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The Photovibe photo editor on Windows: menu bar, tool column, canvas with a landscape photo open, and the properties and layers panels

Open source · MIT · Windows

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Free forever · Early release · Signed & verifiable

Free, for good

No subscription, no trial, no watermark, no upsell. MIT licensed, so it stays free even for commercial work.

Your photos never leave

A native desktop app, not a website. Every pixel is processed on your own machine, and it works with the network unplugged.

Instantly familiar

Tool column, options bar, layers panel, blend modes, the shortcuts you already know. If you have used Photoshop, you can use this.

Small and fast

A few megabytes, installed for your user only, with no admin rights, no background service and no updater daemon.

Layers

Stack it, blend it, take it back

Every document is a stack of image, paint, fill and text layers, each with its own opacity and blend mode, composited on your GPU by a custom WebGL engine. Tint a photo with a fill layer on Overlay, dial the opacity to taste, and delete it again — the original pixels are never touched.

  • Normal
  • Multiply
  • Screen
  • Overlay
  • Soft Light
  • Hard Light
  • Colour Dodge
  • Colour Burn
  • Darken
  • Lighten
  • Difference
  • Exclusion
  • Luminosity
All thirteen blend modes, explained →
Photovibe layers panel showing a fill layer set to Overlay at 62% opacity above a photo layer
A rectangular marquee selection with animated marching ants over a landscape photo in Photovibe

Selections

Work on part of the picture

Drag a rectangle, draw a freehand lasso, or click with the magic wand to grab a contiguous region of colour. Paint, erase and gradients are clipped to whatever is selected, and the Move tool can lift the selected pixels straight off the layer.

Read the selections guide →

Toolbox

Twelve tools, one key each

The shortcuts are the ones already in your fingers.

Where it stands

Photovibe is early. Here is exactly how early.

Plenty of free editors oversell themselves. This is the honest version: if a menu entry is greyed out in the app, it is on the right-hand list, not the left.

Works today

  • Multi-layer documents with per-layer opacity and 13 blend modes
  • Open PNG, JPEG and WebP files; save your work back to disk
  • Rectangular, freehand and magic-wand selections
  • Brush, eraser, gradient, healing and text tools
  • Full undo/redo history with named steps
  • Image resizing, cropping and a fit-to-screen canvas
  • System colour picker that samples anywhere on screen
  • GPU compositing through a custom WebGL engine

Not yet — on the roadmap

  • Dedicated PNG / JPEG / WebP export dialogs
  • Layer masks and non-destructive adjustment layers
  • Canvas size, rotate and flip
  • Invert and refine-edge for selections
  • A filter gallery
  • macOS and Linux builds
Full roadmap →

Trust

Built in the open, signed in CI

Every Windows release is built by GitHub Actions from a public, tagged commit, then Authenticode-signed with a public-trust certificate through Azure Trusted Signing. Authentication uses GitHub OIDC, so no long-lived signing credential exists anywhere in the repository — and each release ships a SHA256SUMS file so you can check the download yourself.

How to verify a download → Read the source →
The About Photovibe dialog showing the version number and an update check against GitHub Releases

Open a photo in about a minute

A few megabytes, no account, no admin rights. If you do not like it, uninstalling leaves nothing behind.

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