Remini - AI Photo Enhancer Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
268.8K Ratings

268.8K Ratings

TryingOutApps ,

As good as it gets

Having tried every “photo enhancement” app in the store, I can vouch for the fact that this is the best available one. I found myself repeatedly using it, so eventually paid for the lite version.

Just to be clear, an AI enhancement app can’t do everything. It won’t turn your vintage blurry photos into masterpieces, largely because it does its best to reconstruct from vague shapes (eyes, for example), the finished product can be a little hit-and-miss. However, the app does quickly de-noise photos (makes them less grainy). I’ve tried it on newer, higher quality photos in which the subject had too much shadow on their face and it brightened them very well. All in all, I’m pleased and will continue to see what it can do. Just keep in mind that the clearer the features on the person’s face are already, the better the app can do. With ancient photos taken from far away, it may be “replacing” the eyes with similar, clear eyes, making the subject not really look like themselves. It can also leave the rest of their body (arms, for example) grainy because it’s concentrating on the face.

Just don’t expect miracles on old, old stuff—we haven’t gotten there yet. But for today’s tech, this is pretty good and lots of fun to play with. If you are looking to quickly smooth skin and brighten more modern photos, you’ll be pleased.

sryrufu ,

Great enhancer for photos

Update: they now let you choose to turn on and off color enhancement, face beautification and background enhancement! With color and face fix turned off the photo is true to the original picture! There are even 2 versions of enhancements for some options. So totally 18 variations for users to choose from! Glad they listen to their users! I downloaded it a while ago and it has since added “degree of enhance” options. Original comment: It used to mess up some little details of the face. It seems to improve somewhat as well. Update: Asians now can get straight eyelashes now(although can still be a bit messy), and smalls details like speckles are kept, which are definitely pros. What I don’t like is how the picture got brightened and lose some to tonal details. If I want that I can do it myself with photo editing apps to the exact degree I like. Unblur was good enough before. Users would generally want accuracy over beautification from an APP like Remini. Besides, 9$/week, the price is too much.

donald duck girl ,

After the new update could not save so I deleted it.

After your new update I had to delete your app. I watched the videos then I clicked to save it and your app wouldn’t let me save it after watching those ADS. So I deleted your app.

Update on your app. There’s been no improvement to fix the problems with you app and what your charging for your app isn’t worth it. Your app would be great, but it need some major work done on it. I’m still old school, digital photos are great, but still love my 35mm camera. Here’s the problem with your app. I took out some old photos one major photo is of my dad and his best friend. I used your app and Oh My God, I couldn’t believe how your app took a photo that was slightly blurry and needed some tone adjustment and your results was horrible. Your app took my dad’s friend glasses on his face left part of the glasses on his face, the other half was on his lips. Part of his lip was up to his nose, and the results got worse. So I did it again, and it came out the same. I took another old photo used your app again the results was very bad. Out of all the photos I tested your app on, I only got one good results. For some reason your app changes the person face. I restore old photos but wanted an app that wouldn’t take me a long time to restore. The old fashion way could take me almost two months. I would love to buy your app, but not like the results I get. Cindy

Developer Response ,

Hi, thank you for sharing your experience with us. We’re sorry that the inconvenience that happened prevented you from enjoying an enhanced version of your most-loved memories. We're working very hard to improve the our AI technology to deliver more impressive and accurate results on all kinds of photos. It would be great if you could reach out to us at reviews@bendingspoons.com to share more details on your experience—including screenshots of the before and after result. We'd love to take a closer look and assist you personally!

Hfjsowbfowk ,

Payment walls everywhere & cartoon faces

I do media for my job so I pay for a variety of apps and this one has given me the most grief. For starters $6 a week for not even the pro version. Most of my best apps with tons of features (including AI) will still be less than $50 a year. This is over $300 a year for an app with no features and most of the time malfunctions. If I want to enhance a photo for an ad it will turn the writing on a product into gibberish. I payed a disgusting amount for the vid version when I got this and they did not disclose that it doesn’t work on vids over 6 seconds. Who in the world makes vids that short? This payment wall feature is a scam. This app wasn’t all terrible when it let you choose the lighting and the ways it was editing. Now there’s another payment wall and if you don’t want all faces to look like cartoons you have to pay for pro version but still no promises that your pics will come out normal looking. I’m very disappointed with how scammy this app is. I am also very disappointed with how slow this app is. I would’ve been a lifelong customer if the price and settings were normal. 3 stars bc it does technically bring up the “quality” if you need a larger file. You can’t choose how big of a file you’d like though. Hope this helps save time for someone.

AerinC ,

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU SUBSCRIBE! Bad app. Lots of flaws. These ratings are bots

I’ve been using this app for around 3-4 years and I’ve used many iterations of It’s current tools. This update, by far, has been the absolute worst.

The app is already laggy and slow regardless of subscription plan but that didn’t matter to me. The photos were supposed to be enhanced (ex. Reducing noise or adding contrast) and for a while they were with no issue. Then they took away to photo library that stored your photos and again I had no issue even though It made the process slower.

This recent update has now made It so they do way more than just enhance your photo, they butcher It for about 30 seconds to a minute (much longer than before) and force you to wait through multiple loading screens to remove a bunch of stuff you didn’t ask for. It now lightens your photo and your skin and depending on your ethnicity you may find offense to that. I am dark skinned, I do not want to be lightened. It’s not just your skin that lightens, it’s the entire photo in an uncanny way. No editor would ever enhance your photo like this. Now they also beautify your face, blur the background regardless of what’s in It. All in all they once had a perfect app that’s now filled with nonsense but does it’s actual job awfully. It’s awful. I’m looking for another. I wasn’t planning on leaving a review but the app asked me to and I felt as if I should warn everybody!

Brayden Dempsey ,

It’s incredibly proficient.

I’ve been using this app for a few years now, and the difference in quality has come very far. Back then you would only be allowed to use it on pictures with faces, but now you can do it with random things including insects!!! One of the reasons it’s getting a 4-star review is due to the fact there are quite a few ads. I get that’s their main source of revenue lol, so I can’t blame them but sometimes I feel as if it’s greedy. If you want to use the app continuously, you end up having to watch ads for several minutes as they come on after restoring a photo and then, when you want to save the image. Also your app sometimes struggles to pick up on thin materials like string, yarn, and spiders webs etc. which ends up distorting parts of the image. For example, a refurbished picture of my grandma knitting with yarn would have a high chance of being distorted in specific areas. I hope I was able to give you some feedback that is understandable. Thankyou so much for this service. I’ve restored my moms childhood photos with my grandma and it’s looks so beautiful. I’ve also restored a photo from when one of my family members was at war, the picture was black and white!!!

Developer Response ,

Hi Brayden! We're happy to hear that you've been enjoying Remini, and we really appreciate the time you dedicated to sharing your opinion with us. Our users’ feedback is highly evaluated and extremely important for us to enrich the features of our app and improve the experience. We’ll treasure your precious suggestions and would be more than happy if you’d share any other ideas with us: we’ll do our best to make Remini the app you’ve been looking for! Feel free to drop us an email at reviews@bendingspoons.com.

ptezco ,

Payments on top of the already expansive subscription?????

This is a first. You sign up for the thing. $5/month ($60/year if you’re counting). Then, in order to get the “”Enhance +”” feature (double quotes because this is so... tacky) you need to pay more money for each “”Pro Card””. It’s never made that clear until you start exploring the app. Apparently the AI gives you several versions of the improved photo so you can pick one. $5 for 5 Pro Cards, $10 for 12, $25 for 30 and so forth. WAY too expansive for what it is. Flimsy browsing among my pictures. It defaults to a camera(??) every time, instead of my photo album. Why on earth would I fix a picture I am taking right now !!!)? I got on the subscription but it’ll be a one month thing. The promise is good, it somewhat delivers on that, but they’re crazy if they think the program is worth this much. To put the final nail in the coffin, the biggest drawback in my opinion is the fact that you’ll end up with a new version of the photo you’re “fixing”. There’s no using the app from within Photos either. In addition to editing the photo, I need to re-add all the information about date and location again. Making this much money, they should probably invest in ways of making this happen.
Saving: did I mention that no matter how many times you click on a picture to save it to the camera roll, it’ll say it saved it, only to never show up anywhere?

Developer Response ,

Hi there, we're truly sorry to hear about the inconveniences you experienced and we appreciate the time you took to flag them up. We always listen carefully to our users' points of view to guide our projects and we'll gladly treasure your feedback for our future improvements. Our developers are constantly at work to continuously improve the features of our app, making sure that our users are provided with the best possible experience while using it. We're at your complete disposal at reviews@bendingspoons.com to answer all your questions and doubts: don't hesitate to reach out!

Alarm doesn't work ,

Minor distortions & trouble with race

Overall a darn good app. A couple of snags I’ve hit: the app is not good at dealing with 3/4 views, or someone who is looking away from the camera. The app seems to want to make eyes looking forward. Which is fine, except when the face is not looking forward. I got some pretty gruesome results and finally accepted that there would be some old photos that I would not be able to use here. There are many more I can, so it’s not the end of the world, but it’s sad to have to leave out some of your favorites because body or face positioning aren’t right. Also: my dudes. Not everyone is white. All the eyes are tinted a very pale blue or green and my Chinese grandpa has blondish hair! My dark-skinned, multiracial father does not have light eyes and never did - even when he was little 😄. These are black and white photos so the tinting should be able to be turned off if you don’t want it. In some cases it’s quite subtle and evocative. When dealing with nonwhite people, though, you cannot have the default eye color be light. There’s a difference between light eye color and putting in catch-lights to make the eye sparkle. Yes to catchlights! No to default light eyes.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! We're glad to hear that you've been enjoying Remini. Also, thanks for pointing out the aspects you think we should improve, as it's extremely helpful to guide our future projects. We're working hard to improve our AI technology, and minimize inconsistencies is one of our next goals. Feel free to drop us a line to reviews@bendingspoons.com in case you feel like adding anything!

impostor annie ,

This app is not it

A co-worker recommended this to me for headshots. Hers turned out okay. They were at least recognizable as her, if not a little uncanny valley. I figure it’s worth a shot ONLY because of the free trial. $9.99 a week!? Absolutely not worth it! The AI Photos takes a long time to process, understandably. While you’re waiting, you can do other things. I made the mistake of playing with the AI filters. About 1/2 of the AI filters gave me a masculine face and often facial hair. He’s hot, but I’m not a man. It’s funny if it happens once or twice, but after multiple different photos and filter produced similar results, I started having body dysmorphia. It was SO MUCH worse once the AI Photos were done. The images changed my skin color, hair color, and eye color. The pictures only vaguely looked like me. I tried multiple different model photos and reference pictures. To clarify, I am a white woman. I have small eyes and squint when I smile the slightest bit. 9 times out of 10, the AI photos made me look Asian. There is no way to customize your race or eye color. You’d think it would be able to tell this from the photos, which it did not for me. If it works for you, great. But be warned, especially if you’re sensitive to dysmorphia or dysphoria.

ThePowerOfMew ,

It’s a Scam

I only downloaded this app for the feature of trying on different hairstyles, and as far as I can tell, the whole thing is a scam. I paid 0.99 for the AI to use my face and put the same exact hairstyles used in the ad on my head. There were no other styles to try or use, it was the same exact 5-6 they used in the advertisement. Whatever, I didn’t think it was a big deal because I only paid 0.99. Now, there was no active subscription on my Apple ID account, and I didn’t see one even when I signed into the web browser with my Apple ID, but I was charged another 9.99 for an app I removed from my phone almost immediately after using. The app developers are scammers, even though I emailed and re-downloaded the app (same day as charge) to unsubscribe to a subscription I wasn’t aware I had ever authorized, they still didn’t want to refund because of “terms of policy.” AKA, the fine print that they don’t want you to read so they can get money from you. So now I’ve given a trash application 9.99 more than I planned, and have to dispute it through my bank because the app developers are unethical and quite frankly, thieves. Don’t give them your time or money, the app is absolute trash.