Adobe Lightroom vs ImageToolbox
Adobe Lightroom and ImageToolbox are both image editing software. Adobe Lightroom is a commercial product from Adobe Inc. ImageToolbox is open source under Apache-2.0, with 15k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Adobe Lightroom when
- You shoot many photos and want to organise and edit them in one place, often bundled with Photoshop.
- Pick ImageToolbox when
- You want one free Android app for nearly every image manipulation task.
Side by side
Photo library management and non-destructive RAW editing, with cloud sync across desktop and mobile.
An Android image toolbox for cropping, drawing, filters, EXIF editing, background removal, OCR, format conversion and PDF tools.
Subscription only, and cloud storage tiers cost more as libraries grow.
Feature density makes the interface busy.
Production-ready (both)
Desktop app, mobile app and cloud service
Mobile app
Not published
Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
Closed source, sold by Adobe Inc.
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
3.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
15k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 4.2.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.