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Darktable for Mac

Edit digital negatives.

Free
In English
3.5
Based on 33 user rates

Darktable overview

Darktable is an open-source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable, and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

What's new in version 5.6.1

Performance Improvements
  • Reverted increased preview pipe dimension for UI performance.
Other Changes
  • AI model downloads now resume after an interruption and retry on
  • transient network errors instead of starting over.
  • AI raw denoise now refuses legacy Fujifilm Super CCD sensors, whose
  • sensor layout the models were not trained for.
  • Color labels, ratings and manually applied geotags are now copied to
  • images created by AI denoise and upscale, in addition to EXIF data
  • and tags.
Documentation updates
  • The manual has seen a lot of attention this cycle: the documentation
  • is up to date again, and translations are flowing once more via Weblate.
  • We've also expanded the docs on how dtdocs itself is set up and maintained, making it easier for new contributors to get
  • involved. If you find room for improvement, you are welcome to open an issue, post to pixls.us, or submit a PR yourself.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug that left OpenCL AMD devices disabled on Windows
  • systems.
  • Fixed a bug in demosaic module resulting from bad green
  • equilibration data.
  • Fixed a bug preventing the tether mode to connect when using a non
  • English UI.
  • Fixed an out-of-bounds read in wavelet decomposition that could
  • occasionally crash darktable when generating previews.
  • Fixed an out-of-bounds write in path masks that could lead to
  • crashes when two nodes overlapped exactly.
  • Fixed a bug in the retouch module that would prevent cache
  • invalidation after shape changes when blending is active.
  • Fixed an out-of-bounds read in the code responsible for raster
  • mask caching.
  • Fixed a possible crash when applying .cube, .3dl, or compressed
  • GMIC 3D LUTs.
  • Enforce darktable loading screen on windows systems to avoid
  • darkroom refreshing issues.
  • Fixed a bug in CPU opposed highlights code that could lead to out of
  • memory crashes.
  • Fixed a crash on Windows when auto-detecting an incompatible ONNX
  • Runtime library, or when reopening preferences after configuring
  • one.
  • Fixed the preferences dialog blocking when opened on a slow or
  • unreachable network. The AI model update check now runs in the
  • background.
  • Fixed a crash in neural restore raw denoise on raws where the
  • visible area extends to the sensor edge, e.g. some phone
  • tele-lens DNGs.
  • Fixed the "add to the current collection" checkbox in neural
  • restore being ignored when the global "ignore non-raw images"
  • import filter is enabled.
  • Fixed neural restore writing past the CFA buffer on 4-Bayer
  • sensors (CYGM, RGBE). Output is now a Linear DNG.
  • Fixed Sony embedded lens-correction tags being stripped from
  • exported TIFF and DNG files. Re-imported files now offer the
  • "embedded metadata" lens-correction mode again.
  • Fixed a crash and white cast in neural restore preview on
  • LINEAR-class images (Apple ProRAW, computational raws).
  • Fixed sRaw images being rejected as unsupported by neural
  • restore. They now route through the LINEAR pipeline.
  • Fixed wrong blue colors for 16bit png exports.
  • Fixed some subtle segment issues in highlights segmentation mode.
  • Fixed two-finger scrolling falling through to zoom when drawing masks,
  • scrolling now pans unless the active mask consumes the gesture.
  • Fix feather rendering on path masks whose control points coincide
  • with their corners; previously produced wildly displaced border
  • lines instead of a proper offset outline.
  • Fixed the on-screen rating message showing the wrong value when
  • rating multiple images at once (for example, clearing 1-star still
  • reported rating 1).
  • Fixed a bug leading to subtle color errors after history changes.
  • Fixed lighttable full preview jumping to the first image when
  • rejecting with filmstrip auto-scroll disabled and the collection
  • filtered to hide rejected images.
  • Fixed the image index and filmstrip selection in culling mode not
  • updating when navigating with the arrow keys.
  • Fixed lighttable filemanager scrolling to the top when assigning
  • a star rating or color label while the first row was only partly
  • visible.
  • Fixed calculation of pixelpipe cache payloads while preparing the
  • cache and while checking for requested tiling thus reducing oom kills
  • on small systems.
  • Fixed possible over-allocations of OpenCL memory that could lead to
  • instabilities or dt crashing on small devices
  • Fixed corrupted pixels on some AMD GPUs using the Mesa rusticl OpenCL
  • driver. Colorspace conversions, the lookup table module and the contrast
  • equalizer no longer read from and write to the same image buffer on the
  • GPU, which the OpenCL specification leaves undefined.
  • Fixed the AppImage defaulting to x11/Xwayland in native Wayland
  • sessions.
  • Fixed masks being altered by modules blending.
  • Ignore possible OpenCL null events (uninitialized) due to hard
  • memory pressure.
  • Fixed performance drop due to larger mipmaps being used. This has
  • been reviewed to ensure the performance is back to usable on small
  • systems.
  • Fixed distortion of one out of every four pixels in JPEG 2000 images
  • with YCbCr 4:2:0 subsampling.
  • Fixed a bug where drawn path masks with many nodes rendered a
  • chaotic feather line instead of following the mask outline.
  • Fixed a crash when switching the lens correction method from
  • embedded metadata to Lensfun and back.
  • Fixed the AI raw denoise preview showing a different area than the
  • one selected on cropped images, and the area picker remaining
  • unavailable until darktable was restarted.

Full list of changes available here

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Darktable for Mac

Free
In English
Version 5.6.1
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riegelstamm
riegelstamm
Jun 15, 2026
5.4.1
1.0
Jun 15, 2026
1.0
Version: 5.4.1
Doesn't support Apple ProRAW DNGs
Dev Creator
Dev Creator
Feb 8, 2026
5.4.1
0.0
Feb 8, 2026
0.0
Version: 5.4.1
great
Holypoly
Holypoly
Feb 12, 2025
5.0.1
0.0
Feb 12, 2025
0.0
Version: 5.0.1
Version 5.x requires MacOS 13.5 as a minimum. MacUpdate people - please update 🙂
Naoh
Naoh
Jul 6, 2022
3.8.1
0.0
Jul 6, 2022
0.0
Version: 3.8.1
The current version on the Darktable website is version 4.0.0
Bill-601
Bill-601
Oct 18, 2021
3.6.1.5
0.0
Oct 18, 2021
0.0
Version: 3.6.1.5
I really wanted to give it a chance, but it exits every time I just click the Darkroom tab.
riegelstamm
riegelstamm
Jun 15, 2026
5.4.1
1.0
Jun 15, 2026
1.0
Version: 5.4.1
anonymous-nightingale-2470128
anonymous-nightingale-2470128
May 10, 2025
5.0.1
5.0
May 10, 2025
5.0
Version: 5.0.1
anonymous-bison-2625035
anonymous-bison-2625035
Jul 26, 2024
4.8.1
5.0
Jul 26, 2024
5.0
Version: 4.8.1
makareim
makareim
Dec 24, 2023
4.6.0
5.0
Dec 24, 2023
5.0
Version: 4.6.0
firewall00110-1
firewall00110-1
Jun 16, 2022
3.8.1
3.0
Jun 16, 2022
3.0
Version: 3.8.1
firewall00110
firewall00110
Dec 26, 2021
3.8.0
1.0
Dec 26, 2021
1.0
Version: 3.8.0
WetNet
WetNet
Nov 5, 2020
1.0
Nov 5, 2020
1.0
Version: null
oznamjm
oznamjm
Jun 21, 2020
2.0
Jun 21, 2020
2.0
Version: null
dvsrl2007
dvsrl2007
Apr 17, 2020
1.0
Apr 17, 2020
1.0
Version: null
rileyjunksites
rileyjunksites
Jul 31, 2019
0.5
Jul 31, 2019
0.5
Version: null
cubanpete
cubanpete
Jul 11, 2019
5.0
Jul 11, 2019
5.0
Version: null
Eric•Woehler
Eric•Woehler
May 31, 2019
0.5
May 31, 2019
0.5
Version: null
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Apr 14, 2018
5.0
Apr 14, 2018
5.0
Version: null
Leon-Azul
Leon-Azul
Apr 9, 2017
4.5
Apr 9, 2017
4.5
Version: null
MohnMohn
MohnMohn
Feb 1, 2017
5.0
Feb 1, 2017
5.0
Version: null
Zx81
Zx81
Dec 30, 2016
5.0
Dec 30, 2016
5.0
Version: null
Thе-Wаll
Thе-Wаll
Dec 29, 2016
1.5
Dec 29, 2016
1.5
Version: null
Visible-Evidence
Visible-Evidence
Nov 22, 2016
2.0
Nov 22, 2016
2.0
Version: null
Afmac
Afmac
Feb 17, 2016
0.5
Feb 17, 2016
0.5
Version: null
SmurfTurf
SmurfTurf
Feb 4, 2016
5.0
Feb 4, 2016
5.0
Version: null
MikeChip
MikeChip
Jan 26, 2016
5.0
Jan 26, 2016
5.0
Version: null
RougeCheese12
RougeCheese12
Aug 2, 2015
5.0
Aug 2, 2015
5.0
Version: null
Prologos
Prologos
Dec 15, 2014
4.0
Dec 15, 2014
4.0
Version: null
Tom-Fulery
Tom-Fulery
Nov 26, 2014
4.0
Nov 26, 2014
4.0
Version: null
Tschigg
Tschigg
Apr 26, 2014
5.0
Apr 26, 2014
5.0
Version: null
anonymous-pig-176437
anonymous-pig-176437
Apr 8, 2014
5.0
Apr 8, 2014
5.0
Version: null
Bill-Johnson
Bill-Johnson
Mar 17, 2014
4.0
Mar 17, 2014
4.0
Version: null
Leinad
Leinad
Jan 4, 2014
4.0
Jan 4, 2014
4.0
Version: null
Coolapic
Coolapic
Aug 8, 2013
4.5
Aug 8, 2013
4.5
Version: null
B-Jefferson-Le-Blanc
B-Jefferson-Le-Blanc
Apr 2, 2013
3.5
Apr 2, 2013
3.5
Version: null
Ythara
Ythara
Nov 3, 2012
3.0
Nov 3, 2012
3.0
Version: null
sosufo07
sosufo07
Oct 19, 2012
4.5
Oct 19, 2012
4.5
Version: null
Macfoto
Macfoto
Sep 16, 2012
4.0
Sep 16, 2012
4.0
Version: null