RevelRaw – a Mac RAW editor that looks at the photo before suggesting presets

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RevelRaw — Mac RAW Photo Editor: Canon, Nikon, Sony & More

RAW photo editing · macOS<br>The shortest distance between a RAW file and an extraordinary photograph.

RevelRaw 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.

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Free download · Your first full-quality export is on us · Requires macOS 26 or later

DSC00521.ARW — RevelRaw

Scene · Cityscape

Aerial<br>Golden Hour<br>Teal & Orange<br>Gritty Street<br>Neon Nights<br>Mono

40+<br>Curated presets

15<br>Photographic categories

24<br>RAW formats opened

100%<br>On your Mac, on-device

Private by design<br>Nothing touches the internet.

From 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.

Privacy — RevelRaw

Sent to the internetNothing

DSC04812.ARW

CloudNo cloud

Your photographsNever uploaded

Sign-inNever asked

TrackingNone

InternetNot needed

Who sees your workOnly you

Presets<br>40+ looks, calibrated for the photograph in front of you.

Curated 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.

Golden Hour<br>Coastal<br>Cinematic<br>Kodak Portra<br>Forest<br>Dusk<br>Soft Portrait<br>Storm Front<br>Rembrandt Light<br>Press Look<br>Fuji Velvia<br>Starlight

AI scene detection<br>The app reads the scene before you do.

Apple'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.

Cityscape · 0.94<br>Architecture · 0.86<br>Street · 0.68

01Aerial94

02Teal & Orange89

03Geometric Mono76

04Golden Hour42

Fine-tune<br>Each parameter, dialed in.

Exposure, 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.

Light

Exposure<br>+0.4

Contrast<br>+12

Highlights<br>&minus;18

Shadows<br>+22

Color

Temp<br>+150

Vibrance<br>+10

Detail

Clarity<br>+6

Grain

Before / After<br>See the difference.

Side-by-side or split: toggle the view to put the original next to your edit, anytime. The unaltered RAW stays one click away.

Before<br>After

FE 28–70mm &middot; 58mm &middot; &fnof;/7.1 &middot; ISO 100 &middot; 1/1600s

Export<br>Configured for the platform, not the dialog box.

Format, 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.

Instagram<br>JPEG · 1080 × 1350 · sRGB · 90%

500px<br>JPEG · 2048 × 2560 · sRGB · 95%

Adobe Stock<br>JPEG · Full · sRGB · 100%

Print<br>TIFF 16-bit · Full · Adobe RGB

Web<br>HEIF · 2400 long · P3 · 85%

Creative Looks<br>The look you shot is the look that opens.

Pick 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.

Creative Look · FL

ST<br>PT<br>NT<br>VV<br>VV2<br>FL<br>IN<br>SH<br>BW<br>SE

AI Denoise<br>Keep the detail when the light runs out.

Push 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.

Noisy<br>Denoised

Sony &alpha;7 V &middot; ISO 100 &middot; +2.8 EV

Every major brand<br>Whatever you shoot, it opens here.

Canon, 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.

.CR3Canon<br>.NEFNikon<br>.ARWSony<br>.RAFFujifilm<br>.RW2Panasonic<br>.ORFOlympus<br>.CR2Canon<br>.NRWNikon<br>.CRWCanon<br>.SR2Sony<br>.SRFSony<br>+ DNGand 12 more

Inside RevelRaw<br>A look at the app.

Real 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.

Private by design

Preset library, matched to your shot

Fine-tune, with AI Denoise

Crop with precision

Six composition overlays

Before and after, side by side

Export, ready for every platform

Pricing<br>Start free. Go Pro when you're ready.

Your first photo is free to edit and export. Go unlimited with RevelRaw Pro : one membership, three ways to pay.

Unlimited...

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