Darkroom User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience58.2% of reviews
Neutral10.7% of reviews
Negative experience31.1% of reviews

~ Based on 1,355 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Darkroom Safe?

Darkroom: Photo & Video Editor appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Darkroom is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 29,322 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

94.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 29,322 App Store ratings for Darkroom.

Is Darkroom Legit?

Darkroom: Photo & Video Editor appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Darkroom is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Useless

Constantly crashes for me when exporting images with borders. All my
other apps work fine.

Edit: After a new update I can’t even choose different border types and/or change the amount of inset. I can just about see the options but I can’t click them 👎

Not working

I have been using Darkroom for years and loving it. All of a sudden all my recently edited photos are grayed out with an x in the corner and cannot be batch saved. Tried deleting app and reinstalling and it made me sign up for a new subscription. Still not working.

an alternative to overpriced editing software

i really like the user interface however the app seems prone to freezing and occasionally crashing on my 13” m5 chip iPad

Title

Sometimes my masking gets misplaced like it’s lagging which is confusing and frustrating but most importantly after a while you can lose your progress and the app just crashes and I can’t even use it which is sad bc I loved this app for its helpful tools

:/ For phone snappers, not photographers

Tried downloading, but it needs MacOS 15.4 or later, so the app store let me download an older version, I guess from 2022 judging by the copyright date.

So no idea how different it is to the current version, but this version is utterly useless because it will only let me use it from the Photo Library. I want to direct it to a folder that I upload my camera photos to. The Photo Library is for junk I take with my phone.

Guessing that this is more for people who want to edit their phone photos, so I wouldn't call this "Pro" software or even "Hobbyist Photographer" software. :/
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If you enjoy wasting money on nonsense here ya go

App is genuinely useless, it allows for metadata adjustments *so does the native photos app* and other useless tools. No touch up, not a brush to be found.

Still the best

Still my best jpg editor for iPhone and iPad usage. For RAW it’s DXO.

Has Issues But Not Adobe

Has some annoying bugs, no white balance picker, etc…but its not Adobe so…

Uneditable

I had complained about the Darkroom app not allowing me to edit photos because it kept reverting back to the first photo on my photos folder. This was fixed after an update but now it’s back to the same issue. Not worth paying any amount if it keeps doing this every few weeks. Hope you fix this problem soon (this problem only happens on my Mac).
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Can only save so many exports per day?

I have a legacy subscription of some sort; having paid for the app in a prior version previously. Now after around 5 exports per day the app locks out the export functionality and attempts to force me to pay for a higher tier of subscription? Fantastic app - but this is very frustrating and feels slightly egregious.
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バグ

課金して使っています。最近、マスクを追加してサイズを変更しようとすると設定が全てリセットされるというバグが発生しています。取り消しで戻し、再度試行することで上手くいくことがありますが、スムーズに編集を行いたいので改善してくださると嬉しく思います。

Nag screens

I understand it’s frustrating when one-time purchase customers are happy with the old feature set and don’t want to get the subscription, but putting up a nag screen every other time I do an export is the wrong way to handle it.

Crashes when editing raw photos

The app crashes when editing raw photos with no way to recover the program unless I delete the photo

Wonderful but…

Darkroom is a welcomed addition to my editing stack, and I love using the app. That said, the fact that edits don’t sync between iOS and macOS versions, is a big miss and it remains to be seen whether it’s a deal breaker.

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Useless

Constantly crashes for me when exporting images with borders. All my
other apps work fine.

Does not preserve preset

Having an issue lately where I selected one preset, then go back to the library, go back to the picture, select a new preset , back again to the library, back to the picture and it reverts me back to the 1st preset used. Long description but that’s the best way I can as a step by step.

I’ve deleted the app and reinstalled, have the lifetime tier, but can’t seem to correct the problem. Hopefully the developer can suggest a fix.
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Amazing

No critiques, great app

FOR DEVELOPERS

Please include options to change video speed, and also allow to crop video in app I love this app use it daily it’s my trusty go to specifically for the histogram please do not ever get rid of that that’s by far the reason I come to this app and have used it for years love the price it’s worth it but please allow more options for editing the footage rather than just the image quality and such thanks!
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HD HD

Ufff