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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    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.

    70 Upscayl alternatives

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    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Online
     
  2. Cross-platform tool offering advanced video upscaling and frame interpolation using RIFE, RealESRGAN, Waifu2x, and IFRNET, with scene change detection, instant preview, Discord integration, and ability to enhance local files or YouTube videos on major operating systems.

    60 REAL Video Enhancer alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • 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.

    68 waifu2x alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
     
  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.

    55 chaiNNer alternatives

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  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.

    2 MadVR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • 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!.

    81 Magnific AI alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Adobe Photoshop
     
  7. RealScaler icon
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    RealScaler is a Windows app based on Real-ESRGAN AI to enhance, enlarge and reduce noise in photographs and videos.

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    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
  8. An Android application for super-resolution & interpolation. Contains RealSR-NCNN, SRMD-NCNN, RealCUGAN-NCNN, Real-ESRGAN-NCNN, Waifu2x-NCNN, Anime4kcpp, nearest, bilinear, bicubic, AVIR...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
     
  9. 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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    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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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