October 12, 20262 min read

Litria is in Beta

Litria is a RAW editor and a photo library that work on the photos in your own folders. It is in Beta now, and editing needs no account.

You start by picking a folder, and Litria reads the photos where they are. It never moves, renames or overwrites a photo, and nothing is uploaded unless you choose to. You can edit without an account.

What is in the Beta

The RAW editor

Exposure, Contrast, Temperature and Saturation are raised one at a time, and the photo and its histogram change with each.

Adjust light, color, curves, color grading and effects, and watch the photo and its histogram follow. Litria develops the photo from the full RAW file, on your device, on its GPU wherever your browser can use it. If you do not know where to begin, Auto adjust Light gives the Light sliders a starting point.

Masks

A radial gradient is drawn over the photo. Exposure and Temperature are raised inside it, and only that area changes.

A mask keeps an adjustment to one part of a photo. Paint it with a brush, draw a linear or radial gradient, or select by luminance or color range. Then adjust just that area.

Presets and LUTs

The Warm look is applied and the photo warms. Then its Amount is lowered and the warmth eases.

A preset is a look you apply in one click. Save your own or start from the looks that come with Litria. If a look is too strong, lower its Amount. To use a .cube LUT, import it in the LUT group under Adjustments.

Export

Export one photo or a whole selection to JPEG, PNG or WebP. You decide the size, the quality and whether location goes along.

The library

A folder of photos is scrolled, three photos are selected, and another folder is opened from the sidebar.

The library is where you cull. Rate, flag and reject photos as you go. Search every folder at once, and filter by rating, flag or file type.

Where it runs

The web app runs in Chrome or Edge on a computer, and in Chrome on Android. There is nothing to install. Other browsers, including every browser on iPhone and iPad, show a notice instead.

There is also a desktop app: an AppImage for Linux and an installer for 64-bit Windows. The Windows installer is not signed yet, so Windows warns you the first time you open it.

What Beta means

Litria is an early version. Features may change, break or go away, and Litria may be unavailable at times. Keep your own backups of your photos. Litria is not a backup.

Everything that runs on your device is free on every plan. That covers the editor, the library, masks and exports.

Litria Pro adds more of what Litria hosts for you, such as storage for published photos. Pro costs $5 a month or $50 a year. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.

Open Litria

Open Litria in Chrome or Edge, or download the desktop app. On the first run you can try it with sample photos or open a folder of your own.