Alternatives to Bigjpg
An AI image enlarger that upscales artwork and photos up to 16 times with neural networks. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Bigjpg
An AI image enlarger that upscales artwork and photos up to 16 times with neural networks.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Bigjpg.
Upscayl
Enlarges low-resolution images with AI models running on your own GPU, in a plain drag-and-drop window.
Upscayl is free and open source under AGPL-3.0 and upscales locally on Windows, macOS and Linux, but needs a Vulkan-compatible GPU and has no mobile apps.
Waifu2x-Extension-GUI
Upscales photos, GIFs and video with machine learning, and interpolates video frames.
Waifu2x-Extension-GUI upscales images, GIFs and video locally on Windows only, and its licence limits free use to personal projects.
Real-ESRGAN
Open source AI model for upscaling and restoring images and video.
Real-ESRGAN is a free BSD-licensed model with variants tuned for anime and photos, running locally but mainly from the command line.
Upscale.media
An online AI upscaler that enlarges images up to 8x and also upscales short videos.
Upscale.media upscales up to 8x on web, Android and iOS without signing up, and also handles short videos, though maximum enlargement is lower than 16x.
Imglarger
An online AI image enlarger that upscales, sharpens and extends photos in the browser.
Imglarger enlarges images up to 8x in the browser and adds outpainting to extend backgrounds, but has no mobile apps.
Icons8 Smart Upscaler
An AI image upscaler from Icons8 that enlarges photos up to 8x in the browser or on a Mac.
Icons8 Smart Upscaler enlarges up to 8x on the web and a Mac app with batch processing and an API, but has no mobile apps.
Let's Enhance
Online AI tool that upscales, sharpens and restores photos up to 512 megapixels.
Let's Enhance upscales photos up to 512 megapixels in the browser with batch processing and restoration, and is aimed more at photos than anime artwork.
Topaz Gigapixel
A desktop AI image upscaler that enlarges photos up to 16x while recovering detail and faces.
Topaz Gigapixel is paid desktop software for Windows and macOS that upscales up to 16x with face recovery and optional local rendering.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Clarity AI
A web-based AI upscaler for images and video, with precise and creative enhancement models.
VanceAI
A suite of AI image and video tools for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, restoring and background removal.
Deep-Image.ai
An online AI service for upscaling, denoising, sharpening and replacing backgrounds in images, with an API.
Magnific
An online AI creative platform for generating and upscaling images, video and audio, formerly Freepik.
