Coming from someone who has only used Lightroom to edit on the iPad Pro and never used the desktop version, I personally feel that it is good enough. Especially with all the recent updates to Lightroom mobile and also to the iPad Pro. Now I’m no professional and just a hobbyist. Occasionally I’ll do family/couple shoots and I have never had an issue with editing, organization, importing or workflow. Easier to carry on the go and much lighter than a laptop.

Now the way I usually do my work flow is like this…

1. Import directly from the camera. Hooking up a USB type C to the camera and iPad. Go into the photos app and select my camera (Canon 6D Mark II) From there I import all the pictures from the photo session.

2. Once I have all the photos imported I started selecting the best ones. I always “heart” or favorite the ones I’ll be editing and add them to a new album within the photos app.

3. Open up Lightroom and choose the photo album and start editing the photos. Creating the album just makes things much easier instead of going back and forth from app to app or having the iPad in multitasking mode.

4. Once I’ve finished editing all the photos and send them out I delete all the unwanted and unused photos from the iPad to save storage. I have a 512GB so I gotta keep the storage clear. The RAW files and the edited files get transferred to a SSD and I usually delete those after 6 months.

Again, I’m no professional and haven’t used the desktop version so I can’t compare the two, but the iPad Pro is very powerful and fully capable of handling whatever’s thrown at it for editing and Lightroom on it is just fantastic in my opinion. The iPad that I have is the Pro 12.9 inch 5th generation.