RawTherapee

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with RawTherapee, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Sliders and curve points too imprecise, can't reset a single point or undo2025-07-09
Can't work out how or where to use the sliders2022-12-14
Operation order is unspecified and controls are an arbitrary explosion of sliders2022-11-10
Hard to figure out how to use it for a task2022-11-04
Scrolling through photos is too slow on a Mac, making it hard to browse2022-11-03
Lacks local adjustments the commenter sometimes needs2022-04-05
Metadata written by one app is invisible to the other, making the trio unusable2020-12-24
Initial preview looks overexposed because the camera's color profile isn't recognized, forcing manual adjustment2017-10-02
Interface feels opaque; exported output differs from what user sees2016-12-27