Cross-platform (macOS/Windows/Linux) desktop app that batch-converts RAW camera files into smaller JPEGs. Drop your files, pick an output folder, get JPEGs — no library, no editing, no learning curve.

RAW files are huge and most photo apps that read them assume you want a whole editing/catalog workflow. raw-lite does one thing: turn a folder of RAW files into a folder of reasonably-sized JPEGs you can actually share.

• Broad RAW format support (.cr2, .arw, .nef, .dng, and more — whatever the bundled dcraw/dcraw_emu decoder handles).
• Drag-and-drop files or whole folders; recurses subfolders.
• One bad/corrupt file never stops the batch — failures are collected and shown at the end.
• Sane defaults (2000px long edge, quality 75) with optional advanced controls.
• No catalog, no thumbnails, no editing, no SD-card auto-detection — conversion only.

v1, unsigned (no Apple notarization / Windows code signing yet). Core conversion logic and desktop shell are implemented and tested. macOS (aarch64) has a verified release build: a bundled dcraw_emu binary, packaged with npm run bundle, converts a real RAW file end-to-end with no dependency on anything installed on the host machine. Windows and Linux release builds are untested — nobody has bundled a decoder binary or run the packaged app on those platforms yet.

crates/raw-lite-core/   pure Rust RAW→JPEG conversion logic, no UI deps
raw-lite-app/           Tauri v2 desktop shell (frontend + Rust backend)

raw-lite-core has no dependency on the app shell, so it can be reused by a CLI or a different UI later without a rewrite.

Requires Rust (2024 edition) and Node.js.

# run the desktop app in dev mode
cd raw-lite-app
npm install
npm run tauri dev

# run tests / checks from repo root
cargo check --workspace
cargo test --workspace

Development and cargo test resolve the decoder via (in order): RAW_LITE_DCRAW env var → a decoder next to the app executable → dcraw_emu/dcraw on PATH. See raw-lite-app/src-tauri/binaries/README.md for how release builds bundle a real per-platform dcraw_emu binary.

• PRODUCT.md — product scope, users, principles.
• DESIGN.md — design decisions and rationale.

MIT — see LICENSE.