Filestage Reviews

Pros
- intuitive usability - easy online review & collaboration - directly in the web interface - clients can comment the content easily without need to register - easy upload of different versions - complete documentation about reviews and versions - very time-saving & transparent - you do not need to send emails back and forth - my customers love it as this tool simplifies our cooperation

Cons
No Cons :-) Only, I wish tere was the possibility to upload and review more file formats.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
- Easy interface - Easy feedback - Documentation - Great customer service Easy interface, especially for customers. My clients can provide me with detailed feedback on the spot. They just click into the video and write a comment. They don't need to send timecodes, need to make lists, write an email. Revision became much more efficient. Once my customer reviewed my videos, pdf's etc. I get a notification and have an easy to do list. It's possible to brand the software and fit it into your company. You also have a clear documentation and approval from your customers, which can be handy when things get complicated at a later point. Filestage is easy reachable and help with everything.

Cons
Features for sorting projects: The interface improved a lot since I started, but there are small things, for which I use workarounds. Projects in the overview can't be sorted in an easy. I think it's only date and alpha-numerical. I rename my projects therefore with 00.. 01.. etc. But the team is listening and I hope the will add this feature soon!

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
We have a creative studio where we design and paint graphics, and Filestage has been a game-changer for getting projects from concept to the real world quickly, with very happy clients (and us). We usually start off with a draft document, send a link to the client, have the client comment directly on the draft with questions/feedback, and then we can respond and/or add a new draft, then repeat the whole process until everyone's happy. We like how easy it is to get a client to respond on Filestage, and that our clients aren't forced through a weird UI or made to sign up for the app themselves. We love not having to send giant PDFs through email or dropbox, and forcing document download after document download until you can't remember which version is the most recent or how many times you have the same document draft saved in your "downloads" folder. That said, you can still enable each Filestage doc to be downloadable, so if our clients do want to download files, we like that it's an option for them.

Cons
Clunky to use on mobile, an app would be great eventually, for even more on-the-go quick response ability. Price is a bit steep too, but you get a lot, so understandable.

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
With Filestage we collaborate on different types of content for various range of uses. You can communicate more precisely with your teammates or remote employees and tell exactly what u want to change, edit or remove. Filestage gives us more clarity in all aspects of content collaboration and content process review. Our workflow now is more streamlined and we are able to execute things faster.

Cons
I have nothing to complain about specifically. Some bugs can occur when you are using a lot of plugins but that's pretty much normal.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
On the bright side, it does do what it claims to do. Most of the time. When there aren't bugs. And they are constantly improving the app, so there's that.

Cons
But... it's buggy. Often we receive complaints from clients about a video not loading, or not playing back, or not being able to scrub through the video. Or even being redirected to the Filestage homepage without any errors. There are better alternatives, but you have to pay more for them.

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Likelihood to recommend: 2/10

Pros
The tools to mark in the content of our creators and that you can have many projects of your organization in one place. And there are different options: For departments, projects, internal projects,... its so helpful to have them all in one place

Cons
there is really nothing I can tell. It improved our processes very well and there's nothing that I can tell right now

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
fast integration of complex film projects. fast and easy communication with the customer. Shortening the correction time

Cons
There is no competitive product. There is no negative review

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
-Very easy to comment the document -Very User friendly: we see bullets and the comment appears -Amazing to be able to see different versions of one document -One online link, one pop up to invite reviewers to see the document -Easy to create projects and invite a team to share projects -Possibility to upload pdf or images into the comments themselves (great!) -The email is customized with our logo, which is a great idea for our image -And, the best: my clients are happy to receive this link, and see the comments

Cons
-We could have different colors for bullets points -All the team members should have access all the projects, without inviting them to see the projects?

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
- easy upload - clear layout - great comment tool - very friendly support - you can update your files to a newer version without any struggle

Cons
I have nothing to critize. I'm very happy with this tool :)

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
I liked the most, that our students marketing association could easily do the Corporate Design checks, which are necessary for us. The Design is very clear, which makes orientation in the application easy, too. Even without knowing similar software before, I knew after very few minutes, how to deal with it.

Cons
Sometimes I had the feeling, that some Comments on already uploaded Pictures weren't send as an email to the others, cause the notification on the right lower corner was missing sometimes.

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
I have a website and video production company. The review process is now a snap. I simply send the filestage link - instruct the client to leave all the feedback on there, then we will execute all their reviews for a flat "revision" cost - since endless revisions are the least profitable part of the job.

Cons
I had a bit of trouble with the annotation feature early on. It turns out the google adblock plugin breaks some of the code so I just disabled it on filestage.io

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Pros
+ Easy to set up + Intuititve + Clear and quick user interface + Secure, even useable for content that requires NDAs + You can easily see that this tool is made by people who exactly know what the problem is to which their product provides the solution

Cons
- Not very cheap considering freelancers - Limited API at the moment (but I was told that there is more to come)

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
The simplicity of working with it - especially when giving the link of a file to a customer. There is no need for him to sign up, which makes it really easy to use. Also, the usability and the user experience is great. Its actually fun to work with, even considering it is about something as tough as dealing with corrections of customers. Everything is beeing kept clear and manageable. We also love how we can handle nearly every kind of file.

Cons
It kinda reaches its limit when handling really big pdfs (more than 200 pages), since people are going to download the pdf and will make their comments there, instead of in filestage.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Simple collaboration made easy Non-tech clients who love the experience Ability to branded the platform

Cons
Completely white label with a custom subdomain (design.asimpleclean.agency) and for emails to come from our email addresses

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Pros
This software is really use to use and very practical to communicate with people who are geographical distanced from each other

Cons
There is no email when a data is "freigegeben"

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
Shared project work over any distance has never been so easy! Can't imagine any future projects without filestages assistance. Thanks! You can mark any spot in a frame and leave a comment. You may also draw scetches into frames to further illustrate corrections for your team mates.

Cons
didn't have any trouble yet. Filestage does exactly what it was made to do with excellence! Also has a friendly customer support.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
- Easy Overview about our projects - no more mess within video production and photo projects - No misunderstanding with reviews - precise definition of task within pictures and videos - quick retrace of different versions

Cons
I hope there will be a calendar option to optimize your organization. Sometimes you like to schedule your projects.

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Pros
Easy to use and understand for collaboration purposes - if somebody needs to leave feedback on a specific file that requires updates, it's simple to do this.

Cons
Some processes are a little slow/laggy, but it's not enough to impact my recommendation or overall workflow.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
The easy to use interface and quick response combined with great customer support.

Cons
Nothing everything is good

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10