Revive: Restore Old Photos

Revive brings old photos back. It adds color to black and white pictures and redraws the detail in small or blurry scans, all on your phone. Every feature is free, there is no limit on how many photos you can do, and nothing is uploaded.

Pick a photo and tap a button. It works with no connection at all, and your pictures never leave your device.

■ Colorize black and white photos
Skin, trees, sky, clothes and buildings are recognized and given natural color. The brightness of your original is kept exactly as it is, so nothing comes out softer or flatter than before.

■ Choose how strong the color is
If the color looks too strong or too weak, move the slider. The photo changes as you drag, so you can stop wherever it looks right.

■ Sharpen blurry photos (x4)
Small or rough photos are made four times larger and the detail is redrawn. Good for old scans, pictures taken on an old phone, and photos that were saved small years ago.

■ Compare before and after
Drag left and right across the photo to move the divider and see the before and after in the same place.

■ No connection, no uploads
Color and detail are both worked out on your phone. Your photos are never sent anywhere. It works in airplane mode and where there is no signal.

■ Free, with no limit
Do as many photos as you like. No account, no sign-in, no subscription. There is no "two photos free, pay for the rest".

■ No full-screen ads, ever
There is only a small banner at the bottom. No full-screen ad before or after a photo, and never an ad that ends with "sorry, you can't".

■ Save and share
Save a new copy to your gallery or share it straight to another app. Your original photo is not changed. The picture is written fresh, so the place it was taken (location data) is not included.

Good for
・Adding color to a photo of your grandparents when they were young
・Black and white album photos you scanned to your phone but can barely make out
・Making small photos from an old phone usable again
・Old group photos and wedding pictures for cards, memorials and keepsakes
・Cleaning up scanned family photos enough to send to relatives

Things to know
・Adding color takes ten to twenty seconds, because the work is done on your phone. No ad appears while you wait.
・"Sharpen x4" shrinks a large photo a little first, then makes it four times bigger. It is for making small or rough photos viewable again, not for enlarging a photo that is already large.
・Color is meant for black and white photos. On a photo that already has color it will not change much.
・Photos only; videos are not supported.

Color: DDColor (Apache-2.0) / Detail: Real-ESRGAN (BSD-3-Clause)