Not every editor opens every camera's RAW files, and new-camera support lags on free tools. Check that first, not the feature list.

- Lightroom: the default for a reason, and the catalog is half the product. - Capture One: the color science crowd's pick. - DxO PhotoLab: excellent automatic corrections. - darktable and RawTherapee: free, seriously capable, interfaces designed by engineers. - Lightroom preset apps on iOS and Android: phone-shot RAW with your desktop presets, synced. - Snapseed: free, handles RAW-style edits fine. - Lightroom mobile: free to start, paid tiers for the full kit.

Check four things: your exact camera model, non-destructive editing, lens profiles for your glass, and catalog versus plain editor. Drowning in thousands of photos? The catalog matters as much as the editing. For the format busywork around all this, PicConvert converts and compresses images free forever.