Anime4K AlternativesImage Upscaling Apps like Anime4K

Anime4K is described as 'Set of open-source, high-quality real-time anime upscaling/denoising algorithms that can be implemented in any programming language' and is a Image Upscaling app in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Anime4K for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Flathub apps. The best Anime4K alternative is Upscayl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Anime4K are REAL Video Enhancer, waifu2x, chaiNNer and MadVR.

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  1. Upscayl icon
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    Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy.

    68 Upscayl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
     
    • Upscayl is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Anime4K.

    • Upscayl is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Anime4K.

    • Upscayl is Freemium and Open SourceAnime4K is Free and Open Source
    • Upscayl is LightweightAnime4K is not according to our users
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    REAL Video Enhancer is a redesigned and enhanced version of the original Rife ESRGAN App for Linux. This program offers convenient access to frame interpolation and upscaling functionalities on Linux, comparable to Flowframes or enhancr on Windows.

    60 REAL Video Enhancer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. waifu2x icon
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    Image Super-Resolution [upscaling] for Anime-style [low detail] art or images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

    66 waifu2x alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • waifu2x is the most popular Web-based alternative to Anime4K.

    • waifu2x is Free and Open SourceAnime4K is also Free and Open Source
  4. chaiNNer icon
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    A flowchart/node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks (especially upscaling done by neural networks) easy, intuitive, and customizable.

    53 chaiNNer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. MadVR icon
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    MadVR uses your GPU to perform resolution upscaling, chroma upscaling, and all kinds of other video rendering enhancements that can significantly improve video quality. It can be used with a few different video players such as MPC-HC and PotPlayer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Magnific AI icon
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    The most advanced AI upscaler & enhancer. Magnific can hallucinate and reimagine as many details as you wish guided by your own prompt and parameters!.

    79 Magnific AI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Adobe Photoshop
     
    • Magnific AI is the most popular commercial alternative to Anime4K.

    • Magnific AI is Paid and ProprietaryAnime4K is Free and Open Source
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    An Android application for super-resolution & interpolation. Contains RealSR-NCNN, SRMD-NCNN, RealCUGAN-NCNN, Real-ESRGAN-NCNN, Waifu2x-NCNN, Anime4kcpp, nearest, bilinear, bicubic, AVIR...

    11 RealSR-NCNN-Android alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
    • RealSR-NCNN-Android is the most popular Android alternative to Anime4K.

    • RealSR-NCNN-Android is Free and Open SourceAnime4K is also Free and Open Source
    • RealSR-NCNN-Android is Privacy focusedAnime4K is not according to our users
  8. final2x icon
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    2^x Image Super-Resolution ??.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. magickimg icon
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    Elevate your images with cutting-edge AI technology and a suite of tools for restoration, upscaling, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    jdPixelUpscaler upscales images by simply replacing one pixel with several of the same color. For example, if you set the scaling factor to 2, one pixel becomes 2x2 pixels of the same color. No attention is paid to the surrounding pixels or to transitions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Linux
     
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    Recent state-of-the-art super-resolution methods have achieved impressive performance on ideal datasets regardless of blur and noise. However, these methods always fail in real-world image super-resolution, since most of them adopt simple bicubic downsampling from high-quality...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vulkan
    • PyTorch
     
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