Heirloom: Restore Old Photos

About Heirloom: Restore Old Photos

Bring old family photos back.

Heirloom repairs the photographs that matter most - the torn wedding portrait, the water-damaged baby picture, the faded newspaper clipping of relatives you never met. Upload a photo, choose what it needs, and get it back.

3 free restorations to start - No subscription.

🖼️ WHAT IT FIXES

- Tears, creases, folds and missing corners
- Water damage, stains, mould spotting and chemical bleeding
- Fading and colour shift on prints that have sat in the sun
- Blur and softness from old scans or camera phone photos of photos
- Halftone dots from newspaper and magazine clippings
- Black and white photos you would like to see in colour

🎯 PICK WHAT YOUR PHOTO NEEDS

- Full restoration - everything the photo needs, including tears and creases
- Fix fading and colour - restore washed-out or colour-shifted prints
- Sharpen and enlarge - for low-resolution or soft scans
- Colourise - black and white to colour

Or just describe the problem in your own words and Heirloom works out which repairs to run.

⚖️ WE TELL YOU WHAT WE ACTUALLY DID

This is the part other restoration apps do not do.

When a photograph is badly enough damaged, no tool can recover detail that is no longer there - it has to fill in the gaps. That can produce a beautiful picture, but it is not the same as recovering the original.

So Heirloom labels every result:

- Faithful restoration - damage repaired, original detail preserved
- Partial reconstruction - some areas rebuilt where detail was missing
- Reimagined - the source lacked recoverable detail, so this is an interpretation

If you are working on family history, that difference matters. You should know whether you are looking at your great-grandmother's face or a plausible guess at it.

Every result comes with a before-and-after view so you can judge for yourself.

💳 CREDITS, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION

Most restoration apps charge every month whether you use them or not. Heirloom does not.

Buy credits when you need them. They never expire. Come back in a year and they are still there.

- 3 free restorations to start - no credits required
- Starter - 20 credits
- Standard - 50 credits
- Family Album - 150 credits

Most photos cost 1 to 3 credits depending on how much work they need. You see the cost before you start.

If a photo genuinely cannot be improved, you are not charged.

🔒 YOUR PHOTOS

- Photos are processed by our AI providers and deleted straight afterwards
- Your original is deleted from our servers once the restoration is done
- We never use your photos to train anything
- You keep all rights to your images
- Location data is stripped from every result

📸 ALSO

- Restore several photos at once
- Your original is always kept alongside the result
- Export at print resolution
- Share the before-and-after

💛 WHO IT IS FOR

- Anyone with a shoebox of damaged family photographs
- Family historians and genealogy researchers
- People who have inherited an album and want to see it properly
- Anyone with one irreplaceable photo that has not aged well

Heirloom is not a photo editor. It does not retouch living people, change how anyone looks, or alter bodies or clothing. It repairs photographs.