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Browser upscaler: enlarge an image 2x to 8x with AI, with no watermark and one free image a day without an account.
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AI Image Enlarger
A long-running AI upscaler that enlarges a photo up to 8x, with a Mac app that does the work on your own machine instead of uploading it.
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Overview
AI Image Enlarger, at imglarger.com, is built around making a small picture bigger. The AI enlarges at 2x, 4x or 8x and invents the extra detail rather than stretching what is there. The site also has sharpening, denoising, enhancement, colorizing, background removal and uncropping.
It runs on the web and in iPhone, Android and Mac apps, and the vendor states the Mac app processes on your own machine without uploading. Everything runs on credits. Free use gives 100 credits a month, with ads and one image at a time. It takes source images up to 1024 pixels on the longest side and enlarges up to 2x. Paid subscriptions lift all of that, and credits do not roll over.
Key features
✓Enlarges images at 2x, 4x or 8x
✓Separate model for anime & drawn art
✓Sharpener, denoiser & photo enhancer
✓Old photo repair, colorizer & face retouch
✓Background remover & uncrop to extend a photo
✓Free crop, rotate & format converter tools
✓Batch processing on paid plans
✓Mac app processes locally, no upload
✓Apps for iPhone, Android & Mac
✓Reads JPG, PNG & WebP
When to use
Use AI Image Enlarger if:
- You have a small or low-resolution image and need it enlarged for print or a screen, at up to 8 times the size.
- You want the enlargement and the cleanup in one place. Sharpening, noise removal and enhancement sit next to the upscaler.
- You are upscaling anime or drawn art. There is a separate model for it, rather than a photo model applied to a drawing.
- You want to keep your images off the cloud. The vendor states the Mac app processes locally and does not upload them.
- You have a set of images to enlarge at once. Batch processing is on the paid plans.
- You only need a format converted or a photo cropped. Those tools on the site are free.
When NOT to use
Skip AI Image Enlarger if any of these describe you:
- You want the bigger enlargements or large source files free. Free use stops at 2x, takes one image at a time, and reads source images up to 1024 pixels on the longest side. Bigjpg is another image upscaler to compare on the free tier.
- You upscale rarely, months apart. Credits refresh monthly, do not roll over, and are lost if you stop subscribing, so a subscription suits regular work rather than the odd job.
- You want professional control over how detail is rebuilt. Topaz is built for that and runs on your own machine.
- Your photo is damaged rather than small. Tears, creases and fading are the job of a photo restoration tool.
- You expect real detail back. The AI invents what to add when it enlarges, so the result is a plausible guess at detail that was never in the file.
- You are on Windows and your images cannot be uploaded. Only the Mac app processes locally, so on other systems the files go to the vendor's servers.
Frequently asked questions
There is a free tier of 100 credits a month, and one image costs one credit to process or download. Free use comes with ads, one image at a time, source images up to 1024 pixels on the longest side, and enlargement up to 2x. The converter and basic editor tools on the site are always free. A subscription unlocks 4x and 8x, batch processing, bigger uploads and no ads.
Yes. Subscription credits refresh at the start of each billing cycle and unused ones do not carry over to the next. If the subscription lapses, credits still in the account are forfeited. The web plans are monthly or annual subscriptions rather than one-time purchases.
On Mac, yes. The vendor states that the offline Mac version processes images locally on your machine without uploading them to the cloud. The website, the iPhone app and the Android app all send the image to its servers, so those need an internet connection.
It gives you a bigger file with detail that looks plausible. The AI has no access to detail that was never captured, so at 8x it is inventing most of what you see rather than recovering it. The higher the enlargement, the more of the result is the model's guess, which matters most on faces and text.
They go to the vendor's servers for processing, except in the offline Mac app. The site states that uploaded and processed images are deleted automatically within a few hours, currently six. Check its privacy policy for the current rule if the images are sensitive.
Yes, and it uses a separate anime upscaler rather than the photo model. Models trained on photographs can treat flat colour and clean linework as noise to be smoothed.
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