RetroFix - Old Picture Restore

48 of 100 · reviews
4.6of 5 · store
6,762ratings on the App Store
269reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

RetroFix genuinely rescues badly damaged shots, water and fire damage, faded newspaper photos from 40-plus years back, and that is what people love. But it often redraws faces beyond recognition, sometimes to a scary degree, and the fall 2025 update removed the dedicated recreate button and brought crashes two times out of three. Colorization is the weak link with random colors.

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What people use it for

People with physically damaged old family photos who will accept face distortion for the sake of saving something nearly lost.

What reviews praise

Reviving heavily damaged old photos, handling water and fire damage, restoring sharpness to faded shots, bringing back childhood and family memories

What reviews complain about

Redraws faces beyond recognition and into scary territory, weak colorization with random colors, crashes after the fall update, crops part of the frame with no way to process the whole image, adds unwanted people to the photo

What users experience

1 excerpt from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

RetroFix breathed new life into my grandfathers naval journal that contained photos from the 1920’s. Some of them were in bad shape … water damage, mildew, discoloration, cracks, creases.