
Lightroom and Lightroom Classic share the same name, confusingly, and they do the same basic job of organizing your photo library and offering powerful non-destructive editing tools to correct and enhance images and apply all sorts of creative effects. The editing tools are the same, and they use the same presets and profiles. Both are among the best photo-editing software applications today. And yet they are two distinctly different programs aimed at different user types and ways of working.
I’ve reviewed Lightroom Classic separately: this is the ‘old’ Lightroom that works with files stored on your computer, not in the cloud, and is probably way more popular among serious photographers because the storage is free and under your control.