Adobe Lightroom Alternatives

Apps similar to Adobe Lightroom include GIMP, which is free and open source. Other options are darktable, RapidRAW, digiKam and RawTherapee. There's no shortage of Photo Editors like Adobe Lightroom, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Linux.

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  1. KPhotoAlbum icon
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    If you have hundreds or even thousands of images on your hard drive, it becomes impossible to remember the story behind every single image or the names of the persons photographed. KPhotoAlbum was created to help you describe your images and then search the big pile of pictures...

    95 KPhotoAlbum alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  2. Fast CinemaDNG Processor software: realtime converter, debayer, denoiser, editor, trimmer and player for post production on NVIDIA GPU.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Turn those average photos into stunning images with 120+ adjustments, actions, effects, and filters. Improve brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature, tint, color balance. Resize, crop, sharpen, watermark, and convert to/from 30+ image formats!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. FastPictureViewer is an award-winning image viewer for the Windows platform, specifically Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. It was designed and developed in Geneva, Switzerland by Axel Rietschin, building upon 15+ years of experience in industrial imaging software...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. virtualStudio icon
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    virtualStudio provides basic photoediting for common image-files, like jpg and tif, and some RAW-files. While not being a full-fledged RAW converter as Lightroom, it does the basic stuff for free and is in most cases more powerful and useful than the software which comes with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Tom's Editor icon
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    Free Online Image Editor and Converter. Supports 500 image formats. Has built-in clip-art library (public domain photos).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. iSmartPhoto icon
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    If Adobe Bridge and Apple Photos had a baby. Goes very well with Bridge, filling in it's shortcomings, like Smart Filters. Very great app!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Hypocam  icon
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    SHOOT — Be in control of your shoot with our live-view controls and feel the quality of black and white photography, capturing the essence.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  9. Pix-Cull icon
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    Pix-Cull helps photographers, creators, and visual teams quickly cull large image sets by finding the strongest shots and removing duplicates, blur, and low-quality frames.

    47 Pix-Cull alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. QuickImage icon
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    QuickImage is an image organizer specifically meant as a tool to be able to quickly mark and find image files. With QuickImage, you can tag image files using IPTC keywords quickly and then at a later time search for keywords to hopefully find the images that you marked before.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. StarRate icon
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    StarRate is a Nextcloud addon that lets photographers rate and organize photos collaboratively using 1–5 stars, color labels, and Pick/Reject flags – just like Adobe Lightroom's rating workflow. Ratings are written as XMP metadata directly into JPEG files, making them fully...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Nextcloud
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  12. FenoPhoto icon
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    With just one-click you can enhance and remove most common defects of any digital photo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
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