--- title: I finally found the app to justify cancelling my Adobe... description: After years of paying $60/month for Adobe Creative Cloud, the author found ON1 Photo Raw as a compelling Lightroom replacement. ON1 offers a familiar RAW photo... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-finally-found-the-app-to-justify-cancelling-my-adobe-subscription-atvidvqib twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I finally found the app to justify cancelling my Adobe subscription | daily.dev og:description: After years of paying $60/month for Adobe Creative Cloud, the author found ON1 Photo Raw as a compelling Lightroom replacement. ON1 offers a familiar RAW photo... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-finally-found-the-app-to-justify-cancelling-my-adobe-subscription-atvidvqib og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aTVIdvqiB.png og:image:alt: I finally found the app to justify cancelling my Adobe subscription og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I finally found the app to justify cancelling my Adobe subscription **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary After years of paying $60/month for Adobe Creative Cloud, the author found ON1 Photo Raw as a compelling Lightroom replacement. ON1 offers a familiar RAW photo editing workflow, AI-powered tools (noise reduction, generative erase/expand, sky replacement, portrait masking) that run locally, and a layered non-destructive editor — features Lightroom lacks. The app's ease of use, lower cost, and Photoshop-like compositing capabilities make it a viable exit from Adobe's subscription. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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