The following are listed in importance to me from most to least.
#1. Denoise and Super Resolution... I greatly appreciate that the app does not create a separate dng file which greatly improves on maximizing disk space. But have these two work one or the other is frustrating. Would be great to be able to do both. Also Super Resolution only doubles the pixels. Would be nice to have 2x, 3x, 4x.
#2. Printing support much like Lightroom Classic. I own a Canon PRO 300 and edit photographs for the intent to print them.
#3. Histogram, its nice that you can display it in the top right corner just like Lightroom Classic but its missing the ISO, focal length, aperture and shutter speed info. So i have to constantly swith between info view and edit view.
#4. Info Overlay option in top left corner of screen just like Lightroom Classic can show it.
#5. Virtual Copy otion when using Local Storage. Currently versions are only supported in Cloud editing which is just not an option for me.
#6. iPad Version (Mobile) seems to have been forgotten about. One specific omission is local storage option. There are other things missing like Denoise and Super Resolution. But it does have Lens Blur which in my opionon the few times i have tried Lens Blur in either version of Lightroom it just does not work well enough for me to use it. Denoise for example has more benefits. In my opinion its on par with Dxo PureRaw which i own a license for but will start using it less becuase of two issues. One it only works with Lightroom Classic and two it creates a separate dng much like lightroom use to. There is an app named Photomator which was bought by Apple last year. It has 100% feature parity on MacOS, iPadOS but it has one major flaw. It does not have lens correction profiles like other apps. Which is a big issue as it uses Apple's native macOS to render the photos. Exaple why this is a problem is a photo viewed in Preivew app will show vignetting in the corners of a wide angle shot. But when viewed in Lightroom the Adobe lens corrections almost always remove the vignette. Last point. iPad's have come a long way especially the iPad Pro line. The M4 has a OLED screen that supports 4 stops of HDR. Has Thunderbolt 4 USB-C. Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil Pro and even the abilty of connecting a bluetooth mouse make it ideal for a full blown lightroom app. And iPadOS 26 will extend its abilties even further.
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