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Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom is a photo organization and editing app built around a non-destructive, catalog-based workflow ideal for managing and processing large photo libraries. It syncs edits and originals across desktop, mobile, and web.

Polarr

Polarr is an AI-assisted photo and video editing platform built around dozens of editing tools and a library of millions of filters created by its user community. Its RAW editing product, Polarr Next, adds batch RAW processing for handling large photo sets, while the core Polarr app focuses on fast, filter-driven mobile editing. The Polarr ecosystem spans several apps: the mobile Polarr app for iOS and Android, Polarr Pro for iOS, macOS, Windows, and the web, the web-based Polarr Next for batch RAW work, and 24FPS, a companion app for video effects and aesthetic filters. It's aimed at content creators and photographers who want quick, filter-driven editing without a steep learning curve.

darktable

darktable is a free, open-source application for managing and developing digital RAW photographs, combining a database-backed 'lighttable' for organizing images with a non-destructive 'darkroom' for editing them. It supports professional color management, GPU-accelerated processing, and a zoomable thumbnail lighttable interface, and is released under the GPLv3.0 license with source available on GitHub. Built by a community of photographer-developers, darktable positions itself as a Lightroom alternative that never modifies the original RAW file, instead storing every edit as reversible history. It runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and maintains an active community across forums, mailing lists, and social platforms.

Luminar Neo

Luminar Neo is a professional, AI-powered photo editing software by Skylum. It combines classic photo editing tools with powerful artificial intelligence features such as automatic background removal, sky replacement, portrait retouching, and noise reduction – all in an intuitive interface.

RawTherapee

RawTherapee is a free, cross-platform raw image processing program aimed at both enthusiast and professional photographers who want full control over developing raw files from digital cameras. Its non-destructive, 32-bit floating-point engine includes advanced demosaicing algorithms, pixel-shift compositing, dark frame subtraction, and hot/dead pixel correction, released under the GPLv3 license with active development.

Topaz Photo AI

Topaz Photo AI is desktop software that uses AI models to sharpen, denoise, upscale, and restore photos in one integrated workflow, aiming to fix common quality issues like noise, blur, and low resolution automatically. It works as a standalone app or a plugin inside Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Capture One, and Apple Photos, with tools for object removal, lighting and color adjustment, face recovery, and batch processing across large photo sets.