Just wish to revive this thread and add myself in a wait list of standalone app.
I’m against subscription model, so I would never buy lightroom, at the same time I wish to try NLP.
I also wonder if there is any progress in this direction?
Me too…
Affinity Photo user.
Good grief, folks, this is a dispiriting thread to read. Nate has created an excellent product that is available at a very competitive price and which solves many of the issues seen with other scanning software.
While I agree that a standalone app would be great he is just one person who no doubt has spent thousands of hours building NLP. To expect him to create a whole new product is simply not realistic.
It doesn’t matter that his product has a good price - I want to pay him and use his product, but I can’t because it only supports one specific RAW processor. Building a standalone, or a plug-in for any of the other non-adobe processors would be fantastic and greatly appreciated. I don’t use Adobe.
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Ditto to everything dyptre said. I explored other options recent, and there are other options that are stand alone. NLP is the best quality (currently) and could remain that way but I think it’s going to come back to bite him in the long run if it stays locked to Adobe. There needs to be a stand alone version.
Just here to cast my vote for a standalone version. I am using the Lightroom plugin but it really is the last piece of software that ties me to Adobe. I am, like more and more people, fed up with this company but still want to scan my films and support your product.
Out of curiosity, how is the “new” Lightroom in this regard? It feels like it’s been quiet on that front. I’m one of the few people who don’t mind it and was just about to fully switch over to take advantage of 1TB of storage. But then I got re-bit by the film bug.
(Though, would also support a standalone 
to try and get away from Adobe, lol)
+1 for standalone or some other program like DxO
And (perhaps the new elephant in the room) Pixelmator?
Is there any chance the latest Lightroom 8, not classic, will be supported as the subscription cost of about $10 pm is more reasonable?
Well I’m in the UK but you seem to have the same options in the US, surely you want the ‘Photography Plan (20GB)’ which is also $9.98/month and includes Photoshop, Lightroom & Lightroom Classic.
The non-classic version of Lightroom do not support plugins, unfortunately, so you have to have Lightroom Classic.
Thanks for that.
Last time I looked all I found was the $20/£20 option with 1T space.
Maybe it will be a Happy New Year 
I have found in the past that they hide things away, very strangely it wasn’t included on the main ‘All’ page but I found it in ‘Photo’. I wonder if changes are afoot…?
Nope. They just increased their plan prices again and they’re eliminating the 20GB Photography plan, the least expensive way to get LRC, for new subscribers. I have got to find a better way…
What we really need, though I’m loathe to add another standalone application to my workflow, is a standalone NLP app. I get that it’s virtually impossible, however, as API access is necessary to avoid creating a completely from-scratch product. We’re just kinda humped. Adobe has us all over a barrel.
My understanding is the monthly cost is about $15 USD but if you pay for a year the one time payment is about $119 USD. I switched my plan from monthly to annual to get the lower cost.
Well the US link that I posted shows it as the same cost for monthly and annual, 12 monthly payments of $9.98 (which would be $119.76) or $119.98 annually. This is for the 20GB Photography Plan but @Gryyphyn says above that they are ‘eliminating the 20GB plan’. I didn’t go through to pay for it of course but there was nothing to say that I (as a new user) couldn’t do so.
Now I’m logging in from the UK and choosing the United States as my country, could it be different if you are actually in the US? Confused!
(I actually use Lightroom 6.14 Perpetual and I have no interest in subscribing even though I think there are new features in NLP that I can’t use.)
The 20g plan is still there in the UK
https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/photography/compare-plans.html
and US https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/compare-plans.html
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Adobe is pushing their changes on 01152025. Until then it’s still available for new subscribers. After that the 20GB plan is only available to existing subscribers on that plan but at an increased, $11.99/no price or the same $119/year. I learned about it via PetaPixel.
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Thanks for clarifying that, I think it is clear that the 20GB Photography Plan won’t be available at all to new subscribers after January 15th. That is going to increase the investment for new NLP users after that date as their only option to use Lightroom Classic will be the 1TB Photography Plan at $239.99 annually or $19.99 monthly. Do please check for yourself though as the detail may change.
I found another link on Lightroom Queen but looking at the comments Adobe don’t seem to be making it easy to understand what their own plans are:
Ignore the headline, that refers to a small number of users who have in effect had a 1TB Photography Plan at the 20GB pricing: