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Raw photo editing that stays on your device.

LightBites is a photo library and raw developer for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Import from your camera, sort and search everything, and edit with exposure, colour, masks and Remove. Your originals never change.

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  • No account
  • No ads or tracking
  • Pay once
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Mac

One library on every screen, in light or dark, kept in sync by your own LightCraft server. iOS 26 and macOS 26 or later.

From the memory card to the finished picture, in one app.

Develop

Raw editing that keeps up with your camera.

Exposure, tone curves, colour mixer and local masks, with a live histogram, on the full raw file. Try four of the sliders here.

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Library

Every photo, sorted the way you think.

  • Import from Photos, Files, a camera or a memory card.
  • Albums and folders, ratings, picks and keywords.
  • Years and months at a glance, and a map of where you took them.
  • A Hidden album that opens with Face ID.
Retouch

Take out what should not be there.

  • Remove: brush over a distraction and it is filled in.
  • Heal and clone for dust and blemishes.
  • Lens Blur with a depth map for a soft background.
  • Generative Expand widens the frame.
Sync

Every library, on every device, in sync.

  • Sign in to your own LightCraft server and your iPhone, iPad and Mac share one library.
  • Photos, edits, albums, ratings, keywords and presets follow you from device to device.
  • Works across libraries: the Photos library on each device, and folders already on the server, like a NAS, without copying them. Edit a photo and it joins the synced library.
  • The LightCraft apps for the desktop and the web open the same library.
  • Choose what each device keeps: every original, or previews within a size limit.

No server? Everything still works on the device, on its own.

Light & Dark

Light or dark, like the rest of your device.

  • Follows your iPhone, iPad or Mac between light and dark by itself.
  • Or keep it on one: Light or Dark in Settings, or from the menu bar on a Mac.
  • Every screen is drawn for both, from the grid to the sliders.

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And the details that make it yours.

  • Originals stay untouched

    Edits are kept beside the photo, never written into it. Undo anything, any time.

  • Raw from your camera

    Canon CR3, Apple ProRAW and other DNG files, with the camera's own look as a start.

  • HDR

    Edit and view HDR photos at full brightness on displays that show it.

  • Presets and profiles

    Import your own presets and colour profiles, preview them, keep them in sync.

  • A real Mac app

    Keyboard shortcuts, a sidebar, a grid you can pinch. Not a phone app on a big screen.

  • Share an album

    With a LightCraft server, send an album as a link. People open it without an account.

  • Export and share

    Any size, straight to the share sheet, Photos or Files.

  • Works offline

    Everything runs on the device. The internet is only for downloads you ask for.

Privacy

Your photos stay yours. Nothing leaves the device unless you send it.

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  • 0ads
  • 0trackers

Search, People and Remove run on your device. The few things that do go online, like map tiles and model downloads, are listed in the privacy policy.

Pay once. Keep it.

Every feature in one purchase, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. No subscription, no in-app purchases.

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Questions

Your best photos, developed on your own device.

LightBites for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Coming soon to the App Store