DISKO vs VGG Image Annotator
DISKO
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| Figure | DISKO | VGG Image Annotator |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $12/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 2 |
| Spec score · AI Video Search Tools | 8.9 (#4) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Support | Support offers email and live chat with typical replies within a few hours; video tutorials and community features are marked coming soon. | The makers direct users to an in-app basic guide, a FAQ and email contacts for queries or feedback. |
| What it does | DISKO is a media asset manager for filmmakers that catalogs drives, describes shots, transcribes speech and supports natural-language footage search. | VIA is a manual annotation suite for images, audio and video. |
Plans
DISKO
- DISKO Cloud FreeFree
- DISKO CLOUD FreeFree
- DISKO Cloud Pro$12 a month
- DISKO CLOUD Pro$12 a month
- DISKO Desktop$99, paid once
- DISKO LOCAL$99, paid once
In their own words
DISKO
DISKO is a media asset manager for Mac that organizes video footage using AI tagging, transcription, face recognition, shot descriptions, and plain-language search. The maker says these AI functions run on the Mac; footage is uploaded only when a user chooses to sync a project to DISKO Cloud. The desktop app plays formats including ProRes, DNxHD, MXF, and 10-bit HEVC, with real-time LUT preview. It can export selects, rough cuts, and multicamera sequences as XML for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. DISKO can index and preview Google Drive clips without downloading originals until they are needed for editing. Cloud review includes timestamped comments, frame drawing, side-by-side comparison, version stacking, client portals, and viewing analytics. The desktop app requires an Apple Silicon Mac with an M1 chip or later. Cloud Free includes 2 GB, screenwriting and shot-list tools, and review links. Cloud Pro costs $12 a month at a founders rate locked for life; DISKO Local costs $99, paid once.
VGG Image Annotator
VGG Image Annotator (VIA) is a suite of lightweight browser tools for manually annotating images, audio, and video. The applications are distributed as single HTML files, allowing offline use without installation or setup. VIA3 handles images, video, audio, and shared or collaborative projects. VIA2 works with image files, does not support shared projects, and remains maintained. Annotation shapes include rectangles, circles, ellipses, points, polygons, and polylines. Projects can import or export annotations as CSV or JSON, while scripts support COCO and Web Annotation formats; a Python package converts VIA projects to COCO. Shared work can use a free public Version File Store maintained by the Visual Geometry Group, or a user-run VFS. VIA is built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without external libraries and released under the two-clause BSD license for academic and commercial use. Downloads include ZIP archives and standalone HTML files for versions 2 and 3. The makers provide a guide, FAQ, and email contacts.