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Photoflare

Simple but powerful Cross Platform Image Editor.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Photoflare is a photo editing program, available on Windows and Linux.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Simple but powerful Cross Platform Image Editor” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Batch processing tool with support for all editor features.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Dark mode” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Photoflare is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Plans and conditions

  • No resale: the files may not be resold or redistributed as they are.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

This is an effort to bring quick, simple but powerful image editing to the masses. PhotoFlare is inspired by the image editor currently only available on Microsoft Windows – PhotoFiltre. However, it will not be a straight clone. It is being built from the ground up to be much improved and cross platform too! Features: Easy quick cropping tool. Flip, Rotate and scale images. Lots of unique image filters. Batch processing tool with support for all editor features. Gmic integration Dark mode Multiple translations are supported.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (limits, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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