--- title: "Filestage Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Filestage. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Filestage is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/filestage-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Collaboration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/) / [Filestage](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/filestage-profile/) / Filestage Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/filestage-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/filestage-profile/alternatives/) # Filestage User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 102 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.7/5 - Customer support: 4.7/5 - Value for money: 4.6/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 74 reviews (73%) - 4 stars: 26 reviews (25%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (2%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - i like how you can easily set up a project and assign reviewers either internal or external and have everyone process their review-tasks in one app. - Even clients who only need to approve images from time to time can use Filestage quickly and intuitively. - The tools it has to select text or images are great, and the way you interact inside the document with your team members is simple and effective. ### Most mentioned cons - Some functions we don't need, other functions we need more.- People focus more on things which are not good, I miss the function that reviewers make positive feedback. - It is a little hard to share the links with our clients for their review. - The latest update, despite making copying comments easier, isn't as straight forward as the old drag and drop interface. ## Filestage customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 102 (page 1). ### It's a must! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Max S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, friendly app/software where we can review and check our projects within the team and our clients.. and to spend less time! #### Cons I have no cons, it's what we needed and we will going to use it in every project. --- ### Filestage has become our one-stop solution for managing the workflow of all our artwork-designs - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Willy C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Wholesale - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered we are currently uploading all our artwork first drats to filestage and have them reviewed there by internal personnel, like the product manager and engineer and also by our clients, for whom we sometimes make OEM artwork. I love how you can centralize reviews, versions and approvals all in one app even communicate with reviewers. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - i like how you can easily set up a project and assign reviewers either internal or external and have everyone process their review-tasks in one app. - the superb and fast product support!!! #### Cons the project-limit sucks a bit, and the fact that you cannot get links to sections within projects #### Reasons for choosing Filestage Don't know, wasn't involved #### Vendor response Hello Willy, thank you for your kind review! I am especially happy to read you are excited about our support! I'll pass this feedback on to your dedicated Customer Success Manager! Also, I have passed your request to have a link per section to our productteam. As soon as we have an update on this we'll let you know. Kind regards Jenny Teamlead Customer Success & Support Replied July 2022 --- ### It's... mediocre at best. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: William L. - Industry: Motion Pictures and Film - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### Filestage review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Charlotte S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. overall positive experience, almost all of our clients like it as well #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros That everyone can see everyone's comments, avoiding contradictory ones. Easy, collaborative, organized. #### Cons New dashboard looks a bit messy, but maybe it is just a getting-used-to-thing Moving reviewers in-between stages (not inviting everyone again) Images are not shown in full crop when opening them, you always need to zoom out Possibility to "archive" images in a specific stage, let's say we send out multiple angles to a client, and they chose 3 out of 6 - to clean up that stage (but not delete the previous images if we would need them later) so it would only contain the images that we will continue working with? #### Reasons for choosing Filestage user friendly and pricing #### Vendor response Hi Charlotte, thanks for your great feedback! We really appreciate you've taken the time to leave this review. We've shared your feedback with our team, who are looking into it, so you should look out for some exciting news about it very soon! Thanks again, Fotini Athineli, Social Media Manager Replied September 2022 --- ### Review management: simple, fast and effective - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michael F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Shipbuilding - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros We use Filestage for all review processes of images, layouts, films etc. both internally within our team and with clients. The software is easy to use and self-explanatory to a large extent. Even clients who only need to approve images from time to time can use Filestage quickly and intuitively. The handling of our approval processes as well as transparency has improved significantly and Filestage contributes significantly to our quality assurance. #### Cons Nothing really. There are certainly one or two functions that would make the software even better, but new functions are being implemented little by little and the needs of the users are being intensively addressed. #### Vendor response Hallo Michael, thank you for your kind feedback and the open words. We really appreciate you've taken the time to leave this review. We're so happy to hear you love the platform, and we're looking forward to collaborating further with you. As always, feel free to reach out to us if there's anything else we can help with Jenny Teamlead Customer Success & Support Replied July 2022 --- ### Filestage is a great product. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aleister M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the fact that it is easy to share files with team members and also people outside your organisation. #### Cons Sometimes the versions management can be quite complex at times. #### Vendor response Hi Aleister, thanks for your great feedback! We really appreciate you've taken the time to leave this review. Feel free to reach out to us in regards to version management. We'd be happy to hear your thoughts on reducing the complexity or helping you with your workflow! Thanks again, Jenny Teamlead Customer Success & Support Replied July 2022 --- ### Great for collaboration with students and colleagues - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I use the software with students and colleagues. It is very easy to use, works like a swiss clock and allows me to give feedback much faster. My favourite feature: Annotate videos. Far better than writing emails or tickets. #### Cons Unfortunately, the project templates are only available in the Pro and Enterprise Version. Would love to use several templates for different projects with my students and colleagues. --- ### Decreased Review Time for Videos & Websites - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Kason B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Simple yet very effective platform! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Quite impressive so far as it makes the coordination across team easier and hasslefree, especially at this time of pandemic - where "work from home" is the only option for our teams #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Version control helps in checking all updates happened over time Export and share feedback with clients & teams Annotation tool helps in understanding the suggested changes or modifications Can define roles, tasks visibility and permission levels The option of adding attachments is an add-on #### Cons An option to switch between different tabs/assets without going back on the main homepage multiple times --- ### Wonderful tool for the review process! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Fast and easy reviewing process #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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) --- ### Makes my job A LOT easier - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jack M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My experience with Filestage has been brilliant. I would struggle without it, and I have applied it to a few businesses now #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Filestage is seriously intuitive and simple to use. Which means we get very little confusion from clients or team members, people just adapt right away. I create a lot of video, and because of the detailed feedback thats possible on the platform, its made our workflow and deliveries much faster. There is also a huge benefit in having the feedback on multiple projects stored for later reference. #### Cons Very little to say here. The one main one would be storage. Because I work mainly in video, I reach the capacity limit of my account almost weekly, which can cause issues if all the work on the platform is active. --- ### Collaboration software at its best - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Swen G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros easy to use, self-explanatory, good performance, API interface #### Cons The versioning still needs to be better comparable, but according to Filestage it is close to release. --- ### Easy for anyone to use, well priced, and not limiting. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Richard E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Customer servicer has been great when we needed it, which is hardly ever. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like that not everyone in our organization has to be registered as a user and when we send something off to proof they can just click the link and open it without dealing with user names and passwords. We don't have to pay by the amount of users either. The features are simple, we've had very little questions from users on how to use it. #### Cons I honestly can't think of any other than trying to get our campus used to doing things differently. #### Reasons for choosing Filestage Low cost, unlimited amount of users, simple design and features. --- ### HORIZONT Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Boris P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Publishing - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I live it!! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Filestage kept rising our dynamic and efficiency of workflow creating Productpapers, factsheets, Presentations a.s.o. to a new level. #### Cons Sometimes the upgolding time for files lasts a bit to long. --- ### Very helpful and fun to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vanessa W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Our first tool to give reviews to our creators was our intranet email. This was very stressful and unorganized. With filestage we had the opportunity to improve this project from zero to 100 in a short time. Now its much more organized, you can communicate well with your employees and tell exactly what u want to change. Thats it! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Fast solution for satisfied customers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lukas H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Chemicals - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Close cooperation with customers from all industry sectors. Project support and execution from pre-production to cutting #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 #### Vendor response Lukas, thanks a lot for your review! We really appreciate your feedback. If there's anything you need help with, just let us know. Best, Max Replied March 2019 --- ### Great tool, intuitive, easy to use and well-supported. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: François D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Flexible, intuitive approach by drag and drop functionality and litterally physically moving your project from beginning to end. #### Cons No negative points here, not for the purpose it currently serves in our organisation which is screening catalogue drafts and reviewing product installation sheets by various people. --- ### Great Proofing Software for Teams! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Building Materials - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Great program- highly recommend to other organizations looking to streamline their proofing process! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Filestage has saved us from endless email/revision chains, speeding up our review process, and making our team more efficient. #### Cons Wish I could download all of the comments associated with a particular revision embedded into the page (Similar to how PowerPoint has a notes page). That would give me a To-Do list of sorts. (I should note that I'm a newer user in Filestage, and they may in fact have this functionality and I just haven't found how to do it yet.) Other than that, the software is fairly intuitive. --- ### Streamline feedback and approval processes - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lisa W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The best feature about the software is that review links can be sent to anyone - internal or external, team member or non-team member. The tool thus makes feedback and approval processes with all departments and project stakeholders easy, efficient and transparent. #### Cons We would even benefit more from using the software, if it was possible to comment and edit open file formats such as Word, Excel, Power Point. Also we would benefit from using this as approval software for landingpages/web pages. --- ### I highly recommend to any Team handeling film projects over long-, or short distances. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: David W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered a faster easier project work. we saved alot of time working on our project cause the feedback chain was quick to execute from anywhere. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Filstage is easy to use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Moritz S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Great tool for any company - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mariana A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I really like using Filestage. Is easy to use from day one, and when you are doing colaborative work, there is nothing better. The tools it has to select text or images are great, and the way you interact inside the document with your team members is simple and effective. #### Cons I could say that you cannot work with a lot of projects at the same time, so you have to erase the older ones. --- ### filestage is the best and easiest way to get a feedback from your customers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vivien D. - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I'm a freelance videographer and sometimes it's very stressfull to get all information you need from your customer. Filestage is a very helpfull tool to get feedback, because the customer can comment exactly the frame that needs to be changed. You also can upload new versions on the same file, so it is very clear to use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 :) --- ### Simplicity in a complex workflow - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Luke A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Big enough to cope, small enough to care. A great company with a great solution. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros So easy to use across any type of user. It truly takes the complexity out of the review and approval process. #### Cons I cannot think of anything that I am missing in the platform right now. --- ### Review about Filestage - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Thea G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. We use it to get an approval from our national team to flyer and other design elements. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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" ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/filestage-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Filestage Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice