Alternatives to Icons8 Smart Upscaler
An AI image upscaler from Icons8 that enlarges photos up to 8x in the browser or on a Mac. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Icons8 Smart Upscaler
An AI image upscaler from Icons8 that enlarges photos up to 8x in the browser or on a Mac.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Icons8 Smart Upscaler.
Let's Enhance
Online AI tool that upscales, sharpens and restores photos up to 512 megapixels.
Let's Enhance upscales up to 512 megapixels in the browser with batches of 20 and photo restoration, but has no Mac app.
Upscayl
Enlarges low-resolution images with AI models running on your own GPU, in a plain drag-and-drop window.
Upscayl is free AGPL-3.0 software that batch upscales locally on Windows, macOS and Linux, needing a Vulkan GPU but uploading nothing.
Topaz Gigapixel
A desktop AI image upscaler that enlarges photos up to 16x while recovering detail and faces.
Topaz Gigapixel is paid Windows and macOS software upscaling up to 16x with face recovery and local or cloud rendering.
Imglarger
An online AI image enlarger that upscales, sharpens and extends photos in the browser.
Imglarger enlarges up to 8x in the browser and adds outpainting and format conversion, but has no Mac app or batch processing mentioned.
Upscale.media
An online AI upscaler that enlarges images up to 8x and also upscales short videos.
Upscale.media enlarges up to 8x without signing up on web, Android and iOS, and also upscales short video clips.
Deep-Image.ai
An online AI service for upscaling, denoising, sharpening and replacing backgrounds in images, with an API.
Deep-Image.ai offers batch upscaling of up to 50 images with an API and Python client, but limits enlargement to four times.
Bigjpg
An AI image enlarger that upscales artwork and photos up to 16 times with neural networks.
Bigjpg enlarges up to 16x on web, Android and iOS and is tuned for illustrations and anime-style art rather than photos.
Real-ESRGAN
Open source AI model for upscaling and restoring images and video.
Real-ESRGAN is a free BSD-licensed upscaling model that runs locally on Windows, macOS and Linux, mainly from the command line.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Icons8 Smart Upscaler as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
ON1 Resize AI
Photo enlargement software that upscales images up to 10x using AI and fractal-based algorithms.
Icons8 Smart Upscaler enlarges up to 8x with batch processing in the browser or a Mac app, has a freemium model, and has no Windows app mentioned.
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.
Magnific
An online AI creative platform for generating and upscaling images, video and audio, formerly Freepik.
Waifu2x-Extension-GUI
Upscales photos, GIFs and video with machine learning, and interpolates video frames.
