# Collo By Alexander Creative — RAW photo developer > RAW photo developer (iPhone/iPad app by Alexander Goeke.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/collo-by-alexander-creative/id6815689575 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Alexander Goeke](https://appshunter.io/developer/6798528064) - Category: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design - Price: $19.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 417 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-11-02 - Data updated: 2026-11-13 ## What is Collo By Alexander Creative? Collo is a RAW photo developer for Mac, iPad and iPhone. Open a RAW file, set white balance and light, shape the color, mask, remove what doesn't belong, and export. Built by a working real estate photographer to render with the profiles and looks you already own, and to keep every photo on your own devices. No account, no sign-in. YOUR CAMERAS Lumix (RW2), Leica and drones (DNG), Fujifilm (RAF), Sony (ARW), Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax and every camera Apple's RAW engine supports, plus JPEG, HEIC, PNG and TIFF. Every RAW gets a built-in Apple Standard rendering, so nothing else is needed. YOUR PROFILES AND LOOKS If you own camera profiles (DCP), looks (XMP) or styles and ICC packs from other RAW developers, Collo renders with them: the Mac reads your installed copies, and on iPad and iPhone you import the files. Collo ships none of those files. DEVELOP White balance with presets, auto and an eyedropper. Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, texture, clarity, dehaze, vibrance and saturation. Tone curve and per-channel curves you can drag, color mixer, color grading, calibration, noise reduction, sharpening, lens corrections, vignette and grain. Crop, straighten and Upright. Save settings as Creative Stacks and apply them to a whole shoot. MASKS On Mac, iPad and iPhone, local adjustments through layers of masks: brush, linear and radial gradients, color and luminance ranges, depth range, and on-device detection of the subject, people, sky, lawns, buildings, ground, water and background. Click or box any object with the Objects tool and Collo finds its edges. Combine, invert, feather and refine masks, then adjust light, color and detail inside them. AI DENOISE A denoise network that reads the raw sensor data, running on your device. A photo shot at a high ISO opens with it already on (you set the threshold, or turn it off). Nothing is uploaded. REMOVE AND EXPAND Spot heal and clone brushes for the small stuff. AI Remove for the rest: an inpainting model that runs entirely on your device. Expand grows the canvas past the photo's edges, also on device. Your own Bria API key can switch Remove and Expand to Bria's cloud model; off unless you add a key and allow it. COLOR BRUSH Paint a color onto a wall or floor and only the color changes: every pixel keeps its own brightness, so shading and detail stay as shot. HDR AND PANORAMA Merge a bracket into one aligned, deghosted file, or stitch overlapping frames into a panorama, then develop it like any RAW. SYNC Turn on Sync and your edits, marks, Creative Stacks and export presets follow you between Mac, iPad and iPhone through your own iCloud. Your RAW files never sync. LIBRARY Browse folders, cull with stars, color labels and picks, add keywords and IPTC, search, and compare photos side by side. Marks go in standard XMP sidecars. On the Mac: smart albums, variants, Assisted Review (flags closed eyes, soft focus and exposure problems) and tethered shooting. EXPORT JPEG, HEIC or TIFF with sizing, a quality or file-size limit, output sharpening, metadata options (including stripping location), watermarks and custom file names. On the Mac, soft proofing, printing and a 16-bit TIFF handoff to your pixel editor. HELP BUILT IN Every tool has a short card with a looping demo and its shortcut. Before and after, histogram, clipping warnings, False Color, rebindable keys, Apple Pencil pressure for the brushes. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No analytics. No ads. No tracking. Photos never leave your device unless you add your own Bria key and allow it, or turn on Sync, which keeps your edits in your own iCloud account. Originals are never modified: edits live in a sidecar next to the RAW on the Mac, and in Collo's own storage on iPad and iPhone. Made by Alex Goeke (Alexander Creative) in San Antonio, Texas. All product and camera names are trademarks of their respective owners. Collo is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. ## Is Collo By Alexander Creative safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Collo By Alexander Creative. ## Is Collo By Alexander Creative legit? Collo By Alexander Creative appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Collo By Alexander Creative is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.0.2 — 2026-11-11 Collo 1.0.2 fixes a bug that could lose your edits. Please update. FIXED - Edits could be lost after switching folders in the Library. Collo now saves as you leave a photo or folder, tells you if a save fails, and never replaces a real edit with an unedited one. - A magenta stripe along the edge of some DNG previews. - Spot Heal could leave faint outlines when an edit was opened without its saved results. - A damaged edit file no longer crashes the app. COLOR AND LIGHT - Skies stay blue when you push Exposure, and bright, saturated colors keep their hue instead of clipping. - No more banding in skies and gradients. Thumbnails are sharper, and RAF previews match your export. - Upright keeps buildings in proportion using your lens. - New crop guides: golden ratio, diagonals and triangle. LOOKS AND REMOVE - Looks and Presets sync across your devices through iCloud, with folders you can rename and reorder. - AI Remove: cleaner fills on lawns, pavers and asphalt, fewer color casts, and straight edges like kerbs continue through the fill. - Optional cloud help for hard removals, in More, AI Providers, Hard removals. It is off by default, and nothing is sent unless you add your own key and allow that service. Something slow, confusing or broken? Email creative@alexandergoeke.com. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-11-06 Collo 1.0.1 is a big one. Everything below is new since 1.0. REMOVE AND AI - Tap to select: tap an object to remove it, add or subtract more, or drag a box. Shadows can be included, and thin things like wires, cords and cables are traced along their length. - AI Remove fills are cleaner: edges snap to the object, grain and texture match the photo, big areas are rebuilt with structure, and Try Another gives you a different on-device version. - Spot Heal is content-aware, with a new Healing Brush, line continuation for cracks and seams, and no leftover outlines. - Best quality (cloud), optional: fill the same stroke again with a cloud model, using your own account with a supported AI service. Pick the service and model in More, AI Providers. Nothing is sent unless you add your own key, allow that service once, and tap the button. On-device stays the default. - Generative fills: type what to paint, step through versions, and see a clear message when a fill fails. - Color Brush with a lasso: outline a wall or a lot, then fill exactly inside it, or brush with every stroke kept inside the outline. - Color Brush is its own tool and can match hue, saturation and brightness from a sample, with Repaint or Correct, and a Skin mode that evens blotches and keeps pores. RETOUCH - Clean Up Skin: blemishes, shine, under eyes and wrinkles, for the people you choose, including people seen from the side or turned away. A Skin Areas view shows what it covers. Faces are found on your device and nothing is sent. - Dodge and Burn layers, frequency separation and a skin unifier. MASKS AND MARKUP - Polygonal lasso: place corners, edit them after, feather, and add, subtract or intersect. - A mask can carry a solid color fill (with blend modes), an outline and a drop shadow. - Highlight Area: one step that lightens everything outside an area and outlines it. - Markup on iPad: draw freehand or straight lines and arrows on a photo, with color, width, opacity and shadow. CROP AND GEOMETRY - Guided Upright: draw two to four lines along walls or the horizon with your finger or Pencil, and Collo straightens the photo and fixes the perspective as you draw. The lines are saved with the edit. - Level a Line: drag along a horizon or a wall edge to make it level or plumb. - Aspect, Scale and Offset sliders after Vertical and Horizontal: undo the squat look of a strong correction, or bring corners back into the frame. - Your crop now holds through Upright, Vertical, Horizontal, rotate and flip, and turning Upright off gives the exact crop back. LOOKS AND CURVES - New edits use a refined point curve shape and Luma curve color rule. - Reset All and Reset Everything. Applying a look or a Creative Stack now replaces the last one instead of stacking on top of it. - Copy Settings asks what to copy. Masks, crop and retouching are off by default. - The Creative Stack list is tidier: the Interior AEB Base, Exterior Daylight and Twilight starters are gone. Photos already edited with them look the same. IPAD AND IPHONE - Tethered shooting: plug a camera into the USB-C port and each shot opens in Collo as you take it. The shots are also kept in a Collo Captures folder you can reach in Files. - Export is easy to find: top left on iPhone and first in the More menu. Editing tools have a new Edit menu at the top right. - Text and buttons fit on every iPhone and iPad, even at the largest text sizes. - A workspace you can arrange: labelled Remove tools, a customizable tool strip and a floating bar you can move. - Pick an app icon: Cream, Charcoal or Glass. SPEED AND POLISH - Batch export is faster, with identical output. - Smoother previews: no stretched frame when moving to the next photo, sharp at Fit, and a live filmstrip. - Panning a zoomed photo moves on both axes and clears the panels at every edge. - Sliders share one feel everywhere, and tools open faster. Something slow, confusing or broken? Email creative@alexandergoeke.com. ### 1.0 — 2026-11-04 No release notes. ## More apps by Alexander Goeke - [Loupe By Alexander Creative](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/loupe-by-alexander-creative/id6798528062) - [Rundown By Alexander Creative](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rundown-by-alexander-creative/id6801383652) - [Slate By Alexander Creative](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/slate-by-alexander-creative/id6815504877) All apps by Alexander Goeke: https://appshunter.io/developer/6798528064 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-13.*