Alternatives to Video2X
An open-source machine-learning tool for upscaling video resolution and interpolating extra frames. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Video2X
An open-source machine-learning tool for upscaling video resolution and interpolating extra frames.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Video2X.
Topaz Video
Video enhancement software that uses AI models to upscale, stabilize, sharpen and interpolate frames in footage.
Topaz Video offers AI upscaling, stabilization and frame interpolation with a graphical app on Windows and macOS, but it is a paid subscription and closed source.
VideoProc Converter AI
A GPU-accelerated video converter with AI upscaling, a downloader, DVD ripping and a screen recorder.
VideoProc Converter AI adds AI upscaling and frame interpolation to a graphical converter for Windows and macOS, as paid proprietary software.
Flowframes
A Windows app that uses AI frame interpolation to raise video frame rates or create slow motion.
Flowframes gives a Windows graphical interface for RIFE and DAIN frame interpolation, but it does not upscale resolution and latest builds require Patreon support.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
VapourSynth
A Python-scripted video processing frameserver with a plugin ecosystem for filtering and restoring video.
AviSynth+
A frameserver for scripted video processing and filtering, forked from AviSynth.
Magnific
An online AI creative platform for generating and upscaling images, video and audio, formerly Freepik.
Gyroflow
An open-source desktop tool that stabilizes video using gyroscope data recorded by the camera or drone.
FFmpeg
The command that converts, cuts, streams and inspects essentially any audio or video file in existence.
