Switch from Lightroom
A Lightroom alternative, without the Adobe subscription.
masoc edits RAW photos and video on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your Lightroom presets come with you, and your photos stay on your device.
Prices went up. Again.
On March 20, 2026, Adobe raised the Lightroom plan for existing subscribers from $11.99 to $14.99 a month, billed annually. Month to month, it now costs $22.49.
+25%
Adobe Lightroom plan with 1 TB of cloud storage, billed annually: $11.99 a month until March 2026, $14.99 since.
masoc will be free to try with every tool and three exports. After that, Unlock masoc costs $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year or $69 once. See pricing.
Adobe’s US prices for the Lightroom plan with 1 TB, as listed in Adobe’s pricing FAQ, checked in October 2026.
Your presets come with you.
masoc reads Lightroom and Camera Raw presets, and writes them back.
- Save your .xmp presets to Files on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
- Open them with masoc, or import them in Looks. Each one becomes a masoc preset.
- Apply them to any photo, RAW or JPEG, and keep editing from there.
Going back works too. Any preset you build in masoc exports as an .xmp file, with light, color, tone curve, HSL, color grading, detail, crop, LUT, and linear and radial masks. LUTs in .cube format come in as profiles, right beside the built-in film looks.
Made for the devices you edit on.
masoc is a native app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with the same tools in the same places on each. There’s no account to create and no cloud to wait for. Masks, depth and Smart Edit run on your device, so they work anywhere, even offline.
Every edit renders on the device’s graphics chip while you drag, so the photo follows your finger instead of a progress bar.
Questions
- Can I use my Lightroom presets in masoc?
- Yes. Open an .xmp preset from Lightroom or Camera Raw with masoc, and it becomes a masoc preset you can use on any photo.
- Can I take my looks back to Lightroom?
- Yes. Any preset you build in masoc exports as an .xmp file, with light, color, tone curve, HSL, color grading, detail, crop, LUT, and linear and radial masks. Bokeh, glow, structure and hue shift have no Lightroom counterpart and stay in masoc.
- Do I need an Adobe account, or any account?
- No. masoc needs no account at all. You download it, open your photos and start editing.
- Does masoc open my Lightroom catalog?
- No. masoc works with the photos in your library and in Files, RAW included. Catalogs stay in Lightroom, your presets come along as .xmp files.
- How much does masoc cost?
- masoc will be free to download, with every tool and three free exports. After that, Unlock masoc costs $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year or $69 once. The pricing page has the details.
Adobe, Lightroom and Camera Raw are trademarks of Adobe Inc. masoc is not affiliated with Adobe.