Remini - AI Photo Enhancer

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4.6of 5 · store
346,446ratings on the App Store
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An editorial reading of the saved reviews

Sharpness enhancement on old photos was impressive in 2020-2022, but the algorithm has degraded: faces now come out plastic and overexposed, the background receives no improvement at all, and results on modern photos are indistinguishable from the original in sharpness.

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What people use it for

People who want to restore specific old family photos and can accept unpredictable results.

What reviews praise

In good cases on old film photos, the app restores face detail and clarity with surprising accuracy.
Processing speed has improved compared to early versions.

What reviews complain about

Enhancement is applied only to faces, while the background is ignored and stays blurry.
Faces come out plastic and overexposed with off-balance color.
On historical photos the result barely reads as an improved version of the original.

What users experience

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

If you're after photo preservation, do not download this app. It is unable to restore older photos. I've tried images from the 1980s-early 2000s and the results are hardly discernible from the original. You'll typically notice an adjustment in brightness, but that's it.

The moment you open the app, it makes you watch an add, you watch an ad additionally so that you could attempt to adjust the picture, then if you want to go further and adjust another aspect of the picture, it's another ad, after you've done it again it's another ad.

I fully expected advertisements; it's a free app, it has to make money somehow. But this is by far the worst, most invasive app I've ever had the displeasure of using. Requires you to either spend money or watch a LONG, UNSKIPPABLE AD if you want to even try to use a feature.

I paid for a week of Remini AI photos expecting stylized versions of MYSELF, not random AI women wearing toddler roller skates, sitting in strawberry fields, hiding in teddy bears, or looking like Celine Dion's emotionally unavailable cousin.