Photo storage programmes - what's good other than iPhoto?

[Dahoum]

Now that Apple announced the end of future development for Aperture what are my options for photo storage/manipulation systems if I want to move on from iPhoto?

Is Lightroom good, those of you that use it? Is it worth £8.78 a month now it's only available on a 'cloud' plan?

Are there either good alternatives?

 

[Fluffmeister]

I like Lightroom, but I have it on Windows and it does all I could ask of it, and there are lot's of free plugin's available to help with manipulation and exporting to a variety of media. It's a well supported bit of software, and as I was switching at the time from a Mac back to Windows, it was the closest I could find for the Aperture like experience.