Ultralight
Ultralight is a Mac photo and video editor for adjusting images, applying presets, and making quick visual edits across Apple devices.
What is Ultralight?
Ultralight is a photo and video editing app for Mac that helps users enhance images and clips with a streamlined editing workflow. It is designed for everyday creators who want simple controls for color, light, cropping, and stylized looks without moving into a full professional editing suite. The app supports both photo and video work, which makes it useful for social posts, personal projects, and quick edits that need a consistent style across media. Users can apply built-in presets, save custom presets, and make detailed adjustments such as exposure, saturation, color grading, HSL changes, curves, and texture effects. It also includes tools for trimming video, combining clips, creating collages, and working with layers and masks. Ultralight is published by Uova Oy and is available on Apple platforms including Mac.
Key features
- Edit photos with controls for light, exposure, saturation, temperature, and color grading
- Apply built-in presets and save custom presets for a consistent visual style
- Adjust images with HSL controls, curves, vignette, sharpening, and noise tools
- Crop photos and correct perspective for cleaner composition
- Trim video clips and combine multiple videos in one workflow
- Use the same filters and editing style across both photos and videos
- Create collages from photos and video content
- Work with layers, masks, and texture overlays for more detailed edits
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Ultralight is a legitimate photo and video editing app. It may collect usage data, identifiers, and diagnostics, and the App Store listing says it can include advertising and in-app purchases. Access to your photos or videos is normal for an editor like this, but you should still share only the media you want the app to handle and review its privacy choices if data collection matters to you.
Recommendation: Keep Ultralight if you use it for photo or video editing on your Mac. If you no longer edit with it, removing the app is usually fine, though you may lose saved presets, project-related data, or editing preferences unless you back them up first.
Common paths
/Applications/Ultralight.app
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