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Sablefilm is a film-grade RAW photo editor for Mac that imports your Lightroom presets and Fujifilm in-camera recipes, for £9.99 once with no subscription.

Fact sheet

  • Product: Sablefilm (RAW editor) and Sablefilm Layers (PSD/PSB editor), two separate apps
  • Price: £9.99 each, one-time purchase. Sablefilm is £9.99 at its introductory price until 30 November 2026, then £19.99
  • Platform: Mac, macOS 14 Sonoma or newer, Apple silicon and Intel. Developer ID signed and notarised. iPhone version in App Store review
  • Made by: an independent developer in the UK
  • Licence: one key covers up to three Macs; works offline; no account

What makes it different

  • Bring your own presets: imports Lightroom presets (.xmp and .lrtemplate) and writes Lightroom-compatible XMP back out
  • Fujifilm recipes on the RAW: reads the film simulation, tone and grain stored in a RAF and applies them as a starting point
  • Full RAW toolkit: subject, brush, lasso, linear, radial and range masks; AI noise reduction; lens correction; global and masked colour
  • 173 film looks with grain, halation and bloom
  • Non-destructive and folder-based: no catalogue; edits live in a small file beside each photo
  • Sablefilm Layers opens, edits and saves real Photoshop PSD and PSB files, including layers, masks, all 27 blend modes, adjustment layers and layer effects

Images

Free to use in coverage of Sablefilm. Right-click to save.

Review licences

Journalists and creators: email sablefilmapp@gmail.com and we'll send you a free licence for either app.

Lightroom, Photoshop and PSD are trademarks of Adobe; Fujifilm is a trademark of FUJIFILM Corporation. Sablefilm is not affiliated with either.