G2

Verified User in Commercial Real Estate

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/1/2026

"Great for Quick Media Sharing, Needs Better Link Security"

4.5/5

Describe the project or task dbimg helped with:

dbimg is a mobile-first platform designed to facilitate quick and easy media sharing for real estate professionals. It allows users to upload photos and videos directly from their mobile devices without the need for account creation or complex setups. The platform generates permanent direct links for shared media, which can be easily integrated into communications with clients and partners. However, dbimg lacks advanced security features such as password protection and link expiration, which can pose risks in professional settings. It is best suited for non-confidential marketing visuals and should be used with caution for sensitive content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about dbimg?

I like how friction‑free and mobile‑first dbimg is for our busy brokerage team out on property tours across the DFW metro area. I’m a Commercial Real Estate Operations Manager at North Texas Commercial Advisors, and our agents jump between multiple building showings every single day, rarely sitting at a desktop office. They can upload property photos and short walkthrough videos right from their cell phones, no account creation or complicated setup required at all. Within seconds they get a permanent direct link they can drop into texts, emails, or cooperating broker messages for prospective tenants. A few months ago, we had a spontaneous inquiry from a local retail business owner interested in a vacant storefront in Carrollton. Our agent was already onsite touring another property, and he didn’t have time to drive back to the office to resize photos or log into our formal cloud storage system. He snapped floor‑plan and storefront photos plus a short walkthrough video, uploaded everything straight to dbimg on his mobile browser, and sent over the share link to that prospect in under three minutes. That fast response kept our leasing conversation active and helped us hold that prospect’s interest, something regular email attachments would have dragged out for hours. I also appreciate the 75MB per‑file upload limit for most of our marketing imagery needs, which means we don't have to compress every single site photo or walkthrough clip before sharing. dbimg removes a lot of mobile‑sharing friction for our fast‑paced commercial leasing outreach when our agents are working out in the field. We only rely on it for public marketing visuals and never upload confidential tenant or building content onto the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbimg?

I find the biggest pain point with dbimg is the complete lack of access controls for generated public links. There's no password protection, no link expiration, and no way to manually revoke or deactivate a link after sending it out. This has caused real‑world confusion and delays for us. When we marketed a Fort Worth light‑industrial warehouse listing earlier this year, our agent sent a dbimg media link to one specific investment tenant. That prospect accidentally forwarded the link to an unrelated outside broker we had no working relationship with. That third‑party broker could freely view all our uploaded photos, including shots of private back‑office storage areas inside the warehouse. We could not kill that existing public link, so we had to re‑upload every photo and generate brand‑new links, wasting roughly one business day and creating awkward miscommunication with our actual prospect. Additionally, dbimg lacks organized folder structures, which means every upload is an individual loose link; we cannot bundle all visuals for one property listing together, forcing agents to send multiple separate links to prospects. We also face metadata issues, where special characters in our custom property file titles get stripped, making it harder to match uploaded visuals back to the correct leasing listing. Furthermore, dbimg has virtually no native integration capabilities with our core business tools like Egnyte, Campaign Monitor, and Systeme.io. During one Dallas retail leasing campaign, a team member manually pasted an outdated dbimg link belonging to a previously leased space into our marketing email template. Several prospects received completely wrong property photos before we caught the mistake. Lastly, while the technical setup of dbimg was simple, rolling it out consistently across our team required a lot of process‑related training to ensure appropriate use and avoid security risks. I wish dbimg could provide password protection for share links, configurable link expiry, link revocation, project‑based folder grouping, and better metadata preservation to improve our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dbimg:

I wish dbimg could provide password protection for share links, configurable link expiry, link revocation, project‑based folder grouping, and better metadata preservation to improve our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dbimg solving and how is that benefiting you?

I’m a Commercial Real Estate Operations Manager for our small commercial real‑estate firm serving the DFW metro area. Before we started using dbimg, our field agents constantly struggled with large‑file email attachment failures when sending property photos and walkthrough footage to prospects and partner brokers. Last quarter, one of our brokers toured a vacant light‑industrial space in Grand Prairie and tried sending over twelve high‑resolution site photos to an out‑of‑state prospective tenant as standard email attachments. The combined file size was too large, the entire email got blocked by the recipient’s mail server, and we lost close to a full business day manually resizing each picture one by one to re‑send them. By that time, the potential tenant had begun conversations with another competing property provider. dbimg solves that large‑attachment bottleneck for us. Our agents can complete mobile uploads onsite and generate instant shareable direct links instead of stuffing heavy media files into email threads. It streamlines prospect communication and keeps our leasing outreach moving without those frustrating file‑size delays. It works really well for fast, low‑stakes marketing sharing. Even so, we are fully aware of its security shortcomings, so we never use dbimg for confidential lease paperwork, tenant records or sensitive internal building imagery, and we still depend on Egnyte for all our secure official document storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.