Edit your raws. Keep your files.
Heron is a raw editor for Mac that works on your own folders and reads and writes the same XMP sidecars as Lightroom. No closed catalog, no required cloud.
Placeholder photo, no real photos.
Your files stay yours.
Heron works on the folders you already have. No closed catalog, no required cloud.
- Originals are never modified.
- The same XMP sidecar as Lightroom and Camera Raw: adjustments translate 1:1, Adobe's fields stay untouched.
- Imports Lightroom catalogs.
Color calibrated by measurement.
Rendering follows the reference of Adobe's DNG SDK and is tuned by measuring color difference in ΔE2000, not by eye.
The sliders work the way you already know: Exposure, Highlights, Dehaze, Masking.
AI that runs on your Mac.
- Subject, Sky and People masks.
- Generative remove.
- Auto tone.
- Assisted culling of bursts: closed eyes, out of focus, motion blur.
Each of these tools runs on your Mac, without uploading your photos.
Fast where you wait today.
Rendering runs on the GPU with Metal. Searching a library of 100,000 photos takes under 50 ms.
From the card to the archive.
Verified import
Every copy is read back from disk and checked against the card, with an optional second backup copy. Nothing leaves the card until all its copies are verified.
Archive
Move finished shoots to an external drive or a network archive.
HDR export
JPEG export, also HDR with a gain map for XDR displays.
In closed trial
Try Heron on your own photos.
Heron is in development and tested by a small group. macOS on Apple silicon, English and Italian.