All-New Photo Editing Experience and alternative to Lightroom & Photoshop

ON1 Photo RAW for Mac

ON1 Photo RAW for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    ON1 Photo RAW 2026.2 20.2.0 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.15 Catalina or later

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  • Author / Product

    ON1, Inc. / External Link

  • Filename

    ON1_Photo_RAW_2026.dmg

ON1 Photo RAW for Mac is the ultimate photo organizer and photo editor! It puts the primary photo editing needs for photographers under one roof without having to bounce between multiple pieces of software.

With ON1 Photo RAW for macOS, you get the professional photo editing tools every photographer needs to get professional results while keeping your workflow efficient, powerful, and simple.



ON1 Photo RAW for Mac is a game-changer. If you are looking for a Lightroom alternative with powerful Photoshop features you've found the right place.

It will give you the features photographers use the most from the Lightroom and Photoshop worlds in a single application. 

Top new features include:
  • Super Select AI
  • Tack Sharp AI
  • AI-Powered Adaptive Presets
  • Mask AI & Quick Mask AI
  • Keyword AI
  • Content-Aware Crop
  • Color Fringe Reduction
  • Enhanced Sky Swap AI
  • New ON1 App Manager
  • New Built-in Ocudrone Skies
Layers integration sits at the heart of ON1Photo RAW allowing you to create multi-layered photos or composites while keeping all of the non-destructive settings for each photo and have it done within one workflow.

Focus Stacking automatically blends a series of photos at different focus distances to increase depth-of-field. A state-of-the-art processing engine providing a fast, smooth, comfortable, and fun photo editing experience while producing the highest quality results for your photos. Includes hundreds of fast, non-destructive, stackable, re-editable, and customizable photo effects and filters providing endless creative possibilities.

The tools for retouching portraits, photo restoration, and enhancing photos are available in the app. It includes the best-in-class masking tools for beginners and advanced users. Whether replacing backgrounds, skies or selectively applying an adjustment with a mask or selection.

What`s new

Each new feature and technology in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 takes away the steep learning curve that photographers face when using traditional editing methods. With this raw photo editing software, tedious tasks such as masking, layering, brushing, and adjusting specific areas of photos are a thing of the past. The Super Select AI editing tool is especially noteworthy, as it changes the approach to photo editing.

It makes organizing photo libraries easy. It is a modern photo organizer that allows users to navigate to the location of their photos, much like using a file browser. It includes all the necessary tools to keep photo libraries organized. The new Keyword AI automatically searches for objects, people, colors, and places.

ON1 Photo RAW is a state-of-the-art raw processor that delivers perfect tone, ultimate image color and clarity, and maintains the finest details in photos. The new color fringe reduction tool automatically detects and removes chromatic aberrations. It contains every tool that photographers need to create stunning images.

The software includes powerful AI to assist with photo editing while allowing for creative control. From quick masking to swapping out skies, reducing image noise, sharpening images, retouching portraits, or upscaling photos, It has it all in one application.

ON1 Photo RAW combines the best of Lightroom and Photoshop, offering compositing, HDR, hundreds of presets and filters, and world-class masking tools. This makes photo editing easy and accessible to all.

Features and Highlights
  • Resize images with Perfect Resize
  • Add photographic effects with PhotoTools
  • Create album layouts with PhotoFrame
  • Add layers to Lightroom & Aperture with Perfect Layers
  • Color correct your photos with PhotoTune
  • Create beautiful bokeh with FocalPoint
  • Remove unwanted backgrounds with Mask Pro
  • Many of the individual products work as plug-ins and on their own
How to Use

Launch the app and sign in with your ON1 account

Import photos via drag-and-drop or file browser

Use Develop tab for RAW photo adjustments

Apply presets and filters from the Effects tab

Use Local Adjustments for selective editing

Organize photos using albums and keywords

Export edited images in desired format and quality

Use cloud sync to share edits across devices

Update the app regularly for new features and fixes

System Requirements
  • macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) or later
  • Intel or Apple Silicon (M1/M2) processor
  • 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
  • 2 GB VRAM (4 GB recommended)
  • 2 GB free disk space for installation
  • SSD recommended for best performance
PROS
  • Powerful RAW editing capabilities
  • Non-destructive workflow support
  • Integrated photo organizing tools
  • One-time purchase, no subscription
  • Works offline without cloud reliance
CONS
  • High system resource requirements
  • Slower performance on older Macs
  • Occasional interface lag or bugs
  • Limited mobile integration features
Note: 30 days trial version.

Also Available: Download ON1 Photo RAW for Windows

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What's new in this version:

- Color Label Enhancements — Photographers use color labels in many different ways, so we’ve made them more flexible. You can now customize the label names in Preferences — instead of Red, Yellow, and Green, you can rename them to match your workflow (Favorites, Needs Retouching, Client Selects, etc.) Also in Grid View, labeled photos now display a subtle tint in the cell background, making them easier to identify at a glance.
- Hide Folders in Grid View — Photo RAW uniquely allows folders to appear alongside photos in Grid View. While many users appreciate this, others find it distracting. You can now choose to hide folders for a cleaner browsing experience.
- Browse Performance Improvements — Improving browsing performance and stability is a major focus this year. This update includes the first round of optimizations, delivering faster performance when opening and browsing new folders. Additional improvements are planned in upcoming releases.
- Small Screen Improvements — On smaller displays — especially laptops — the right side of the interface could feel cramped. For new installations, the Layers and Properties panes have been moved to the left side to create more working space. Brilliance AI is now collapsed by default so you can access common RAW adjustments immediately. Existing users can still reposition or close panes to match their preferences.
- Apple ML Performance — Due to a bug in macOS 26.1 and 26.2, some machine learning features (including Resize, Generative Crop, and Generative Erase) temporarily reverted to CPU processing. With macOS 26.3, this issue has been resolved and GPU acceleration has been restored for improved performance. To benefit from this improvement, update to macOS 26.3 or later.
- Improved Leveling Model — The Auto Level and Crop feature now delivers more consistent leveling results across groups of similar images
- Improved Negative Mode Results — Negative Mode (found in the Tone & Color pane) converts scanned film negatives into positive images. The conversion algorithms have been refined to produce improved initial tone and color accuracy.
- Added preliminary support for the Sony a7 V (note some compressed raw versions are not supported at this time, no camera profiles are available yet)
- Bug fixes
- Added or updated some camera profiles

Added lens profiles for these lenses:
- Canon EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 USM
- Canon RF 45mm F1.2 STM
- Fujifilm XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR II
- Fujifilm XF30mmF2.8 R LM WR Macro
- Fujifilm XF70-300mmF4-5.6 R LM OIS WR + 1.4x
- Leica Camera AG Vario-Elmarit-SL 1:2.8-4/24-90 ASPH
- MEKE SL 35mm F1.8 STM PRO
- Pergear 7.5mm f/2.8
- TTARTISAN 40mmF2.0Z
- Viltrox AF 56/1.4 XF
- Viltrox AF 56mm f/1.2 E/Z
- Viltrox AF 9mm f/2.8 Z/E
- Yongnuo 25mm f/1.7 II