Nitro Photo vs Sharp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nitro Photo
This powerful photo editor and manager offers flexible storage, extensive camera support, and advanced editing tools. It allows for AI-powered masking, object removal, and a wide range of professional adjustments to enhance your images.
- Flexible storage options (Files.app, external, Photo Library)
- AI-generated masks and object removal
- Extensive camera RAW support
- 16 professional adjustment tools
- Presets, LUTs, and copy/paste adjustments
- Smart album creation
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Introducing Nitro, the brand new photo editor and manager from the developer of RAW Power. Nitro is designed for every photographer and every photograph. Try Nitro for free for 7 days without any obligation. No subscription signup, no nonsense. Requires iOS 16 or later. Easy, Powerful, Fast. Built with the latest technologies, Nitro has exceptional integration with iOS, including the most control over Apple’s RAW decoder. Its combination of flexible storage options, camera support, and editing tools is unmatched by any app. If you liked Aperture or RAW Power, you’ll love Nitro. Flexible Storage Options * Store your images in Files.app, external storage, or use Apple’s Photo Library * Rate, flag, and filter your images by 11 criteria, including rating, orientation and file type * Add keywords to images in the file system, manually or with AI assistance * With Photos, ratings, edits, and smart albums sync over iCloud * With Files.app and external storage, ratings and edits are stored in XMP sidecars * Move originals, ratings, and edits between the Photo Library and Files.app * UGreen NAS is not compatible with Nitro (bug reported to UGreen) Thoughtful purchasing and trial options * Try the app with absolutely no obligation. No signup, no unexpected charges. * Buy the app once, or get an inexpensive monthly and annual plan * All purchases include all platforms: macOS, iPhone, and iPad! Stop waiting for camera support * Supports more cameras than Photos, Darkroom, or Photomator, including compressed Fujifilm, Nikon HE and GoPro RAWs * By far, the most control over Apple’s RAW decoder. Fine tune your RAWs with noise reduction, moire, ProRAW tone mapping, and more. Seeing is Believing * View detailed metadata side-by-side * Synchronized Pan and Zoom of up to 4 images at once (iPad only) * Comparison mode helps you pick your favorites from a burst * Light and Dark user interface modes Masking with AI * AI-generated masks to quickly isolate a subject or background * Linear and radial gradients with invert and control over the ramp * Brushes provide full control over your mask, including softness, strength, and size * Edge Aware brushes automatically follow contours * Fine tune AI and gradients with brushes for maximum control Quick Fixes * Remove objects using Generative AI * Clone * Spot/Wire Removal * Highlight Recovery * Auto Enhance 16 Professional Adjustments * Tone, Enhance, White Balance, RAW * Crop, Lens Correction, Perspective * Levels, Curves, HSL, Split Toning * Detail, Depth, Black and White, Vignette, Channel Mixer * Apply most adjustments to masks including Levels, Curves, Blur, HSL, and Fringe control Presets, LUTs, and Copy/Paste * Quickly enhance images with a large set of presets and LUTs * Import your own LUTs and make your own presets * Advanced Copy and Paste of adjustments * Camera presets let you apply adjustments automatically by camera model Do More with the Photo Library * Make Smart Albums with complex queries * Search by file name, file type (including RAW+JPEG), and more * Sync everything over iCloud * Edit inside Nitro or with the included Photo Editing Extension Do More with the File System * Rate, flag, and edit non-destructively * All data is stored in XMP sidecars next to your originals * Search by file name, camera, lens, ISO, and more Workflow the way you want * Batch processing of presets, rotation and export * Export with control over size, compression, format, and metadata * Launch other apps after export for custom workflows * Integrated watermarking with both images and text * RAW Power edits are 100% compatible with Nitro After the trial, you need to purchase the app or subscribe to use all the features. Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/68647707 Terms of Use: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Sharp
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Shoot the same thing more than once, and Sharp puts the shots together. Six tools, one engine. Nothing here edits a single photograph — everything here takes many frames of the same scene and gives back one picture. FOCUS — sharp from front to back A lens holds one plane in focus, and close up that plane is thinner than the subject. Move the focus between frames and Sharp takes every part of the result from the frame that has it sharpest. Not sure how wide its detail size should be? Choose by Eye stacks a piece of your bracket at four widths, side by side, so you can see which one has no halo. CLEAN — less noise, and long-exposure water Noise is different in every frame and the subject is not, so averaging frames takes it down by the square root of how many you shot: four halve it, sixteen quarter it. Water and cloud move between frames and average into smoothness, while everything that held still stays sharp. VANISH — the people walk out of the picture Take a dozen frames a few seconds apart while the square empties and fills. At each pixel Sharp keeps the frames that agree and throws out the ones that do not, then averages what is left — whoever was walking through is gone, and the noise goes with them. TRAILS — every place the light went A hundred short exposures of a night sky, a torch drawing, headlights on a bend. Sharp keeps the brightest frame at each pixel, so every mark the light made is in the picture and the sky stays as dark as one frame had it. Or keep the darkest instead, and take the passing lights out. BLEND — the shadows and the highlights both An exposure bracket, darker and brighter, into one picture: the sky from the dark frame, the shadows from the bright one, blended without a seam and with no curve to set. PICK — the sharpest frame of the burst Twenty handheld frames, one of them caught between heartbeats. Sharp hands back the one that won, exactly as it came off the camera. BUILT FOR LARGE SETS • Camera RAW, HEIC, JPEG, TIFF and PNG, read straight from Files or Photos • Frames are read a strip at a time, so memory does not grow with the number of frames • Alignment that covers focus breathing, drift and a rolled wrist, and checks its own work • Compare the result with any single frame at exactly the same zoom, beside a map of how each pixel was decided PAINT IT BACK Every one of these tools is a guess made a pixel at a time. Choose the frame that has that part right and paint it back over the result — one finger paints, two move the picture, an Apple Pencil presses harder for more. The repair is re-applied to the 16-bit file at full depth. FREE, AND THEN ONE PAYMENT All six tools run on up to 12 frames free, at full quality: the same alignment, the same merges, the same speed, the same RAW support, and a full-resolution JPEG with no watermark. Nothing about how good the picture is has been held back. The $9.99 unlock adds: • Unlimited frames, for every tool • The retouch brush, with retouches you can reopen and change • 16-bit TIFF, the maps, and every frame aligned for Helicon, Zerene or Photoshop • Every bracket kept as a project, with its settings and its result • Batches of projects run one after another, and long brackets stacked in slabs One payment, shared with your family. No subscription, no account, and not a timed trial. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No analytics, no tracking, no server, and no network of its own. Your photographs are read where they are, and the only thing that goes anywhere is what you share yourself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Nitro Photo at 16.4 against Sharp's 27.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Nitro Photo sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Sharp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Nitro Photo ships an update every 3 weeks, Sharp fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nitro Photo | Sharp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (62 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 299 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gentlemen Coders | Pablo Miranda |
Bugs and requests
Nitro Photo
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when processing large batches of photos
- Incompatibility with older devices
- Editing controls not always responsive
Requested features
4 requests- Luminosity masks
- Keyboard navigation
- Folder thumbnails
- Location and time editing
Sharp
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nitro Photo
- Monthly (RAW Power Discount)$2.991 Month
- Monthly Plan$3.991 Month
- Annual (RAW Power Discount)$19.991 Year
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- Annual Plan$29.991 Year
- 7 Day Free TrialFree
- Full Version (RP - No Discount)$79.99
- Lifetime (RAW Power Discount)$79.99
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- Full Version (No discount)$99.99
- Nitro Lifetime Purchase$99.99
Sharp
- Unlock Sharp 12$9.99









