PicsBeauty: Restore Old Photos

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4.8of 5 · store
878ratings on the App Store
43reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

The app is praised for its simplicity and good auto-colorization of old shots, and it often makes photos noticeably better. But a common complaint is that instead of sharpness it adds softness and blurs fine detail like fur and texture, so the shot ends up worse than the original. It also cuts resolution, 20 megapixels turn into 3, and there are no hints on where to start.

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What people use it for

People who want to simply colorize and tidy up old photos and are not chasing maximum detail

What reviews praise

Good auto-colorization of old photos, revives out-of-focus shots, simple and fast

What reviews complain about

Adds softness instead of sharpness and kills fine detail, cuts resolution from 20 to 3 megapixels, changes a face beyond recognition, no hints on where to start, servers go down

What users experience

2 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

Please add granularity or some controls to the enhancement processing (see FaceApp for example). Let us adjust the strength of the smoothness, eye enhancement, cheek definition, etc, and this app would then be so much cooler!

it saves my 20mp image as a 3mp shot. I would have hoped it would keep the original resolution of the original image. That’s disappointing.