RAW preparation for Mac
Develop your camera RAW photographs with Apple's RAW processing engine, then export high-quality images for finishing in your favourite pixel editor.
Free to download. All features included.
No paid Pro upgrade. No subscription.
Requires macOS 27 or later. Mac only.
From camera RAW to your editor
Prepare the rendering you want, examine the result and take it into the next stage of your photographic workflow.
01 / Prepare
Adjust exposure, white balance, tone, detail and noise reduction using the controls available for your photograph and selected Apple processor.
Start from Apple's calibrated defaults, and restore those exact values with Reset. Set white balance from a neutral area in your photograph using the White Balance Picker.
02 / Inspect
Work with a single rendering, compare processors, or use Before/After to inspect your adjustments against Apple's default rendering. Synchronised pan and zoom and true 1:1 inspection help you examine fine detail.
Where supported, compare RAW 8 and RAW 9, two generations of Apple's RAW processing.
03 / Export
Export at full processed resolution, independently of your viewing zoom. Choose the format, bit depth and colour space that suit your next application.
Save reusable export presets for the workflows you return to.
Quality starts with the RAW rendering
Make deliberate adjustments at the RAW stage, with direct access to the controls available in Apple's camera RAW processing pipeline.
RawScope preserves Apple's calibrated adjustment defaults and restores them exactly on reset. The available controls follow the selected processor and the capabilities of your file.
Sample a neutral area with the White Balance Picker. Its fixed 21 x 21 source-pixel sample stays consistent at every zoom level, and the result is applied through Apple's RAW adjustments.
Your viewing zoom and pan do not change export resolution. Choose high-bit-depth output and a suitable colour space to carry the prepared rendering into your preferred editor.
Output with room to work
16-bit TIFF offers a practical starting point for further pixel editing. Floating-point TIFF and OpenEXR are available for workflows that support them. Match the output to your destination application's capabilities.
Choose sRGB, Display P3, Adobe RGB (1998) or ROMM RGB for supported JPEG, TIFF, PNG and HEIF outputs. OpenEXR uses Extended Linear sRGB.
Keep photographic metadata where supported, or remove it for sharing. Preserved metadata can include embedded GPS coordinates. Supported exports retain standard RawScope application provenance even when photographic metadata is removed. OpenEXR is provenance-neutral.
A wider colour space or greater bit depth does not automatically improve a photograph. Choose settings your next editor can read and preserve.
Your photographs, processed locally
RawScope processes the RAW files you select and saves exports where you choose. No RawScope account is needed. There is no telemetry or analytics. RawScope does not upload your photographs.
Read the Privacy PolicyRequires macOS 27.0 or later. RawScope opens Apple-recognised camera RAW files that Core Image can decode on your Mac. RAW 8, RAW 9 and available adjustments follow the runtime capabilities Apple reports for the loaded file.
RawScope works with supported camera RAW files. Exported images can be opened in other applications that support the chosen format, bit depth and colour space.
RawScope is being prepared for its first Mac App Store release. A download link will be added when it is available.