Download alpha
Three Aston Martins parked at night outside a lit dealership: one yellow, one silver, one white.

Built for macOS

Orion

Full resolution, right now.

scroll to look through

No subscription, no cloud. 24 megapixels live under your hand.

$0forever 1,558lenses profiled 100%your files

Photo editors got rented out. Orion is software you keep.

A satin yellow McLaren Artura parked on dark asphalt among trees.

9.29 MS

Instant updates · an exposure drag · 24 MP · full resolution

A deep blue night sky full of faint stars above a dark treeline.

−1.60 EV

Local light · a gradient dragged onto the photograph

Orion's interface with a linear gradient mask drawn across a night photograph as three dashed guide lines with endpoint handles. The Local panel reads Exposure minus 1.60 EV.
The interface as it runs today, not a mockup.

Color you can check

Built to the DNG spec, checked against the camera's own rendering.

A glass-fronted building at golden hour with saturated yellow machinery visible inside.

Every filter cites its paper

What isn't sourced yet is written down too, in public.

No lock-in

Plain XMP beside the file. Delete the app and nothing follows.

_PIC8220.ARWthe photograph24 MP · untouched

_PIC8220.xmpyour editsplain text · 4 KB

Working today

  • Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks
  • White balance, color grading, tone curves
  • Crop, straighten, rotate
  • Distortion and vignetting for 1,558 lenses
  • Haze removal, clarity, shadow recovery
  • Noise reduction, sharpening, color mixer
  • Film looks from any .cube file
  • Gradient, radial, brush, brightness and color masks
  • Selecting a subject, a person or a sky
  • Masks combined — add, subtract, intersect — and feathered to real edges
  • Spot and blemish removal
  • Perspective and keystone correction
  • Film grain, and a vignette you can dial in
  • Saved versions of a photograph, to come back to later
  • Presets, and copying settings between photos
  • One-click auto-enhance
  • Browsing a folder of 300 frames without waiting on it
  • Export at 8 or 16 bits, resized, sharpened for screen or print
  • Export with your location stripped by default

Not yet

  • Highlight reconstruction: the region fill runs and has a slider, but the detail transfer and the edge falloff are not built
  • Fujifilm X-Trans sensors
  • Windows

Listed because it is true. Nothing on this page pretends to exist.

A hand-built early monoplane with exposed rigging, hanging under a glass museum roof.

Built by one person, in the open

Every decision, measurement and mistake is in the repository.

Download the alpha

or read the source

v0.4.0-alpha.6 · Apple silicon · macOS 14+ · unsigned build, open it once from the right-click menu