{"slug": "revelraw-a-mac-raw-editor-that-looks-at-the-photo-before-suggesting-presets", "title": "RevelRaw – a Mac RAW editor that looks at the photo before suggesting presets", "summary": "RevelRaw, a native macOS RAW editor, reads the scene in a photograph using Apple's on-device AI and ranks 40+ curated presets to match, all offline with no cloud or account. The app supports 24 RAW formats from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Olympus and more, and offers a free tier with a Pro subscription at $29.99/year for unlimited exports and full features.", "body_md": "# The shortest distance between a RAW file and an extraordinary photograph.\n\nRevelRaw is a native macOS RAW editor for every major camera brand. Drop in a Canon .CR3, a Nikon .NEF or a Sony .ARW, and the app reads the scene, ranks 40+ curated presets, and lets you fine-tune, compare and export, all on your Mac.\n\n## Nothing touches the internet.\n\nFrom the moment you open a RAW to the moment you export, RevelRaw works offline. No cloud, no account, no tracking. Your photographs, your edits and your library stay on your Mac, and the only files it reads are the ones you drop in.\n\n## 40+ looks, calibrated for the photograph in front of you.\n\nCurated across 15 categories: landscape, portrait, editorial, cinematic, film emulation, fine-art black & white, street, night, fashion and more. Six at a glance, ranked by scene, the rest a swipe away.\n\n## The app reads the scene before you do.\n\nApple's on-device AI recognizes what's in your photograph, whether that's a landscape, a portrait, a city street or a night sky, and sorts the 40+ presets to match. The best fit for your shot appears at the top.\n\n## Each parameter, dialed in.\n\nExposure, contrast, tone curve, color grading, HSL, sharpening, clarity, grain and vignette. Each adjustment previews instantly as you move the slider, and any move is one undo away.\n\n## See the difference.\n\nSide-by-side or split: toggle the view to put the original next to your edit, anytime. The unaltered RAW stays one click away.\n\n## Configured for the platform, not the dialog box.\n\nFormat, dimensions, color space and quality preset for Instagram, Flickr, 500px, Adobe Stock, print or web. One click, and your name, license and keywords travel with the file.\n\n## The look you shot is the look that opens.\n\nPick FL in-camera and the RAW opens flat back at your desk. The look you chose stays behind in the EVF. RevelRaw reads the Creative Look recorded in your .ARW and applies it the moment the photo opens: FL, VV, ST, all ten, matched and ready to fine-tune. No profile hunting, no rebuilding your look from a histogram.\n\n## Keep the detail when the light runs out.\n\nPush the ISO and you trade clean shadows for grain. The neural model runs on your Mac's own chip, never your photos uploaded to a server, clearing luminance and color noise while it keeps the fine texture you shot for. You set the strength; it renders at full resolution, offline.\n\n## Whatever you shoot, it opens here.\n\nCanon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Olympus — and a dozen brands beyond: 24 RAW formats open to the same AI scene detection, presets and fine-tune controls. Sony shooters get one extra courtesy — an .ARW arrives with its Creative Look read from the file and already applied. [See every format RevelRaw opens](/formats).\n\n## A look at the app.\n\nReal screenshots from RevelRaw on macOS: private by design, the preset library, fine-tune controls with AI denoise, crop and composition tools, before/after comparison, and export presets for each platform.\n\n## Start free. Go Pro when you're ready.\n\nYour first photo is free to edit and export. Go unlimited with **RevelRaw Pro**: one membership, three ways to pay.\n\n- Unlimited full-resolution exports\n- All 40+ presets & Sony Creative Looks\n- Every fine-tune control & tone curve\n- AI denoise at full resolution\n- Every format: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, HEIF\n\n### Yearly\n\n$29.99/year\n\nAbout $2.50 a month, billed yearly. You save 50%.\n\n[Download for macOS](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6773942240?pt=120914369&ct=Web&mt=8)\n\nPrices shown in US dollars (USD); the App Store displays the equivalent in your local currency. Download free, then choose your plan inside the app. Apple handles billing through your Apple Account, and your plan renews until you cancel. Manage or cancel anytime in System Settings.\n\n## Questions, answered.\n\n## What is RevelRaw?\n\nRevelRaw is a Mac app for editing RAW photos from every major camera brand. Open a RAW file and RevelRaw recognizes what's in the shot, suggests the best-matched looks from its 40+ presets, and lets you fine-tune and export, all on your Mac.\n\n## How much does RevelRaw cost?\n\nRevelRaw is free to download, and your first export is free so you can try the whole workflow. After that, RevelRaw Pro gives you unlimited exports and every feature for $4.99/month, $29.99/year (about $2.50 a month), or $119.99 once for lifetime access. You subscribe inside the app through your Apple Account and can cancel anytime.\n\n## Which cameras does RevelRaw support?\n\nCanon (.CR3, .CR2, .CRW), Nikon (.NEF, .NRW), Sony (.ARW, .SR2, .SRF), Fujifilm (.RAF), Panasonic (.RW2), Olympus (.ORF) and more, plus DNG — 24 RAW formats in all. Sony Alpha gets the deepest treatment: RevelRaw even reads the Creative Look straight out of an .ARW. Drop a file in and you're ready to edit. See [every format RevelRaw opens](/formats).\n\n## Does RevelRaw require an internet connection?\n\nNo, not for editing. Opening photos, suggesting looks, editing, adding your details and exporting all happen on your Mac, with no cloud, no account, and nothing tracked. RevelRaw uses the internet only to buy RevelRaw Pro through the App Store.\n\n## How many presets does RevelRaw include?\n\nRevelRaw includes 40+ curated presets across 15 photographic categories: Landscape, Portrait, Editorial, Fine Art B&W, Film Emulation, Cinematic, Minimalist, Street, Night, Commercial, Dramatic, Warmth, Experimental, Documentary and Fashion. Preset names include Golden Hour, Alpine Clarity, Soft Portrait, Rembrandt Light, Press Look, Silver Gelatin, Kodak Portra, Fuji Velvia, Teal & Orange, Gritty Street, Starlight, Storm Front and Auto Enhance.\n\n## How does the scene detection work?\n\nRevelRaw recognizes what's in your photo, whether that's a landscape, a portrait or a city scene, and reorders the 40+ presets so the looks most likely to suit that shot appear first.\n\n## What adjustments can I make?\n\nAll the controls you'd expect: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks; temperature, tint, vibrance and saturation; sharpening, clarity and tone curve; color grading and HSL; plus vignette, grain and faded blacks. Edits preview instantly, and you can undo or redo any change.\n\n## What export formats are supported?\n\nJPEG, PNG, TIFF (8-bit and 16-bit) and HEIF. Platform export presets configure format, dimensions, color space and quality automatically: Instagram (4:5 portrait and 1:1 square), Flickr (high-resolution JPEG), Adobe Stock (full-resolution TIFF), Print (full-resolution 16-bit TIFF in Display P3 or Adobe RGB), Web (2048 px JPEG) and Custom.\n\n## What metadata does RevelRaw embed?\n\nWhen you export, RevelRaw can add your name and bio, copyright, a Creative Commons license (including CC0 and all six standard licenses), a caption, keywords, location name and GPS coordinates, written into the photo's standard EXIF and IPTC info.\n\n## What macOS version is required?\n\nRevelRaw requires macOS 26.0 or later and runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.\n\n## Who makes RevelRaw?\n\nRevelRaw is built by Daniel Tello, an independent developer and photographer, for photographers who shoot RAW on Sony Alpha cameras.\n\nPhotographs never leave your Mac. 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