Open Source Adobe Lightroom Alternatives

    The best open source alternative to Adobe Lightroom is darktable, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adobe Lightroom and 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Adobe Lightroom are RawTherapee (Free, Open Source), digiKam (Free, Open Source), LightZone (Free, Open Source) and Shotwell (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Jun 9, 2021
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    • darktable

      darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers: it manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable. View 46 alternatives to darktable
      Almost everyone thinks darktable is a great alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
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      darktable vs Adobe Lightroom
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      Complete Raw processing suite. Best free open source solution
      Top positive comment  over 4 years ago

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      Powerful RAW processor with options that not even Lightroom has.
      Top positive comment  about 3 years ago

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      Darktable lacks any photo organization capabilities. They consider this a feature and state you should organize them on disk outside the app. This is a pretty dumb idea since inside the ap, you can't organize, and outside the app you can't see the changes. Any comparison to Lightroom in this case is silly. 1/2 the (organize & develop) capability is gone.
      Top negative comment  over 4 years ago

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      Far more powerful and with a bit of practice and reading, Lightroom would be a thing of the past. It is under active development. The unofficial facebook group can provide you with the best help and some very wonderful photo enthusiasts
      Positive comment • 6 months ago

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      Well thought RAW-Suite with every Feature Lightroom has.
      Positive comment • 9 months ago

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      Lacking photo organisation abilities of Lightroom
      Negative comment • almost 4 years ago

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      ehshi The best alternative for Lightroom as a professional photographer.
      Positive comment • about 4 years ago

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    • RawTherapee

      RawTherapee is a free RAW converter and digital photo processing software. All changes can be applied and batch processed at a convenient time. View 42 alternatives to RawTherapee
      Almost everyone thinks RawTherapee is a great alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
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      RawTherapee vs Adobe Lightroom
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      MercuryHero Fairly advanced control over RAW processing including demosaicing algorithm, gamma curves, etc. Supports its own profiles and presets.
      Positive comment • almost 3 years ago

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    • digiKam

      Professional digital photo management software to organize, tag, compare and process photo collections. View 70 alternatives to digiKam
      Almost everyone thinks digiKam is a great alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
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      digiKam vs Adobe Lightroom
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      digiKam is good at organizing photos but has nothing to edit or adjust photos and RAW files. It only covers half of the features of Lightroom
      Negative comment • over 1 year ago

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      Database functionality - Lots of other pieces of software mentioned are good at RAW processing but few, if any, have a good, structured back-end to organise photos.
      Positive comment • over 3 years ago

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      digiKam is a photo management while lightroom is a raw photo editor, they have nothing in common
      Negative comment • almost 4 years ago

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    • LightZone

      LightZone is a digital photo editor software application. Its main purpose is to handle the workflow when handling images in various RAW formats. View 25 alternatives to LightZone
      Almost everyone thinks LightZone is a great alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
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      LightZone vs Adobe Lightroom
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      Very easy to use tool, a bit limited, but a very well thought tool set, and how they work. Stil my most favourite tool (easy to use, does what I want, good results)
      Positive comment • over 4 years ago

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    • Shotwell

      Shotwell is an open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. Features View 74 alternatives to Shotwell
      This alternative is disputed. Shotwell is still a legitimate alternative to Adobe Lightroom, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
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      Shotwell vs Adobe Lightroom
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      Shotwell is only a photo organizer; Lightroom is an advanced RAW's photo editor.
      Negative comment • about 2 years ago

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    • photivo

      Photivo is a multi platform photo processor for RAW and bitmap images with 16 bit precision. View 34 alternatives to photivo

      Discontinued

      From their website: “Photivo has not been in development for several years. This page is outdated.”

      • Free • Open Source
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    • ART

      ART, a free, open-source, cross-platform raw image processing program. ART is a derivative of the popular https://alternativeto. View 6 alternatives to ART
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      ART vs Adobe Lightroom
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      nrwd As good or even better and Free OpenSource
      Positive comment • 10 months ago

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    • PhotoFlow

      A fully non-destructive photo retouching program providing a complete layer-based workflow including RAW image development. View 18 alternatives to PhotoFlow

      Discontinued

      Beta Release is established in 31 July 2020

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      • KPhotoAlbum

        KPhotoAlbum is an application for tagging and managing a photo collection and making it searchable. View 86 alternatives to KPhotoAlbum
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      • F-Spot

        Personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop environment. F-Spot is based on MONO View 58 alternatives to F-Spot

        Discontinued

        The most recent version of F-Spot is 0.8.2, released December 19, 2010.

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