Darkroom vs Photopea

Darkroom is a photo-editing app for macOS and iOS, made by Darkroom, which was founded in 2015. Listed editing capabilities include RAW photo support, masking tools, batch editing, cloud sync, and AI retouching. The free Starter plan lets you use every premium tool for as long as you like, but exporting requires Darkroom+. Yearly costs $39.99 a year, billed yearly, and includes full access, Family Sharing, and a free trial. Monthly costs $9.99 a month, billed monthly, with full access and cancellation at any time; its plan details say there is no trial. Forever is listed at $99.99 a month as a one-time purchase, providing one payment for full access and future features. Darkroom also lists a free trial generally, while the specific plan details identify the Yearly trial. Its supported platforms are macOS and iOS.

Photopea is a browser-based editor for raster and vector graphics, with tools for image resizing, webpage design, illustration, and photo processing. Its editing toolkit includes layers, masks, blending, smart objects, adjustment layers, channels, paths, filters, and vector tools. It opens and saves PSD files and lists support for formats including PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, AI, HEIC, TIFF, MP4, INDD, and Figma. Photopea also offers one-click background removal and image-part replacement from a text description. It says files are processed on the user's device and can still be opened, edited, and saved offline. Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive can be connected optionally. Browser installation creates a homescreen icon but still runs the editor in a browser; a separate self-hosted package can run on a customer server or local network without internet access. The free editor has a free plan. School ad-free access costs $450 a year for the whole school. The self-hosted version is listed at $5,002,000 a month, paid a whole year in advance.