About
About RestorePhotosApp
RestorePhotosApp is an independent, browser-based service that uses AI to repair, enhance, and colorize old photographs. More than 470,000 people — families, genealogists, archivists, and photographers — have used it to bring damaged prints and scans back to life.
Why this exists
Almost every family has the same box: prints that faded, scans that came out blurry, one good photo of a grandparent with a crease straight through the face. Professional restoration studios do beautiful work on these, but at studio prices — often tens of dollars per photo — restoring a whole album is out of reach for most people.
Modern AI image models changed that math. RestorePhotosApp exists to make near-studio-quality restoration available to anyone with a browser: upload a photo, pick a style, and download a restored 1080p image in seconds — for a fraction of a dollar per photo, with no subscription.
How the restoration works
The app runs on state-of-the-art AI image models (currently built on Google's Gemini family) tuned for the specific problems of old photos: scratches and dust, blur, fading, tears, and missing color. Everything runs in the cloud — there is nothing to install, and it works the same on a laptop, tablet, or phone.
We are also honest about what AI restoration is: reconstruction, not recovery. The model infers what damaged areas most plausibly looked like — it cannot know what was truly there. For most family photos the results are remarkable, but heavily damaged faces can drift from the original. That honesty is rare in this market, and it is why we publish a full testing methodology for every claim we make about our tool and our competitors'.
How we handle your photos
The photos people upload here are among the most personal files they own, and we treat them that way. Uploads and restorations are automatically deleted 30 days after creation, and you can delete any individual restoration — or your whole account — at any time.
The full details are in our privacy policy and data processing agreement. GDPR data requests go through the contact form and are answered within 24 hours.
How we make money
One way only: one-time credit packs, starting at $4.99 for 10 restorations. Credits never expire, there is no subscription, and there are no ads. We do not sell or share user data. Every purchase is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee, and new users get two free restorations to judge the quality before paying anything.
This matters for how you read our content, too. Our comparison pages review tools we compete with — our methodology page explains how we keep those reviews factual, what we test, and how to report an error if you find one.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, press, or partnership ideas — use the contact form and a human will reply within 24 hours.
