RestorePhotos is an AI photo restorer for damaged, faded and blurry pictures of people. You upload a scan or a phone photo of an old print, pick what you want done, restore, colorize or sharpen, and get a cleaned-up version back at 1080p, usually inside half a minute. There is nothing to install and nothing to learn; the whole product is one upload box.
The model is tuned for faces, which is the useful specialisation here. Scratches, creases, grain and the soft focus of a cheap camera are the damage it handles best, and it tries to keep the expression and character of the original rather than smoothing a face into a generic portrait. Black and white, sepia and colour originals from any era all work, as do the awkward sources people actually have: tiny wallet photos, water-damaged prints, yearbook pages, a phone snap of a framed picture on a wall.
Pricing is one-time credit packs rather than a subscription, which suits the way the job usually arrives, a box of photos once, not a monthly habit. Packs run from $6.99 for 10 restorations up to $54.99 for 100, credits never expire, and one credit covers one restoration whatever you asked it to do. The company's own comparison is against professional restoration studios at $50 or more per image, and that is the honest frame: this is not a replacement for hand retouching, it is an order of magnitude cheaper.
Worth knowing before you buy: the AI reconstructs missing detail rather than recovering it. On a badly damaged area you get a plausible invention, not what the film originally captured, and on faces that matters, a restored relative can come back subtly not-quite-themselves. Output is capped at 1080p, so it is aimed at screens and small prints rather than large ones. It is a face-photo tool, so landscapes, documents and group shots at a distance are outside what it is trained for. And there is no real free plan to size up the quality on your own archive; a 30-day money-back guarantee is the safety net instead.
Who it suits: anyone with a shoebox of family prints who wants them legible and shareable at a sane price. Who should look elsewhere: professional archivists, anyone needing print-resolution output, and anyone who needs the result to be provably faithful to the original rather than convincingly restored.