Photo and media library DAM software

Ajaris is the DAM suite of Orkis, an Aix-en-Provence software publisher acquired by Volaris Group (Constellation Software) in December 2024. It manages photo, video and brand libraries for about 570 clients in government, defence, aerospace, luxury and tourism, and is offered as French-hosted private SaaS or on-premises for sensitive environments.

Best for: French public bodies, defence and aerospace organisations and premium brands that need a sovereign-hosted or on-premises photo and video library.

EnterpriseMid-marketEU hosting: YesSaaS, On-premises

Daminion is a DAM for small and mid-sized organisations that want to keep assets on their own servers or NAS, with a hosted cloud option. It offers local AI tagging, face recognition, video transcription, multi-stage approvals, an Adobe Creative Cloud extension and a REST API, and publishes a starting price for its self-hosted edition.

Best for: Small and mid-sized organisations, such as engineering, education and public sector teams, that want a self-hosted DAM with AI tagging and full control over data location.

SMBMid-marketEU hosting: YesOn-premises, Private cloud, SaaS

Portfolio is a self-hosted DAM originally developed by Extensis, sold to Axle AI in March 2026 and now run as Portfolio DAM, LLC in Boston. It catalogues images, video, audio and documents on customer servers or private cloud instances, with workflows, a REST API and branded sharing sites. It suits organisations that want a DAM without public SaaS dependency.

Best for: Organisations with existing on-premises storage that want a self-hosted DAM for photo, video and document libraries without moving to public SaaS.

SMBMid-marketEU hosting: YesOn-premises, Private cloud

Filecamp, a DAM vendor operated by Swiss-registered Filecamp AG since 2010, offers a simple branded asset library with unlimited users on every plan and published pricing from USD 29 per month. It suits small marketing teams and agencies that need to share logos, photos and brand files with partners without per-seat costs.

Best for: Small marketing teams, agencies and franchise brands that need an affordable branded library for many external users.

SMBMid-marketEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

FotoWare, an Oslo-headquartered DAM vendor, sells two platforms under one brand: Fotoware Veloz, its classic DAM, and Fotoware Alto, the API-first headless DAM formerly known as the Picturepark Content Platform. It suits European organisations that want a Nordic vendor with Azure hosting and a choice between packaged DAM and a structured, integration-led content platform.

Best for: European mid-market and enterprise organisations that want a Nordic DAM vendor with Azure hosting and a choice between packaged and headless DAM.

EnterpriseMid-marketEU hosting: On requestSaaS

ImageVault is a Swedish cloud DAM originally built by Meriworks and owned by Papirfly since 2021. It is designed to feed images and media into web content management systems, especially Optimizely (formerly Episerver) and Sitevision, and fits Swedish and Norwegian organisations that want a focused media library tied to their CMS.

Best for: Swedish and Norwegian web and communications teams running Optimizely or Sitevision that want a CMS-integrated media library.

Mid-marketEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

Mediagraph is a SaaS DAM built by The DAM Software Company, Inc. that combines AI keywording, face tagging, OCR, transcription and alt-text generation with rights tracking and unlimited users on every plan. It is popular with universities, museums and non-profits, and supports MCP integration so AI agents can work directly with the asset library.

Best for: Universities, museums and non-profits that want strong AI tagging and rights tracking with unlimited users at a mid-market price.

Mid-marketSMBEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

PhotoShelter for Brands, formerly Libris, is a New York-based SaaS DAM and content distribution platform used by brands, sports organisations and universities. It combines AI visual search and tagging of people, players and logos with real-time workflows and social distribution from its Socialie acquisition. Clearhaven Partners is its majority investor, and it absorbed UK vendor Third Light in 2022.

Best for: Sports organisations, universities and consumer brands that need fast photo and video distribution to media, partners and social channels.

Mid-marketEnterpriseEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

Phraseanet is an open source DAM published by Alchemy, a Paris software company registered in 1996, and released under GPL v3. In 2026 Alchemy is replacing it with Phrasea, a rewritten API-first open source DAM offered as SaaS, on-premises or hybrid. It fits organisations with in-house IT that want source code access and self-hosting.

Best for: French and European organisations with in-house IT capability that want an open source, self-hostable DAM supported by its original developers.

Mid-marketEnterpriseEU hosting: UnknownSaaS, On-premises

ResourceSpace is a free, open source DAM first built for Oxfam in 2006 and now developed by Montala Limited, an employee-owned UK B Corporation. Organisations can self-host it with no licence fee or buy hosting and support from Montala. It is widely used by charities, museums, universities and public bodies and includes AI metadata, face recognition and visual search.

Best for: Charities, museums, universities and public bodies that want an open source DAM with strong AI metadata and rights tracking, self-hosted or managed in the UK.

Mid-marketSMBEU hosting: NoSaaS, On-premises, Private cloud

Smint.io is an Austrian SaaS vendor whose main product, Smint.io Portals, is a no-code layer for building brand, press, partner, sales and media download portals on top of existing DAM, PIM and file storage systems. It connects to DAMs such as Bynder, Aprimo, CELUM, Censhare, Cloudinary and Fotoware. Its earlier Enterprise Content Buying product handles licence-safe stock content purchasing into the DAM.

Best for: Enterprises that already run a DAM or SharePoint and want branded self-service portals for partners, press and sales teams.

EnterpriseMid-marketEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

teamnext Media Hub is a German DAM from teamnext GmbH & Co. KG in Kassel, focused on AI-driven media organisation and personalised content distribution. Its AI engine recognises people, brands, scenes and sponsor logos in photos and video. It suits sports clubs, federations, event organisers and marketing teams that push content to many partners quickly.

Best for: Sports clubs, federations, event organisers and marketing teams in Germany that need AI-tagged media distributed quickly to many partners.

Mid-marketSMBEU hosting: YesSaaS