Arkyvst turns Google Drive into a lightweight digital asset manager. Tag photos, videos and audio from a sidebar — by artist, product, or whether they're cleared to post — then find exactly the right asset in seconds. Works on any file too.
The organizing power of a digital asset manager — for photos, videos and audio — without leaving Google Drive or paying for enterprise software.
Tag media right from the Drive sidebar — by artist, product, shoot, or whether it's cleared to post. Works just as well on Docs, Sheets, Slides and PDFs when you need it.
Point Arkyvst at the folders where media piles up. Every still-untagged photo and clip lands in one inbox — work through it in batches, thumbnail by thumbnail, until you hit inbox zero.
Find the exact asset across folders and shared drives instantly. Combine tags any way you want — "ad-approved + canvas-tote + sarah-chen" — and the right shots surface in seconds. Local-first and fast.
Confirm you've got the right shot before you tag it. Arkyvst plays audio and video and shows image and PDF previews right in the sidebar — no extra tab, no guessing from IMG_4821.jpg.
Build a vocabulary of artists, products and statuses once. Group tags into categories, color-code them, and reuse them with a click so everything's labelled the same way every time.
Share one tag library across your team. Everyone labels artists and products consistently from day one — no more "is it 'sarah-chen' or 'SarahC'?"
Your tags live inside Drive's own per-app metadata, scoped to Arkyvst. We never read your file contents and never store which tags are on which file.
Tag your first batch of files for free. Upgrade only when you outgrow the limit — no credit card needed to sign up.
If you collect photos, clips and audio in Drive, you've probably hit every one of these.
"Which of these am I actually cleared to post?"
Customer sends a great photo, you ask permission, they say yes — and three weeks later you can't remember which ones got the green light. Tag photos ad-approved or approval-pending the moment you hear back, and never second-guess what's safe to publish again.
"Whose artwork is in this shot again?"
You work with a roster of artists and need to credit the right one — or pull everything they've ever made. Tag each asset with the artist, then click that tag to see their entire body of work across every folder in one view.
"I need an ad-ready tote shot by Sarah — now."
Drive can't search a photo's contents, so finding the right asset means scrolling through thousands of IMG_ files. Stack tags instead — product + artist + status — and the exact shots you need surface in seconds, ready to drop into an ad.
"Albums and folders just don't cut it."
Google Photos albums, broken Photos-to-Drive sync, a file can only live in one folder — none of it scales when an asset is several things at once. Tags let one photo be a tote, a Sarah-Chen, customer UGC and ad-approved all at once, right where your files already live.
"Real DAM software is overkill — and pricey."
Enterprise asset managers mean a new platform, a migration, and a bill to match. Arkyvst is a lightweight layer on the Drive you already use — nothing to migrate, free to start, and your assets never leave your own Google account.
"Everyone on the team tags things differently."
One person writes sarah-chen, another writes SarahC, and now nothing's findable. A shared tag library keeps the whole team on one vocabulary, so a search turns up every matching asset no matter who filed it.
Install once. Tag your photos and clips. Find any asset later.
One click from the Chrome Web Store. Sign in with Google to enable cross-device sync — or skip sign-in and use it locally.
Open any photo or clip in Drive. The Arkyvst sidebar pops up — tag the artist, product and status, hit enter, done. Build a saved library you can chip-click next time. Got a backlog of shots? The Untagged Inbox clears it in batches.
Click a saved tag — or stack a few — to surface every matching photo and clip across folders, shared drives, account-wide. No more "I know we shot it last summer…"
Try the full product free. Upgrade only when you actually outgrow it.
The full product for a single user — capped at 500 tagged files.
For when you've blown past 500 — same single-user experience, no cap.
plus $2.99 per teammate / month
Keep a whole team tagging from one shared vocabulary.
appProperties on each file, which is scoped to Arkyvst — other apps and other Drive users can't read it. Your saved-tag library (the chips that appear in the sidebar) lives in our backend so it syncs across devices. We never store which tags are on which file.
appProperties, they survive uninstall — reinstall later and you'll see them all again. If you also delete your Arkyvst account, your saved-tag library is removed from our backend, but file-level tags remain in your Drive until you remove them yourself.
Install Arkyvst, tag a few assets, and turn your Drive into a media library you can actually search.
Add to Chrome — Free