waifu2x

I've been using this little side branch of upscaling for probably over 7 years now, never used anything else. Everything else follows this nauseating standard/framework of being loaded to the brim with ads, begging the user to enter a subscription model, and yet still gives poor outputs that are usually way over processed or try to do that terrible facial reconstruction. Yet with this app I literally make a one time, few dollar purchase and have full access to every model permanently. It's extremely refreshing to find something that was actually streamlined properly.

I have been using Waifu2x in IOS for years now with its latest updates and the various improved scaler models but never I had any issues before of literally waiting for them to even start processing the image file regardless of what resolution it is up until just recently. Whenever I refresh the app or turn on my moderately powerful hardware iPhone, it always loads the chosen models first every single time. The main issue is that it takes over a minute just to finish loading a model. I have been using practically the same exact settings before and after I upgraded to a new phone yet it doesn’t make a dent in the annoying long loading times. It’s not something that brakes the app for its main purpose on what is trying to do but hopefully, this will get patched soon and it’ll make it easier for us to not wait this long to change even over a single image/video than it should. Around five-second load times when choosing a model at least would be very much tolerable regardless that the software app didn’t have any loading times before I made this review.

I remember ios 6 when it was a pain to just browse our waifus but now we can upscale our H on our phone to 32k for no reason?! YES PLEASE! Don’t be depressed fellow weebs one day you’ll have a job to pay your favorite artist that phat $$$$ but for now you can upscale her to what res with where shame?? On a serious note the app is great wothout giving users too many controls while still giving some flexibility, even more “casual icons” for the closet weebs. For the dojin readers a folder feature is available 😉😮‍💨 that alone is worth money if you ask me 😅😳 Thank you for making this dev <3