Ashore vs Priflow

Ashore is online proofing software for reviewing and approving digital files. It supports automated approval workflows, real-time collaboration, and version control, while Smart Review compares uploaded versions and marks changes. Approvers can comment on audio and video at specific timestamps. Supported formats include images, PDFs, video, audio, HTML, live websites, DOCX, and TXT. Ashore offers plugins for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, plus Zapier connections and a REST API. Teams can brand review pages with custom domains, logos, and integrated email. The service logs proof activity, including emails and new versions, for audit trails. It runs on Android, iOS, and the web, with an API platform also listed. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one user, 30 files per month, and 1 GB of storage. Starter costs $15 a month and includes one user; Standard costs $46 a month and includes three. Paid plans list additional users at $15/month for Starter and Standard, and $23/month for Premium.

Priflow is open-source proofing and approval software for designers, marketers and small agencies. Reviewers can click anywhere on an image or multi-page PDF to place a numbered comment at that location. Teams can retain successive uploads such as v2 and v3, tag teammates into proofs and let reviewers choose Approve or Request changes, with status rolling up automatically. Guest review links allow clients to respond without accounts, while sign-in remains optional. Every upload, amendment, reply and approval is logged with the person and time involved. Priflow is self-hosted on PHP 8 or later with MySQL, including shared hosting. The self-hosted plan costs nothing, billed forever, and includes unlimited users, proofs, reviewers and teams, every feature and update, an MIT licence and community support on GitHub. Files stay on the user’s server. The product says no Docker, Node or build step is needed, and a first proof can be live in about 10 minutes. The documented default upload cap is 50 MB. Paid setup help can include installation, branding, email deliverability, SSL and quoted custom features or integrations.