagging and tags staying with file are unrivaled across similiar programs! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lou Ann H. | Lead Monumental Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Daminion?** We created our own custom tag tree and the ability to search by these categories have made our salespeople head and shoulders over the competition . Our designing department can show a potential client exactly what is available in seconds! And because the tags stay with the file, we can transfer files to other computers. We often are in areas without internet so the stand alone program is PERFECT for us! **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Sometimes, I want to delete a picture after getting a better picture of the same subject. Daminion will 95 percent of the time delete the picture. But about 5 percent of these pictures will not delete. We cannot get them out of the catalog or out of the folder. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Save your catalogs safely away from any new work. There are buttons you can push that will set your back MONTHS! So as you progress, save that catalog and its picture folders where a mistake doesn't destroy your work. For instance, I always have the same catalog and folder on two seperate computers, so if I "blow" up the one I am working on, I can retrieve a good copy from the other computer. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very portable sales tool showing designs, colors, shapes, everything! Small laptop and you are ready! Also working with clients on via email, I can quickly find an example on Daminion that I can send a image of. ### 31. The easiest DAM for me. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Daminion?** I have found over some years that it serves all my needs for tagging and keywording, as my photo/video collection has grown it still holds true. For me the stand alone version is important, as I do not always have internet or mobile access. Have tried the keyword/tagging in a variety of photo software, ie Lightroom, ZonerPhoto, Elements etc, they are OK but lack the strength of Daminion. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Nothing really, it works for me, that said of course it will not work for all, but I am happy. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Like most things you have to try it first, if it meets 75% of your needs then go for it. I find it intuitive to use and nice and simple to use. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my case it has stopped me loosing valuable photos/videos, and finding them so much easier. ### 32. Awesome Programs (RECOMMENDED) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Damian P. | Photographer, Photography, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** The thing that I like best about Daminion is it's ability to batch write tags and other vital information directly into a file i.e. meta-data etc. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** The only thing that I dislike about Daminion is that you have to create a catalog in order to process any of your images. I would love to just be able to do it on the fly since I am writing the information into the file itself. I don't have a need for a separate catalog to store the information as a backup. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Give the product a try if you're interesting in writing meta-data directly to your photographs in bulk. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problem that I solved using Daminion is that able to get my work done faster so I'm able to get product to my clients sooner giving me the ability to move on to the next project as quickly as possible. ### 33. Daminion helps me to retrieve the information I need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Daminion very flexible: [1] allows to import all sorts of files: text files (like PDF), pictures, sound bits, movies... and retrieve them selecting whatever search option is convenient: import date, file type, keywords (tags)... [2] a number of preset tags are useful, but Daminion allows user-defined tags too, which is helpful, in my case, to search e.g. for key topics, historical events, and animal species. [3] support is very good: very responsive and helpful suggestions. I really appreciate the good communication. You're communicating with a human, not a system. [4] it's small: the catalogue is just an 'umbrella', a file that remains fairly small (Mb's) and I can still access the files through a File Explorer. Daminion does not modify the original files. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** The're only one small thing I do not like: Daminion automatically imports tags that may be assigned to e.g. a PDF, like search keywords or author names. These tags 'pollute' the key structure that I have setup in Daminion, so I need to manually search for them to delete them. For the rest, I have a few small things on my wish-list: [a] password-protected catalogs and [b] the possibility to search for keywords that have 'zero' documents assigned (e.g. that are not used and can be deleted. This would allow me to clean up the keyword structure as sometimes keywords are accidentally or incorrectly entered and not used. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Trying it is for free (up to many records), so there's nothing really that prevents you from using the product. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work as a polar guide. Previously I kept all my files in a folder structure. But the overlaying structure that Daminion offers, allows me to access all these files in many different ways. Say: a scientific paper on "winter dispersion of Wandering Albatrosses of South Georgia" can now be retrieved by searching for author, bird species, non-breeding, migration, and through a lot of other search options. My polar guide works somewhat overlaps with my other freelance job as a photographer. I do not use Daminion for photo editing and cataloging, I've been using Lightroom before I started using Daminion. In theory both products somewhat overlap, but in practice I find they both do what they're best at, and for my work there's no real overlap. ### 34. Easy and efficient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lionel F. | Responsable Centre de Contacts & Directeur de Projets Telecoms, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Daminion is so easy to use and so efficient. I've never been disapointed and I've never faced any bug for the last 4 years. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Sometimes when files are deleted outside of Daminion we need to refresh the directories content. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problem, easier to tag files. ### 35. Daminion - A Media Manager that still lack in feature but promising future. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Damo I. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Daminion only restrict the numbers of item in your catalog, but at 15,000 that will be enough for most people. Upgrading your license will increase the maximum, or you can create another Catalog database instead. Aside from that their Filtering and Tagging system is much better than what other software have to offer. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** The weakness of Daminion is it slowly becoming what some people hate, the move into the "cloud". Ever since the creation of Daminion Server, the plan is in place to make the offline standalone version obsolete in the near future. Eventually stop updating the Standalone version all together (hopefully that is not the case). **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** If you need Photo Editing then Daminion might be very weak in that aspect, Lightroom probably the one to go. However, Daminion management is triumph. If you need to go Reverse searches or image searches, digiKAM have this beauty feature that maybe few more years time before Daminion have it, but thanks to Daminion tagging and filtering system you can find what you looking for. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daminion providing a possible to filter, tag and manage a large collection of file, mainly it purpose is Photo (DAM), but unlike a commercial software such as Adobe Lightroom, file type is not restricted. You can pretty much have Daminion import any filetypes. ### 36. Great software for organizing all your images **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Daminion is fast and reliable.I'm using it for a long time now and it never had failed. The way you can search your images is great. It's very time saving that you can process any images from within Daminion. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Sometimes, it takes a long time to rebuild the thumbnails of a a catalogue. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Once you've tried it, you can't work without it ... **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can find images very fast and save a lot of time. When someone asks a certain image, it's very easy to find it. ### 37. Best software for managing images and documents **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Daminion offers exceptional flexibility in managing documents and images. The search functions are ingenious and easy to handle. We have evaluated various other products, but none offered the capabilities of Daminion. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Sometimes it is difficult to undo changed settings in the user interface. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Install and take a free test - you will be convinced! **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Management of analysis reports, images, work descriptions, and documents ### 38. I am a pensioner and still also a freelancer researcher, photography always was a passion. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arthur R. | Niet afgestudeerd onderzoeker, professioneel projectleider, ex-maatschappelijk werker, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Daminion is a very good way to find and file all the pictures I have made and collected. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I am not all to certain that changes are registered at a moment. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** A vast collection of pictures very good archived and rather easy to find and search on many terms. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I started a research on the disaster on the Damsquare in Amsterdam/ Holland in 2012. Historical a blind spot in The Netherlands. The foundation is even in 2018 still researching photographic material from several archives and individual conributors. ### 39. Great editor of metadata and photo review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dennis C. | Retired, Oil & Energy, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Batching of modifications and quick navigation. So far so good - still learning and exploring functionality **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Lack of geo/spatial addition / modification of images through a map interface (and Ideally in a batch mode) - this is critical as many historic images don't have gps location and often photos are taken in areas where a GPS fix cannot be attained. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Definitely an easy way to manage, classify and group images and its respective metadata around project management and maintenance activity **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** At this stage it is simply managing an extensive archive of photographic records from various infrastructure construction programs ### 40. The best DAM software for my needs. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rick N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** I need a software capable of: 1. writing metadata to images as to sidecars xml files 2. operating with a locally database under Windows 3. managing at least 20000 images, from a PC 4. creating a set of hierarchical keywords 5. tagging with these hierarchical keywords 6. applying pre-defined copyright text to images 7. applying star-ratings to images compatible with NEF files 8. allowing images to be found by searching on using multiple tags 9. I need a user-friendly DAM **What do you dislike about Daminion?** The thing that i most dislike is the way "~Thumbs folder" is organized. All the thumbnail are grouped under folsders and subfolders. It is very slow to backup with all those subfolders. I think that a SQL databese for these thumbnails would be faster to back up. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** I tested many other softwares (ACDSee Pro, Daminion, DigiKam, Photo Supreme, iMatch and Phase One Media) over a period of almost one year. I compared each software with my needs which are listed in the previous section. Daminion responded to all of them. Then I tested Daminion thoroughly. After using it for two months, I decided to replace Microsoft Expression Media. I think Daminion is an excellent choice for those who need a DAM this is robust. Also Daminion offer a very good support **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to manage all the screeenshots I need to document problems I resolved on my customers PC's. ### 41. Simple and powerful DAM software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Daminion really is powerful software that makes managing your photos very easy. It is intuitive to use and quite fast. It also detects duplicate photos based on customisable options. I quite like how you can use multiple search options to find photos, display photos on a map and geotag photos. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I'd like to be able to display all the metadata in full view mode and also to be able to select the next photo with its metadata being displayed. Also the ability to customise which bits of metadata get displayed instead of all of it. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** A powerful program with full options so that you can demo it with no problems. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to find photos quickly and also to look at the metadata quite fast. ### 42. Very useful software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** It has a complete workflow from import to retrieve. Tags are versatile and easy to use Tags are stored in the image or in sidecar files so not reliant on a database. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** Pulling out a selection of images to use or send is not as simple as I'd like. There is no way to dynamically apply tags on import, only to use presets. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I wanted to catalog thousands of photos previously held in a folder/filename structure which had become completely unwieldy. I used EXIFTool to create tags from foldernames, then imported the files into Daminion and flattened the folder structure to YYYY/MM. Now things are far more manageable and searchable. ### 43. very good but hard **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angel J. | Diseñador gráfico, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Daminion?** has a quick tool for the search of digital assets of different companies besides this is very useful because the software works quickly and pertime that the platform gets everything we are looking for **What do you dislike about Daminion?** In spite of being a quick and easily accessible tool, it is difficult to learn to use, it should be or have an initiation phase since at the beginning it is very difficult for someone new to start using this program. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** They should improve as I said before their program so that new people can use it at the beginning in an easy way and they can access all their tools and thus they will be able to expand their sales to all types of public and not to a specific type of public, if You can do this I'm sure your sales will increase. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** allows easy access to digital assets of entrepreneurs or companies thanks to its software, this helps potential customers find the product they are looking for ### 44. Daminion - a very good DAM solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** - Daminion offers many ways to organize your data (tags, rating, location, ...) - It has a great User Interface and is easy to use. - The search function is very good. - It works fast even with lots of photos and a large database. - Good support and a forum **What do you dislike about Daminion?** - The 15.000 pictures limit in the "free" version is way too low. - It seems that Daminion is now more focusing on the Server/Web version. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** I have tested many other DAM software products over the years and Daminion was the one I liked most. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Daminion to organize my photo and video collection. Daminion helps me a lot to find photo/video files. ### 45. Quality for the price **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** I have a very large library of media that is difficult to keep track of sometimes, but this software really helps me manage it all in a concise way **What do you dislike about Daminion?** We had some issues with the multi-server system that was later resolved. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organized approach to processing large quantities of media and storage of such media. ### 46. a workhorse in managing keywords or tags and sorting using several variables **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lou Ann H. | monumental designer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2017 **What do you like best about Daminion?** 1,Daminion allows us customize tags completely. 2. We can search by using and , or and a combination of exclusion and inclusion, love that! 3. Work pretty well with large databases. Finally the metadatt stays with the files, so we can work on the catalog on one computer and transfer the files to another computer. We are out in the "wild west', ie Nebraska and oftern our clients do not have internet and we must carry a laptop with the stand alone catalog. Therefore it is essential that the files and the catalog transfer easily **What do you dislike about Daminion?** The difference in language has caused some issues for sure. We are talking one thing and we believe that often they are hearing something else through their translation program. The program does lose files every once in while. That is for no reason you will have a "broken chain' note which means it can't find the file. For that reason we do backups ALL the time, Losing data is a very real possibility with Dominion. And there are few commands that should not be on the program. Commands like Optimize just literally destroys the catalog. Again another reason to do backups!!! **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Daminion should consider helping us stand alone folks a bit more. We are willing to pay for our stand alone program, but we don't need the network program which seems to take most of their time. RIght now the stand alone is free and we feel a bit like red headed step children. Maybe have 3 choices. Free standalone, a lower cost standalone and then the monster network for the companies on the net. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We design and manufacture cemetery memorials. We don't do just standard items. The client is treated to a huge array of shapes, designs and colors. This program carries all our photos and we can pull up the pictures to satisfy every possible question. This program on a little laptop has taken the place of 100 hardbound sales catalogs . ### 47. very good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francis T. | Diseñador gráfico, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** excellent product that works in my point of view as the only real tool for cataloging digital media, I find it very easy to use, very fast and flexible **What do you dislike about Daminion?** does not have the ability to edit photos, however it is a great piece of software, you can locate several photos quickly and effectively **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** that dare to use it, it is very simple and complete to do the work, I really like the philosophy and simplicity of Daminion without unnecessary particularities, I think that one day it will be a standard **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** is a management tool for digital image assets, without a doubt a good program that facilitates the work of us graphic designers, will give much to talk about in the future because it is an excellent software ### 48. Daminon ! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniela D. | Technical Support Engineer, Oil & Energy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** Daminon enables me to discover the photographs I'm searching, and I can do it rapidly and without any difficulty. It enables me to indicate metadata that is valid for all the photographs and is including the additional data for each. I like the work process and the capacity to click a couple of boxes to limit photographs to the ones I want to discover. **What do you dislike about Daminion?** I don’t like the file export function and when I want to do a search for an image I saw that there is no list available for my results so I need to arrange my lists in mind. **Recommendations to others considering Daminion:** Do think about changing to Daminion for computerized picture administration. Has all the important highlights when contrasted with business programs. **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Daminion for my own utilization and business use, as a picture list utility. When I utilize the suitable classes to label my pictures with, I am ready to pinpoint any picture very quick. The component of looking through the pictures with characteristics, for example, determination, photograph adapt, introduction is a great feature. ### 49. Awesome thing for personal use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Daminion?** convenient ability to assign a lot of tags and good tag search. I've tried to find an application to store and sort my pack of photos and pictures and this one is the best **What do you dislike about Daminion?** one more thing I'd like to have is to store the photo pack in a cloud with an access to them from everywhere with the same functionality as on the desctop version - serch by tags and so on **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** no business problems. only personal use ### 50. Wonderful programm **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hans J. W. | kaufm. Angestellter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2017 **What do you like best about Daminion?** very easy to use, good performance, flexibility **What do you dislike about Daminion?** there is nothing to criticize, programm works fine **What problems is Daminion solving and how is that benefiting you?** document management ## Daminion Discussions - [What is the maximum number of photos I can put into a catalog?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-photos-i-can-put-into-a-catalog) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [When I open my RAW files I can't view them at 100%.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/when-i-open-my-raw-files-i-can-t-view-them-at-100) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Daminion pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/daminion/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+02%3A33%3A14+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c8e73bdc-73fa-4b43-8152-1e2247e0ca0b&secure%5Btoken%5D=9a817e0443e518586a3a8532dc2bda0221ff240b4eb8142d0d3ca475fb71e6d7&format=llm_user) ## Daminion Features **Interface and Performance** - Import/Export - Organizational Interface - Search - File Preview - Analytics **Asset Management** - File Types - Metadata - File Transformation - Versioning - Expiration - Watermark - Digital Rights Management - Brand Guidelines **Media Types** - Video - Audio - Images **Administration** - Workflow Management - User, Role, and Access Management - Brand Portal - Integration with Creative Software - Integration with Marketing Software **Agentic AI - Digital Asset Management** - Cross-system Integration ## Top Daminion Alternatives - [Brandfolder](https://www.g2.com/products/brandfolder/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,371 reviews) - [Acquia DAM (Widen)](https://www.g2.com/products/acquia-dam-widen/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (614 reviews) - [IntelligenceBank](https://www.g2.com/products/intelligencebank/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (319 reviews)