darktable
- About
- Open-source photography workflow app and raw developer.
- Catalogue
- No. 366
- Category
- Productivity
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Overview
darktable is an open-source photography workflow application and non-destructive raw developer: a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, shows them on a zoomable lighttable, and lets you develop and enhance raw images. Its developers note that it isn't designed as a Lightroom replacement.
What it does well
darktable focuses on the workflow of handling thousands of photos from a shoot. Edits are non-destructive, and processing modules range from crop, exposure and spot removal to advanced tools. It's one of the few open-source projects that supports tethered shooting, and it can be extended with Lua scripts. It runs on Linux, Windows and Apple Silicon Macs, with Linux recommended.
Why it’s in the collection
darktable is a serious raw developer for photographers who want a capable, subscription-free editing workflow. It's GPL-licensed.
On GitHub
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- Repository
- darktable-org/darktable
Languages
- C 87.1%
- Lua 5.1%
- C++ 3.2%
- Other 4.6%



