Adobe Lightroom Alternatives

Adobe Lightroom is described as 'Powerful photo editing and organizing with cloud backup, available on multiple devices including mobile, web, and desktop' and is a very popular Photo Manager in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Lightroom for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android apps. The best Adobe Lightroom alternative is darktable, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe Lightroom are RawTherapee, digiKam, RapidRAW and Sly.

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Adobe Lightroom alternatives are mainly Photo Editors, but if you're looking for Photo Managers or Image Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Mac, Linux, Android, Free, Photo Organization and Online. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe Lightroom.
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    Plug in your memory cards and start picking winners and deleting rejects almost instantaneously. Move from image to image without that annoying rendering delay. Add dynamic caption, copyright, and keyword information individually or in batches.

    91 Photo Mechanic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    DalsPhotography
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    The best image viewer for the professional community. It has the ability to get your photos to newspapers just by inputting some details (in numbers ). Speedy, light, free updates for a long time . I use it with Mac and it works amazingly fast.

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    • Photo Mechanic is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Lightroom is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. Camera Roll icon
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    Simple Gallery App for Android, with lovely Material Design.

    61 Camera Roll alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
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    PhotoNest helps photographers organize faster — batch rename, sort by metadata, geotag, clean EXIF, and find duplicates. A simple Windows app built for speed, privacy, and control — no cloud, no sign-in.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. Excire Foto icon
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    Excire provides fast, AI-powered photo and video organization to help photographers and teams instantly find, manage, organize, and cull media files.

    80 Excire Foto alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Comments about Excire Foto as an Alternative to Adobe Lightroom
    DalsPhotography
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    This is just a photo manager, or as it says photo viewer. Not comparable to Lightroom capabilities. It needs to make a catalog, so if you have like me, around 200.000 photos, the catalog might become huge!

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    • Excire Foto is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Lightroom is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Excire Foto is Privacy focused and LightweightAdobe Lightroom is not according to our users
  5. Exposure X7 icon
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    The new Exposure X7 combines professional grade photo adjustments, a huge library of gorgeous photo looks, and an efficient design that is a joy to use.

    92 Exposure X7 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    DalsPhotography
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    Outdate, don't know what happened to this company, as it was a good program, but hasn't been updated in about two years now.

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    • Exposure X7 is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Lightroom is also Paid and Proprietary
  6. Mylio Photos icon
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    Easily gather, organize and protect all of your photos across all your devices. Use Mylio to rediscover, enjoy, and share your memories—anytime, anywhere.

    163 Mylio Photos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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    ACDSee Gemstone Photo Editor makes it easy to create the photos you’ve always envisioned. Apply stunning effects and filters, work with object layers effortlessly, quickly correct common photo flaws, and make advanced edits like a pro.

    68 ACDSee Gemstone Photo Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  8. Silkypix icon
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    SILKYPIX is a RAW converter software for digital images. The software provides color management engine which features ICC profiles and other functions like white balancing, contrast, sharpness, saturation, lens correction, image perspective and trimming, outputting and printing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    DalsPhotography
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    I still use it, though it's slow and sometimes cumbersome, but for Fuji.raf photos sometimes it gives me the best first results. Output to Tiff and work with any other program from there. Recently sold to another japanese company , so I don't know which future this program will have. I use studio pro 11 from their versions.

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    • Silkypix is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Lightroom is also Paid and Proprietary
  9. PhotoFlow icon
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    A fully non-destructive photo retouching program providing a complete layer-based workflow including RAW image development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Phase One Media Pro (formerly Microsoft Expression Media and iView Media Pro) is a commercial digital asset management cataloging program for Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. Photo Ninja icon
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    Photo Ninja is a professional-grade RAW converter that delivers exceptional detail, outstanding image quality, and a distinctive, natural look.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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