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Free AI Photo Restoration

Bring old, blurry or low-quality photos back to life. Upload a picture and the AI restores faces and sharpens detail — right in your browser. Free, no sign-up, no install.

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Launch the photo restorer

Upload an old or low-quality photo, turn on background enhance and face upsample in the panel, and generate a restored version. The GPU starts on demand — the first run can take up to a minute.

Free · No account required

Restoration is powered by an embedded open model (CodeFormer) hosted on Hugging Face. Your image goes straight to the engine. CodeFormer's licence is for non-commercial use — results are best used for personal projects, and you're responsible for what you upload.

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🧑 Front-facing faces

CodeFormer specialises in faces, so clear front-facing portraits restore best.

⚙️ Turn on the enhancers

Enable Background Enhance and Face Upsample in the panel for the fullest result.

⏳ Patience pays

The first launch may take up to a minute while the GPU warms up. After that it's faster.

How it works

From faded to fresh in three steps

No photo-editing skills needed — the model repairs faces and detail for you.

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Upload the old photo

Drop in the scanned, blurry or damaged picture you want to fix.

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Enhance

The model restores faces, sharpens detail and can upscale the result.

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Download

Preview the restored photo and download it to keep or share.

Ways to use it

One tool, plenty of uses

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Family & heritage photos

Revive faded prints of relatives and old family moments.

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Scanned prints

Clean up scans of physical photos that have lost sharpness.

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AI-generated faces

Fix distorted or soft faces in AI-generated images.

Guide

Restoring old, blurry and damaged photos

The restoration tool is built around faces. It's based on CodeFormer, a model designed to rebuild facial detail in old, blurry or low-quality portraits, so scanned family photos, soft selfies and even distorted AI-generated faces see the biggest improvement. Landscapes and text-heavy images benefit far less.

For the best result, upload the clearest version you have and turn on Background Enhance and Face Upsample in the panel — these clean up the area around the face and enlarge the output at the same time. If you're working from a physical print, scan it at as high a resolution as you can rather than photographing it with a phone.

Restoration reconstructs detail rather than revealing what was truly captured, so a very damaged photo will look cleaner but not identical to the original scene — that's normal for any AI restorer. Because the underlying model is licensed for non-commercial use, restored images are best kept for personal and family projects. Want the result larger? Send it to the Image Upscaler afterwards.

FAQ

Common questions

Is the AI photo restoration really free? +

Yes — free with no account, supported by ads on the page. It runs on shared GPU infrastructure, so it can queue at busy times.

What kinds of photos does it fix best? +

Photos with faces. CodeFormer is a face-restoration model, so old portraits, blurry selfies and AI-generated faces see the biggest improvement.

Can I use the restored photos commercially? +

CodeFormer's licence is for non-commercial use, so restored images are best kept for personal projects — check the model licence before any commercial use.

Why does the first run take a while? +

The model runs on a GPU that starts on demand. The first launch can take up to a minute while it warms up; later runs are faster.

Want to enlarge your restored photo?

Restore it here, then use the free AI Image Upscaler to increase its resolution.