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Who wrote this, and why
We are one of the alternatives. RestoreYourPhoto is ours, so read the comparison with that in mind. In exchange: every Remini fact here comes from its own App Store listing, and we have written down the things Remini does better than us instead of leaving them out.
Most pages ranking for this question are affiliate listicles that parade six tools and never tell you what Remini costs or what it is actually for. This one is about Remini, because that is what you came for. The wider field is one short table near the bottom, and the long version lives in our seven-tool comparison.
What Remini actually does
Worth being precise, because half the disappointment with this category comes from pointing a tool at the wrong problem. In its own words on the App Store, Remini turns facial photos into high definition, enhances portraits and selfies, repairs old, blurry or scratched photos, and makes before and after comparisons. The app is published by Bending Spoons, carries a 4.6 rating from over 350,000 ratings, and claims more than 100 million photos processed.
The thread running through that list is faces. Remini rebuilds facial detail better than anything else in this comparison, and it is genuinely remarkable on a blurry portrait. What it is not built around is the rest of the frame: group shots, backgrounds and landscapes come back noticeably weaker than the face does. It also does video, which almost nothing else here does.
One correction to the usual claim made on pages like this, including an earlier draft of our own: Remini does not ignore damage. “Repair old/blurry/scratched photo” is in its own feature list. The honest difference between it and a dedicated restorer is emphasis, not capability.
What Remini costs
Free to download, with a working free tier of ads and roughly five photos a day. Paid access is a subscription, and per the App Store listing it is sold in weekly, monthly and yearly lengths. That matters more than the headline number, because the weekly option is the one most people end up on and the one that quietly adds up.
| Tier | Billed | If kept a year | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Nothing | $0 | Ads, roughly 5 photos a day |
| Lite, weekly | ~$7.99 a week | ~$415.48 | No ads, higher limits |
| Pro, weekly | ~$9.99 a week | ~$519.48 | The full feature set |
Weekly figures from the App Store listing on 3 November 2026; the yearly column is those times 52, shown to make the weekly option legible rather than because anyone pays it for a full year. Monthly and yearly plans cost less per week. Prices vary by region.
The mismatch is not the price, it is the shape. Restoring photographs is a project with an end: a shoebox turns up, you work through it over two weekends, and then you stop for a year. A subscription keeps charging through the eleven months you do not open the app, and a weekly one does it fifty-two times.
Is the free tier enough?
For a lot of people, yes, and it is worth saying that on a page that would rather sell you something. Five photos a day with ads is about thirty-five a week. A dozen portraits and no deadline: the free tier does it and costs nothing.
It stops being enough in three situations. Two hundred photographs, where five a day turns a weekend into six weeks. Damage rather than blur, where sharpening is the wrong operation no matter how many attempts you get. And a deadline, where the daily limit is a wall you can only pay your way past by starting a subscription.
Using Remini without installing it
This is the most asked Remini question after the app itself, and the answer is short: yes, Remini runs in a browser at app.remini.ai, and you do not need to install anything to try it.
Two things are worth knowing before you do. First, where you subscribe decides who bills you and where you cancel: a plan started in the browser is billed by the vendor and cancelled in the account settings of the service, while one started in the app is billed by Apple or Google and cancelled in the store. People who subscribe in one place and go looking in the other are a large share of the complaints about this category.
Second, if what you want is photo restoration with nothing installed and no store subscription attached, that is the whole shape of what we built. There is no app, there never will be, and there is nothing to cancel because nothing renews. A browser on an iPhone, an Android, a Chromebook or a ten-year-old laptop gets the same result, because the work happens on a server rather than on the device.
The “mod apk” question
Several hundred people a month search for a modified Remini Android package with the paid features unlocked. It is worth answering plainly rather than pretending the search does not happen.
A mod apk is not Remini. It is a copy of the app repackaged by somebody you cannot identify and served from outside Google Play. Installing one means handing your entire photo library to unvetted software, with no store review, no update channel and no accountability if it does something else as well. In a category where the official apps are mainstream commercial products, this is the only genuine security risk on the table.
The reason people look is the subscription, and that has a legitimate answer: buy something once instead. Our smallest pack is $6.99 for 10 photos, which is less than a fortnight of the weekly tier and does not renew. PhotoGlory is $19.25 once on Windows. Neither requires sideloading anything.
Us against Remini, point by point
The comparison you are actually making. Everything in the Remini column is from its own App Store listing on 3 November 2026; everything in ours is checkable on this site.
| Remini | RestoreYourPhoto | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Faces. Portraits and selfies, rebuilt to high definition in one tap. | Damaged paper. Tears, creases, stains and fading, repaired and colorized in one pass. |
| Billing | Subscription. The listing offers weekly, monthly and yearly lengths. | One-time credit packs. Nothing renews and nothing expires. |
| What a year costs | About $519.48 on the weekly tier, less on the longer ones. | $6.99 to $109.99 once, for 10 to 250 photos. |
| If you stop using it | Billing continues until you cancel in the store. | Unused credits stay in the account indefinitely. |
| Free tier | Yes. Ads, roughly five photos a day. | None. Money-back guarantee instead. |
| Where it runs | iPhone, Android, and a browser version at app.remini.ai. | Browser only, which means every device including both phones. |
| Video | Yes, video enhancement is part of the product. | No. We do stills, plus a separate animation tool. |
| Colorizing black and white | Not listed as a feature. | Yes, and in the same pass as the repair. |
| Where the photo goes | Uploaded to a server. | Uploaded to a server. Deleted after 30 days. |
Remini column read from its App Store listing on 3 November 2026.
Where Remini wins
On a face, it wins. If the photograph is a portrait or a selfie that is soft, compressed or low resolution, Remini rebuilds the facial detail better than we do and better than anything else in this comparison, and it does it in one tap on a phone you already have in your hand. It also handles video, which we do not do at all. If either of those is your problem, stop reading and use Remini.
Where we win
On paper that has been damaged. Tears, creases, water stains, missing corners and sixty years of fading are a different operation from sharpening, and we repair them and add color in a single pass, which matters because colorizing a scratched print colors the scratches too.
And on the bill. There is no subscription here at all. One credit restores one photo, a credit costs between $0.44 and $0.70 depending on the pack, and the credits do not expire, so the eleven months you do not open it cost nothing.
| Pack | Photos | Price | Full 1080p | No watermark | Never expires | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 10 | $6.99$0.70 each | Full 1080p: included | No watermark: included | Never expires: included | Buy |
| Plus | 25 | $16.99$0.68 each | Full 1080p: included | No watermark: included | Never expires: included | Buy |
| Probest value | 50 | $29.99$0.60 each | Full 1080p: included | No watermark: included | Never expires: included | Buy |
| Studio | 100 | $54.99$0.55 each | Full 1080p: included | No watermark: included | Never expires: included | Buy |
| Max | 250 | $109.99$0.44 each | Full 1080p: included | No watermark: included | Never expires: included | Buy |
One credit restores one photo. Every pack includes the same everything: nothing is held back for the larger ones, and the only difference is how many photos you get.
A year on Remini's weekly tier is roughly 250 photographs here with money left over, and those credits would still be in the account at the end of it. A photo takes about thirty seconds, the download is 1080p with no watermark, results stay in your history for 30 days, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee. An animation costs 3 credits rather than one.
How to decide in one question
Is the photograph blurry or is it damaged? Soft, compressed or low resolution is Remini's job. Torn, stained, faded or black and white is ours. If it is both, repair it first and sharpen second, in that order, because sharpening damage only produces sharper damage.
Cancelling a Remini subscription
Worth its own section, because the common complaint about this category is not the price, it is being charged after you thought you had stopped. Deleting the app does not cancel anything.
- Subscribed in the app, on an iPhone
- Settings, your name at the top, Subscriptions, then the subscription, then Cancel.
- Subscribed in the app, on Android
- Play Store, your profile picture, Payments and subscriptions, Subscriptions, then the subscription and Cancel.
- Subscribed on the web
- Billed by the vendor rather than a store, so it is cancelled in the account settings of the service itself.
Remini's own listing sets out the terms: auto-renew has to be turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, access continues until that period is over, and the period you are in is not refunded. So cancel the moment you decide rather than on the renewal date. There is nothing to gain by waiting and a full period to lose by forgetting.
Is Remini safe to use?
The official app is a mainstream commercial product from Bending Spoons, the publisher named on its listing, rated 4.6 from more than 350,000 ratings. The question behind the question is usually about photographs leaving the device, and the honest answer implicates us too: Remini processes on a server, so your photos are uploaded. So are ours. So are MyHeritage's and VanceAI's.
If a photograph genuinely must not be uploaded, there are two answers and both are desktop software: PhotoGlory on Windows, or the Topaz desktop applications. Topaz for Mobile and Topaz Image Web both send the file to a server like everyone else, so the local-processing argument covers the desktop apps only.
The unsafe option is the one covered above: a modified build from outside the stores.
The other alternatives, briefly
If neither Remini nor we fit, these are the realistic options. Each is covered properly in the seven-tool comparison; here is the one-line version.
| Tool | Price | Billing | Worth it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topaz Photo | $199 a year | Annual license | Sharpening with real control and exports to 100MP. The desktop apps process locally. |
| MyHeritage | $149 a year | Annual subscription | Worth it only if you already pay for the family tree, where the photo tools are included. |
| VanceAI | From $15 a month billed annually | Monthly credit allowance | A wide toolbox, but the credits expire with the subscription, which is the Remini trap in another shape. |
| PhotoGlory | From $19.25 once | One-time license, Windows | The cheapest exit from subscriptions, if you are on Windows and happy in an editor. |
| Photomyne | $59.99 a year | Subscription | A scanner first. Relevant only if the photographs are still paper in a box. |
Prices from each vendor's own page on 3 November 2026: Topaz Photo, MyHeritage, VanceAI, PhotoGlory, Photomyne.
Questions people ask
Is Remini free?
The app is free to download on both stores and the free tier works: ads, and roughly five photos a day. Paid access is a subscription, and per its App Store listing it comes in weekly, monthly and yearly lengths. The weekly option is the one to watch, because at around $9.99 a week it reaches roughly $519.48 over a year while never looking expensive in the moment. Prices vary by region and change often.
Is there a Remini web version?
Yes. Remini runs in a browser at app.remini.ai, so you do not have to install anything to try it, and this is the most searched Remini question after the app itself. Worth knowing: a subscription bought on the web is billed by the vendor, while one bought in the app is billed by Apple or Google, and they are cancelled in different places.
What is the Remini mod apk, and is it safe?
A mod apk is a modified copy of the Android app, repackaged by a stranger and distributed outside Google Play, usually advertising the paid features unlocked. It is not Remini. Installing one means granting photo-library access to software nobody has vetted, it cannot be updated through the store, and it is the only genuine security risk in this whole category. If the subscription is the problem, a one-time purchase from any legitimate tool costs less than a few weeks of it.
What is the Remini app for?
Its own listing says: turning facial photos into high definition, enhancing portraits and selfies, repairing old, blurry or scratched photos, and making before and after comparisons. The emphasis across all of it is faces, which is what it does better than anything else in this comparison. The rest of the frame comes back weaker than the face does.
What is the difference between Remini and RestoreYourPhoto?
Three things. Remini is built around rebuilding a face and is the best in this comparison at exactly that; we are built around repairing damaged paper and adding color, in one pass. Remini bills by subscription, we sell one-time credits that do not expire. Remini does video, we do not. If the photo is a soft modern portrait, use Remini. If it is a torn, stained or black and white print, use us.
How do I cancel a Remini subscription?
Through whoever bills you. A subscription bought in the app is billed by the store: on an iPhone, Settings, your name, then Subscriptions; on Android, the Play Store, your profile picture, then Payments and subscriptions. One bought on the web is cancelled in the account settings of the service. Remini's own listing states that auto-renew has to be turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, that access continues to the end of the period you paid for, and that the current period is not refunded. Deleting the app cancels nothing.
Is Remini safe to use?
The official app is a mainstream product from Bending Spoons, the publisher named on its App Store listing, with a 4.6 rating from over 350,000 ratings. The real consideration is not safety but uploading: Remini processes on a server, so photographs leave your device, and the same is true of us, MyHeritage and VanceAI. If a photograph must never be uploaded, the only answers are desktop applications such as PhotoGlory or the Topaz desktop apps. The unsafe option is a modified build from outside the stores.
Can ChatGPT restore an old photo?
It will produce something, and it is sometimes impressive at a glance. The problem for a photograph of a real person is that it regenerates the image rather than repairing the one you gave it, so faces drift: the result looks like your grandmother rather than being her. It also returns whatever size the model produces instead of the resolution of your scan. Run the same photo through both and compare the faces at full size.
