AI Photo Restorer

Bring old, blurry, and low-quality photos of people back to life. The AI finds every face and rebuilds it in sharp detail, entirely on your device.

100% on your device — grandma's photos never touch a server.
🖼️ Drop an old photo here or
JPG, PNG, WebP · scanned prints, blurry snapshots, low-res crops · faces required

About the AI Photo Restorer

Every family has them: the shoebox scans where a grandparent's face is a soft blur, the 2004 camera-phone shot of someone who is gone now, the group photo where the one person you care about is forty pixels tall. Photo restoration services will fix these for money; photo restoration apps will fix them in exchange for uploading the most personal images you own to someone's server.

This tool takes neither deal. A face detector finds every face in the photo, and GFPGAN, one of the most capable face-restoration models ever published openly, rebuilds each one in sharp detail. Both models run in your browser: they download once (about 150 MB, cached for good), and from then on the restoration happens entirely on your machine, offline if you like. The photo never uploads, and the result carries no watermark.

What it does

What to expect (and what not to)

Face restoration models are remarkable on eyes, skin texture, and hair, and they are honest about identity: the person still looks like themselves, just in focus. They restore faces specifically; a blurry barn stays a blurry barn. For whole-photo sharpening, run the result through the AI Image Upscaler afterward. Very small faces (under about 30 pixels) and faces turned fully sideways may be skipped by the detector.

Good to know

Common questions

How do I restore an old photo for free without uploading it?

Drop the photo here and the restoration happens on your own device: a face detector finds every face, and the GFPGAN model rebuilds each one in sharp detail, right in your browser. The photo never uploads, there is no watermark, and there is no per-photo meter, because there are no servers doing the work.

What kinds of photos does the AI restorer work on?

It shines on photos of people: scanned prints from the family shoebox, blurry or low-resolution snapshots, small faces cropped out of group shots, and early digital camera photos. The AI rebuilds facial detail (eyes, skin, hair) while leaving the rest of the photo untouched. For photos without faces, the AI Image Upscaler is the better tool.

Is it safe to restore private family photos online?

Here, yes, because the photos never go online at all. The AI models download to your browser once (about 150 MB, cached for next time) and every restoration runs on your machine. Photos of your parents, your kids, or your late relatives stay exactly where they started: on your device.

Can it fix a group photo with several faces?

Yes. The detector finds every face and the restorer rebuilds them one at a time, largest first, up to six per photo, with progress shown for each. Each restored face is blended back into the original photo at full resolution.

Why does the first photo take longer than the rest?

The first use downloads the restoration model (about 150 MB) with a progress bar and caches it in your browser, so later visits skip the download entirely and even work offline. The restoration itself takes a few seconds per face on a typical laptop.

Does the restored photo have a watermark or resolution limit?

No watermark and no resolution cap: you download the full-size photo with the faces restored in place, as PNG or JPEG. On a phone you can also save it straight to your camera roll. Sites that meter these things do so because their servers cost money per photo; your device does this work free.

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