Updates

Darkroom 7 Beta 8 open for all platforms

We're excited to announce opening our Darkroom 7 Beta to iPhone & iPad, after a successful Mac Beta period since the summer in which you really helped us iron out issues. For this Beta, we specifically focussed on making RAW editing and video playback as stable and low memory as possble, and rebuilt the Histogram and Color Grading tool to leverage GPU acceleration.

Darkroom 7 is a major milestone in our journey. Your edits are about to get faster, sharper, and more precise, and you can try it today in the Darkroom 7 Beta.

But before we launch it to everyone, we need your help.

We're inviting you to help shape its final form. You should expect some issues, and we hope you'll help us work through them. To ensure we can connect with you more directly during the beta period, we're starting fresh with a new TestFlight group. If you'd like access, we ask that you sign up with your email and fill out the form. This allows us to send you updates, reach out for feedback, and keep you in the loop as new builds land.

Changes

• Redesigned the iPhone Transform tool to be at feature parity with the Mac, and now includes custom aspect ratio support.
• When making straighten or perspective corrections, we now always show the 8x8 grid, your grid of choice is shown when cropping.
• Fixed the crop overlay controls flashing when dragging them around.
• Optimized the Histogram and Color Grading tool to be GPU accelerated, and as a result are much smoother.
• Optimized RAW editing and Video playback for much lower memory usage, and are now far more stable.
• Optimized when and how many preview thumbnails we generate to improve performance and memory usage.
• Fixed an issue where some mask would show in the wrong orientation when editing.
• Fixed edits not being saved with an image exported from the library action menu of batch actions.

Changes

• Fixed the library thumbnail not updating after editing a photo or video.
• Fixed maks previews not showing their thumbnail correctly.
• Fixed histogram clipping indicator not showing.
• Fixed crash that could occur when deleting, or favoriting a photo or video.

Changes

• Significantly improved performance when editing photos & videos.
• Fixed a crash that could easily occur when switching between photos.
• Fixed the photo preview showing blank when switching between photos.
• Fixed the video loading spinner not showing correctly.
• Fixed audio on videos not playing when unmuted when in silent mode.
• Fixed the crop overlay controls not always showing and hidding correctly.
• Fixed some artificats showing when using Clary at extreme positive values.
• Improved compression artefact avoidance in shadow recovery.
• Changed the requirements to run the app to macOS 18.4 or later.

Changes

Thank you for your feedback on the first betas! Keep the feedback coming.

• Improved Black and Whites sliders for RAW photos.
• Improved memory usage when previewing and editing photos.
• Improved reliability when quickly switching beetween photos.
• Fixed thumbnail preview not updating with edits.

Changes

Thank you for your feedback on the first betas! Keep the feedback coming.

• Improved performance video playback while editing.
• Improved color accuracy when editing videos.
• Fixed a crash when quickly switching between photos.
• Fixed a crash when quickly editing a video.
• Fixed an issue where extreme highlights and shadows edits could result in invalid colors.

Changes

Thank you for your feedback on the first two betas! Keep the feedback coming.

• Fixed a bug where sometimes when making an edit the preview image didn't update, and the histogram didn't show.
• Fixed a potential crash that occur when we were sending wrong mask data to the renderer.

Changes

Thank you for your feedback on the first beta! Keep the feedback coming. We've made a number of improvements and fixes.

• Vignette now stays correctly positioned after cropping.
• Preview images more dependably display in full resolution.
• Fixed rare crashes when opening or quitting the app.
• Exported RAW photos no longer look washed out.
• Removed ghosting in RAW exports with clarity, bloom, or halation applied.
• Frame colors now export correctly instead of defaulting to black.
• Improved overall video playback performance.

Known Issues

• When making in an edit sometimes the preview image doesn't update, and the histogram doesn't show.
• Video may not be correctly displayed. When this happens, let us know!
• Smart mask are not loading correctly.
• Mask previews are not showing correctly.
• When navigating between assets, going from video to photo, sometimes the audio keeps playing.
• Histogram clipping indicator is not visible when editing.
• On MacOS 26 the Help menu contents are not visible.

Darkroom 7 Beta 1 for Mac

We're excited to introduce the Beta for Darkroom 7, a major milestone in our journey, and one that happens to coincide with our 10-year anniversary as your photo editing app of choice.

At the core of this release is a completely rebuilt rendering engine. Dramatically improving speed, responsiveness, stability, and accuracy. This is the engine that will power the next generation of features, and we're incredibly proud of how it performs.

But before we launch it to everyone, we need your help.

Today, we’re opening up the Beta for Darkroom 7, and we’re inviting you to help shape its final form. You should expect some issues, and we hope you’ll help us work through them. To ensure we can connect with you more directly during the beta, we’re starting fresh with a new TestFlight group. If you’d like access, we ask that you sign up with your email and fill out the form. This allows us to send you updates, reach out for feedback, and keep you in the loop as new builds land.

Known Issues

• Video, and some RAW colors may not be correctly displayed. When this happens, let us know!
• When navigating between assets, going from video to photo, sometimes the audio keeps playing.
• Frame color is only correctly visible when editing, when exported or dimissed it shows as black.
• Histogram clipping indicator is not visible when editing.
• On MacOS 26 the Help menu contents are not visible.
• On MacOS 26 Beta 5 and prior there was a RAW loading issue, which is fixed in Beta 6.