Free AI Photo Enhancer
This tool enhances photos in two distinct ways, and tells you which one it is using. For portraits it restores faces: a model rebuilds sharp, natural facial detail from blurry, low-resolution or damaged originals, which is the dramatic before-and-after you have seen in old-photo restorations. For everything else it sharpens the whole image, removing mild blur, noise and compression without inventing anything. Both run in your browser, free and unlimited, and your photo never leaves your device.
The first run loads the AI model into your browser, a one-time download of about 340 MB, and stashes it away like an acorn. One-time setup: every later visit starts instantly.
How to use it
Drop in your photo
Old scans, low-resolution portraits, slightly blurry shots. The tool first looks for faces, which takes under a second, and picks the mode that will help most. You can switch.
Restore faces, or sharpen everything
Face restore rebuilds each face at high detail and blends it seamlessly back into the photo. Whole-photo mode runs a restoration model across the entire image in tiles. The first is transformative and takes liberties; the second is faithful and takes patience.
Compare honestly, then keep going
A before-and-after slider shows exactly what changed. From there, one click sends the result to the upscaler, which is the full restore-an-old-photo chain: enhance, then enlarge.
How this runs without a server
Every other tool in this category works the same way: you upload your image, a GPU in a data centre somewhere runs the model, and the result comes back. That architecture is why they all have credits, watermarks and sign-up walls. Someone has to pay for that GPU, and it is metered by the second.
This page does it differently. When you drop in an image, your browser loads the AI model itself and runs it locally. If your browser supports WebGPU, the model runs on your own graphics hardware, which is typically five to sixty times faster than the CPU fallback. If it does not, we fall back to WebAssembly, which is slower but works everywhere.
Two things follow from that, and they are the entire reason this site exists. First, your photo never goes anywhere: it is read into a canvas in your tab and stays in your device's memory until you close it. There is no upload endpoint on this domain to send it to. Second, our cost per image is zero, so the free tier is not a loss-leader with a trapdoor in it. It is just what the thing costs to run, which is nothing.
The model file is cached by your browser after the first download. That is the one wait you have to sit through, and it only happens once per browser. After that the tool works with your network disconnected, which is a decent way to prove to yourself that nothing is being sent.
Checking that for yourself
You do not have to take our word for it, and you should not. Open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network tab, and use the tool. You will see the model coming down. You will not see your image going up, because it never does. Then turn your wifi off: once the model is loaded, the tool keeps working with no network at all, which is not something we could fake. We walk you through both checks here.
Your photo stays on your device.
Not "deleted after 24 hours". Not "encrypted in transit". Never sent. Here is how we prove it.
Frequently asked questions
How can a blurry face become sharp again?
The honest answer: the detail is generated, not recovered. The face model has learned what human faces look like from millions of examples, and it reconstructs the most plausible sharp face consistent with your blurry pixels. On lightly degraded photos that lands remarkably close to the truth. On heavily damaged ones it can drift from how the person actually looked, which is why the compare slider is front and centre.
Will it change what my relative looked like?
It can, and we would rather warn you than surprise you. The reconstruction is plausible detail, and identity usually survives well, but if a photo of someone you love comes out looking subtly wrong, trust your eye and keep the original. The original is never modified; you always get a new file.
Why is whole-photo mode so much slower?
It runs a restoration model over every tile of the image on your CPU. On this model our measurements say the graphics-card path produces wrong output, so we pinned it to the slower path that produces the right one, and we would rather be slow than wrong. The time estimate is shown before you commit.
Can it fix motion blur or a missed focus?
Mild blur, yes, noticeably. Severe motion blur or a badly missed focus, no, and no browser tool honestly can. Faces are the exception: face restore can rebuild a sharp face even from quite blurry input, because it knows what faces look like.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The models download to your browser and run there, like every tool on this site. Old family photos are personal; that is exactly why the site works this way.