Old Photo Restorer: AI Repair
Colorize, Enhance & Fix Faces
Free · In‑App Purchases
New on iPhone Duo: your photo on one page, every fix on the other. Repair scratches, colorize and enhance faces with AI that never leaves your device.
Old Photo Restorer brings damaged family photographs back to life, right on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Scan a faded portrait from 1952, drop it into the app, click Auto Restore. Scratches disappear, faces come back into focus, black and white turns into believable color. What took a professional retoucher an afternoon now takes about a minute.
WHAT IT FIXES
• Scratches and cracks. The app finds them on its own and heals the damage without touching the rest of the picture.
• Stains, tears, and worn corners. Damaged areas are rebuilt to match the surrounding paper, grain, and texture.
• Blurry, faded faces. A dedicated face model recovers sharp, natural features. Each face is restored individually, up to 16 per photo, and you keep the person you remember: the app does not invent new faces.
• Missing color. Colorization understands skin, sky, fabric, and foliage. It also works on sepia and yellowed prints, not only on pure black and white.
• Low resolution. Upscale results 2x or 4x for printing and framing. A small 800px scan becomes a crisp, printable 3200px image.
HOW AUTO RESTORE WORKS
One click runs the full pipeline in the right order: damage repair first, then noise and grain cleanup, then faces, then color, and upscaling last. Each step is a separate model trained for that one job, which is why the result looks restored rather than filtered. Prefer manual control? Toggle any step off and run only what the photo needs.
YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR IPHONE, IPAD, OR MAC
Most restoration apps upload your pictures to a server and put you in a queue. This one does not. Every model runs locally on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, so a photo of your grandmother is processed on your computer and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no waiting. It works on a plane.
BUILT FOR REAL ARCHIVES
• Work through a single treasured portrait or a whole shoebox of scans.
• Compare before and after with a split slider that shows the same area on both sides, down to the pixel.
• Turn each fix on or off per photo: scratch removal, stain repair, face enhancement, colorization, upscaling.
• History keeps every restoration with its settings, so you can return later and export again.
• Opens JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, and WebP. Exports PNG, JPEG, or TIFF at full resolution, ready for print shops.
MADE FOR APPLE SILICON
The restoration models are tuned for the Neural Engine and GPU in M-series Macs. A typical 2000px scan is cleaned up in seconds; a full pass with faces and color usually finishes in under a minute.
WHO IT IS FOR
People digitizing family albums before the prints fade further.
Genealogists attaching portraits to a family tree.
Anyone who inherited a box of photographs and wants to see the faces in them clearly, maybe for the first time.
FREE AND PRO
Restoring and exporting a cleaned-up photo is free, so you can judge the quality on your own scans before paying anything. Pro unlocks 4x print resolution and the full toolkit, with a monthly plan, a yearly plan with a free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. No credits and no per-photo fees.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings at any time.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Questions, or a stubborn photo the app cannot handle? Write to us. Real people read the support inbox, and difficult photos are exactly what helps us improve the models.
Ratings & Reviews
Made for iPhone Duo. Unfold your iPhone and Old Photo Restorer spreads across both screens: your photo on one page, every fix on the other, and nothing ever lands on the fold.
New Side by Side view. See the original on one page and the restored photo on the other. Zoom into a face on either side and both pages follow, so you can compare every detail.
A loupe for every scratch. When you mark scratches on iPhone Duo, the second page becomes a 4x loupe that follows your finger. Touch or paint the photo and see the exact spot up close, with the red marks drawn as you go, so even the finest crack is easy to cover. A quick summary shows how much damage the AI found and how many marks you added by hand.
Hold your iPhone Duo half open like a laptop and the photo sits on the raised half, with the controls within reach below. The welcome tour, History and Settings are all laid out for the two pages too, and an open iPhone Duo now greets you with a live before and after. Fold or unfold at any moment and you pick up exactly where you were.
Restore photos with Shortcuts and Siri. The new Restore Photo action fixes an old photo with the options you chose in the app and hands back the result. Build your own automations, or just say "Fix an old photo with Old Photo Restorer".
Smoother painting. Marking scratches by hand now stays fast and responsive, however long you work on a photo.
Better on iPad. The editor now fits Split View and smaller windows, so the photo always stays in view.
Ready for iOS 27. Everything still runs on your device. Your memories never leave it.
The developer, Igor Bidenko, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Igor Bidenko
- Size
- Up to 84.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Old Photo Restorer $4.99
- Old Photo Restorer $19.99
- Old Photo Restorer $39.99
- Copyright
- © Igor Bidenko
