Open Source waifu2x AlternativesImage Upscaling Apps like waifu2x

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

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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.

    73 Upscayl alternatives

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    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
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  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.

    62 REAL Video Enhancer alternatives

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    • Flathub
     
  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.

    30 Video2X alternatives

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    • 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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    A GUI app that uses Waifu2x.

    • Waifu2x Caffe is Free and Open Sourcewaifu2x is also Free and Open Source
  5. 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
     
  6.  7 likes

    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.  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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Vulkan
    • PyTorch
     
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