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Orange Logic, digiKam, Censhare, Brandworkz

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 · Runs on your own servers

If the files genuinely cannot leave your infrastructure, this is not a close race — the platforms marked No below should not be on the call at all.

Orange Logic

No

digiKam

Yes

Censhare

Yes

Brandworkz

No

Everything else

Orange Logic
digiKam
Censhare
Brandworkz
Verdict
A highly configurable DAM/MAM (Cortex) for museums, archives, media companies and multi-department organisations, with an admin ramp-up reviewers describe as weeks to months.
Free, open-source, cross-platform photo cataloging software for large RAW libraries, with tagging, geotagging and duplicate detection, meant to pair with a separate RAW editor.
An enterprise PIM, DAM and content management platform, for multi-brand retailers, manufacturers and publishers with multilingual product content.
A brand-guidelines and asset portal for mid-market marketing teams, with a genuine free tier that covers a branded guidelines page but not the full asset library or workflow tools.
Price published
No
Yes
No
No
Billed on
Quoted per customer
Free software, no licence fee
Not published — quote-only (custom enterprise pricing via demo request; no plans, per-user, or per-GB figures disclosed on site)
Number of users and the tier selected
Deployment
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
Yes
Free trial
No
No
No
No
Transparency index
0%
100%
Not checked
40%
Most common complaint
No price anywhere on the site — only a demo
It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design
Not checked
The free tier is named while the cost of the next step is not

“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.

Orange Logic No price anywhere on the site — only a demo — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
digiKam It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Brandworkz The free tier is named while the cost of the next step is not — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.