PicReviver

Bring old photographs back to life

Free, no watermark, files wiped after 45 minutes. Drop a faded, blurry or low-resolution photo and watch the detail return, or turn colour into a timeless black & white.

What would you like to do?

Free up to 5 at a time · stay 10 min and Studio mode unlocks batches of 10
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Automatic restoration sharpens detail; it is not designed to remove stains automatically. To try removing a stain, open Repair on the result and paint over it. Check the result: complete removal is not guaranteed.

You get the real result, not a blurry preview. Free means the full-size restored photo: the same file a paid tool would sell you.

What PicReviver does

PicReviver runs four separate restoration tools on our own GPU, not a rented cloud service, which is what lets us keep it free. Sharpen & upscale rebuilds lost detail and enlarges a photo up to 4× (read more on sharpening a blurry photo on its own, or the page built for restoring old, faded family photographs back to something sharp again). Colorize uses a colourisation model to add natural, believable colour to black & white pictures (see how colourising a black & white photo works if you'd like the detail). Restore faces is a dedicated face-repair model for bringing soft or blurry faces back into focus, especially handy on old group photos (more on restoring blurry faces in old photos). And Black & white simply converts a colour photo into a clean monochrome print. If you'd rather understand the mechanics first, we've also written up how upscaling actually rebuilds detail instead of just stretching pixels.

Every format our tool can read works: JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC/HEIF straight from an iPhone, TIFF, BMP and GIF, up to 99 MB per photo. Privacy is built into how the tool runs, not added on top: your upload is deleted the moment it's been enhanced, and the finished result is wiped automatically within 45 minutes. No account and no watermark.

What happens to your photo

Three steps, no fuss.

1. Drop a photo

It starts restoring the moment you add it, no button to hunt for.

2. The tool does its work

Lost detail is rebuilt and edges sharpened, tastefully, not over-cooked.

3. Size it & save

Slide from small to full resolution, download, and your photo is wiped.

18 seconds, nothing cut: a blurry photo goes in and the detail comes back, same photo, nothing swapped in.

Questions about old photos

The questions people ask most.

Is it really free?

Yes. You can restore up to five photos at a time, ten runs a day, completely free: no account, no watermark, no trial. The site is kept running by the small ads you see around the tool. For bigger jobs there is a €5 ShinobiTools pass (30 days) or a €3 pass for 24 hours, which does up to 1000 photos in one go, and the same pass works on our other tools. A pass buys volume and a bigger size limit, not a better result: every tier runs the same models.

What happens to my photos?

They are processed and then deleted automatically. Your upload is removed the moment it has been enhanced, and the result is wiped within 45 minutes. Nothing is shared or used to train anything. See our Privacy Policy.

Which file types can I use?

Just about any photo: JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC/HEIF (straight from an iPhone), TIFF, BMP and GIF. If a file can't be read, the tool tells you clearly instead of failing silently.

How does the restoring work?

An advanced image model rebuilds lost detail and sharpens edges, then you choose the output size (from a quick small copy up to full resolution) and download. Black & white converts a colour photo to a clean monochrome.

Will it work on very old or blurry scans?

Usually, yes: that's exactly what it's for. Extremely damaged or tiny images have limits, but most faded, soft or low-resolution photos come back with noticeably more clarity.

Is this the same as "Pixel Reviver"?

Same site: this one is PicReviver (picreviver.com), free AI photo restoration, upscaling and colourising. If you typed "pixel reviver" looking for that, you're in the right place.

More things you can fix

Common photo problems, each with a quick how-to.

Sharpen a blurry photo

Rebuild the detail in a soft, out-of-focus or slightly motion-blurred shot and bring the edges back.

Enlarge a low-resolution photo

Turn a small, soft snapshot into a sharp copy up to 4×, including old prints brought up to HD.

AI image upscaler

The dedicated upscale mode: enlarge any clean image 2× or 4× at full resolution. Free, no watermark, no credits.

AI photo enhancer

Sharpen a soft photo and enlarge it 2× in one pass: the detail is rebuilt, not stretched. Free, no watermark, no account.

Restore an old or damaged photo

Soften scratches, cracks and creases, or bring back a faded family print.

Fix a blurry photo

Camera shake, a missed focus point or a shot through glass: what the AI can recover and what it can't.

Unblur image

Why an out-of-focus picture is rebuilt rather than "sharpened", and how to judge the result honestly.

Repair a damaged print

Tears, missing corners and pressure creases in a paper photo, and the scan settings that make repair easier.

Fix the one who blinked

Upload 2-3 photos of the same moment and merge the sharpest face from each into one: no more retaking the group shot.

Restore a water-damaged photo

Staining, blooming and stuck-together prints after a flood or a leaky box. Start here before you peel anything apart.

Compress an image to 100 KB

Say the file size you have to hit, 20, 100, 200 KB or your own number, and it works out the quality. Runs in your browser.

Resize an image

Set an exact width and height, or knock it down to 50%. Proportions stay locked, nothing gets uploaded.

Crop an image

Drag a box, or lock it to square, 4:5, 16:9 or 9:16 for a profile picture, post or thumbnail.

A free Remini alternative

Remini and MyHeritage lock the restored photo behind a subscription or credits. Here it's full resolution, free.

Free photo colouriser, no watermark

Palette.fm watermarks its free result and shrinks it to 500×500 px. Here it's full size, no watermark.

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