RapidRAW
CyberTimon/RapidRAWReviewed by Radar
What it does
RapidRAW is a desktop photo editor for RAW camera files, aimed at photographers who want a fast, simple editing workflow. It has a photo library, color and light adjustments, masks, presets, cropping, lens correction and batch export. Edits are kept in side files, so the original photo is not changed. Some AI tools run on your own computer. An optional paid cloud service adds bigger AI edits. Windows needs Windows 10 or newer; the README recommends 16 GB of RAM and a dedicated graphics card.
How easy it is to install
A · download and open · Windows
Each GitHub release has ready Windows .exe and .msi installers (about 32-41 MB for x64), so you download, install and open it.
Numbers on GitHub
- Stars
- 10,874on Oct 31, 2026
- Downloads
- 765,10521,081 this week
- Growth
- +180stars in 6 days
Stars over time
Facts
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- You need to install
- Nothing extra
- To build from source
- Node.js
- Disk space
- 41 MB–123 MB · from the installer
- Accounts or keys
- None
- Cost
- Freemium · The editor is free. The README offers an optional RapidRAW Cloud subscription at $14/month for cloud AI inpainting; the README says core features stay free.
- License
- AGPL-3.0 (Copyleft)
- Can replace
- Lightroom, Camera Raw, Capture One
- Last update
- Oct 31, 2026
Risk signals
No risk signals found by the checks.
What Radar could not check
- How well it runs on computers without a dedicated graphics card or with less than 16 GB of RAM.
- How much extra disk space the AI models take once the app downloads them.
- Whether a given camera's RAW files open correctly.
- What data the optional cloud service and login send online, and what the subscription actually includes.
- Whether the Windows installers are digitally signed.