Restore Photo

Restore Photo opens a digital copy of an old, damaged, or faded print and runs an AI restoration pass. It can fix scratched and torn photos, smooth out creases, lift years of fading, sharpen soft detail, and pull back features in faces that have gone fuzzy with time. With one tap, it can also colorize black and white photos. You pick the fixes you want to apply — light cleanup on a near-pristine photo, or a full pass on something the dog chewed in 1987. The original file in your camera roll stays untouched; the restored version saves as a new copy you can keep, share, or print. Most photos take about a minute to process.

A standard photo editor sharpens, crops, adjusts exposure, and tweaks color — useful tools for fresh shots, and exactly what our Photo Enhancer is designed for. Restore Photo is built for the opposite problem: rescuing old, damaged, or faded prints that have been sitting in a drawer or album for decades. Its AI photo restorer tools undo years of wear — scratches, tears, foxing, fade, blur — rather than polishing a photo taken on your phone yesterday. The two features are intentionally separate. If your shot is from this morning, reach for Photo Enhancer. If it’s from 1962, reach for Restore Photo.

TouchRetouch accepts JPG, PNG, HEIC, and TIFF. The input needs to be a digital image — a flatbed scan, a phone photo of the print laid flat under good light, or a previously digitized file from your gallery. The app works on image files, not physical prints, so digitize the photo first. A higher-resolution scan gives the AI more to work with and tends to produce a cleaner restoration. For most family-album work, a steady phone photo in daylight is enough. If you only have one fragile copy of a print, it’s worth scanning at the highest setting you can — that gives Restore Photo the most detail to draw on, and protects the original by limiting how often it has to be handled.

Yes, you can try a 3-day free trial with all premium features unlocked.

No — and this is worth knowing before you share or print the result. When the AI adds color to a black-and-white photo, it’s making plausible, natural-looking choices based on what it can guess from the scene — grass, skin tones, sky, common clothing colors — not recovering what was truly in front of the camera. Grandma’s dress may have been red; the AI might render it blue. The same applies to badly torn, missing, or destroyed areas: the AI reconstructs plausible content rather than recovering lost detail. The result is a beautiful, shareable restoration of the image — not a historical record of the scene. For personal use, family albums, gifts, and prints, that’s almost always what you want. For academic, archival, or evidentiary work, it isn’t the right tool.

You can restore old photos to a natural-looking, polished state — ready to print, frame, share, and preserve in family albums. The app can repair damaged photos so faces and surfaces read clearly. It can restore blurry old photos with detail recovery too. That said, heavy damage may still leave subtle traces, and we won’t promise the result is indistinguishable from a pristine original. The goal is a clear, beautiful version of the picture, suitable for the album shelf and the family group chat. Use Restore Photo on the personal photos in your collection — the ones you own, inherited, or were given. Your scans are handled in line with App Store, Google Play, and applicable data-protection rules, so your family photos stay protected.