ESRGAN AlternativesImage Upscaling Apps like ESRGAN

ESRGAN is described as '(Description from https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-neural-networks-being-used-to-generate-hq-textures-for-older-games-you-can-do-it-yourself.88272/)' and is a Image Upscaling app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to ESRGAN, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac and Flathub apps. The best ESRGAN alternative is Upscayl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to ESRGAN are REAL Video Enhancer, waifu2x, chaiNNer and Magnific AI.

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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. 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
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    • Online
    • Adobe Photoshop
     
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    Anime4K is a set of open-source, high-quality real-time anime upscaling/denoising algorithms that can be implemented in any programming language.

    23 Anime4K alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  7. 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
     
  8.  5 likes

    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
     
  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.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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