Develop your RAW files on your own Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Rebrilo is a photo editor for macOS, iPhone and iPad: the tone and colour controls you expect, local masks that find the sky or the person for you, and, on the Mac, the merges that usually mean leaving for another program — panorama, HDR, long exposure, the best faces from a burst.

Your folders stay where they are. Nothing is copied, nothing is uploaded, and there is no Rebrilo account to make.

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One purchase for all three · Mac: macOS 26 or later, Apple silicon · iPhone and iPad: iOS 26 or iPadOS 26

Now on iPhone and iPad, too

Rebrilo is out for iPhone and iPad, with the same engine as on the Mac: the photograph on the screen and five tabs under it — Looks, Crop, Creative, Adjust and Masks. Every slider tool turns on a dial under your thumb, with a tick to keep what it did and a cross to put the photograph back.

Rebrilo on an iPad held sideways: a Boston terrier split down the middle, before on the left in colour and after on the right in black and white, with a white line to drag between them. The tools stand beside the photograph in a grid: Looks, Light, Colour, White Balance, Masks, Crop, Curves, Grading and more. — **One purchase, three devices** — Whoever buys Rebrilo, once or by subscription, has it on the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad, and the 14-day trial works the same way. Drag the line across the photograph, or hold a finger on it to see the original. Turn the iPad on its side and the tools stand beside the photograph. It needs iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.

Rebrilo on an iPhone: the same Boston terrier split before and after, with the grid of tools under the photograph. — **One purchase, three devices** — Whoever buys Rebrilo, once or by subscription, has it on the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad, and the 14-day trial works the same way. Drag the line across the photograph, or hold a finger on it to see the original. Turn the iPad on its side and the tools stand beside the photograph. It needs iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.

**Studio light, with your finger** — The Portrait Studio on an iPhone: the room goes dark, and you drag the lights across the photograph — a warm one from one side, a cool one from the other. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.

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Rebrilo's library window: a sidebar of folders, albums and filter chips; a grid of photographs of a Boston terrier with file names and star ratings; a row pushed open by a series panel holding three frames; and an information panel reading f/1.8, 1/320, ISO 100, 85 mm and a Sony body out of the file.

The same library in its justified-rows layout with an album selected: rows of photographs filling the window edge to edge at differing widths, with no file names, ratings or badges drawn over them.

Two layouts, because culling and looking are two jobs — On the left the grid: file names, stars, a series pushed open, and the panel on the right reading the camera, the lens and 1/320 at f/1.8 straight out of the file. On the right the same photographs with nothing on top of them. Nothing is imported either way — your folders are read where they lie.

The editor on the Adjust tab with a RAW file open, a Boston terrier on a log split down the middle, before on the left and after on the right. The inspector shows a histogram reading RAW headroom plus 1.7 EV, then Levels, Texture and Clarity, Selective Color, an open Colour Grading section with a hue wheel, and a greyed control headed Tone the Black and White with a paragraph explaining why it is greyed. — **The whole tone stack, on the RAW** — Levels, texture, clarity, selective colour, colour grading and noise reduction, split against the camera's own rendering. Look at the greyed row at the foot of the panel: it does not merely sit there unavailable, it says why — *it needs Black & White switched on, and without the conversion there is nothing to tone.*

The editor on the Masks tab. A Boston terrier with its paws on a log is covered in a red overlay. The panel names the mask Dog, shows a Subject component with Add, Subtract and Intersect buttons, reports one area found, and lists Edge Softness, Lighting, White Balance and a column of Light sliders.

The same photograph with Invert switched on: the foliage and the log behind the dog are flooded red and the dog itself is clear of it.

A mask that finds the subject — and one switch to turn it round — Red is the mask, and nobody drew it: the dog was found on the Mac itself, offline, and the panel reports one area. Invert makes the region everything except the dog. The region has not changed; what changed is which side of it an edit lands on.

The same photograph under a linear gradient mask. A red overlay covers the top of the frame and fades out across the middle, with three guide lines and their handles drawn across the picture; the dog is clear of the red. The panel lists two components, Linear Gradient and Subtract, Subject. — **Add, subtract, intersect** — A gradient across the top of the frame and, one row under it in the panel, Subtract · Subject. The top comes down; the dog does not. Masks are built out of pieces rather than chosen from a list.

The same photograph zoomed to 127 per cent, the dog's face filling the window: individual whiskers, the hairs round the muzzle and the texture of the nose all distinct. A small red-filled oval sits over one eye with its centre dot, a resize handle and a hollow handle on the inner ring. — **Past 100 per cent it decodes real pixels** — At 127 per cent this is not the preview magnified: the app goes back to the RAW file, which is why the whiskers hold. A zoom that only magnifies cannot tell you whether the eye is sharp.

The Rebrilo editor on the Looks tab, a backlit Boston terrier on a paving slab. The title bar reads Look: Give It Some, Bold — measured this photograph. The panel shows an Amount slider at 100 per cent, occasion chips reading Portrait, Landscape, Street and Night, and shelves headed Recently Used, Favourites, Racks and Smart. — **A look that measures the photograph first** — The title bar says it plainly: *measured this photograph*. Twenty-three of the looks read the frame before they style it, so they are readings rather than filters — and Amount blends what the look actually did, leaving every slider it never touched where you left it.

A long-exposure photograph split before and after: on the left a red line drawn in the dark, on the right the same line repeated into many offset copies in green, yellow and pink. The panel is headed Chain and holds a stack of units — Chorus, Flanger, Wah-Wah, Harmony — each with knobs. — **And one room that is deliberately not sensible** — A red light drawn in the dark on a 1.6-second exposure, before and after a rack of pedals: chorus, flanger, wah-wah, harmony. It is off until you switch it on.

Screenshots, not mock-ups — the application as it stands, on a real catalogue with the duplicates and the copies still in it. Mostly the same dog: a mask is easier to follow on a subject you have already seen.

Light the person, after the shutter

An ordinary snapshot by a shop window, lit afterwards in the Portrait Studio: a key, a fill, a rim and the wall, set on a plan of the room rather than with sliders. The person is found on the Mac itself.

**An even better Portrait Studio: out now on iPhone and iPad, on its way to the Mac** — the update reworks the Studio you already have with a new light engine: the light follows the shape of the person, casts real shadows on the wall, and you choose to add light to the photograph or relight it from dark. A first look. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.

Natálie Havlová, a content creator, in a portrait split down the middle. On the right, before: an everyday snapshot in daylight against a shop window with the street reflected in it. On the left, after: the same frame with the background gone dark, her face lit from one side and her hair and earring catching the light. The panel on the right is the Portrait Studio, with a plan of the room and cards for a bare head, a softbox, a wall light and a white reflector. — **The same frame, before and after** — On the right the photograph as it was taken: daylight from the street and a shop window behind her. On the left the same frame with a bare head at eye level, a small softbox above, a pool of light on the wall and a white reflector — and the room taken down one and a half stops, so the lights read.

The finished portrait of Natálie Havlová in Rebrilo's editor: her face lit warmly from the side against a dark grey wall with a soft pool of light behind her head, a filmstrip of her other photographs underneath. The Portrait Studio panel shows the plan of the room with two numbered lamps and the wall light, then the subject with Room Dark at minus 1.5 EV, and a card per lamp with dials for power, size and height. — **A plan of the room, not a page of sliders** — Every lamp is a card with its power, its size and its height, and on the plan above you move it round her. Start from a classic set — loop, Rembrandt, butterfly, low key — or from a single light.

In the photographs: Natálie Havlová — Content creator · @natalkainholland

What it does

A Boston terrier on a path, backlit, with green foliage behind.

A beginner should get somewhere good with one press. Somebody who knows what they are doing should be able to take that press apart and do it properly. Every automatic step here shows its working, and every one of them can be overruled.

Adjust

The whole tone stack, on RAW

Exposure, highlights and shadows, curves, colour grading wheels, selective colour, clarity, texture, dehaze, grain, vignette. Every tone slider goes one way for its whole travel — there is a test that fails if one ever turns back.

Masks

Local edits, and the region found for you

Radial, linear and brush masks, plus sky, subject and people found by the Mac itself. Combine them with add, subtract and intersect. Each mask carries its own tone, colour and light.

Looks

188 looks, and a way to make your own

Grouped on shelves, with an Amount slider under every one. Some read the photograph before they style it. Point at a picture you admire and Rebrilo writes its mood into your sliders.

From several frames

The merges, without leaving

Panorama, HDR, exposure fusion, hand-held burst, long exposure, light trails, removing passers-by, an action sequence, and the best face of each person on one frame — started from a series or a selection, right there in the library.

Library

Measured at a hundred thousand photographs

Folders referenced in place, ratings and flags, albums, automatic series, duplicates, RAW + JPEG pairs, and a grid that stays quick because it was measured rather than assumed.

Workflows

A list of the app's own verbs, saved and run again

Cull a shoot, rate what is left, put one look over it, collect it into an album. It measures first and tells you exactly what it will do — this will flag 380 and rate 42 — and only writes after a second press. The whole run is one undo.

Colour

Why doesn't my RAW look like the camera's picture?

Camera Match fits a colour profile from the RAW's own embedded preview — the same scene, the same second, the camera's own rendering — so a file opens near where the camera left it instead of somewhere neutral.

Export

A recipe, not a dialog you redo every time

Format, colour space, resize, output sharpening, metadata rules and a watermark, saved as a preset and applied to a whole selection.

Automation

Works with Shortcuts

Open, auto-enhance, apply a look, adjust and export are actions you can drop into a shortcut of your own — and the same actions are what Spotlight indexes, so they can be run by name.

A look for every kind of photograph

188 looks, on shelves by what they are for — everyday, light and airy, dark and moody, portrait, cinematic, vintage, black and white — each with an Amount slider, and the smart ones measure the photograph before they style it. A few of them, on one frame from a studio session with Luknar.

Original

The same portrait under the Portrait, Kindly · Glow look. — SmartPortrait, Kindly · Glow

The same portrait under the Deep Contrast look. — EverydayDeep Contrast

The same portrait under the Creamy look. — Light & AiryCreamy

The same portrait under the Dark & Moody look. — Dark & MoodyDark & Moody

The same portrait under the Low Key look. — PortraitLow Key

The same portrait under the Golden Hour look. — LandscapeGolden Hour

The same portrait under the Teal & Orange look. — CinematicTeal & Orange

The same portrait under the Instant Print look. — Vintage & FadedInstant Print

The same portrait under the Red look. — Keep One ColourRed

The same portrait under the Night Noir look. — Black & WhiteNight Noir

The same portrait under the Three Inks look. — RackThree Inks

In the photographs: Luknar — Czech artist & musician · luknar.cz

Your whole album, in the look you want

Pick an album, pick the look — or several — and run one workflow. Rebrilo corrects every photograph for itself and then puts the look over all of them, or makes the album again in each look you chose, every version a copy in an album of its own and the originals left as they are. Eighteen frames from one studio session with Luknar, four ways:

Original Noir Cinematic Bright & Airy

Eighteen photographs of Luknar, a Czech artist and musician, in a black cap and headphones at work in a music studio lit pink, red and teal, as the camera made them.

Eighteen photographs of Luknar, a Czech artist and musician, in a black cap and headphones at work in a music studio lit pink, red and teal, in the Noir look.

The camera’s own pictures: eighteen frames from one session, as they came off the card.

The same eighteen in black and white, the blacks deep and the light on the face kept.

The same eighteen with the colour held back, contrast in and a little fade — one grade over the whole set.

The same eighteen lifted and opened up: soft shadows, clean highlights.

In the photographs: Luknar — Czech artist & musician · luknar.cz

Rebrilo's Actions window over a library of studio portraits. It is headed Actions, reads Everything shown in Luknar — 18 photographs, and offers five workflows as cards, each with its steps drawn as a row of small icons: Quick Cull, All the Same Way, Quick Presentation, Pick and Star and One Afternoon. — **Workflows — the first pass, done for you** — A workflow is a list of the app’s own steps run in order over a shoot: cull, flag the rest, rate, correct the light, put one look over everything, make versions, collect it into an album. Start from one of ours or build your own, save it, and run it again on the next shoot. It measures first, tells you exactly what it will do, and writes nothing until you press a second time — the whole run is one undo.

The same photograph in Rebrilo before it was edited. — The camera's file and the finished photograph, the same frame. Nothing here is a preset.

The same photograph after the edit. — The camera's file and the finished photograph, the same frame. Nothing here is a preset.

Your photographs stay yours

This is not a policy written after the fact. It is how the application is built, and it is checkable: Rebrilo ships with no network entitlement at all.

Nothing is uploaded

Your photographs never leave your Mac. There is no server, because there is nothing to send to one.

Nothing is copied

Folders are referenced where they already are. Your originals are never moved, rewritten or imported into a vault.

No Rebrilo account

No sign-up, no email address, no login of ours. The trial and the purchase go through the App Store, with the Apple Account you already have.

Nothing is deleted behind your back

Edits are kept beside the catalogue and never written into your files. Removing a photograph from the library leaves the file untouched.

Let’s make the best editor on the Mac

That is the goal, and it is not ours alone. Everyone who uses Rebrilo and writes in about it is part of how it gets better — a good deal of what is already here exists because somebody said something was wrong.

Pace

Built quickly, updated often

Rebrilo is built with Claude Code — agents working in parallel, one reading the code while another tries to prove it wrong. That is why updates arrive through the year rather than once, a long way off.

Your part in it

Tell us what is wrong

A bug, something slow, a control in the wrong place, something missing — write. Every message is read by the person who makes it. Some answers will be no, and they will say why.

What comes next

More of it, and more kinds of it

The list is long already: our own ideas and yours. More features, more creative ways to work, and the performance work that keeps a hundred thousand photographs quick.

Yours

The picture is yours to make

Rebrilo finds the sky and measures the light, and every automatic step shows its working. It does not decide what the photograph should be, and there is no generative AI anywhere in it.

Price

One payment. Not another subscription. That is the aim, and the purchase we hope you make.

Buy once

€79.99 · 1 990 Kč*

Nothing renews.

It includes every update for at least two years, and the same purchase covers the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad. The application never expires.

Try it first

14 days, free

No card, no sign-up, no Rebrilo account.

The complete application for 14 days from when you start the trial, with nothing held back — every adjustment, every mask, every merge. After 14 days, exporting and sharing need the one-time purchase or a subscription, and the photographs Rebrilo shows on screen carry a Rebrilo watermark. Editing, culling and your library keep working, and your work stays on your Mac.

And a subscription, if you would rather

The same application — neither tier unlocks more than the other. For anyone not sure yet, not ready for the whole sum, or waiting for the version that suits them. Both renew automatically; cancel in your Apple Account settings.

Monthly

€2.99 · 79 Kč*

Billed monthly

Yearly

€22.99 · 499 Kč*

Billed yearly

* Prices in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Every country has its own — the App Store shows yours, in your currency, before you pay anything.

What happens next

Rebrilo is being worked on now — not finished and parked. The plan is small, regular updates through the year rather than one big release a long way off, and the one-time purchase includes every update for at least two years.

A sentence in the application that misled you counts as a bug here, and gets fixed like one.

Questions people ask

Does it upload my photographs, or need the internet?

It never uploads anything. The Mac application ships with no network access of its own — not a setting, a property of how it is built — and the subject, the people and the sky are found on the device itself. The one thing that goes through the internet is the App Store: starting the free trial, buying and restoring need it to be reachable at that moment. Once the App Store has confirmed, Rebrilo works the same on a plane as at a desk.

Does it change my original files?

No. Edits are kept beside the catalogue and never written into your RAW, JPEG or HEIC files, and folders are read where they already are. Removing a photograph from the library leaves the file untouched.

Which cameras and formats does it open?

RAW files from the cameras macOS itself can read — Rebrilo develops them with the Mac's own RAW engine, so Apple's list of supported cameras is its list — plus JPEG, HEIC, TIFF and PNG.

Is it a subscription?

It is meant to be bought once. A monthly or yearly subscription is offered as well for anyone who would rather, and both unlock exactly the same application. In Slovakia it costs €79.99 once, or €2.99 a month or €22.99 a year; in the Czech Republic 1 990 Kč, 79 Kč or 499 Kč. Every country's App Store sets its own price and shows it in your currency.

Is there a free trial?

Yes: the complete application, free for 14 days from when you start the trial, with no card and no Rebrilo account. You start it in the app as a free in-app purchase, confirmed by the App Store with the Apple Account you downloaded Rebrilo with, so the App Store needs to be reachable when you start it. After 14 days, exporting and sharing need the one-time purchase or a subscription, and the photographs Rebrilo shows on screen carry a Rebrilo watermark. Editing, culling and your library keep working, and your work stays on your Mac.

Can I bring my Lightroom presets?

Yes. Lightroom presets saved as .xmp import as looks. Anything a preset asks for that Rebrilo has no control for is noted in the look's summary rather than silently dropped.

Does it run on Intel Macs? And on iPhone and iPad?

Not on Intel: the Mac version needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. Rebrilo is also on the iPhone and the iPad, with iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. It is one App Store record and one purchase: whoever buys it, once or by subscription, has it on all three, and the 14-day trial works the same way.

Is there AI in it?

Apple's Vision framework, running on your Mac, finds the subject, people and sky for masks and suggests tags. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no generative AI: it does not invent content, and it does not decide what your photograph should look like.