RAW Power & Nitro Photo: New Releases Greatly Improve Fujifilm RAW Support

Nik Bhatt is a former Aperture developer at Apple, and we have reported about his RAW Power software in the past here on FujIRumors. RAW Power brings Aperture style interface and functions to Mac Photos.

Well, Nik is the developer not only of RAW Power, but also of Nitro Photo (launched in 2024), which was recently named #1 Lightroom alternative by MacObserver here.

Nitro Photo is (mostly) a superset of RAW Power, and adds a bunch of new functionality, including:

• Advanced masking (brushing, gradients, AI and Depth Masks, and more)
• XMP support
• better highlight recovery,
• N-Up (4 up on iPad, 16 up on Mac)
• More presets and LUTs
• Improved Export
• Improved support for cameras that Apple doesn’t support
• Better integration both with the Finder and with the Photo Library
• On and on

Now new versions of Nitro Photo and RAW Power have been released.

While Apple does not support Fujifilm compressed images with their RAW decoder, RAW Power and Nitro do. They accomplish that by extending Apple’s RAW decoder in a unique way. These new updates noticeably improve the decoding quality and also provide automatic lens correction when the RAW files contain lens correction metadata.

Both RAW Power and Nitro are able to browse either the file system (Finder on macOS and Files.app on iOS), and the Apple Photo library. So, for Fujifilm shooters in the Apple ecosystem, these new releases provide a big step up in image quality.

You can check out Nitro Photo here and RAW Power here.