Photo Enhancer

Turn a soft, grainy or blocky photo into a clearer one. The AI cleans up compression, sharpens edges and brings back texture, on your own device. Free up to 1024 px, HD at full resolution.

Clearer and sharperSame size or 2xNothing uploaded Runs on your device

Drop a photo to enlarge it

or paste with Ctrl+V · JPG PNG WebP HEIC GIF · max 25 MB

Your photo is enlarged on this device and never uploaded. Faces are not retouched: the model sharpens what is there.

How to

How to enhance a photo

1
Drop your photo
JPG, PNG, WebP or an iPhone HEIC photo. The free result is made at once, on your device.
2
Compare
Drag the slider to see the original and the result side by side.
3
Download
Save the free result, or make the HD version at full resolution (same size, 2x or 4x).

Why this size

What the photo enhancer fixes, and what it leaves alone

Most photos look poor for three reasons: they were made small, they were compressed by a chat app or a website, or the camera did not quite focus. The enhancer runs an AI model trained to undo exactly that. It removes JPEG blocks and grain, makes edges crisp again and rebuilds fine texture such as hair, fabric, grass and brick.

It is not a beauty filter. Faces are sharpened like everything else, never smoothed, slimmed or replaced, so the person still looks like themselves. It does not change colours or light either: what you get is the same photo, clearer.

Choose "Same size" in HD to keep the photo's dimensions, or 2x and 4x to make it bigger at the same time.

Use cases

Photos people enhance most

Photos from chats

Pictures sent through messaging apps lose detail to compression. The enhancer cleans the blocks and grain.

Old phone photos

Small, soft photos from older phones come back sharper and larger.

Product photos

Low resolution product shots get crisp edges for a shop listing or a catalogue.

Screenshots and scans

Blurry screenshots and low resolution scans become easier to read and print.

Tips

Tips that make a difference

Use the clearest copy you have

If the photo was forwarded several times, ask for the original: each forward compresses it again.

It cannot invent what is not there

A face that is a few pixels wide, or a photo that is badly shaken, will look cleaner but not like a new photo. No honest tool can recover detail the camera never captured.

FAQ

Photo Enhancer: questions

Drop it here. The enhanced version is made at once on your device, free up to 1024 px on the long side. HD gives the full resolution.

It makes it clearer and sharper, but it does not retouch: no skin smoothing, no reshaping and no filters. Your face stays your face.

Yes, on scans and old prints it removes grain and sharpens edges. It does not repair scratches, tears or faded colours.

No. The AI model downloads to your browser once (7 MB) and runs on your own device. Your photo never leaves it, and nothing is stored.

The free result is up to 1024 px on its long side, as many times as you like. HD keeps your photo's full resolution: 1 HD photo a month without an account, 3 a month with a free account, unlimited with Pro.

No. It sharpens what is in the photo and does not retouch, smooth or reshape faces. It is not a beauty filter.

They set how much the AI redraws. Auto first measures how sharp your photo is: a sharp photo is only cleaned up and stays natural, while a blurry one gets more detail rebuilt. Gentle always stays closest to your photo. Strong rebuilds the most, which helps very blurry photos but can make faces look less natural.

Yes. Choose "Same size" in HD to keep your photo's exact dimensions, or 2x or 4x to enlarge it as well.

Checked

How we checked this page

Checked by the SizePort team on 16 October 2026.

We compare every size and rule on this page with the official sources below, and test the tool with sample photos before it goes live. Rules and platforms change, so if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

How the tool works

An open AI model, NERVE (Apache 2.0, trained only on public domain photos), downloads to your browser once (7 MB) and runs there with WebGPU, or on the processor where WebGPU is missing. First the tool measures how sharp your photo is. A sharp photo is given to the model at full detail and only cleaned up, with part of its own pixels kept so it stays natural; a soft or blurry one is given at a smaller size, where the model can rebuild the edges the blur hides. You can also choose Gentle or Strong yourself. The model works at four times the size in overlapping tiles, so any size works without seams, and its result is averaged down to the size you get. The model file is checked against its fingerprint before it runs. Faces are not retouched, and colours and light are left as they are. Everything happens in your browser; your images are never uploaded.