RapidRAW

A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind.

RapidRAW is a modern, high-performance alternative to Adobe Lightroom®. It delivers a simple, beautiful editing experience in a lightweight package for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.

I started developing this project as a personal challenge when I was 18. My goal was to create a high-performance tool for my own photography workflow while deepening my understanding of React, WGSL and Rust.

• 2026-11-07: Rebuilt glow, halation and lens flare with realistic glare and aperture ghosts, rebuilt film grain, convert embedded ICC profiles of non-RAW images to sRGB, render previews at the real display size, and added the option to export the original alongside edits
• 2026-11-06: Added an interface scale setting for a compact UI, and fixed macOS context menus and canvas flicker when switching images
• 2026-11-05: Reworked lens correction to match Lensfun exactly with per-image lens profiles, moved relight, fog, lens blur and all transforms to the GPU, added next/previous image preloading and interactive 3D depth views
• 2026-11-04: Fixed macOS local network access with ad-hoc signing, Let's Encrypt certificates on Android, and export panel validation
• 2026-11-03: Added Match Brush mask with adaptive color, tone and texture matching, and reworked liquify and retouch with frequency separation smoothing
• 2026-11-02: Added Motion Blur with panning, moving subject, spin and depth parallax, reworked clone and heal with automatic source matching, enabled the GPU renderer on Linux Wayland, and added EXIF and ICC metadata to TIFF exports
• 2026-11-01: Added an on-image picker to the B&W mix
• 2026-10-31: Added Speed Edit for keyboard and drag-based slider editing, an expanded color mixer with targeted pipette, and "Edit In" for external editors
• 2026-10-30: Bounded JPEG XL export memory, fixed virtual copy exports, and kept edits of shared Immich images on this computer
• 2026-10-29: Much faster folder loading from network shares, cached GPU pipelines and parallel preview encoding, readable edit history labels, and Enter / Escape to apply or cancel a crop

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