Pixelup: AI Photo Enhancer App

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4.4of 5 · store
39,149ratings on the App Store
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An editorial reading of the saved reviews

The main task of enhancing old and grainy photos is done convincingly. Black-and-white shots gain color with enough accuracy for a family archive. Processing speed is high. On some shots faces lose their features after upscaling and look like a generic approximation.

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What people use it for

People who digitize and restore a family archive and accept minor deviations in facial features in exchange for overall quality improvement.

What reviews praise

Detail recovery on grainy and old photos, colorization of black-and-white frames, processing speed measured in seconds.

What reviews complain about

On some portraits the AI replaces facial features with averaged ones, and the resulting person no longer resembles the original.

What users experience

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

I would have paid the lifetime subscription fee in a heartbeat if this wasn't missing this vital feature: it does not operate as a Photos editing Extension. I don't want an app that creates NEW images that lose the original. Instead I want to edit my original in place.