I've been quietly working on Redlamp a free and open-source alternative to Adobe Lightroom, aiming for full feature parity, no fluff, and performance-conscious.
I'm fully aware just how ambitious an undertaking like this is, but in 2026 with the advances of frontier models, this is genuinely attainable. But not without help and a community to back it.
Redlamp is a native, open-source RAW photo editor for Apple Silicon, built from scratch in Swift and Metal. Lightroom's workflow, with no subscription and no cloud.
