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Free
- One-time
- Free
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darktable has a free plan; it ranks #1 of 7 for RAW photo editing, as of 20 Sep 2026.
darktable
- Cheapest paid
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- Free plan
- Yes
- Best ranking
- #1 of 7 · RAW photo editing
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Plans
Capabilities
Assets
Painting and editing
Platform and workflow
Facts
- Free tier
- Yes — Free and open source (GPL)
- Commercial use on free tier
- Yes
- Opt out of AI training
- Yes
- Output licence
- Your photographs are yours; the software is GPL-3.0
- Works offline
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Pricing source
- www.darktable.org · verified
Release history
| Date | Version | Summary | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meet the new AI tools in darktable 5.6 | darktable 5.6 ships its first AI features: an AI object mask that turns a single click into a vector mask around any subject, and a neural restore module for ML-based denoise and upscale. Our focus was on building the foundation that loads and runs open computer-vision models locally on your CPU or | source | |
| darktable 5.4 - A Simple Beginner Workflow and Interactive Walkthrough | This is a beginner-friendly and simple workflow for developing photos in darktable 5.4 using some new tools made available in this version. The intent is not to go in-depth on any particular tool, but rather to show off how a small number of modules can be used to process an image quickly. This arti | source | |
| How do I ... in darktable 5.x? | Users new to darktable who have experience with other raw developers may have trouble figuring out how to do various tasks as a result of different names or workflows in darktable compared to their previous software. The following entries are a quick reference to help you accomplish what you want to | source | |
| darktable 4.0: 3763 Days Later | Translations of this article: German, Spanish. A little over 10 years since darktable 1.0 was first released, the darktable team is proud to present darktable 4.0! For a complete changelog, please see the release notes. The latest version of the user manual is here. Ukrainian and Polish translations | source | |
| darktable 3.8: Winter Release 2021 | Translations of this article: German, Spanish. The darktable team is proud to announce the second feature release of 2021. Documentation As is becoming the norm now, all new features are fully documented in the latest version of the user manual. We have also added a new introductory section to act a | source | |
| darktable 3.6: Summer Release 2021 | Translations of this article: German, French, Spanish The darktable team is proud to announce our second summer feature release, darktable 3.6. Merry (summer) Christmas! This is the first of two releases this year and, from here on, we intend to issue two new feature releases each year, around the s | source | |
| darktable 3.4: Encore! | Translations of this article: German, French Happy holidays everyone – it’s time for your favourite Christmast gift. This is the second major release of 2020 from the darktable project following the early release of darktable 3.2 in August, and we’ve been busy: between the darktable, rawspeed, and d | source | |
| darktable 3.2: containment effect! | In other languages: Français, Deutsch. Italiano. For the first time in its history, darktable breaks its one year release cycle by releasing version 3.2 in August of 2020. The unfortunate state of global health has led to a marked increase in contributions and improvements. On top of that, version 3 | source | |
| darktable 3.0 | In other languages: Français, Italiano, Deutsch. Following the tradition, darktable 3.0 has been released for Christmas. After many evolutions in 2018, 2019 has seen many very unexpected changes in darktable, both in its user interface and in its internal mechanisms. This makes darktable 3.0 a more | source | |
| A new module: lut3d | The lut3d module will be introduced in darktable 3.0 and is designed to apply a 3D LUT (LookUp Table) to an image. 3D LUT A 3D LUT is a tridimensional table which allows to transform any RGB value into another RGB value. The most common applications of LUTs are film simulation and color grading. But | source |