RAW editor · Mac · iPhone · iPad

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

The tone and colour controls you expect, local masks that find the sky or the person, a studio that lights a person after the shutter — and on the Mac, the merges that usually mean leaving for another program. Nothing is copied, nothing is uploaded, and there is no Rebrilo account to make.

The same portrait under the Night Noir look: black and white, the shadows kept deep.

Night Noir Low Key Teal & Orange Glow Golden Hour Keep Red

Drag the line, or tab to it and use the arrow keys. Before on the left, after on the right. One frame from a studio session, as the app’s own split shows it.

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

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

What’s new

Mac 2.0 · 24 October 2026

A new light engine, and looks that move Out now

The Portrait Studio lights the person by their shape. Almost every look has a slider of its own. Palette and Harmony put the photograph’s colours on a wheel. See the Studio

iPhone & iPad 2.1 · 22 October 2026

Palette Studio Out now

Put the photo’s own colours on a wheel and move them into a palette, paint them, or set each one by hand. Palette Looks, crop guides and a new look, Dark Woods. See Palette

Mac 2.1 · Next

Palette Studio comes to the Mac

In the next update. It is in testing now. One purchase covers all three devices, so it arrives on the Mac as a free update.

What it does

Six rooms of one application

Real screens, not mock-ups. Pick a room; where it is on the iPhone and the iPad too, switch device.

Portrait Studio: light the person, after the shutter New in 2.0

Rebrilo on the Mac, the Creative tab open on the Portrait Studio. A man in a flat cap is split down the middle of his face: on the left, before, the plain snapshot against a white wall; on the right, after, the room gone dark and his face lit in magenta and blue. On the right the Studio rack: a plan of the room with the lamps round a head, then the room's controls, a panel, a snoot and a white reflector, each a card with its own dials. — **Mac** — The same frame, before and after, through one face. A panel and a snoot in two colours, a white reflector, and the room taken down so the lights read. Above the cards, the plan of the room: you move a lamp round the head rather than hunting for a slider.

Rebrilo on an iPhone: a red-haired woman in a dark room, lit warmly from the left, with two lamp markers on the photograph. Under it the Studio: Add Light and Relight, and buttons for Set, Key, Key 2, Fill and Room. — **iPhone** — The Studio under your thumb: Add Light or Relight, then a lamp you drag across the photograph with your finger.

Rebrilo on an iPad held upright: the same portrait of a red-haired woman lit from the left in a dark room. Under it the Studio with Add Light, Relight and buttons for Set, Key, Key 2, Fill, Room, Rim and Wall. — **iPad** — The same Studio with more room: set, key, a second key, fill, the room, a rim and the wall.

Rebrilo reads the shape of the person in the photograph, on the Mac itself, so a lamp lights the cheek that faces it and the nose throws a real shadow. Add Light keeps the photograph’s own light and adds to it; Relight takes it away and lights the person from dark.

Coloured light, any colour — a gel from a colour wheel, a different colour on each side of the face.
Light the Wall, and a real backdrop the lamps light.
Every lamp is a card with a drawing and a sentence, tried on the photograph before it is added.
Seventeen sets to start from — Rembrandt, butterfly, hard coloured light — or start empty.
Catchlights stay on the iris; four reflectors — white, silver, gold, black.

Interactive Looks: a look that moves New in 2.0

Rebrilo on the Mac, the Looks tab. A pink rose among leaves is split before and after: on the left in colour, on the right in grainy black and white under the Low Key Mono look. At the top of the panel the look's Amount and, under it, its own slider, Grit, at 0.64; below, a grid of looks drawn on the same rose. — **Mac** — A rose split into Low Key Mono. Under Amount sits the look’s own slider, here Grit, and the grid below is every look drawn on the photograph in front of you.

Rebrilo on an iPhone, making a knob for a look called Blockbuster: a banner asks to set the sliders for the knob's left end and its right end, with Set Left and Set Right buttons over a photograph of pink roses, and the Light sliders underneath. — **iPhone** — Make a Knob: set the sliders for the knob’s left end, then its right end, and the look gets a knob of your own.

Rebrilo on an iPad, the Looks panel on the Interactive shelf: pink roses in the Deep Black look, dark and moody, with an Amount dial and the look's own dial, Depth, under the photograph. — **iPad** — Deep Black, one of the new looks, with its own dial: Depth.

Rebrilo on the Mac, a man seen from behind at a desk with a monitor, in pink and green light, split before and after a rack of effects: on the after side the picture smeared into offset coloured copies. The panel is headed Chain and holds units named Chorus, Flanger, Wah-Wah, Harmony and Colour EQ, each with knobs. — **Mac** — And one room that is deliberately not sensible: a rack of pedals — chorus, flanger, wah-wah, harmony — laid over the photograph. It is off until you switch it on. In the photograph: **Luknar** · luknar.cz

A look is no longer one fixed picture. Beside Amount, almost every look has a slider of its own that moves it through a whole range, from a soft version to an extreme one, so it fits the photograph in front of you. Make a Knob gives any look a knob of your own.

Forty-two new looks — cinematic grades, film colour, night, black and white, vintage, Deep Black.
Eighty look-alikes folded into thirty, each with a slider that travels between them.
Smart looks read the frame before they style it, and Amount blends what the look actually did.
Make a look from a photograph: point at a picture you admire and Rebrilo writes its mood into your sliders.

Palette: the photograph’s own colours, on a wheel New

Rebrilo on the Mac, Palette Studio: the photograph's own colours as points on a colour wheel beside the photograph. — **Mac** — Palette Studio on the Mac, as it is in testing for 2.1.

On the Mac today, Palette and Harmony put the photograph’s own colours on a colour wheel, and you move them by hand — on the whole photograph or inside a mask. On the iPhone and the iPad, Palette Studio goes further, and it comes to the Mac in the next update, 2.1. It is in testing now.

Palette Studio (iPhone and iPad) — move the colours into a palette, paint them, or set each one by hand.
Palette Looks — one tap moves the photo’s colours into two or three shades.
Inside a mask — the same wheel, on one region only (Mac 2.0).

Masks: the region found for you

Rebrilo on the Mac, the Masks tab. A Boston terrier standing on a road is covered in a red overlay. The panel names the mask Subject 1, with Opacity, Invert and Show Overlay, a Subject component with Add, Subtract and Intersect, one area found, Edge Softness, and the mask's own White Balance and Light sliders. A filmstrip of the shoot runs along the bottom. — **Subject** — Red is the mask, and nobody drew it: the dog was found on the Mac itself, offline, and the panel reports one area. The mask carries its own white balance and its own light.

A Boston terrier with its paws on a log 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; 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, Subtract · Subject. The top comes down; the dog does not.

A Boston terrier's face zoomed to 127 per cent, 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 the app goes back to the RAW file, which is why the whiskers hold. A small radial mask sits over one eye; its inner ring is the feather, and you drag it.

Radial, linear and brush masks, plus the subject, the people and the sky found by the device itself. Build a mask out of pieces and give it its own tone, colour and light. In 2.0 the AI masks are kept with the edit, so reopening a photograph never finds them differently.

Found, not drawn — Subject, People and Sky, by Apple’s Vision framework on your own device.
Luminance and colour range masks, inverted with one switch.
Smoother linear and radial masks, and a tidier Masks tab.

Library: your folders, read where they are

Rebrilo's library on the Mac, an album of portraits of Natálie Havlová: a grid of photographs in warm interiors and against dark backgrounds, with file names, star ratings and badges counting the versions of each. On the left a sidebar of folders and albums and filter chips — Picks, Unflagged, Rejected, Edited, RAW, JPEG, Duplicates, Copies. — **Grid** — For culling: file names, stars, and a count on every photograph that has versions. Filters for picks, rejects, edits, RAW and JPEG, duplicates and copies. In the photographs: **Natálie Havlová** — Content creator · @natalkainholland

The 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. — **Rows** — For looking: the same library with nothing drawn on top of the photographs. Culling and looking are two jobs, so there are two layouts.

Folders are referenced where they already are — nothing imported, nothing copied — and a grid that stays quick because it was measured at a hundred thousand photographs rather than assumed.

Ratings, flags, albums, automatic series, duplicates, RAW + JPEG pairs and virtual copies.
Export recipes — format, colour space, resize, sharpening, metadata and a watermark, applied to a whole selection.
Works with Shortcuts — open, auto-enhance, apply a look, adjust and export, and Spotlight runs them by name.

Several frames: bursts, brackets and whole shoots

Compare — Two frames of a burst side by side, each saying where the camera focused and whether the eyes are open. Pick one, and the others in its series are marked as rejects. In the photographs: Luknar · luknar.cz

A workflow called All the Same Way open over a library of studio portraits. It lists its steps as cards — Cull, Flag the Rest, Auto Light, Versions — each saying what it will do, with Save as Custom and Start at the bottom. — **Workflow** — A list of the app’s own steps run in order over a shoot: cull, flag the rest, correct the light, make versions. It measures first, says exactly what it will do, and writes nothing until you press a second time — the whole run is one undo. In the photographs: **Luknar** · luknar.cz

On the Mac, the merges that usually mean leaving for another program, started from a series or a selection right there in the library.

Panorama, HDR, exposure fusion, hand-held burst and long exposure.
Light trails, removing passers-by, an action sequence.
The best face of each person, on one frame.

Portrait Studio · Mac 2.0

Take the room down, then light the person

Relight starts from dark. Each lamp is placed on a plan of the room, and the light falls on the shape of the person: the side of the face that turns towards it, the shadow under the nose and the brow.

Rebrilo on the Mac, the Portrait Studio on a red-haired woman sitting in a dark room: an orange light from the left catches her hair and cheek, a teal light from the right touches the far side, and the room around her is taken down to near black. On the right the plan of the room with the two lamps round a head, then the room controls with Light the Wall, and cards for a softbox, a snoot and a black reflector. — **An orange softbox from the left, a teal snoot from the right** — and the room taken down 2.4 stops so the two read. A black reflector on the shadow side keeps it deep. Every lamp is a card with its power, its side and its height.

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. — **A snapshot by a shop window, lit afterwards** — on the right the photograph as it was taken, daylight from the street; 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. In this photograph: **Natálie Havlová** — Content creator · @natalkainholland

**A first look at the 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. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.

**With your finger** — on an iPhone: the room goes dark, and you drag a warm light from one side and a cool one from the other.

Adjust

The whole tone stack, on the RAW

Exposure, highlights and shadows, curves, colour grading, selective colour, clarity, texture, dehaze, grain and vignette. Every tone slider goes one way for its whole travel. A beginner gets somewhere good with one press; the press shows its working, and every part of it can be overruled.

The Rebrilo editor on the Adjust tab with a Boston terrier, mouth open, in a portrait-format photograph, before it was edited: flat and a little grey.

The same photograph after the edit: warmer, deeper, the background darkened round the dog. The Light and Color sliders on the right show what was moved — Brilliance, Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Saturation and Vibrance.

Left: the camera’s file. Right: the finished photograph, the same frame. Nothing here is a preset.

Workflows · Mac

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, 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

Your photographs

Nothing you edit leaves your device.

This is not a policy written after the fact. It is how the application is built, and it is checkable: the Mac application ships with no network entitlement at all. The subject, the people and the sky are found on the device itself, and there is no account to make.

Nothing is uploaded

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 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.

Price

One payment. Not another subscription.

That is the aim, and the purchase we hope you make. A subscription is there too, for anyone who would rather — the same application either way.

Try it first — 14 days, free

The complete application for 14 days from when you start the trial, with nothing held back. No card, no sign-up, no Rebrilo account. 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.

Buy once · recommended

€79.99 · 1 990 Kč*

Paid once. Nothing renews.

Renews: Never
Updates: Every update for at least two years
Devices: Mac, iPhone and iPad, one purchase
Expires: Never — the application is yours to keep

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€2.99 · 79 Kč*

Yearly

€22.99 · 499 Kč*

Renews: Automatically, monthly or yearly — cancel in your Apple Account settings
Unlocks: Exactly the same application as buying once — nothing more, nothing less
Devices: Mac, iPhone and iPad
For: Anyone not sure yet, not ready for the whole sum, or waiting for the version that suits them

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

What happens next

Let’s make the best editor on the Mac

That is the goal, and it is not ours alone. A good deal of what is already here exists because somebody wrote in to say something was wrong.

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, and the one-time purchase includes every update for at least two years.
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. A sentence in the application that misled you counts as a bug here, and gets fixed like one.
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.

Questions

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.

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