Performance-first RAW editing
Edit in the dark,
on purpose.
darkmoon is a fast, native RAW and JPEG editor built on Flutter for real cross-platform performance — and around a black canvas that doesn't fight your eyes at 1am, when the shadows in a photo are the whole point.
RAW + JPEG · Windows & Linux x64 · Free on desktop · AGPL-3.0
The real app, not a mockup — folder-tree library on the left, a full adjustment panel on the right, on a canvas that stays black at every stop.
What's inside
Everything a RAW workflow needs, none of the bloat.
Every adjustment renders through the same native pipeline, in isolates off the UI thread — so the panel stays responsive whether you're nudging Exposure or dragging a mask.
Every RAW that matters
Canon CR2/CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Fujifilm RAF (X-Trans included), Olympus ORF, Panasonic RW2, and DNG — plus JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP and BMP through the exact same pipeline.
A complete professional toolkit
Tone, Presence, Detail, Tone Curve and per-channel Color Curves, an 8-band Color Mixer, Color Grading wheels, Crop & Transform, and four kinds of local masking.
Camera-aware white balance
Temperature and tint are read against the camera's own embedded calibration, not a generic guess — the exact white point your camera captured.
.xmp, both directions
Import .xmp presets — single files or .zip bundles — export your own, and blend any preset in at 0–150% instead of always applying it at full force.
Genuinely fast, not just responsive
The full-resolution render runs in parallel across every CPU core, with an optional GPU-accelerated path — a 40MP export that took 95 seconds now finishes in under 20. Built on Flutter, which compiles to real native code, not a webview, on every platform it targets.
Local by default, cloud if you ask for it
No darkmoon account, ever. Every edit — AI-assisted denoise and upscale included — runs on your machine by default and saves straight to a per-photo catalog on disk; an optional cloud path (bring your own Topaz key) is there only if you turn it on.
Color Mixer & Grading
Push color the way a colorist would, not a filter.
Eight-band HSL adjustments and shadow / midtone / highlight / global color wheels sit next to a live histogram and the shot's own capture data — so every push is a decision, not a guess.
Free on desktop
Your photos look better after dark.
darkmoon's desktop app is free and open source under AGPL-3.0 — no trial, no paywall, no account to make.