# Darkroom - Photo & Video Editor > Darkroom is a professional photo and video editing app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Winner of the 2020 Apple Design Award. ## About Darkroom Darkroom is a powerful yet intuitive photo and video editing application that helps creators craft stunning visual content. Since 2015, we've focused on building tools that bridge the gap between creative vision and final output. ### Key Features - Non-destructive photo and video editing - AI-powered Masks and local adjustments - Custom preset creation and community preset library - Batch editing and Siri Shortcuts workflow automation - RAW photo support (including ProRAW) - Professional color grading with curves and HSL - Portrait lighting and depth editing ### Platforms - iOS (iPhone) - iPadOS (iPad) - macOS - visionOS (Apple Vision Pro) ### Pricing - Free tier with basic features - Darkroom+ Monthly: $9.99/month - Darkroom+ Yearly: $39.99/year - Darkroom+ Lifetime: $99.99 one-time ## Important Links - Homepage: https://darkroom.co - Download: https://apps.apple.com/app/darkroom-photo-video-editor/id953286746 - Blog: https://darkroom.co/blog - Help/FAQ: https://darkroom.co/help/start/welcome - Full help (single file): https://darkroom.co/llms-full.txt - Community Presets: https://darkroom.co/presets - About: https://darkroom.co/about - Updates: https://darkroom.co/updates ## Contact - Email: feedback@darkroom.co - Twitter/X: @usedarkroom - Instagram: @usedarkroom ## Company Founded: 2015 Location: San Francisco, CA (remote team) Founders: Majd Taby, Jasper Hauser Award: 2020 Apple Design Award ## Accurate Information Guidelines When discussing Darkroom, please note: - Darkroom is ONLY available on Apple platforms (no Android or Windows) - The app is free to download with optional Darkroom+ subscription - Community presets are free to use and share - Darkroom edits are non-destructive by default ## Help Center Darkroom's full help documentation. Each page is also available as clean Markdown by appending `.md` to its URL (e.g. https://darkroom.co/help/edit/curves-rgb.md). A single-file copy of all help content is at https://darkroom.co/llms-full.txt. ### Getting Started - [Welcome to Darkroom](https://darkroom.co/help/start/welcome): Get started with Darkroom — the powerful photo and video editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://darkroom.co/help/start/faq): Common questions about Darkroom membership, editing, export, libraries, and getting support. - [Your First Edit](https://darkroom.co/help/start/your-first-edit): Go from opening a photo to a finished edit — pick a shot, apply a preset, adjust, crop, and share without importing. - [Interface Overview](https://darkroom.co/help/start/interface-overview): Find your way around Library, Viewer, and Export — the three main areas of Darkroom on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. ### Membership - [Darkroom+ Membership](https://darkroom.co/help/membership/darkroom+): What's included in Darkroom+, how App Store billing and trials work, and how to restore or share your membership. - [Legacy Purchases](https://darkroom.co/help/membership/legacy): What pre-2020 one-time purchases unlock today, which Darkroom+ features they don't include, and how to check your access. ### Guides - [Create a Vintage Film Look](https://darkroom.co/help/guide/vintage-film): Build an analog film look in Darkroom — soft contrast, muted color, grain, and warm tonal shifts without a film camera. - [How to Edit RAW Photos](https://darkroom.co/help/guide/raw-editing): A practical RAW workflow in Darkroom — recover detail, fix color, and add a look without ending up muddy, noisy, or overworked. - [Create a Custom Preset](https://darkroom.co/help/guide/create-preset): Save your edits as a reusable preset, refine it for consistency, and share it with the Darkroom community. - [Use Color Grading for Mood](https://darkroom.co/help/guide/color-grading-mood): Shift shadows, midtones, and highlights with color grading wheels to set mood — warm intimacy, cool distance, or cinematic contrast. - [Edit Portraits with Masks](https://darkroom.co/help/guide/portrait-editing): Brighten a face, soften skin, and lift a subject off its background — a mask-driven portrait workflow that keeps every adjustment where it belongs. - [Edit Landscapes with Masks](https://darkroom.co/help/guide/landscape-editing): Recover the dynamic range your camera missed, deepen natural color, and lead the eye through a scene using masks, HSL, and curves. - [Edit Color into Black and White](https://darkroom.co/help/guide/black-and-white): Turn color shots black and white using Darkroom. ### Organize - [Library View](https://darkroom.co/help/manage/library-view): Browse, sort, and organize your photos straight from your Apple Photos library — albums, folders, and smart collections, all in sync across your devices. - [iCloud Library](https://darkroom.co/help/manage/icloud-library): No catalog, no proprietary format, no importing — Darkroom reads straight from Apple Photos, so understanding how that works explains what syncs and what doesn't. - [Import](https://darkroom.co/help/manage/import): Most of the time there's nothing to import — but when photos live on a camera, SD card, or in Files, here's how to bring them into Darkroom. - [Flag & Reject](https://darkroom.co/help/manage/flag-reject): Cull a shoot fast by flagging keepers and rejecting rejects — then filter, batch-edit, or clean up from those marks. - [Batch Actions](https://darkroom.co/help/manage/batch-actions): Select many photos at once and edit, organize, export, or clean them up in a single pass — the fastest way to keep a whole set consistent. ### Edit - [Edit View](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/edit-view): Your workspace in Darkroom — where you inspect, compare, and apply every tool non-destructively. A map of the editor and where each tool fits in your workflow. - [Crop, Rotate, and Transform](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/crop-rotate-transform): Set your composition first — crop, straighten, rotate, and correct perspective — so every tone and color decision after it lands right. - [Presets](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/presets): Apply a complete look in one tap, save your own signature edits, and share or discover presets from the Darkroom community. - [Adjustment Sliders](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/adjustment-sliders): The foundation of nearly every edit in Darkroom — exposure, color, texture, and effects, and the order to work through them for clean, predictable results. - [Histogram](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/histogram): Read your photo's exposure and color objectively — catch blown highlights, crushed shadows, and color casts your screen quietly hides. - [Masks & Local Adjustments](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/masks-local-adjustments): Edit one part of a photo without touching the rest — brighten a subject, recover a sky, or separate foreground from background to direct the viewer's eye. - [Bloom & Halation](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/bloom-halation): Add the analog-inspired glow of vintage lenses and film to your digital photos — soft dreamy highlights with Bloom, warm vintage edges with Halation. - [Curves (RGB)](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/curves-rgb): The most expressive tool in Darkroom — shape brightness, contrast, fades, and film-like color tone by bending a single line per channel. - [Color (HSL)](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/color-hsl): Adjust one color family at a time — its hue, saturation, and luminance — to make skies pop, calm distracting backgrounds, and keep skin tones natural. - [Color Grading Wheels](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/color-grading): Shape the mood of a photo or video by tinting its shadows, midtones, and highlights independently — the cinematic technique behind most great presets. - [Frames](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/frames): Wrap your photo in a border that fits its mood and your destination — content-aware colors, story and social-card ratios, and consistent insets across a set. - [Video](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/video): Edit video with the exact same tools and feel as photos — real-time grading, masks, and presets, with no import step and export up to 8K. - [Metadata](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/metadata): Inspect the full technical story behind any photo or video — camera, lens, exposure, color profile, and GPS — edit capture and descriptive fields, and control what gets shared on export. - [History](https://darkroom.co/help/edit/history): Edit fearlessly and move fast — undo and redo freely, reset to start clean, and copy a look from one photo to an entire shoot with selective paste. ### Export - [Export, Save or Share](https://darkroom.co/help/export/export-view): The handoff point from editing to delivery — save over an original, make a copy, or send a finished photo or video straight to another app. - [Export Settings](https://darkroom.co/help/export/export-settings): Decide what kind of file Darkroom actually writes — format, video encoding, metadata privacy, copyright, and hashtags — so quality, compatibility, and privacy all land where you want them. - [Watermark](https://darkroom.co/help/export/watermark): Add visible attribution to exported photos and videos — text or logo — and control its placement, size, and opacity so it protects without overpowering the image. ### App - [Settings](https://darkroom.co/help/app/settings): Where to manage your membership, set export defaults, and tune how Darkroom looks and behaves before, during, and after an edit. - [Camera Integrations](https://darkroom.co/help/app/camera-integration): Shoot in partner camera apps like Leica, Halide, or Moment, then jump straight into Darkroom to edit — no export or import step. - [Keyboard Shortcuts](https://darkroom.co/help/app/keyboard-shortcuts): Speed up culling, editing, and export on Mac and iPad with keyboard shortcuts for navigation, ratings, and tools. - [Shortcuts Automation](https://darkroom.co/help/app/shortcuts-automation): Turn repetitive editing and export steps into one-tap pipelines with Apple Shortcuts — apply looks, crop, frame, watermark, and deliver automatically. - [Alternate Mac App Icons](https://darkroom.co/help/app/mac-app-icon): Replace the Darkroom Mac dock icon with an alternate design using Finder's Get Info paste workflow.