Darkroom: Photo & Video Editor 4+
Pro Editing, AI&Preset Filters
Bergen Co.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Optimize your creative workflow with Darkroom: Photo & Video Editor, now available for macOS. Experience the pinnacle of desktop editing with Darkroom, designed to elevate your photo and video projects with its comprehensive, feature-rich editing suite.
Dive into a world where AI powers precision editing, offering you the ability to meticulously sculpt your visuals. With advanced depth editing and object recognition, fine-tune the elements of your photos—like skies, hair, and skin—with unmatched accuracy. Darkroom rivals the functionality of industry giants such as Adobe Lightroom and Canva, providing a versatile toolkit for every creative need.
Unleash your creativity with intuitive tools like touch-responsive curves and selective color adjustments, making the editing process smoother and enabling the creation of distinctive presets. Explore the richness of RAW photography with full-resolution support and 16-bit color depth, ensuring every detail, shadow, and highlight is perfectly captured.
Elevate your video editing with Darkroom, featuring real-time playback and professional-grade 4K video color grading. Enhance your videos with an array of filters, frames, and editing tools, making Darkroom your go-to solution for both photo and video editing.
Organize your projects effortlessly with Darkroom's smart album management. The integrated hashtag manager streamlines your workflow, making it easier to create and apply hashtags. Enjoy batch editing capabilities that rival those of PicsArt or Canva, all within a single, powerful app.
Experience Darkroom with our Membership Trial and Subscription, offering a compelling alternative to platforms like Adobe Lightroom. Tailored for enthusiasts of VSCO, Peachy, or Instagram filters, Darkroom ensures a smooth subscription management experience with user-friendly auto-renewal settings. Prepare for an unparalleled desktop editing journey with Darkroom: Photo & Video Editor.
Please note: Darkroom+ membership auto-renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscription in Settings after purchase. Charges for purchase confirmation will be applied to your account.
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What’s New
Version 6.8.11
In this update, we focused on making several common actions easier to access, and finally brought a few long-missing options to life.
- Improved accessibility for undoing edits on iPhone:
- Added an Undo button to the top navigation bar while editing, replacing the Favorite button (still available when viewing).
- Added Shake to Undo support — just shake your iPhone to confirm undoing the last edit.
- Added Undo and Redo to the (•••) actions menu.
- Updated the History Tool design and added Undo / Redo options directly inside.
- Added Rotate Left wherever Rotate Right was available, for consistency and better accessibility.
- Added the Hide Clipping Indicators toggle to the Histogram:
- On Mac, it lives in the View menu.
- On iOS, tap the Histogram to find it.
- Added a shortcut to leave a review on the App Store:
- Available in Settings on iOS and the Help menu on Mac.
- Updated App Icon shortcut options on both iOS and Mac.
- Fixed corner radius inconsistencies on some App Icon variants.
- Localized the first launch welcome screen so everyone can read what Darkroom is all about.
- Fixed minor layout bugs when the welcome screen is shown on smaller displays.
- Improved the in-app campaign system to better target specific user groups and increase relevance.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
You don’t need lots of time or pro skills to make the most of this ultra-fast, super-intuitive photo editor. Darkroom can access your whole photo library at once, letting you immediately start cropping, adjusting curves and using preset filters or creating your own—until your pics are exactly how you want them.
Darkroom Delights!
I love this application. Have dipped in and out of it over the years but it's obvious this is a labour of love for its small team of developers and it shows. Key reasons I like it: 1) It seamlessly integrates with Apple Photos including raw support so i'm not managing photos in multiple locations 2) The new render engine gives much more lattitude for shadow/highlight recovery and sufficient for 99% of my work which is mostly shared digitally with occasional prints up to A3. 3) Presets and ability to share them means I can apply high quality consistent looks without resorting to Lightroom or VSCO subscriptions. Particularly like the Fuji Classic Chrome they have to download on their website. 4) same app across all my apple devices for one small subscription or a bargain on-off cost in my case which is less than half the cost of one year of Lightroom. Paired with Affinity Photo this covers all of my editing needs. Your mileage may vary but great job to the Darkroom team. Happy customer.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your very kind and thoughtful review 🙏🏻
Too expensive for what you get. Disappointed.
I thought I’d give the trial a go, but found that there seemed to be quite a bit missing. Masks are limited with no means to manually tweak some of the erroneous foreground/background edges as there’s no way to paint missing parts of a mask or push/smudge parts of a portrait or depth mask that is incorrect. Also there’s no way to invert a radial mask. The website claims to be able to blur background in a portrait photo, but I was unable to find any blur function no matter how hard I tried on both iPhone and iPad. There’s some nice ui elements, but it feels like ‘half’ an app. There’s no effect like bokeh that you can mask in etc. even the presets aren’t affected by masks.
I can’t justify the cost. I’d pay about ¼ the price as I could only see myself using it casually. Snapseed does so much more and has a hidden mask mode which you can apply on every single image adjusting function, filter, and effect, so that you can blend or paint that adjustment in. All those masks are adjustable from a history of operations you’ve made. Snapseed is free, so I would expect Darkroom to offer more flexibility. Darkroom does offer video processing, but for those working with photos, it seems to add to the price substantially.
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Information
- Provider
- Bergen Co.
- Size
- 42.4 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.3 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2015 Bergen Co.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Yearly Subscription £39.99
- Monthly Subscription £6.99
- Legacy - Unlock Everything £9.99
- Legacy - All Tools £7.99
- Unlock Everything Forever £99.99
- Legacy - All Premium Filters £7.99
- Discounted Yearly Subscription £29.99
- Legacy - XPRO £3.99
- Legacy - Landscape Filters £3.99
- Legacy - Portrait Filters £3.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.