Adobe Lightroom vs PhotoBoost

Lightroom is Adobe’s cloud-based service for creating, editing, organizing, storing, and sharing photos across devices. Its photo libraries are searchable, and the editing toolkit includes RAW support, batch editing, masking, AI retouching, AI Lens Blur, Adaptive Presets, portrait Quick Actions, and sensor Dust Removal. Generative Remove uses Adobe Firefly to remove distractions, while Assisted Culling helps sort photos by image quality and group similar shots. Generative upscale with Topaz Gigapixel can enlarge images by up to 4x. Users can collaborate in shared albums, post to social network apps, or share with the Lightroom community. Lightroom is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows, with a free mobile app and premium features available as an upgrade. Adobe offers a free plan and a 7-day trial; billing begins when the trial ends, with a further 14-day refund period described. Named plans include Lightroom, Photography, and Creative Cloud Pro, as well as student, teacher, and team options.

PhotoBoost is an AI photo enhancer for sharpening blurry images, restoring old photos, improving faces, adjusting color and lighting, and enlarging images by up to 4×. Its listed tools also cover colorization, low-light enhancement, and video upscaling. The web app accepts JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC images up to 45 MB and corrects orientation automatically. Desktop apps support macOS 11+, Windows 10+, and 64-bit Linux; the desktop page says they export at full resolution without web upload limits. Mobile apps are available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Its video tool describes 2× frame-by-frame upscaling, audio preservation, and MP4 export. Cloud enhancement uses credits, with the amount depending on the enhancement and output resolution. The free plan costs nothing and includes two introductory credits and cloud output up to 3 MP. Pro costs $39.99 a year and includes 100 credits each week, output up to 20 MP, and video upscaling up to 15 seconds. PhotoBoost says uploaded images are not used to train AI without separate explicit consent, and warns that results may be inaccurate or artificial.