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IMatch, Daminion, KeyShot Dock (formerly Digizuite), ACDSee

Side by side on what we have verified on each vendor’s own pages. Where a fact was not checked, the table says so rather than leaving a blank that reads as “no”.

What decides it · Publishes a price

One of these tells you the order of magnitude before you speak to anyone, and the others do not. That difference sets how long your evaluation takes, whatever the software does.

IMatch

No

Daminion

No

KeyShot Dock (formerly Digizuite)

No

ACDSee

Yes

Everything else

IMatch
Daminion
KeyShot Dock (formerly Digizuite)
ACDSee
Verdict
A Windows-only photo cataloging tool for large image libraries (50,000+ files), built by a single developer, sold as a one-time perpetual licence instead of a subscription.
A DAM offered as both cloud and on-premise, aimed at small-to-mid teams that want fast metadata-driven search over large asset libraries and want files to stay on their own infrastructure.
A digital asset management platform for manufacturing and AEC companies, rebranded from Digizuite in 2024, integrated with KeyShot's 3D product-visualization suite.
A disk-native photo cataloguer and batch editor sold as a one-off perpetual licence, for photographers with large libraries who don't need Lightroom/Capture One-level RAW editing.
Price published
No
No
No
Yes
Billed on
Perpetual licence, no subscription
Annual subscription covering all features, integrations, updates and support
Not published. Pricing is quote-only via 'Request pricing' / 'Contact sales' on the vendor's own product page; no per-user, per-GB, or flat-rate billing unit is disclosed anywhere on the vendor's site.
One-off perpetual licence; a cloud subscription is sold separately
Deployment
On-premise
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise
Free plan
No
No
No
No
Free trial
Yes
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
60%
30%
Not checked
90%
Most common complaint
Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs
Like the platforms it competes with, it asks for a form submission before naming a price
Not checked
The published prices are promotional and dated; list price is roughly double

“Not checked” means exactly that: we have not verified it, not that the platform lacks it. Every other value was read off the vendor’s own pages on the date shown on each platform page.

What to ask on the demo

One question per platform, drawn from what actually goes wrong with it — not a generic checklist. Vendors run the demo; this hands the agenda back to you.

IMatch Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Daminion Like the platforms it competes with, it asks for a form submission before naming a price — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
ACDSee The published prices are promotional and dated; list price is roughly double — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.