Remini review
6.6/10★★★★★One-tap AI enhancer that sharpens blurry photos and restores old ones
- Best for
- Rescuing blurry phone shots and restoring old family photos
- Price
- Freemium · from $4.99/week
Free: Limited enhancements with ads - Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android
- Made by
- Bending Spoons, Milan, Italy · since 2013
- App store ratings
- iOS 4.6★ (356K) · Android 4.1★ (5.89M)
What it is
Remini turns blurry, grainy or low-resolution photos into sharp HD images, restores damaged old photographs and enhances faces with one tap. It is owned by Bending Spoons and runs on iPhone, Android and the web.
What the AI does
- AI photo enhancement and upscaling
- Old photo restoration
- Face enhancement
- Denoise and brighten
- Video enhancement
Pros and cons
- Dramatic results on blurry faces and old scans
- Truly one-tap
- Available on web as well as mobile
- Weekly subscriptions are expensive
- Heavy ads on the free tier
- Can distort faces; users report billing and outage complaints
How it scores
Strong at its one job, but a narrow feature set and costly weekly billing pull value down.
Feature checklist · 4 of 9
- Remove unwanted objects or people (no)
- Background removal or replacement (no)
- AI subject or sky selection and masking (no)
- Generative fill or expand (no)
- Edit by describing changes in text (no)
- AI enhance, denoise or upscale (yes)
- AI portrait and face retouching (yes)
- Free version with useful editing tools (yes)
- Available on both mobile and desktop or web (yes)
Alternatives
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- Google Photos 8.4/10Anyone who wants quick, free AI fixes on the photos already on their phone
- Adobe Lightroom 8.3/10Photographers who want pro-grade editing and a synced photo library on every device
- Canva photo editor 8.2/10Non-designers who edit photos to use in social posts, slides and marketing
- Adobe Photoshop 8.1/10Designers and retouchers who need full control over complex edits and composites