HDR Lab for Mac
Convert SDR to HDR, bring HDR back to SDR, or refine existing HDR footage with precise controls and AI assistance that runs entirely on your Mac.
Free
In English
Version 0.8.1When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
HDR Lab overview
3 Ways to Work with Dynamic Range
Create an HDR interpretation of SDR material, convert HDR for SDR displays or fine-tune existing HDR brightness and colour.
Control Where the Light Goes
Refine your image with face protection, subject segmentation, optional Depth Anything V2 Small adjustments and graduated or radial masks.
See What Your Adjustments Are Doing
Compare against the original with a movable split view. Optional HDR highlight and clipping-risk warnings help identify bright areas and values approaching the output ceiling.
AI Assistance Entirely Offline
Choose from 20 styles grouped by purpose. AI Assist analyses your image or sampled movie frames and adjusts the available effects. Use AI Assist Amount to blend between your starting settings and the suggested look or restore your previous settings.
Precise Tools for Finishing Your Look
Adjust exposure, shadows, black and white balance, saturation, vibrance, selective colour, highlight roll-off, denoising, sharpening and local contrast. Shape luminance and individual colour channels with smooth, multipoint curves.
Pick Up Where You Left Off
Save editing sessions with your adjustments, AI settings and export choices. Undo and redo edits, save custom presets, and recover your last session after restarting.
Built for Photos and Movies
Navigate movies with a thumbnail timeline, export the selected frame as an HDR image, and choose movie quality and audio options.
Export Movie Frames
Save a selected moment as an HDR or SDR image.
Batch Processing
Apply a consistent look to multiple files.
Easy to Use for Everyone
Use presets and trust your eyes when doing changes
What's new in version 0.8.1
- Added: support for German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Italian, Swedish, Polish and Hungarian
- Added: some extra Curves presets.
- Some small GUI glitches
HDR Lab for Mac
Free
In English
Version 0.8.1
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Oct 5, 2026
Version: 0.8.1
A free app for editing HDR movies and it works great. The AI implementation is a bit hidden though and IMO it should be more prominent and easier to access.
The app is Apple Silicon only so I asked the devs about Intel support. He explained that the AI implementation is simply too slow even on the fastest Intel Macs and wouldn’t provide a great user experience. So there you have it Apple is definitely pushing developers to leave Intel behind.
Anyhow, it’s a really useful app for working with HDR content.