ON1 Photo RAW for Mac
Fast RAW processor, photo editor, and plug-in collection (was ON1 Photo).
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ON1 Photo RAW overview
ON1 Photo RAW (was ON1 Photo) is the lightning fast raw processor, photo editor, and plug-in collection all in one app photographers have been asking for. Unlike the current class of raw-based photo editors requiring catalogs, bouncing between apps for editing, and a subscription ecosystem, ON1 Photo RAW features a new, modern raw processing engine, tuned for today's sensors and graphics chips. Combined with our current set of tools, the next generation of ON1 Photo 10, will continue to work where you want, as a standalone app, a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, or a host app for other editing apps.
Photo RAW is a must have plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop. At the heart lies Develop and Effects which include everything you could possibly need for creating any look you want. The hundreds of filters and presets are stackable, allowing for endless creativity. You don't need 10 different plug-ins when you can do it all with one. It's one of the best collections of filters for stacking and creating your own signature looks along with the perfect tools for selectively applying effects, local adjustments, adjustable gradients, adjustment brushes, masking, and retouching.
- Adjustable Gradient
- Adjustment Brush
- Antique
- Black and White
- Bleach Bypass
- Blur
- Borders
- Color Enhancer
- Cross Process
- Dynamic Contrast
- Glow
- Grunge
- HDR Look
- Lens Blur
- Lens Flare
- Noise Reduction
- Photo Filter
- Portrait Enhancer
- Sharpening
- Split Tone
- Sunshine
- Texturizer
- Tone Enhancer
- Vignette
- Vintage
What's new in version 20.4.0
- This is one of the biggest updates in the 2026 lifecycle. 2026.4 introduces Restore AI, a brand-new module built exclusively for ON1 Photo RAW MAX that brings damaged, faded, and forgotten photos back to life. It also delivers a redesigned Home experience to help you get into your work faster, meaningful Browse performance improvements, new lens profile support, and a round of bug fixes and stability improvements.
- Restore AI — Restore AI is a brand-new module, exclusively inside of Photo RAW MAX. Restore AI repairs damaged photos automatically. Fix tears, dust, wrinkles, fading, grain, blur, and color shifts to bring old family memories back to life.
- Automatic Photo Restoration — Remove dust, scratches, wrinkles, tears, and other physical damage.
- AI Refocus & Detail Recovery — Improve clarity and rebuild lost detail in soft or poorly digitized photos.
- AI Colorization — Transform black-and-white photos into realistic color images, with full user control.
- Fade & Color Shift Correction — Restore natural color and tone to photos affected by aging or poor processing.
- Improve Results with Text-Prompt — Guide restoration with text prompts. This can improve colorization results, fix or add text, blur backgrounds, adjust ages, and much more.
- Face Detection & Detail Enhancement — Detect faces and intelligently restore lost facial detail while maintaining recognition.
- Noise & Grain Control — Reduce objectionable noise or texture while adding natural film grain.
- Advanced Sharpening — Enhance detail and definition for clearer restored images.
- Creative Color Control — Adjust tonal and color correction, warmth, saturation, as well as tint monochrome photos.
- Batch Album Restoration — Process entire albums of scanned photos automatically.
- Cloud-Powered Processing — Perform complex AI restoration tasks beyond what most consumer computers can handle.
- Integrated Photo Management — Convert negatives, organize albums, add descriptions and metadata, and easily export or share your restored photos.
- No Credits or Tokens Required — Restore AI is fully included with ON1 Photo RAW MAX or ON1 Photo Studio.
- Home Module — The Home module introduces a new default start experience for ON1 Photo RAW focused on faster entry, better onboarding, and more discoverable product training.
- New Home screen experience designed to serve as the default starting point for the app.
- Quick shortcuts for Open a Photo, Browse a Folder, and Import from Device.
- Recent Edits area to help users quickly return to work they opened recently.
- Space for What’s New updates, training, and dynamic content.
- Browse Performance Improvements — We have been working hard to improve new folder discovery in Browse. Now when you navigate to a new folder, it should populate thumbnails almost instantly and scrolling should be more responsive as well. We have also tuned the number of thumbnails that can be displayed so you can see more on one screen. While we were at it, we cleaned up the context menu so it isn’t too long.
- Deep Stack Performance Improvements — It’s snappier when working with lots of local adjustments. Moving sliders and painting is faster and uses less memory.
Improved Lens Profile Support — Added or improved lens profiles for the following:
- 7Artisans 18mm f/5.6 Full Frame
- Canon RF-S55-210mm F5-7.1 IS STM
- Fujifilm GF35-70mmF4.5-5.6 WR
- Meike 85mm f/1.8
- Nikon 1 Nikkor VR 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6 PD-ZOOM
- SMC PENTAX DA* 60-250mm F4 [IF] SDM
- SMC PENTAX-DA 14mm F2.8 ED[IF]
- SMC Pentax-M 135mm f/3.5
- SMC Pentax-M 200mm f/4
- SMC Pentax-M 75-150mm f/4
- SMC Pentax-M 80-200mm f/4.5
- Ricoh GR IV & compatibles
- Samyang 24mm f/1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary 017 extender +1.4x
- Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN II | Art 024
- Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX DG APO HSM Macro extender + 1.4x TC
- Sigma 17-40mm F1.8 DC | Art 025
- Sony FE 16mm f/1.8 G
- Tamron E 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 A047
- Tamron 35-100mm F2.8 A078 Z / E
- Tamron SP 85mm f/1.8 Di VC USD F016
- Tokina Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX II (AF 11-16mm f/2.8)
- Venus Laowa 15mm f/2.0 Zero-D
ON1 Photo RAW for Mac
$59.99
In English
Version 20.4.0
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Sep 8, 2021
Version: 15.5.1
I bought ON1 2020 in April 2021, and I would have to par for an upgrade after 6 months!!!
Jun 16, 2020
Version: 14.1.1
Tried once more today (as I already did two years ago) migrating my Lightroom catalogue to ON1 and once more it miserably failed
Let's wait and see in a couple more years :p
Feb 15, 2019
Version: 13.1.0
I purchase the app as a replacement for Lightroom Classic. It does mostly everything I currently do in Lightroom and there is very little I'd miss.
The app is responsive and offers a number of advanced features, so it would have been a home run for someone like me who desperately wanted to switch away from the subscription model Adobe enforces nowadays, BUT the migration process from Lightroom to ON1 Photo RAW is still buggy. It's been months that I reported the problem(s) and there is no solution in sight. They released a new version that was supposed to correct everything since I originally purchased the app, then point-releases, and still I can't migrate my libraries.
I understand that bug happen, but when they do, you need to better communicate.
The one thing I REALLY don't appreciate is that If you want to have access to their beta releases you have to purchase a premium subscription. Having to pay to have the privilege of using a beta, buggy and unpolished version of the app and report to them the various glitches and problems of their builds doesn't sound right to me.
It's been over 6 months that I've purchased the app and still I can't use it because I can't properly migrate my pictures (which is the one big thing they advertise for their app).
So for the app itself, if you don't have to migrate your libraries, I'd give it a good 4-4.5 stars, but because I essentially can't use it because of all these issues, I'll lower it to maybe two :-(
Dec 15, 2018
Version: 13.0.0
Given how long ON1 has been making Photoshop plugins, I expect this will be an excellent app. The feature list is comprehensive. The price is competitive, depending on how much they will charge for updates. Still, Affinity Photo is less expensive. I haven't seen a feature comparison, however, so I don't know what the difference in price means in terms of capabilities. If ON1 really wants to sell this, they should show how it stacks up against Lightroom, Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Then again, we may have to wait for a third party to do the job honestly.
Still, they offer a free trial so hopefully some people with the time and interest to test this will let us know what they think. Sadly, I no longer have that kind of energy.