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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.
Free, nothing kept, no watermark. Drop a faded, blurry or low-resolution photo and watch the detail return — or turn colour into a timeless black & white.
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 combined mode built for restoring old, faded family photographs back to something sharp again). Colorize uses a colourisation model (DDColor) 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 (CodeFormer) 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, no watermark, nothing kept.
40 days of our own usage data, not a marketing line.
Over the 40 days we've been measuring (13 July – 21 August), PicReviver logged 4,329 page views from 811 real visitors — not bots — across 73 countries. Between the tool above and the standalone pages for upscaling, colourising, enhancing and face repair, people ran 80 tool jobs; not one of those failed once it started processing. 26 were turned away before they got that far, and the rejections are the part no manual tells you about: the single biggest cause, grouped together, was photos that were simply too large — 48, 57, 50 and even 103 megapixels, well beyond anything a browser upload needs — followed by files saved in a format the tool didn't recognise. Nothing was lost or corrupted in either case; the tool just said no before spending GPU time on a file it couldn't use, and told the person why instead of failing silently.
Three steps, no fuss.
It starts restoring the moment you add it, no button to hunt for.
Lost detail is rebuilt and edges sharpened, tastefully, not over-cooked.
Slide from small to full resolution, download, and your photo is wiped.
The questions people ask most.
Yes. You can restore up to five photos at a time 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 that does 1000 photos in one go — and the same pass works on our other tools.
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 kept, shared, or used to train anything. See our Privacy Policy.
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.
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.
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.
Common photo problems, each with a quick how-to.
Rebuild the detail in a soft, out-of-focus or slightly motion-blurred shot and bring the edges back.
Turn a small, soft snapshot into a sharp copy up to 4×, including old prints brought up to HD.
The dedicated upscale mode: enlarge any clean image 2× or 4× at full resolution — free, no watermark, no credits.
Sharpen a soft photo and enlarge it 2× in one pass — the detail is rebuilt, not stretched. Free, no watermark, no account.
Soften scratches, cracks and creases, or bring back a faded, water-stained family print.
Camera shake, a missed focus point or a shot through glass: what the AI can recover and what it can't.
Why an out-of-focus picture is rebuilt rather than "sharpened", and how to judge the result honestly.
Tears, missing corners and pressure creases in a paper photo, and the scan settings that make repair easier.
Staining, blooming and stuck-together prints after a flood or a leaky box — start here before you peel anything apart.
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.
Set an exact width and height, or knock it down to 50%. Proportions stay locked, nothing gets uploaded.
Drag a box, or lock it to square, 4:5, 16:9 or 9:16 for a profile picture, post or thumbnail.
Remini and MyHeritage lock the restored photo behind a subscription or credits. Here it's full resolution, free.
Palette.fm watermarks its free result and shrinks it to 500×500 px. Here it's full size, no watermark.