The best noise reduction software has come a long way. In days gone, removing noise from your photo also meant eliminating detail. But not anymore. Each noise reduction application on this list leverages the latest AI technologies, enabling you to denoise your image while enhancing detail. As a result, denoising your image is no longer detrimental and entirely beneficial. Jump to Conclusion
Best Noise Reduction Software of 2025
- ON1 NoNoise AI 2024
- DxO PureRaw 4
- Topaz Photo AI
- Lightroom
- Topaz Denoise AI
- Noiseless AI
- OM Workspace
- Nik Dfine
1. ON1 NoNoise AI 2024
ON1 NoNoise AI is fast, easy to use, and produces outstanding results beyond the reach of mid-tier products such as Lightroom Denoise and Topaz Denoise AI. In addition to noise reduction, ON1 NoNoise AI features Tack Sharp, an AI sharpening tool capable of sharpening poorly focused and motion-blurred images. However, I have found that using Tack Sharp and NoNoise AI together is often destructive, so I recommend you use one or the other, but not both.
Regarding speed, ON1 NoNoise AI is the fastest denoiser I have tested and responds to your adjustments almost immediately. As for adjustments, you can choose between two different denoising models and tune the amount of color and luminance noise reduction, sharpening, and detail retention. Alternatively, you can leave ON1 NoNoise AI in its reliably excellent automatic mode.
You can denoise an entire image with ON1 NoNoise AI or limit noise reduction to select areas using its array of brushes and AI-powered automatic masks. Moreover, you can apply multiple masks, each featuring unique adjustments and contained within its own layer.
ON1 NoNoise AI also features a crop tool and various erase brushes. While including such tools seems a little strange, it means you’re less likely to export your denoiser to a secondary application for further editing.
ON1 NoNoise AI’s biggest problem is ON1 Photo Raw, a full-featured photo editing and management tool with NoNoise and Tack Sharp built in, and the price difference isn’t as big as it should be. Thus, if you are looking for a noise reduction application and a photo studio, ON1 Photo Raw is the way to go. Read ON1 Photo Raw Review.
Read ON1 NoNoise AI Review for more information
2. DxO PureRaw 4
DxO PureRaw combines two technologies to produce results beyond the reach of any denoising application on this list. The first is DeepPRIME, which is as good as noise reduction gets. The second is its Optics Modules.
Each Optics module is designed to correct the flaws inherent to specific camera and lens combinations. For instance, I have optics modules that profile the characteristics of my OM-1 and 25mm lens and another tuned for images taken with my D750 paired with a 50mm. With these profiles, DxO PureRaw can apply highly targeted corrections and enhancements to my pictures. The combined effect of DeepPRIME and Optics modules is almost like applying a sensor upgrade to the photos you’ve already taken.
Moreover, PureRaw’s automated mode is reliably excellent, meaning you can queue up large batches of images and trust it to produce near-optimal results in your absence.
However, PureRaw does have a drawback. As the name suggests, DxO PureRaw can only denoise raw files, meaning you’ll need something else for your JPEGs. DxO PureRaw is also considerably more expensive than ON1 NoNoise AI and isn’t meaningfully better in terms of noise reduction.
But suppose you’re working primarily with raw files. In that case, the combination of DxO PureRaw’s speed, reliably excellent automatic mode, top-tier noise reduction, and market-leading raw conversion makes it the one to own.
Read DxO PureRaw Review for more information, samples, and comparisons.
3. Topaz Photo AI
Topaz Photo AI is much more than one of the best AI noise-reduction applications. Specifically, Photo AI combines noise reduction, upscaling, and blur-correcting sharpening. This means two things. First, Topaz Photo AI is more useful, more often because it does more. Second, you can apply all these features to a single image to produce results no other denoiser on this list can match.
As you might expect, such a feature set doesn’t come cheap. At US$199, Topaz Photo AI is easily the most expensive application on this list. Furthermore, if we measure Topaz Photo AI purely as a denoising tool, it is no better than cheaper alternatives such as ON1 NoNoise AI and DxO PureRaw.
But, measured as an all-in-one photo enhancement tool, Topaz Photo AI is best-in-class and the only application that combines top-tier upscaling, sharpening, and denoising.
Read Topaz Photo AI Review for more information.
4. Lightroom AI Denoise
Finally, Lightroom now has an AI-powered noise reduction system to call its own. However, while it is undoubtedly very good, it falls short of its best-in-class alternatives. It’s also much slower, can take 10-20 seconds to denoise a single image, and lacks nuanced adjustments and settings.
That said, Lightroom Denoise is good enough for casual use and is a stone-cold bargain when you consider it’s only a tiny part of a US$9.99 Lightroom subscription. But, if you are looking for the best noise reduction application, you will be better off with ON1 NoNoise AI or DxO PureRaw.
Read Lightroom Denoise Review for more information, samples, and comparisons.
5. Topaz Denoise AI
Topaz Denoise AI has been discounted and has not received any updates for some time. While Denoise AI deserves a fifth place on this list, its presence also illustrates how far it has fallen behind its rivals.
Denoise AI is also one of the slower denoisers, with significant delays between adjustments. This issue is compounded by the fact that its automatic mode isn’t likely to produce a great result. Thus, latency-soaked manual optimization is almost always required. However, your patience is often rewarded with a good result.
In the past, such delays felt reasonable, given the quality of the result. But today, ON1 NoNoise AI and DxO PureRaw deliver superior results in a fraction of the time.
Read Topaz Denoise AI Review.
6. Noiseless AI
Noiseless AI is an AI-powered noise reduction application specific to Luminar Neo, which falls short of its more mature competition. Specifically, Noiseless AI lacks the ability of its rivals to restore and enhance detail.
Nevertheless, Noiseless AI does get a few things right. Noiseless AI is exceptionally straightforward, with only three settings: Low, Middle, and High. Moreover, Noiseless AI is just one more spoke in the Luminar Neo wheel. In other words, you can denoise your photo with Noiseless AI, run it through SuperSharp AI, and finish it with a preset.
Thus, if you’re already a Luminar Neo user, Noiseless AI deserves your consideration. But if you’re looking for class-leading performance and don’t mind jumping into separate applications, I recommend you look further up this list.
Read Noiseless AI Review.
7. OM Workspace
Whoever said there’s no such thing as a free lunch never downloaded OM Workspace. New to OM Workspace is an AI-powered noise reduction and sharpening tool. But while OM Workspace is free, you do get what you pay for when it comes to noise reduction software.
First, OM Workspace falls well short of the best-in-class alternatives, and it doesn’t help that you cannot apply AI Noise Reduction and AI Sharpening simultaneously. Secondly, OM Workspace only works with raw files produced by Olympus cameras, which are newer than and include the Olympus OM-D M1ii. As a result, I must use Topaz Photo AI to Denoise the raw files created by my Olympus M5ii.
However, this is no hardship since Topaz Photo AI is much better. So, if you’re a Micro Four Thirds shooter looking for full-frame image quality, I strongly recommend investing in an alternative.
Read OM Workspace Review – AI Noise Reduction
8. Nik Dfine
Nik Dfine is a traditional non-AI-powered noise reduction application and one-eighth of DxO’s US$149 8-application Nik Collection. On these terms, Nik Dfine is somewhat of a bargain.
However, Nik Dfine stands out as one of the finest examples of last-generation noise reduction technology and is thus thoroughly outperformed by the latest AI-powered photo denoisers. So, while there are many reasons why you would buy the Nik Collection as a whole, I cannot recommend Nik Dfine as one of the best noise-reduction tools.
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