Polimake vs. Frame.io

What Frame.io does better than anyone

Video review with frame-anchored comments, versions side by side, and sign-off with a name and a timestamp. It's a mature product and we're not going to pretend otherwise: if the work ends when the client says "approved", Frame.io handles it.

Comments anchored to a specific frame of a video in review

And what happens the following Monday

The project closes and the footage goes into a folder named after the shoot date. Nobody opens it again, because finding anything inside means remembering what it was called. Frame.io did nothing wrong — its job ended at "approved".

Shoot folders named by date, with no other clue to what's inside

They review. We index.

Compare what you need during review and after delivery: retrieving footage, checking versions, and reusing material.

  • It arrives understood, not tagged

    The moment a file lands it's described, transcribed and stripped for metadata. Nobody fills in fields: it arrives searchable. Frame.io stores what you upload under the name you gave it.

  • Search in plain language

    "The shot of the chef smiling over the paella" finds the frame, not the folder. You search inside the video and the audio, not the filename.

  • The archive remembers

    Every project that passes through leaves the archive more useful than it was. In Frame.io each project begins and ends alone: last year's work does nothing for this year's.

You can review here too

Comments, versions and approvals are all here, and the link goes to whoever needs it without them creating an account. The difference is that on approval the footage doesn't vanish into a folder: it stays in the archive, already understood.

An approval flow with versions and comments on a video asset

And it connects to your assistant

The library opens from ChatGPT or Claude, so the material gets used from where you already work: pulling the shots from a campaign, drafting a script from what exists. Your library, inside your assistant.

A file library queried from an AI assistant

Without moving the file twice

Originals stay at full quality, uncompressed, in one place. Share by link with an expiry date and revoke it when the job ends, without chasing copies. See how search works inside.

Results of a plain-language search across a video library

Questions about Frame.io and Polimake

Does Polimake replace Frame.io?
It depends what you use it for. If what you need is the review room — frame-level comments, versions, formal sign-off — Frame.io is more refined at that and we won't tell you to drop it. If you also need to find footage from months ago without remembering where you put it, that's the part Frame.io doesn't do and we do.
Can I use both?
Yes, and plenty of people do: review in Frame.io, archive in Polimake. Material arrives here already described and transcribed, so when the project closes it stays findable. Over time, most people stop uploading to both.
What about footage from projects that already closed?
That's the case we hear most. You upload the back catalogue and it gets indexed in full — described, transcribed and searchable in plain language, without anyone tagging folder by folder. It's material you already paid for and can't use today because you can't find it.
Is it only for video?
No. Frame.io is built for video; everything a team produces lands here: photo, design, audio, documents. Search works the same across all of them, and it's useful precisely because you don't have to decide up front which folder anything belongs in.

Your archive already exists. You just can't find it.

Upload what you already have and try a search you couldn't run today.

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