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 waifu2x, REAL Video Enhancer, chaiNNer and MadVR.

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  1. Upscayl icon

    Upscayl

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    Open source desktop tool using advanced AI to enlarge and enhance images without loss of quality, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Linux-first development gives early access to Linux users. Requires Vulkan compatible GPU for upscaling.

    69 Upscayl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Online
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    • Upscayl is the most popular Web-based, 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
  2. waifu2x icon

    waifu2x

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    Image Super-Resolution [upscaling] for Anime-style [low detail] art or images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

    67 waifu2x alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. REAL Video Enhancer icon

    REAL Video Enhancer

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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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  6. chaiNNer icon

    chaiNNer

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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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. MadVR icon

    MadVR

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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
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  8. Magnific AI icon

    Magnific AI

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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!.

    80 Magnific AI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    • Magnific AI is Paid and ProprietaryAnime4K is Free and Open Source
  10. RealScaler icon

    RealScaler

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    RealScaler is a Windows app based on Real-ESRGAN AI to enhance, enlarge and reduce noise in photographs and videos.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  11. RealSR-NCNN-Android icon

    RealSR-NCNN-Android

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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

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    • Android
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    • 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
  13. jdPixelUpscaler icon

    jdPixelUpscaler

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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.

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Linux
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  14. RealSR

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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 (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vulkan
    • PyTorch
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  15. magickimg icon

    magickimg

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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

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    Platforms

    • Online
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