Polarr, Inc., based in San Jose, California, builds a family of AI-assisted photo and video editors built around its own filter engine and millions of community-made filters. The core Polarr app for iOS and Android pairs manual editing tools with AI enhancement filters, Polarr Pro extends that editor to Mac, Windows and the web with a fuller advanced toolset, and Polarr Next is a newer browser-based product described as the first batch RAW editing AI workflow of its kind, aimed at photographers who need to cull and edit large RAW photo batches without installing desktop software. A separate Polarr AI SDK lets other developers build Polarr’s editing and enhancement models into their own apps.
Running batch AI edits across a large RAW library is a different workload from touching up a single photo, so the free-import, pay-per-export model on Polarr Next rewards culling down to the keepers before paying to export, rather than exporting everything by default. Community-made filters vary in quality since anyone can publish one, so results are worth previewing before applying a filter to an entire shoot.
Polarr Next, read directly from its own pricing page, lists Pay As You Go at $0.05 per export with unlimited culling and AI edits and no credit card required to start, Unlimited Monthly at $29.99 a month, and Unlimited Yearly at $19.99 a month billed as $239 a year; every new account gets 2,000 free exports to trial the workflow, and pay-as-you-go exports never expire. The classic Polarr Pro app is priced separately on each app store and third-party listings put it near $7.99 a month, though the exact current figure varies by source and region and is worth checking on the store listing directly.
