Looking for a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web)? Here are 9 ai image editing & enhancement worth trying — 9 with a free tier. Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) itself is free tier + paid.
| Tool | Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) (you searched) | Segment Anything Playground | Affinity by Canva | Upscayl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | freemium | free | free | free |
| Best for | Free Photoshop app for iPhone and Android with layers, selections and masks | Browser playground to try Meta SAM 3, SAM 3D and SAM Audio | Professional photo, vector and layout suite now free for everyone | Free open-source desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) using Real-ESRGAN on a Vulkan GPU |
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Segment Anything Playground is the closest free alternative to Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web): same AI Image Editing & Enhancement sub-category, and it is free. Browser playground to try Meta SAM 3, SAM 3D and SAM Audio
Yes — 9 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Segment Anything Playground, Affinity by Canva, Upscayl, Krita AI Diffusion, BAGEL (ByteDance). None of them are paid-only.
Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) is free tier + paid. There is a free tier you can work in, with paid plans above it.
They are the other tools in AI Image Editing & Enhancement, then the rest of Content & Media Generation, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — Browser playground to try Meta SAM 3, SAM 3D and SAM Audio.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — Professional photo, vector and layout suite now free for everyone.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — Free open-source desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) using Real-ESRGAN on a Vulkan GPU.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — Free plugin adding generative inpaint, outpaint, ControlNet and upscaling to Krita.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — Apache-2.0 7B-active unified model for understanding, text-to-image and image editing.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — Apache-2.0 instruction-based image editing model from StepFun.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — MIT-licensed CLI, Python library and HTTP server for automatic background removal.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — MIT-licensed high-resolution segmentation and matting model for clean background removal.
✦ WhyA Adobe Photoshop (mobile and web) alternative — Apache-2.0 model for text-to-image, instruction editing and in-context generation from multiple references.