Redlamp
Native, open-source RAW Lightroom alternative editor for Mac
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Details
- External ID
- 1269194
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Redlamp
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 88
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9845540956108471
- Tags
- Open Source, Photography, GitHub, Photo editing
- Fetched at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Redlamp is a native, open-source RAW photo editor for Apple Silicon, built from scratch in Swift and Metal. Lightroom's workflow, with no subscription and no cloud.
Enrichment
- Niche
- visual design and creative software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source raw photo editor for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a RAW photo editor from scratch using Swift and Metal requires deep domain knowledge in color science, RAW demosaicing pipelines, and high-performance GPU shader programming.
What it would actually take: A production RAW editor requires integrating custom or low-level LibRaw/Apple CoreImage pipelines, writing Metal compute kernels for non-destructive Bayer interpolation, color space conversions (ACES/ProPhoto RGB), tone-mapping curves, and local adjustments, along with a high-throughput tiled memory caching engine. Doing this from scratch necessitates specialized expertise in computational photography, colorimetry, and GPU performance profiling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- Fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux and macOS · hn · 2026-09-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- rawmakase · github · 2026-09-26 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Cloud-native-photoshop-alternative · github · 2026-09-09 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Vireo - Simple Markdown Editor for MacOS · ph · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Markly · ph · 2026-09-25 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Henshu EDIT · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Thumbs · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Genie Photo — Applied Genie · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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