Stop renting your photography software.

A modern, native RAW workflow that runs straight off your NAS and brings your Lightroom Classic catalogue across. Fast on a library of any size, everything on your own Mac. Buy it once, own it forever.

£49 once — ½ price 7-day free trial No account needed No subscription. Ever. Notarized by Apple
Includes 12 months of updates. After that, your version keeps working forever. How updates work →
Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel) · macOS 15.6 or later · 386 MB · What's new in 1.21.0 →
Lumidex Studio Library module: a photo grid with the folder tree, catalogue counts and filmstrip
Lumidex Studio Develop module with a live vectorscope on the canvas
Works straight off your NAS Imports your Lightroom Classic catalogue Your files never leave your Mac Apple Silicon + Intel
The idea

Photographers used to own their software.

Then it became a subscription — another login, another cloud, another AI feature nobody asked for.

Fast. Private. Yours — bought once, owned forever.

Lumidex Studio Library module browsing a photo library stored on a NAS
Your NAS

Your library lives on your NAS, not our cloud.

Point Lumidex at a network share and browse, cull and search a lifetime of RAW files straight off it. No import-to-cloud, no catalogue limit, no beachball. A native macOS engine that takes a 100,000-photo library on a Synology or QNAP in its stride, with plenty of headroom to spare.

And it opens the RAW you actually shoot — 800+ camera models across every major maker, from a decade of Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Leica and more, plus DNG from any device. See the full list →

NAS
Runs over the network
No limit
Catalogue size
0
Cloud round-trips
What comes across
✓Every photo and your folder structure
✓Keywords, collections and smart collections
✓Ratings, flags and colour labels
✓Existing previews — your library is browsable straight away
✓Your edited photos keep the look Lightroom Classic gave them, with Lumidex edits on top
Your originals and your Adobe catalogue are never moved or changed — the .lrcat is opened read-only.
Migration

Bring your Lightroom Classic catalogue across.

A setup wizard reads your Lightroom Classic .lrcat and migrates your images, keywords, collections, ratings, flags and colour labels — reusing the previews you already built so you can start working immediately, without re-processing a single RAW file.

Nothing is trapped: your files stay exactly where they are, and Lumidex writes standard XMP sidecars. How migration works →

Lumidex Studio Develop module showing a live vectorscope and a rotated sampler region on the canvas
Scopes

Lightroom Classic has no vectorscope. Lumidex does.

A broadcast-grade vectorscope, RGB parade and histogram — with a movable sampler region and a pop-out you can drag to a second monitor. Judge white balance and skin tones like a colourist.

Lightroom Classic ✕ histogram only Lumidex ✓ vectorscope · parade · sampler
Lumidex Studio semantic search: the query a calm place by the water returning photos ranked by meaning
AI search · runs on your Mac

Find it by describing it.

Type “a calm place by the water” and the right photos rank to the top — no keywording. It all runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, ever.

Lightroom Classic ✕ keywords only Lumidex ✓ plain-English, on-device
◐ Denoise
◎ Lens Blur
✦ AI Select
On-device AI

Modern edits, no cloud round-trip.

Denoise, synthetic lens blur and one-click AI subject selection — all computed on your Mac. No uploads, no account, no waiting on someone else’s server.

Lightroom Classic ✕ cloud / Adobe account Lumidex ✓ 100% local
Side by side

Lumidex Studio vs Lightroom Classic.

Deciding whether to switch? See the two side by side: price, privacy, on-device AI and migration, plus where Lightroom Classic still leads.

And the rest

Everything else you’d expect — done properly.

⧉
Duplicate finder
Content-hashing that finds true duplicates — never trusts a filename.
⚑
Sweep
Load a rating, flag and colour, then drag across the grid to cull in one pass.
⛁
Burst stacking
Frames shot seconds apart collapse into one tidy grid cell.
⌗
Smart collections
Rules that keep themselves current — no list to maintain.
⇄
Reads Lightroom Classic
Imports your existing Lightroom Classic catalogue and keeps your metadata intact.
⧉
Open formats
Writes standard XMP sidecars. Nothing is trapped in a proprietary box.
◈
Opens (almost) any RAW
800+ camera models — every RAW format macOS supports, plus DNG from any device.
In development

On-device intelligence, in progress.

Not shipped yet, so don’t buy for these today — but they’re being built now, they’ll run on your Mac, and every release in your first 12 months is included.

◎ Coming
Face grouping
People grouped automatically by face — detection and naming already ship.
▤ Coming
Keyword suggestions
Proposed tags you accept in bulk — never applied behind your back.
◐ Coming
More AI develop tools
Detail recovery and enhancement, all on your Mac.
⊘ Coming
Distraction removal
Remove a sign, a bin, a stray tourist — content-aware, on-device.

Built for photographers.

Not shareholders.
Not subscriptions.
Not the cloud.

A modern app written from scratch — fast because it carries no legacy, and yours for one payment instead of forever.

⚡Blazing-fast, natively
🔒No cloud lock-in
∞Buy once, own forever
Lumidex Studio
£99 £49 once
½ price introductory offer — until 30 September 2026
Buy once. Own forever.
✓Every module — Library, Develop, Print, tethered Capture
✓Scopes, duplicate finder, Sweep, burst stacking, smart collections
✓Reads your existing Lightroom Classic catalogue
✓Unlimited photos, unlimited catalogues
✓Free updates for a year, then keep the version you own
✓No account, no telemetry, no cloud required
Buy Lumidex Studio — £49 Or pay in 3 — £16.33/month
3 × £16.33 (£48.99). Same perpetual licence once all three are paid; the plan stops itself after the third payment.
14-day money-back. No account required.
Includes 12 months of updates. After that your version keeps working forever, and critical security fixes still reach you. Want another year of new releases? An optional Support Package renews updates for 12 months at half the current price (currently £25), one-off, no obligation. How updates work →
The subscription you'd cancel
£240 / year, forever
Every year. For as long as you edit.
✕Payments that never stop
✕Features you never asked for
✕Cloud-first workflow by default
✕Your catalogue tied to a login
✕Speed that degrades as it bloats
✕Cancel and you lose access to your edits
Lumidex pays for itself in under 3 months.
Then it just keeps being yours.