Phrasea
Phrasea is an open-source digital asset management solution for centralizing, organizing, indexing, sharing, and publishing digital assets.
What Phrasea is
Phrasea is an open-source digital asset management solution for centralizing, organizing, indexing, sharing, and publishing digital assets. It supports images, videos, audio, PDFs, Office documents, and DICOM files. Assets can be arranged in workspaces and hierarchical collections with multilingual metadata and access rights at workspace, collection, and asset levels. Search includes full-text and advanced search, autocomplete, facets, filtering, and sorting. The system reads and writes metadata, supports batch indexing and renditions, and preserves version history. A low-code workflow engine provides webhooks, job concurrency, failure recovery, communication between jobs, and real-time status. Phrasea can submit assets to third-party AI services for keywords, text detection, subtitling, color analysis, and shape or face recognition. Deployment options include SaaS, on-premise, or hybrid, with Docker and Kubernetes support. Phrasea Expose publishes responsive galleries with public, password-protected, or authenticated access. Security features include OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, multifactor authentication, single sign-on, and fine-grained access management.
Good
- Supports images, video, audio, documents, and DICOM
- Provides multilingual metadata and granular access rights
- Includes search, version history, and approval workflows
- Offers Docker, Kubernetes, SaaS, and on-premise deployment
- Provides API, AI-service, and workflow integrations
Watch out
- Some AI tasks rely on third-party services
Who it suits
It is suited to communication and marketing teams, public institutions, media organizations, photographers, IT departments, and production or creative teams. Organizations can choose SaaS, on-premise, or hybrid deployment.
Verdict
Phrasea combines broad asset-format support with metadata, search, workflows, publishing, and access controls. Its open-source deployment choices and integration options suit organizations planning a managed digital-asset environment.
The facts
Each one read from Phrasea's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI
- Phrasea can submit assets to third-party AI services for tasks including automatic keywords, text detection, subtitling, color analysis, and shape or face recognition.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Asset management
- The DAM supports metadata reading and writing, batch indexing, renditions, and version history for assets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Asset organization
- Assets can be organized in workspaces and hierarchical collections with multilingual fields and access rights at workspace, collection, and asset levels.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Phrasea is described as particularly suited to communication and marketing teams, public institutions and communities, media and photographers, and IT departments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Users can annotate media, identify specific areas for feedback, and message one another from an image chat interface.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Demo and support
- Prospective customers can request a personalized demo by providing file types, estimated volume, and project details; the page says an expert will follow up.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Phrasea is available as SaaS, on-premise, or hybrid, and its services can be deployed with Docker or Kubernetes.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment requirements
- The technical prerequisites page lists Linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Debian 11 for Docker Compose deployment and Kubernetes 1.29 with Helm 3.17.1 for Kubernetes deployment.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Guest sharing
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The feature page lists RemoveBG, AWS Recognition, Transcribe, and Clarifai integrations and describes API-based data exchange with other applications.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Phrasea describes use cases for communication and brand management, marketing and products, and production and creative teams.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Limits and pricing
- The official pages reviewed describe Phrasea as open source but do not state a product price, usage limits, or trial duration.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Metadata and tagging
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Metadata and versioning
- The platform reads and writes metadata including IPTC, XMP, Exif, MP3, ID3, PDF, Dicom, and Office formats, and preserves asset versions in document history.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Organization
- Assets are organized in workspaces and hierarchical collections with multilingual metadata fields and access rights at workspace, collection, and asset levels.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Phrasea is an open source digital asset management (DAM) solution for centralizing, organizing, indexing, sharing, and publishing digital assets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Publishing
- Phrasea Expose publishes responsive web galleries with public, password-protected, or authenticated access, plus batch downloads and CDN delivery.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Search
- Phrasea supports full-text and advanced search, autocomplete suggestions, facets, and filtering and sorting of results.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- Phrasea uses Keycloak and lists OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and fine-grained access management.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- Alchemy offers professional support including maintenance contracts, support-hour packages, hosting, custom development, and training.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported asset types
- images,videos,audio,PDF,Office documents,DICOMchecked 21 Sep 2026
- Version history
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Approval workflows
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
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