UpRes: AI Photo Video Enhancer

I appreciate this app’s capabilities - being able to upscale both still pictures and videos as well as changing the frame rate, with zero IAPs or ads. There’s just one app improvement that I’d like: after upscaling images, they lose some detail, almost as though a smoothing algorithm has been applied as well. I’d prefer the fine detail to be kept intact. This is not just in faces but across the board, sometimes to the extent that the pre-upscale version just looks better and less “plasticky”. If the smoothing alg could be turned off or significantly dialed back that would make this app perfect IMO.

When I first used this app it was very impressive and it was 100% ad free, making it wonderful to use. However, the app has obviously been changing and gearing towards a dreadful paid or in-app-purchase model. Ads are now being injected into the app. After saving a photo or video to then upscale another you’ll see an advertisement. Megapixel limitations are being imposed with a limit of 24MP. There used to be 6X, 8X, 10X upscaling options, now the only options available are 2X & 4X. Photos used to be saved as JPG, now it’s in PNG. Although PNG is a better format for quality, it significantly increases the file size. So if you upload photos somewhere that has size limits (Like Reddit’s 20MB Limit) you can’t. Offering an option to choose PNG or JPG is better than having no options at all. With all these new changes and limitations being added, it’s become apparent this app is moving towards a paid model to unlock certain features like their other apps.

I was able to take a 768 x 960 image and upscale it to 3072 x 3940 with beautiful results. Many of the other AI upscalers I've tested have added pixels but not clarity. Some could only upscale images under a certain size, while others could only upscale a small percentage. The worst one I tried smeared everyone's eyes. This is, hands down, the best AI image upscaler I've used.