Darkroom 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Darkroom

3.9

(21)

Pricing

Starting at $495.00 one time

About Darkroom

Darkroom is a photography management suite that helps studios capture, edit, print, share and sell photos. It offers a gallery management solution, which lets administrators upload images from camera rolls, desktop or third-party cloud platforms such as Dropbox to create password-protected private events for customers.

Darkroom provides a mobile application for iPad, which allows professionals to capture photos using a phone camera and choose to combine multiple image modes including GIFs, Still and Burst GIFs for events. Users can link the applications with marketing tools such as Zapier to automatically share photos with customers via emails or post them across social media channels. Other features include customizable templates, built-in printer drivers, multimedia support, microsite creation, offline mode, multi-language support, and more.

Darkroom Hotfolder application allows businesses to automatically monitor image folders, add new photos to print queues and post images to event gallery accounts. It also offers an API, allowing users to build custom integrations. Support is extended via help center, ticketing, phone and email.

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Darkroom Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $495.00 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$495.00

per feature, one time

No plan information available

Darkroom Features

Popular features found in Photography Studio
Appointment Scheduling
Billing & Invoicing
Client Management
Contract/License Management
More features of Darkroom
API
Content Import/Export
Content Sharing
Customizable Templates
Drag & Drop
Event Management
File Management
File Sharing
Image Library
Pre-built Templates
Project Management
Real Time Editing
Search/Filter
SMS Messaging
Social Media Integration
Social Sharing
Third-Party Integrations
Watermarking
Workflow Management

Darkroom Integrations

Instagram

Meta for Business

Darkroom User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.9

Ratings Breakdown

43%

19%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

3.7

Customer support

3.6

Functionality

3.8

Mike H.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2019

review for darkroom photo booth

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

After many attempts getting info from the competition, I found Darkroom to meet and exceed all my expectations for a photo booth system! Simple to use for myself and customers using the booth!

Cons:

The odd bug now and again, but developers are on it with online fb chat and support!

Yolanda N.

Verified reviewer

Online Media

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

Support is horrible!

Hoping to switch all my software to another company since i dislike the support department.

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Value for money

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Pros:

The quality is good but takes a lot of time learning the software.

Cons:

Support is horrible!!! They are available normal business hours and closed on the weekend. No after 5pm support. Also I have spent so many hours wasted on just waiting for a responded email. The communication is through email which can take an entire day to resolve one small issue. I have so many issues darkroom booth that can’t seem to get resolved. I leave. A message and hope someone returns my call. They have the ability to remote in, but won’t and if they do it can still take an hour just waiting. They will send links to more links of reading material, which is not support. I can find reading material on my own.

Jonathan S.

Verified reviewer

Photography

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2023

Scammers look out

They locked me out of my account mind you while I had money in it, wouldn't take the site down, wouldn't help me get back into my account to get my money. Customer support would be like "we talked to our engineers about it." Then silence. I would follow up days later, "we've talked to our engineers." Then silence. What a joke of a company.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Easy to set up, but that's where it ends.

Cons:

They take a huge portion of your revenue, and on top of that, they make you pay a monthly subscription just to access basic features like site analytics.

Bernard M.

Verified reviewer

Photography

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Quick, easy yet powerful

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The mobile versions are a great benefit in my workflow. The software is a low cost tool for photo editing on the move.

Cons:

I can think of nothing negative or missing from Darkroom.

Verified

Reviewer

Retail

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Darkroom helps my workflow, helps my business grow.

I'm able to get everything to my clients in a timely manner, and have no problems with anything.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

What isn't there to like about this software? Overall, the program as a whole is clean and runs beautifully. The way things are organized inside this program makes it so much easier to edit.

Cons:

There are some limitations to editing, which can be great at times but when you need more advanced editing, it's not there. You'll have to go into photoshop for that.

Matt F.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Easy to use but powerful

If you're a professional photographer, Darkroom is a great piece of software to have in your collection. It's very user friendly and easy to learn, and has many options and functions for your photography. I also like the dropbox intergration. I use dropbox a lot for getting my files online and sharing them or accessing them elsewhere, so being able to easily get them from Darkroom to Dropbox is very nice. And their greenscreen editing is a nice feature as well. Highly recommend Darkroom.

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Value for money

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Pros:

I enjoy the dropbox integration for easily getting the images online to share. The interface is simple and easy to use, but powerful.

Cons:

The price could be better, but for how simple and easy it is yet many many functions it has, I think it's worth it.

Wayne S.

Verified reviewer

Photography

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Great Options and functionality

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

I am a semi-pro photographer, I have used Darkroom since it was launched. While i thing the cost may be a bit much, it is a great piece of software to have in your arsenal . Darkrooms integrations are very useful and assist with my workflow.

Cons:

The one thing that I liked the least was the end cost for the product.

Mark R.

Verified reviewer

Events Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Industry standard in photo processing software

I use various versions of Darkroom for event photography and photo booth work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Powerful set of features, especially in chromakeying and event photography. Intuitive interface guides you easily. Stable and reliable.

Cons:

There is a disconnect in Darkroom Core and Darkroom Booth in reliability. The Booth version is a bit newer to market and as a result has some bugs in it that hopefully will be resolved as it matures.

Verified

Reviewer

Arts and Crafts

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Good for editing photographs

Overall Darkroom is fast and very easy to use. Highly recommend it!

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Its clean interface is very intuitive. Very easy to use and with powerful tools, Darkroom is a very good editor.

Cons:

The only issue bothering us is the price - it can be a bit more affordable. Apart from that, we don't have any issues with it.

Verified

Reviewer

Fine Art

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Flashy photos in a moment!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked all the customization available as well as the easy one-click integration with Photoshop which I use ALL the time.

Cons:

So far I've loved everything... working on integrating custom graphics

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