SWITCH FROM BYNDER
Bynder to Calisto Ethos
One brand kit every Calisto app reads, one check where each app sends or publishes, a choice made once between flagging off-brand work and stopping it, and every finding kept with its author and the record it came from.
Feature by feature
Calisto Ethos beside Bynder
- 20 In both
| 20 features | Calisto Ethos | Bynder |
|---|---|---|
| Checks | ||
| Checking Work Against Brand GuidelinesCalisto: a Studio design or a Campaigns email is checked for colors outside the palette, typefaces outside the kit, a missing or too small logo and text contrast that is too low to read.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Guidelines | ||
| Online Brand GuidelinesCalisto: Brand Guidelines in Ethos shows the voice, colors, typefaces, logos and the enforcement setting on one page, each edited in place.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Brand Portal for PartnersCalisto: each partner group gets its own page of the guidelines site, with the sections and downloads chosen for it, open to anyone with its link or only to the people the business invites by email.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Templates | ||
| Templates With Locked Brand ElementsCalisto: with Studio, a design copied for each location follows its original: the parts the original locks stay exactly as it has them, cannot be moved or changed in the copy, and take each change the original makes.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Resizing Without RedesigningCalisto: with Studio, Copy & Resize makes a new design in another size and leaves the original as it is.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Approvals | ||
| Review and ApprovalCalisto: with Studio, a design goes to a teammate for approval on the one approval engine, or to a client on a link where they approve or ask for changes; in Ethos, a person's public page can wait for sign-off before it goes live.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Comments on the Work ItselfCalisto: with Studio, comments are pinned to a point on a page, with replies, mentions and assignment.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Review | ||
| Audit Trail of DecisionsCalisto: every check is logged, and each violation keeps its history: who resolved or waived it, who asked for a waiver and the reason each decision gave.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Assets | ||
| Version HistoryCalisto: with Depot, each file keeps its versions, which can be downloaded and restored.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Comparing Versions Side by SideCalisto, with Depot: Version History ▸ Compare sets any two versions of a file side by side, the newest against the one before by default: a document line by line with the changed words marked, a PDF page by page beside the two page images, and a picture side by side, with a slider or with only what changed lit.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Search Text in ImagesCalisto: with Depot, search matches the words inside files: documents, scanned pages, the text read from photos and the words spoken in recordings.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Speech-to-Text SearchCalisto: with Depot, search matches the words inside files: documents, scanned pages, the text read from photos and the words spoken in recordings.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Tags, Captions and Alt Text Suggested for Each PhotoCalisto, with Depot: a new photo is matched to the business's own tags, with new ones, a caption and alt text suggested, each confirmed or dismissed by a person or confirmed automatically.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Face RecognitionCalisto: with Depot, Find This Person's Pictures finds every picture of a person across the library by their face, for people who agreed to be found by their face in a consent of its own, separate from the photo release. Faces are compared on the business's own device, each match is a suggestion a person confirms, and a person's face template is deleted when they withdraw.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Search by ImageCalisto: with Depot, a reference picture (dropped, pasted, picked, or taken with the phone's camera) is the search and similar pictures are returned, each picture's details list the ones like it, and words find the pictures they describe. The picture is read on the person's own device, never sent to an outside service.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Duplicate Finder at UploadCalisto, with Depot: a file the library already holds is caught at upload, before it is stored, with Open It and Keep Both; near-identical photos are listed on each other as Looks Like.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Detecting Expired Rights and Unauthorized UseCalisto: with Depot, a file's usage rights end on their date and the file's owner and the admins are told 30 days before; with Ethos's Web Watch, the business connects its own TinEye or lenso.ai account, and each picture it watches is looked for on the web every week. Each page a copy is on is listed to dismiss, license or act on, and the admins hear of new ones.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Public Asset Links With a WatermarkCalisto: with Depot, a share link carries view or download permission, an expiry, an optional password and the business's watermark on every picture and PDF.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Share Links That ExpireCalisto: with Depot, a share link carries view or download permission, an expiry, an optional password and the business's watermark on every picture and PDF.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Drafting | ||
| Rewrite, Shorten and Change ToneCalisto: in Docs, Sheets and Slides a selection is rewritten, shortened, expanded or changed in tone, and Change Tone offers the brand's own voice and each of its style guides; every draft follows the brand voice and is checked against it.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from Bynder
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Bynder and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Bynder can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Moving from Bynder
Questions About Switching
Where is the brand set?
Once, in Ethos: colors, typefaces, logos and the brand voice. The kit belongs to the business, every Calisto app reads it, and nothing is copied into each app.
What happens when work is off brand?
The check names each rule the work broke and gives it a score. The business decides once whether that only flags the work or stops the send, and each finding becomes a violation its author can fix or ask to waive, with a reason.
How is a design approved?
In Studio, a design goes to a teammate on the one approval engine or to a client on a link where they approve or ask for changes. Comments are pinned to the page, and every decision is kept.
Learn more
Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.