RealSR AlternativesImage Upscaling Apps like RealSR

RealSR is described as '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' and is a Image Upscaling app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to RealSR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Flathub apps. The best RealSR alternative is Upscayl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RealSR are waifu2x, REAL Video Enhancer, 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.

    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
     
    • Upscayl is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to RealSR.

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

    • Upscayl is Freemium and Open SourceRealSR is Free and Open Source
    • Upscayl is LightweightRealSR is not according to our users
  2. waifu2x icon
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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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    • Online
     
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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
     
  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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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!.

    80 Magnific AI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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

    • Magnific AI is Paid and ProprietaryRealSR is Free and Open Source
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    • RealSR-NCNN-Android is Free and Open SourceRealSR is also Free and Open Source
    • RealSR-NCNN-Android is Privacy focusedRealSR is not according to our users
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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
     
  10. 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

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    • Online
     
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