Open Source Upscayl AlternativesImage Upscaling Apps like Upscayl

The best open source alternative to Upscayl is waifu2x. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Upscayl and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Upscayl are REAL Video Enhancer, Video2X, Real-ESRGAN and Waifu2x Caffe.

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  1. 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

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    Platforms

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

    • waifu2x is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Upscayl.

    • waifu2x is Free and Open SourceUpscayl is Freemium and Open Source
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • REAL Video Enhancer is the most popular Linux alternative to Upscayl.

    • REAL Video Enhancer is Free and Open SourceUpscayl is Freemium and Open Source
    • REAL Video Enhancer is Privacy focusedUpscayl is not according to our users
  3. Video2X icon
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    Video2X is a video/GIF/image upscaling software based on Waifu2X, Anime4K, SRMD and RealSR written in Python 3. It upscales videos, GIFs and images, restoring details from low-resolution inputs. Video2X also accepts GIF input to video output and video input to GIF output.

    29 Video2X alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
     
  4. Waifu2x Caffe icon
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    Waifu2x Caffe rewrites only the conversion function of the image conversion software "waifu2x" using Caffe and is software developed for Windows. Although it can convert with CPU, using CUDA (or cuDNN) can convert faster than CPU.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Video, Image and GIF upscale/enlarge(Super-Resolution) and Video frame interpolation. Achieved with Waifu2x, Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, SRMD, RealSR, Anime4K, RIFE, CAIN, DAIN, and ACNet.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vulkan
    • PyTorch
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Scapix icon
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    An image, gif and video upscaling and denoiser app developed with electron, react, waifu2x and ffmpeg.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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