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This is a brief overview of the features available across Chevereto editions (Chevereto Free, Chevereto Lite, and Chevereto Pro).
For a closer look at all the features in action, request a demo of the Chevereto Pro edition at chevereto.com (opens new window).
Files supported
Upload and share the following media types from device file browser, drag and drop, on-the-fly device camera, clipboard, URL, ShareX and via API.
- image/avif
- image/jpeg
- image/gif
- image/png
- image/webp
- image/bmp
- video/quicktime
- video/mp4
- video/webm
Uploading features
- Image & Video uploads
- AVIF JPEG PNG BMP GIF WEBP MOV MP4 WEBM
- Chunked uploads
- Lossless media handling (JPEG auto-orientation & EXIF removal)
- User uploads, guest uploads
- API uploading (ShareX, etc)
- Equirectangular 360° images
- EXIF data (read, strip)
- Clipboard upload (copy/paste)
- Drag-and-drop upload (drop zone)
- File delete link
- Time-based auto-remove uploads
- Generate thumbs & medium sized images
- Generate video frame image
- Duplicate media detection
- Auto file-naming options
- Storage modes (date, direct)
- Upload user interface (container, page)
- Upload plugin (PUP.js, postMessage)
- Bulk importer (batch upload)
| Uploading features | Free | Lite | Pro |
|---|
| Upload moderation | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Watermark image uploads | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Asset storage API | Local, S3 | Local, S3 | All |
| External storage servers API | Local, S3 | Local, S3 | All |
Storage APIs
| Storage API | Free | Lite | Pro |
|---|
| Local | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Amazon S3 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| S3 compatible | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Google Cloud Storage | – | – | ✅ |
| Microsoft Azure | – | – | ✅ |
| Alibaba Cloud OSS | – | – | ✅ |
| SFTP | – | – | ✅ |
| FTP | – | – | ✅ |
| OpenStack Swift | – | – | ✅ |
| Backblaze B2 (legacy) | – | – | ✅ |
Content features
- Listing viewer
- Dedicated Media, Album, Tags & Users listings
- Configure items per page
- Listing type (paginated/endless)
- Image listing size (fixed, fluid)
- Configure album listing requirement
- Configure listing columns per device (mobile, tablet, etc.)
Organization features
- User defined Tags
- Albums & Sub-albums (nested)
- Categories
- Search
- Explore & Discovery
- On-the-fly tag creation
- Tag description
- Tag listings
- Tag filtering (users, albums)
- Tag autocomplete
- Top tags
- EXIF camera model auto-tagging
Album features
- Nested albums (breadcrumbs)
- Album cover image
- Album privacy
- Album password
- Album description
Sharing features
- Direct link sharing
- Sharing button
- Media oEmbed
- HTML, Markdown & BBCodes
- Embed codes on upload complete
- Embed codes on selected media
- Embed codes media page
User features
- Multi-user support
- User profiles
- Private user profiles
- User-based API
- Roles available: admin, manager & user
- User management
- Guest API
Social features
- Call-to-action album buttons
- Random button
- Notifications
- List users
| Social features | Free | Lite | Pro |
|---|
| Followers | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Likes | – | ✅ | ✅ |
Security features
- Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
- Encrypt secrets
- Crypt-salted IDs
| Feature | Free | Lite | Pro |
|---|
| IP banning | – | – | ✅ |
| Stop words | – | – | ✅ |
Admin features
- Album creation on behalf of users
- Dashboard (admin UI)
- System stats & usage
- Website name
- Website document title
- Website description
- Website privacy mode (public, private)
- Default timezone
- Uploadable file extensions
- Guest uploads auto delete
- Upload threads
- Upload maximum image size
- Upload EXIF removal
- Upload max file size (users and guest)
- Upload path
- Upload file naming
- Upload thumb size
- Upload medium size and dimension
- Semantics
- Default palette
- Default font
- Image load max file size
- Image first tab
- Embed codes (content)
- Custom JS & CSS
- Universal CDN support
- Default language (opens new window)
- Logo & branding
- Logo type (vector, image, text)
- Logo height
| Admin features | Free | Lite | Pro |
|---|
| Guest API key | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Homepage style | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Homepage cover images | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Homepage title & paragraph | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Homepage call to action | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Pages | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Lock NSFW editing | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| User min age required | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| User avatar max file size | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| User background max file size | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Logo favicon image | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| OAuth2 login providers (Amazon, Google, Discord, etc) | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Hide "Powered by Chevereto" footer | – | – | ✅ |
| Enabled languages (opens new window) | – | – | ✅ |
| Routing (user, image, album) | – | – | ✅ |
| Routing root | – | – | ✅ |
| External services | – | – | ✅ |
| Comments API (Disqus, JS) | – | – | ✅ |
| Analytics code | – | – | ✅ |
| Akismet spam protection | – | – | ✅ |
| StopForumSpam spam protection | – | – | ✅ |
| CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha) | – | – | ✅ |
| Configurable CAPTCHA threshold | – | – | ✅ |
| Shield by Project Arachnid | – | – | ✅ |
| Banners | – | – | ✅ |
Admin toggles
- Search (users and guest)
- Explore (users and guest)
- Random (users and guest)
- NSFW listings
- Blur NSFW content
- NSFW on random mode
- Banners on NSFW
- Upload toggle (users, guest)
- Upload (URL)
- Upload moderation
- Upload embed codes
- Upload redirection
- Upload duplication
- Upload expiration
- Upload NSFW checkbox
- Download button
- Right click
- Show Exif data
- Social share buttons
- Automatic updates check
- Dump update query
- Debug errors
| Admin toggles | Free | Lite | Pro |
|---|
| User sign up | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| User content delete | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Consent screen (age gate) | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| User notify sign up | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| User email confirmation | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| User email for social login | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Watermarks | – | ✅ | ✅ |
| Auto language (opens new window) | – | – | ✅ |
| Language chooser (opens new window) | – | – | ✅ |
| SEO URLs (media and album) | – | – | ✅ |
| Cookie law compliance | – | – | ✅ |
| Flood protection | – | – | ✅ |
System features
- Multitenancy support
- Image handling using GD or ImageMagick
- Theme palettes (10)
- One-click upgrade (web, CLI)
- Maintenance mode
- Email sending (SMTP, Postfix, AWS SES, Mailtrap, etc.)
- Cipher IDs
- Export user
- Docker support
- CLI console
- Built-in debugger (xrDebug (opens new window))
- REPL (PsySH, Tinkerwel)
- Background file queue handling
- Configurable cache TTL
- Hreflang HTML tags
- Upload storage tools (regen stats, migrate records)
- Test-email tool
- ExifTool
- ExifTran
- ffmpeg
- ImageMagick
