Phrasea vs Playbook

Phrasea is an open-source digital asset management platform for organizing, indexing, sharing, and publishing files. It supports images, video, audio, PDFs, Office documents, and DICOM, with metadata reading and writing, batch indexing, renditions, and version history. Assets can be arranged in workspaces and nested collections with multilingual metadata and access rights at several levels. Search includes full-text and advanced options, autocomplete, facets, filters, and sorting. Phrasea can run as SaaS, on-premise, or hybrid, with Docker or Kubernetes deployment. Its low-code workflow engine supports webhooks, job coordination, failure recovery, and live status. The platform can send assets to third-party AI services for tasks such as keywording, text detection, subtitling, and visual analysis. Phrasea Expose publishes galleries with public, password-protected, or authenticated access. The product is described as open source, but no product price, usage limits, or trial duration are stated. Listed deployment prerequisites include Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Debian 11 for Docker Compose, or Kubernetes 1.29 with Helm 3.17.1.

Playbook is a digital asset management platform for organizing and sharing creative files, including images, video, audio, documents, and 3D models. It supports formats such as JPEG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, MP4, MOV, MP3, PDF, PSD, and AI. Metadata and tagging, approval workflows, version history, guest sharing, and API access are listed capabilities. Playbook is available on the web, iOS, and Android, with a desktop sync app; two-way desktop syncing is restricted to paid plans. Share links can require passwords and have expiration dates, while paid plans add shared-link controls. Security features include encryption at rest, two-factor authentication, backups, and malware scanning. The free plan is free and includes 100GB storage, up to 300 assets, three members, three guests, one publish page, and 1,000 API calls monthly. Pro costs $10 a month when billed yearly, per member, and includes 2TB storage. Plans apply per workspace owned by the account owner.