Rebrilo
Develop your RAW files on your own Mac.
Rebrilo is a photo editor for macOS: the tone and colour controls you expect, local masks that find the sky or the person for you, and the merges that usually mean leaving for another program — panorama, HDR, long exposure, the best faces from a burst.
Your folders stay where they are. Nothing is copied, nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to make.
What it does
A beginner should get somewhere good with one press. Somebody who knows what they are doing should be able to take that press apart and do it properly. Every automatic step here shows its working, and every one of them can be overruled.
The whole tone stack, on RAW
Exposure, highlights and shadows, curves, colour grading wheels, selective colour, clarity, texture, dehaze, grain, vignette. Every slider goes one way for its whole travel — there is a test that fails if one ever turns back.
Local edits, and the region found for you
Radial, linear and brush masks, plus sky, subject and people found by the Mac itself. Combine them with add, subtract and intersect. Each mask carries its own tone, colour and light.
188 looks, and a way to make your own
Grouped on shelves, with an Amount slider under every one. Some read the photograph before they style it. Point at a picture you admire and Rebrilo writes its mood into your sliders.
The merges, without leaving
Panorama, HDR, exposure fusion, hand-held burst, long exposure, light trails, removing passers-by, an action sequence, and the best face of each person on one frame — all from a right-click on a series.
Measured at a hundred thousand photographs
Folders referenced in place, ratings and flags, albums, automatic series, duplicates, RAW + JPEG pairs, and a grid that stays quick because it was measured rather than assumed.
A list of the app's own verbs, saved and run again
Cull a shoot, rate what is left, put one look over it, collect it into an album. It measures first and tells you exactly what it will do — this will flag 380 and rate 42 — and only writes after a second press. The whole run is one undo.
Why doesn't my RAW look like the camera's picture?
Camera Match fits a colour profile from the RAW's own embedded preview — the same scene, the same second, the camera's own rendering — so a file opens near where the camera left it instead of somewhere neutral.
A recipe, not a dialog you redo every time
Format, colour space, resize, output sharpening, metadata rules and a watermark, saved as a preset and applied to a whole selection.
Works with Shortcuts
Open, auto-enhance, apply a look, adjust and export are actions you can drop into a shortcut of your own — and the same actions are what Spotlight indexes, so they can be run by name.
Your photographs stay yours
This is not a policy written after the fact. It is how the application is built, and it is checkable: Rebrilo ships with no network entitlement at all.
Nothing is uploaded
Your photographs never leave your Mac. There is no server, because there is nothing to send to one.
Nothing is copied
Folders are referenced where they already are. Your originals are never moved, rewritten or imported into a vault.
No account
No sign-up, no email address, no login. You buy it and you use it.
Nothing is deleted behind your back
Edits are kept beside the catalogue and never written into your files. Removing a photograph from the library leaves the file untouched.
Price
Fourteen days of the complete application, free. No card, no sign-up, nothing held back — a photo editor is judged on one real job, and one real job takes longer than a weekend.
No subscription, nothing to renew.
Updates are included — all of them, not a year's worth. Twenty-four months is the minimum European law asks a seller to name; naming it is not a plan to stop at it. The application never expires.
Billed monthly through the App Store
Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings.
Billed yearly through the App Store
The same application, at about a quarter of the monthly rate.
Buying once is not a lesser tier: nothing is held back from it, and updates are not sold back to you. The App Store shows the price in your own currency. Terms of use.
What happens next
Rebrilo is being worked on now — not finished and parked. The plan is small, regular updates through the year rather than one big release a long way off, and everything that lands is included in what you have already paid.
If something you need is missing, write. Not every request can be built, and you will get a plain answer rather than a promise and then silence — but the ones that can be, are. A sentence in the application that misled you counts as a bug here, and gets fixed like one.