If you have a nice camera, you need a nice, professional photo editing app, right? Maybe not. If you have a Mac or an iPad, you already have everything you need.
Apple Photos vs Google Photos vs Lightroom CC | Cloud comparison
Photos may seem like a simple image viewing app, but dive in and you’ll find powerful tools for organizing and editing. You might think you need Lightroom, but Photos probably has everything you need, and you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription.
For high-volume batch editing and deep camera integration, Lightroom wins. But for just about everything else, you’ll find Apple’s Photos app surprisingly capable.
Photos and Lightroom are combined editing/organization apps. Lightroom’s catalogs let you sort and search through almost every aspect of an image, but Photos is just as powerful. You can search by camera and lens model, but you can also search for elements within the image. Search for “dog” and you’ll see most photos of your dog (along with a few horses, probably thanks to AI glitches). You can also browse albums of your friends and family, created automatically via machine learning.
