Alternatives to HitPaw

A family of AI desktop and mobile apps for enhancing photos, video and audio, and removing unwanted objects. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as HitPaw.

  • VanceAI

    A suite of AI image and video tools for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, restoring and background removal.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    VanceAI covers image and video enhancement, restoration and background removal through web tools and a desktop app, with an API and paid credits.

  • Aiarty Image Enhancer

    A desktop AI image enhancer that denoises, deblurs, sharpens and upscales photos with local processing.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    Aiarty Image Enhancer combines denoise, deblur, sharpen and upscale in one local Windows and Mac app, but has no mobile version or video tools.

  • Topaz Photo

    Desktop image enhancement software that uses AI models to sharpen, denoise, unblur and upscale photos.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    Topaz Photo combines denoise, sharpen, unblur and upscale in one paid Windows and macOS app with local or cloud models, without mobile apps.

  • Cutout.Pro

    An online AI visual platform for background removal, photo enhancement, colorization, retouching and image generation.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsmacOSAndroidiOSWeb

    Cutout.Pro offers enhancement, background removal and colorization as a freemium online service with desktop and mobile apps, processing images online.

  • Upscale.media

    An online AI upscaler that enlarges images up to 8x and also upscales short videos.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Upscale.media upscales photos and short videos in the browser and on mobile without signing up, with restore and colourise tools but no desktop app.

  • neural.love

    A browser platform of AI tools for enhancing video, generating and editing images, and animating photos.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    neural.love provides image editing, video enhancement and photo animation in the browser, with files processed on its servers and pricing unconfirmed.

Also worth comparing

These listings name HitPaw as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Cleanup.pictures

    A web tool that removes unwanted objects, people, text and defects from photos using AI inpainting.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    HitPaw provides object removal in desktop apps for Windows and macOS and mobile apps, as paid software with pricing not shown on its homepage.

  • ON1 NoNoise AI

    AI noise reduction and sharpening software for photos, usable standalone or as a plugin.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    HitPaw offers AI photo enhancement across Windows, Mac and mobile apps, but it is split into many separate apps and its pricing is not shown on the homepage.

  • Topaz Video

    Video enhancement software that uses AI models to upscale, stabilize, sharpen and interpolate frames in footage.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    HitPaw offers a separate video upscaling app among its photo and audio tools, available on Windows, Mac and mobile as closed-source software.

  • Video2X

    An open-source machine-learning tool for upscaling video resolution and interpolating extra frames.

    FreeOpen sourceCommand line

    HitPaw provides a paid closed-source video upscaling app for Windows, Mac and mobile with a simpler interface than a command-line tool.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.