Yore: AI Restore Old Photos

I paid for a week’s worth of use of this app for $10, and used it very heavily for that week primarily on some old black and white photos I obtained from a negative scanner. The results were real hit or miss. Occasionally, you will get a solid face enhancement or scratch remover. The restoring function turns the picture into something completely different. More often than not, the people you start with bear only a passing resemblance to the people in the picture. As for the colorization feature, sometimes you do get a really good result. However, most of the time — regardless of the level of AI you use, skin coloring is way off. The app oftentimes colors bare skin a light/darkish gray color that looks like the skin of a corpse that has been dead for a year. I had to use Photoshop Express to manually fix these colorings. Priced at $10 PER WEEK, this app is not worth it. I would pay $10 total FOR the app, but no more. There is also the problem of the advertised “turbo” mode on the free version. It says that if you pay for the app you will get turbo processing mode. This is frankly misleading. Regardless of whether I used a feature on the paid version or the free version, each time I processed a picture it said it was processing it at “regular speed”. And there was no actual difference in the processing speed between the free and paid versions. Another issue with the free version is that it says you have to watch “AN ad” to process your picture. AN ad invariably means TWO very long ads. Skip this app, there has got to be a better one out there.

Recreate fixes a lot of problems with old, wrinkled and even torn photos. Enhance does a decent job adding color, but it’s a bit too rich. Maybe need to fiddle with it some more. Definitely a keeper - I have a lot of ancient family photos that need help, so I’ll be busy for a while. One complaint: It doesn’t keep the original EXIF data - particularly date/time and location. I’m having to spend extra time to go back and fix that with another app. Not a bad enough bug to rate a downgrade to 4 stars.

I’ve tried this app for the last several days and have revitalized many photos. A majority of them have come out great. I love the straightforward pricing and not all of this BS with coins and photo limits in 1 million pricing levels that you don’t understand and that’s why I stay away from the other ones. There are a few tricks you will figure out along the way. For photos you where you’re creating animation it’s best to use a photo with at least 3/4 of the face showing so that you can have more accuracy in the reproduction. I am learning the difference between each category such as enhance, re-create, etc. There’s a learning curve as to which application you need to use on each photos. I would highly recommend this app. If you have problems the response from the health team is amazingly quick.