Comparison of Asset Management modules
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30 April 2025
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These are modules that allow you to manage (multi)media assets. Modules that manage only images are left out because they are already compared in another handbook page.
| Name | Media | Scald | Asset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Since (all/7.x) | Mar 2005 (Jun 2010) | Jul 2008 (May 2012) | May 2007 (Jul 2012) |
| Installs | 186K | 4.4K | 800 |
| Dependency | Views, CTools, File Entity (2.x), Image | Views, CTools, Image | Views, CTools, Entity API, Field UI, Field SQL Storage |
| D6 | no | beta | no |
| Tests | yes (62 assertions 1.x, 992 assertions 2.x) | yes (514 assertions) | no |
| Community | active: 14 participants | active: 5 participants | active: 5 participants |
| D7 | 1.x stable, 2.x alpha | stable | beta |
| D8 | File Entity (1) | Media Entity (1) | ? |
| WYSIWYG integration | WYSIWYG or CKEditor module | any module (CKEditor preferred) | CKEditor module |
| Richtext editors | editors supported by WYSIWYG | any editor | CKEditor |
| Embedded view modes | only images, others with contrib | yes | yes |
| Flexible embedded view modes | no (patch) | yes | yes |
| Override embed | no (patch) | legend/caption, alignment | many fields |
| Fieldable entities | yes | yes | yes |
| Media library | yes | yes | yes |
| Asset editing on content | no | yes | yes |
| Inline editing in WYSIWYG | partial (textfield only) | yes | partial (textfield only) |
| Media reusability | yes | yes | yes |
| Media usage tracking | yes (in unstable7) | yes, built-in | no |
| Media derivatives | no (possible with contrib) | yes (built-in) | no |
| Responsive | yes (Picture integration) | yes (Picture integration) | no |
| Access control/License management | no (possible with contrib) | yes (built-in) | no |
| Exportable config | partial | yes | yes (through field/entity API) |
| Distribution | Media Dev | Scald Galaxy | no |
(1) In Drupal 8 there will be some generic modules like Entity Browser, Entity Embed etc. that work independently on the entity type (File entity, Scald atom etc.)
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