The biggest disappointment with most editors including this one is how flat images can look afterwards the brightness and HDR is gone. Too bad we can’t keep the brightness of HDR. Some images look too flat to use afterwards. I’ve also noticed this app destroys numbers and letters in your city scenes / signs etc. different settings other than default change the results but the result is still unreadable except for larger signs and numbers. The A.I. needs to improve in this aspect. Note: the PC software does not have this issue, it’s just the Cloud processing. When it comes to really low Rez photos of people I have gotten much better results using the PC version and not using the cloud. Probably due to more adjustments.

Just sort the reviews by recent to see how it really is now…Gigapixel for iphone was near perfect. It did one thing really really really well and other things pretty good. Speed was totally acceptable and image quality was superb. Now it’s been re-launched and it’s a big miss. The one thing it was best at (and best known for) is now straight up gone with a lesser option sort of still present, but way less useful. My “standard” subscription is now “cloud lite”, and every single step takes 10x longer. Uploading a 500kb file? 15-20 seconds. Waiting to process, waiting to view what was processed, waiting to download. And it went from png perfect quality download to compressed jpegs. The only control you needed was for redefine - keeping everything at low gave you the best straight up enlargement and slight sharpness you’d be likely to find anywhere. That control is gone - that model is gone. There’s more 99% useless gimmicks that you’ll maybe try once, and the base, the core function you’d come to love (and depend on) has been stripped away. What’s autopilot doing? Zero control. Unpredictable results. 4x as many taps to get something done. A waiting time so unpredictable that I can’t count on it and just didn’t use it today. Why apps that are just about the gold standard go and mess with perfection is totally beyond me. Now you’ve got a library of images that don’t want to delete - or if you delete them in one place they’re still buried in another. No one’s looking for lightroom on their phone - it was perfect at what it did. And most importantly, 100% reliable and dependable. Now I get no-control results that are obvious ai, wait times that range from minutes to an hour, compressed results, and less basic control. I’m sure what made it great is still inside there…somewhere…but now it’s overly complicated trying to be simple but wound up stripping what made it work.

This app worked for the first two weeks to upscale images. I paid for the annual subscription at $109. I didn’t have an issue as long as I was I getting great results. Then one day I go to upscale my images and it says I need to upgrade to a high package. The image I tried to scale exceeded the 32 mp plan limit apparently. I emailed support thinking it had to do with running out of some sort of monthly credits for upscales. No you can have unlimited upscales so long as they do not exceed 32mp. I find this strange because every image i uploaded at first worked fine scaled all the way to 8x. All of sudden every image exceeds 32mp, and I can’t upscale more than 2x. It seems as thought this happened overnight and the only real solution is upgrade to the Pro plan for $300+. I’m not a professional, I don’t need all that. I will be cancelling and deleting this app since it no longer works like it should. Disappointing because this was the best app I found for upscaling that wasn’t outrageously priced for an annul subscription.

I got Topaz about two years ago, when it was a separate suite. I had thought about switching over to Magnific, because it was the only upscaler of its kind, especially useful for generative media. However, once they consolidated into a suite, it’s like the team went into slipstream mode, no doubt aided by AI.The upscaler is so much better, and I recently tested the ones for video, and not only was I able to execute it locally (and privately), but the quality was far beyond what I expected. Not only was the 1080p better, but the upscaler to 4K did a KNOCKOUT job of mimicking and retaining detail that had been lost in the film to HD Cam transfer. I then ran it through Hyperion HDR, and the quality was truly remarkable. The baked-in plugins for Adobe, Da Vinci Resolve, etc., are also a plus for editors of video, compositors, and imagery. When you get the desktop suite, you thankfully get the mobile application across your account, instead of getting ripped off (we’ll see, after Adobe finishes buying them…). For now, it’s definitely one of the best options in the market, for professionals and tinkerers alike.