Recently, VSCO launched their latest photo editing app, Studio Pro. The premise behind Studio Pro is simple – a mobile-only (for now) tool that is built to help streamline batch edits for professional photographers (or at least photographers with the volume of a professional). From culling to batch edits, Studio Pro is meant to streamline a workflow from the moment you import from your camera to delivering it to your client with many of the tools and looks that you’ve come to expect from VSCO.
VSCO Studio Pro Built for Batches
The biggest feature in VSCO Studio Pro is its Style Match feature, which allows users to quickly edit a single image and then batch apply that look to as many as 100 photos at once. The idea is to remove the friction of single-image edits, copy/pasting to individual images, rinse and repeat. This is the current breakdown of what it’s like to edit your images using the original VSCO app – a workflow that was designed more for single images that were ultimately intended to live on your VSCO feed. By contrast, VSCO Studio Pro is intended to connect to VSCO Galleries – whether to build out your professional portfolio or delivering images to clients. This is a major rethinking of how VSCO intends for photographers to interact with their apps.
Today, the VSCO Studio Pro app feels more like a proof of concept with some vital features like the ability to crop or transform an image, clarity, and curve adjustments not yet ready at launch. Currently, there is no way to work with RAW files either. Additionally, the style matching processes seem to take a bit longer than I had hoped – though this could be because I’m using an iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Lastly, the biggest “miss”, in my opinion, is the continued lack of desktop support. Though, for their part, VSCO’s roadmap aims to fix many of these with a planned future release of a macOS version of Studio Pro expected out by the end of 2026. The macOS version of Studio Pro is the single roadmap feature that I’m most excited about, we’ve been asking about this for some time now.
VSCO One Aims to Bring it all Together
If you’ve been paying attention to VSCO as of late, the company is expanding well beyond the days of simple presets from the convenience of your phone. Instead, VSCO is putting together a suite of photo products that are intended to help amateurs become pros and help pros scale their business. VSCO One is their answer to the fragmentation that exists for professional photography services and the choke hold that various subscriptions can create. Instead of one app for editing, one app for sharing, an external site for your work, and a separate CRM to manage your business, VSCO One pulls all these elements of the modern professional photographer’s workflow into a single subscription. Instead of just being the creative starting point for photographers, VSCO hopes to become a one-stop shop for a photographer’s entire workflow: from creation to delivery to managing your entire business all from one dashboard.
VSCO Studio Pro is currently available as a free download on iOS and VSCO One is slated to officially launch in late June 2026, for an annual subscription of $499. You can sign up to be notified of VSCO One updates here.
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