iPhone & iPad · Photo editor

A serious photo editor.
Nothing leaves your phone.

Matisse gives you the tonal and colour control of a desktop editor, twelve kinds of mask, and proper retouching. It runs entirely on your iPhone or iPad, with no account to make and no photos uploaded anywhere.

Download on the App Store

One-time purchase · iOS & iPadOS 26+

Matisse's editor on iPad — the Light panel with exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks over a photograph, with tool rails on the right and a filmstrip below

Everything you would reach for.

Control you can feel

Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks, then tone curves, HSL, colour grading wheels and a black-and-white mixer. Every slider renders live on the GPU.

Twelve kinds of mask

Brush and gradients when you know what you want. Subject, sky, background, vegetation and architecture when you would rather the phone find it for you.

Retouch what distracts

Remove, heal and clone. Paint over the bin bag in the corner of an otherwise good frame and it goes away.

Presets that adapt

Browse recommended looks filtered by mood — subtle, cinematic, warm, HDR — or save your own edit as a preset and apply it to the next photo.

Nothing leaves the device

No account, no cloud workspace, no advertising or third-party tracking. Photo access exists so you can edit your own pictures, and that is all it is used for.

Export on your terms

JPEG, HEIF, PNG or TIFF at full resolution, with a quality control for the lossy formats and a switch to strip GPS before the file leaves the app.

Edit the sky without touching the ground.

Most edits are local. Matisse gives you twelve ways to say where: paint a brush mask, drag a linear or radial gradient, pick a range of colour, luminance or depth, or let the phone find the subject, the sky, the background, the greenery or the buildings for you. Every adjustment can then be applied through that mask alone.

Brush, linear and radial gradients
Colour, luminance and depth ranges
Scene-aware subject, sky & background selections

Matisse's editor on iPhone — an adjustment panel open over a photograph with the tool rail alongside

What is actually in the box.

Light & colour

Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks
White balance, temperature, tint
Vibrance and saturation
Tone curve, RGB and per channel
HSL per colour band
Colour grading wheels with blend and balance
Black-and-white channel mixer

Detail & optics

Texture, clarity and dehaze
Sharpening with radius, detail and masking
Luminance and colour noise reduction
Lens correction and chromatic aberration removal
Manual distortion and vignetting
Lens blur with bokeh shape and focus range
Vignette and film grain

Frame & finish

Crop, straighten, flip and aspect lock
Upright correction and manual perspective
Remove, heal and clone retouching
Presets by mood, plus your own
JPEG, HEIF, PNG and TIFF export
Full resolution, with quality control
Optional GPS stripping on export

Every control, explained.

What each slider does, how the masks differ, when to reach for heal instead of remove, and what actually happens to your photos.

Read the documentation →

Your photos, your device.

One purchase, no subscription, no account. If you have been looking for a real editor that does not want your library in its cloud, this is it.