For basic adjustments, cropping, and filtering, Adobe offers official, free, lightweight versions of their software for mobile devices and Windows tablets through official app stores.

These "portable" applications are unauthorized, illegal, cracked versions of the software that have been modified by unknown third parties. The Photoshop development team at Adobe has explicitly stated that these portable applications are "illegally cracked and pirated versions of Photoshop".

While highly functional, the portable version has limitations:

: An advanced tool for removing blemishes, red-eye, and lens distortion with a single click.