# Alternatives to Aviary

Mobile photo editing SDK, bought by Adobe. Aviary has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

None of its 12 checklist rows are verified yet.

Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/aviary/
Category: Image editing

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: Aviary was used by consumer smartphone/web users who wanted quick, in-app photo editing (crop, enhance, effects), as well as by app developers and companies (e.g., Flickr, Walgreens) who embedded Aviary's SDK to add photo-editing tools to their own products.
- **What you get**: Aviary provided a standalone mobile and web photo editor with tools like crop, rotate, enhance, filters/effects, stickers, red-eye removal, whitening, and blemish removal. It also offered a free, customizable SDK (iOS, Android, Windows, HTML5) that let third-party apps embed the same editing engine. After Adobe's 2014 acquisition, it was positioned as part of Adobe's Creative SDK, adding integration with Creative Cloud and Photoshop technology.
- **How it works**: Users imported a photo into the Aviary app or a partner app embedding the Aviary SDK, applied edits through a toolbar of effects and adjustments, and saved or exported the result. Developers integrated the SDK directly into their own apps to expose the same editing interface to their users.

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## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [Adobe Express](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/adobe-express.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 2 | [Affinity Photo](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/affinity-photo.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS |
| 3 | [GIMP](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/gimp.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| 4 | [Krita](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/krita.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux, Android |
| 5 | [Luminar Neo](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/luminar-neo.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| 6 | [Paint.NET](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/paintnet.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows |
| 7 | [Photopea](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/photopea.md) | building | Proprietary | Web |
| 8 | [PhotoScape X](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/photoscape-x.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS |
| 9 | [Photoshop](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/photoshop.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Web |
| 10 | [Pixelmator Pro](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/pixelmator-pro.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS |
| 11 | [Polarr](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/polarr.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, iOS, Android, Windows |

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