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24 alternatives to HDRtist (Mac)

Real HDR, Really Easy

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HDRtist (Mac) launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Hydra▲145
Beautiful HDR imaging on your Mac
2016 · its alternatives →
2
Aurora HDR 2018▲128
Your one-stop HDR solution to create vibrant images
2017 · skylum.com · its alternatives →
3
Photolemur 2.2 Spectre▲322
Fully automated photo enhancer powered by AI
2017 · its alternatives →
4
GoProd for Mac▲272
Remove backgrounds and upscale lots of pics in 1 click
2023 · icons8.com · its alternatives →
5
Dolby Vision® 2▲185
Go beyond HDR with more AI and ‘authentic motion’ smoothing
2025 · dolby.com · its alternatives →
6
Upscale Pics▲343
Increase your resolution with AI, with no pixelation.
2019 · upscalepics.com · its alternatives →
7
SuperResolution macos▲104
Upscale images unlimitedly on your mac for free
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
RadianceKit▲95
Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac
Jun 2026 · radiancekit.de · its alternatives →
9
Polarr Photo Editor for OS X▲91
The photo editor for all your needs, now on Mac
2016 · polarr.com · its alternatives →
10
Relight▲85
Realtime HDR instantly corrects your lighting and exposure
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
11
I created a RAW to HDRI stacker in (mostly) Common Lisp▲35
This is an upgrade of a tool I created 15 years ago in Python to learn OOP and solve some inadequacies in the HDR stacking tools I could find at the time. The problem was, none of them were really "batch friendly". None of them properly preserved the metadata I wanted them to stuff into the output file. There were probably some other reasons also, I just can't remember them now. It got the job done, but was very slow. Python was what I knew at the time and even with NumPy, I was limited in the speed I could squeeze out of it. (I also made some very specific, conscious, architectural choices…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Transfigurator▲87
Fast, private image converter - 100% local processing on Mac
Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
13
Polarr 2.0a▲223
An online photo editor (big data meets Lightroom)
2015 · v2.polarr.co · its alternatives →
14
HDR Plus+ 2.0▲77
Capture every details using exposure bracketing
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
15
HDR Plus+▲68
Choose best exposures with a tap and shoot great HDR images
2019 · its alternatives →
16
iPhotron▲107
A macOS Photos–style photo manager for Windows — folder-native, non-destructive, with HEIC/MOV Live Photo, map view, and GPU-accelerated browsing. - OliverZhaohaibin/iPhotron-LocalPhotoAlbumManager
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
17
Photolemur 2.0▲167
Perfect your photos automatically with the help of AI
2017 · its alternatives →
18
Pixelied Convert▲80
Instantly convert images in bulk online
2022 · pixelied.com · its alternatives →
19
PhotoBulk: Bulk Image Editor for Mac▲117
Watermark, resize, optimize and convert images on Mac
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
20
Aurora HDR▲7
Create beautiful HDR photos by Trey Ratcliff
2015 · skylum.com · its alternatives →
21
Picser 2.0▲127
Native macOS image viewer with tags & slideshow
Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
22
Creative Convert▲110
Convert a lot of files into graphic files: PDF, Adobe & more
2020 · splashroad.com · its alternatives →
23
Polarr▲97
The best photo retouching tools in the web.
2014 · editor.polarr.co · its alternatives →
24
Alto AI▲79
Turn blurry photos into clear HD ones in seconds
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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