If you prefer to run something like this locally while maintaining 100% ownership and control of your files here is my android app I wrote 6 months ago: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luksapps.imageupscaler.free">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luksapps.i...</a><p>It uses the best open model on the market to run up scaling (multiple versions of Real-ESRGAN) and runs them in 10s~up to few min per photo on relatively modern mobile phones. This is a free ad supported versions. There is also a paid version with no ads. Both versions can be used while 100% offline.
I guess it's fine if it's free or cheap. But why would I pay anywhere from $29-232 per month for what is basically a glorified web UI wrapping open source models? I can get the same or superior functionality for free from FOSS running on my local machine, including mobile devices.<p><a href="https://www.upscayl.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.upscayl.org/</a><p><a href="https://superimage.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://superimage.io/</a>
This website is just a wrapper around <a href="https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry">https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry</a> which is a wrapper around various neural networks, e.g. <a href="https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN">https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN</a> in this case.
Your automatic italian localization is incredibly bad.<p>Examples:
"Stiamo usando un fork dell'immaginazione per alimentare la nostra intelligenza artificiale, e il nostro progetto è sviluppato con Django per il sito web." -> "We are using a fork of imagination for feeding our artificial intelligence, and our project is developed with Django for the website".<p>"Migliora le tue foto, cartoni animati, immagini e più facilmente e rapidamente utilizzando l'intelligenza artificiale" -> "Improve your pics, cartoons, images and easier and faster using AI"<p>"Aumento della scala delle immagini" -> "Increase in the scale [alternative reading: in the staircase/ladder] of images"<p>I haven't read your term of services, but I'm not sure they should be left to the same automatic translation; give them in English, or at least make sure you say that the English version is binding and the automatic translation is provided "for convenience only". Not a lawyer at all, but if this was my website I would write something like this before the translated ToS: "La versione vincolante dei termini di servizio è quella originale in lingua inglese [link to ENG version]; questa versione in italiano è tradotta in maniera automatica e pertanto può contenere inesattezze. La versione italiana non ha alcuna valenza legale, ed è fornita unicamente per comodità."
These image upscalers always seem to remove noise in ways that make the result look terrible. You should be adding reasonable texture, not smearing surfaces in vaseline.
This is super cool, and congratulations for launching it. But the pricing is obscene.<p>Reasonable would be 50ct per image, or at least a lower level tier for the occasional use, something around $3-5/month.
Gigapixel AI works fantastic (<a href="https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai</a>) and has a perpetual license.
Topaz Labs makes a stand-alone upscaling app with proprietary models, or you can use something like Cupscale and try various models that are freely available. You usually need to chain multiple models together with the latter option in order to get decent results.<p>Edit: here are some links to get started…<p>Cupscale - <a href="https://github.com/DrPleaseRespect/cupscale/releases">https://github.com/DrPleaseRespect/cupscale/releases</a><p>Models - <a href="https://nmkd.de/?esrgan" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nmkd.de/?esrgan</a><p>More models & info - <a href="https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Main_Page</a>
I haven't tested it yet, but I suggest that you have a "per image" price for those who use it sporadically.<p>I could be a potential user, but not for 24/m for the 50 images I can do per month.
I came across another open source upscaler <a href="https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl">https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl</a>
Not an honest comparison, but Pixelmator Pro [0] has a similar "Super resolution" option when resizing images. (Among other great features, of course, being a full-featured photo editor)<p><a href="http://pixelmator.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://pixelmator.com/</a>
The upscaled Mickey Mouse image does look "better" to my eyes, but the other 3 examples on the homepage, particularly Machu Pichu, look worse. The original owl on grass looks like a composite image, so it's difficult to discern what to even expect as "better".