Craft Stunning Photos and Videos That Stand Out
From quick edits to pro-level refinements. Achieve your creative vision in minutes.

Metadata Editing
Adjust aperture, shutter speed, date & time, location, title, keywords, and more — edit capture and descriptive metadata directly in Darkroom.
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Extended Metadata
A complete rewrite of the metadata system that makes it faster, more reliable, and far more complete — view everything your files contain.
Learn moreOrganize
All the tools to effortlessly import, browse and organize your ever growing photo library.
Pick
Efficiently cull your photo library, even with batch. Favorite what you love, Reject what you're not interested in.
Edit
Make your shots pop using our nondestructive adjustment tools, AI-backed masks, or Color Gading.
Export
Share your carefully crafted photos, videos, and even your custom made presets with anybody anywhere.
Non-destructive editing by design
Edit freely, without compromise. Darkroom gives you complete creative freedom with non-destructive editing from the start. Experiment with presets as springboards for new looks, every adjustment is reversible, every step saved in your full edit history. Copy, paste, and refine across photos or videos without ever committing or damaging your originals. From first draft to final export, your work stays entirely under your control.
Photo & Video in one flow
One workflow. Every medium. Darkroom brings photos and videos together in a single, fluid editing experience. Work with Portrait, RAW, ProRAW, Slowmotion, 4K, and even 8K video using the same powerful tools, from color and curves to masks and presets. Adjust exposure, refine tones, and recover detail in real time, so editing motion feels as effortless and precise as editing stills.
#darkroomapp Instagram Community
Many have shared their photos with our #darkroomapp hashtag. Take a look around the world and see what amazing photos the community has created with our creative toolset.
A full-featured tool collection
Darkroom brings a rich editing experience anywhere you need it, your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. With our powerful, nondestructive adjustments tools we let you edit your photos in any way you want. Expand you creative options with our premium Darkroom+ features.
No Import
Integrated with Apple iCloud Photos, all your photos are already waiting.
Smart Color Frames
Colorfully frame your shots. Or quickly export for you stories.
iPhone, iPad & Mac
View, edit and manage your photos on all your devices with the same familiar ease.
Custom Presets
Turn any adjustments across tools into your own presets, and manage them with ease.
Community Presets
Share your custom made preset using a simple link with your friends or the world!
Manage your Presets
Easily favorite, hide, reorder, and rename your presets. Synced across all your devices.
Batch Processing
Copy edits you love, and simply paste them to a whole batch.
Copy & Paste
Control what category of edits you want to copy and paste.
Integrations abound
Import from camera apps. Processes, crop, frame, or watermark using Siri Shortcut. It's all there.
Album Management
Organize all your photos by using Albums and Folders.
Crop & Perspective
Perfect your composition, crop presicely, adjust perspective.
Clarity
Smoothen or sharpen the smalles of details in your photos.
Histogram
Objectively yet easily spot and fix exposure and color issues.
Perfectly Adjust
Highlight & Shadow recovery, Grain, Black & white point, ProRAW Tone Map, Vignette.
Effortless RAW
Edit RAW images from over 600 of the most popular digital cameras.
Don't take our word for it!
- AppleDesign Awards
Pros will appreciate Darkroom’s ability to batch-edit images, open RAW files, and create custom filters. In the crowded world of photo-editing apps, Darkroom shines bright.
John GruberDaring FireballI can't say enough good things about Darkroom. It's fast, beautiful, powerful, and easy to understand and explore. And the team behind it keep improving the app on a regular basis.
Leo LaporteYouTubeDesktop class without the desktop. I'm really impressed — I wanted a way to edit photos directly on the iPad and I think this is what it's going to be for me.
The VergeDarkroom is one of the best apps around, with support for RAW and ProRAW photos, along with the option to edit photos in batches.
PetaPixelDarkroom is one of the highest-rated photo apps available for iOS users, going well beyond VSCO with its editing capabilities and offers pro-level features in a very beginner-friendly layout.
LifeWireThe first time you use Darkroom on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you’ll wonder why Apple didn’t make the Photos app this good.
Josh GinterThe Sweet SetupAll of the iPhone-specific features built into the app make it the premier editing app for iPhone photographers.
John VoorheesMacStoriesThe difference is that now the app can handle video editing as gracefully as it does photo editing.
Alex HeathCult of MacI’ve been beta testing it for the past few weeks, and it’s the best photo editor I’ve used on the iPhone.
- Dream come trueApr 15, 2026 · Heineken snakes
After experiencing Darkroom, everything changed. Being able to edit directly from my camera roll, copy those edits, and batch apply them to multiple photos made the workflow simple, fast, and enjoyable again.
Filipe Espósito9to5MacDarkroom is one of my favorite photo editors since it is available not only for iPhone but also for iPad and Mac.
- Color PlayFeb 26, 2026 · jimys
Love how the smallest adjustments can sometimes change everything. Isn’t that what art is anyway, a mistake that creates a different something brand new?
The Sweet SetupWe think Darkroom still represents the best balance of power, ease-of-use, end product, and frequent updates.
App StoreApp of the DayWith Darkroom, just a few taps can transform your photography.
iMoreDarkroom has been my go-to editor for a few years now. The interface is smooth and intuitive, and it has all of the tools I would need.
- Great StarterJan 10, 2026 · Random2026
Darkroom has been a more than amazing starter tool for photo editing. I am honestly questioning if I should even go for the Lightroom subscription — or just stick with Darkroom.
- Tone Mapping Slider for ProRawJan 29, 2026 · Dee3
It was nice to be able to reduce the tone mapping and build the image back up with this very capable editor. Still giving you 5 stars with hope!
Josh GinterThe Sweet SetupBut with each new release, Darkroom continues to push the bar for what can be done on iOS. In every way where Lightroom CC falls short on iOS, Darkroom picks up the pieces.
David AddisonYouTubeIt’s well worth its subscription fee — Bergen Co might have created the best photo editing app for iOS.
- The best photo editorNov 25, 2025 · Squirt Douglas
The grain simulation is wonderful and the fact it’s so native to iOS is a breath of fresh air. I can load RAW from my camera on my iPhone, jump into Darkroom, and edit on vacation without a laptop.
John VoorheesMacStoriesI’m glad I have the ability to edit in Darkroom on my iPhone, but the iPad is where the experience is best, which is why it’s great to have that option with the release of Darkroom 4.0.
- Great free OptionApr 10, 2026 · dUdE 7548
It is very thorough for being free and feels like one of the better apps to use for editing. It can be slightly confusing when first learning it, but it is a quick learn.
9to5MacDarkroom is streamlined for touching up photos and strikes a nice balance between powerful tools and usable features that makes it very approachable.
- Easy and powerfulAug 3, 2025 · ugaon30a
I recently moved to an iPad Pro and went looking for a go-to video editor. I’ve found it in Darkroom+ — and it’s my platform of choice for not only video, but also photos.
Josh GinterThe Sweet SetupDarkroom has always been the iPhone and iPad photo editor that floats powerfully under-the-radar.
- Great buy-it-once Lightroom replacementNov 28, 2025 · That guy9876
Love that you can do a subscription or just buy it outright. Took some getting used to coming from Lightroom, but it’s great on my iPad — very much worth it to be out of the Adobe stranglehold.
- Fantastic response timeNov 11, 2025 · Danny2Bikes
Filled out a bug report asking if there was a workaround. Got a response from one of the owners in under 24 hours with possible options to solve my problem. You can’t ask for better service than that.
iPhoneblog.deSometimes I jump back a few years in my iCloud media library and edit three or four pictures at random. That doesn't happen to me with any other photo editing app.
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