ESRGAN AlternativesImage Upscaling Apps like ESRGAN

ESRGAN is described as '(Description from https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-neural-networks-being-used-to-generate-hq-textures-for-older-games-you-can-do-it-yourself.88272/)' and is a Image Upscaling app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to ESRGAN, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac and Flathub apps. The best ESRGAN alternative is Upscayl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to ESRGAN are REAL Video Enhancer, waifu2x, chaiNNer and Magnific AI.

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  1. Upscayl icon

    Upscayl

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    Open source desktop tool using advanced AI to enlarge and enhance images without loss of quality, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Linux-first development gives early access to Linux users. Requires Vulkan compatible GPU for upscaling.

    70 Upscayl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Online
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    • Upscayl is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ESRGAN.

    • Upscayl is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ESRGAN.

    • Upscayl is Freemium and Open SourceESRGAN is Free and Open Source
    • Upscayl is LightweightESRGAN is not according to our users
  2. REAL Video Enhancer icon

    REAL Video Enhancer

     20 likes

    REAL Video Enhancer is a redesigned and enhanced version of the original Rife ESRGAN App for Linux. This program offers convenient access to frame interpolation and upscaling functionalities on Linux, comparable to Flowframes or enhancr on Windows.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  4. waifu2x icon

    waifu2x

     55 likes

    Image Super-Resolution [upscaling] for Anime-style [low detail] art or images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

    68 waifu2x alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. chaiNNer icon

    chaiNNer

     8 likes

    A flowchart/node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks (especially upscaling done by neural networks) easy, intuitive, and customizable.

    55 chaiNNer alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Magnific AI icon

    Magnific AI

     8 likes

    The most advanced AI upscaler & enhancer. Magnific can hallucinate and reimagine as many details as you wish guided by your own prompt and parameters!.

    81 Magnific AI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Adobe Photoshop
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    • Magnific AI is the most popular commercial alternative to ESRGAN.

    • Magnific AI is Paid and ProprietaryESRGAN is Free and Open Source
  10. RealSR-NCNN-Android icon

    RealSR-NCNN-Android

     3 likes

    An Android application for super-resolution & interpolation. Contains RealSR-NCNN, SRMD-NCNN, RealCUGAN-NCNN, Real-ESRGAN-NCNN, Waifu2x-NCNN, Anime4kcpp, nearest, bilinear, bicubic, AVIR...

    12 RealSR-NCNN-Android alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
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    • RealSR-NCNN-Android is the most popular Android alternative to ESRGAN.

    • RealSR-NCNN-Android is Free and Open SourceESRGAN is also Free and Open Source
    • RealSR-NCNN-Android is Privacy focusedESRGAN is not according to our users

  12. Anime4K

     7 likes

    Anime4K is a set of open-source, high-quality real-time anime upscaling/denoising algorithms that can be implemented in any programming language.

    23 Anime4K alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. jdPixelUpscaler icon

    jdPixelUpscaler

     2 likes

    jdPixelUpscaler upscales images by simply replacing one pixel with several of the same color. For example, if you set the scaling factor to 2, one pixel becomes 2x2 pixels of the same color. No attention is paid to the surrounding pixels or to transitions.

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Linux
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  14. RealSR

     5 likes

    Recent state-of-the-art super-resolution methods have achieved impressive performance on ideal datasets regardless of blur and noise. However, these methods always fail in real-world image super-resolution, since most of them adopt simple bicubic downsampling from high-quality...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vulkan
    • PyTorch
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  15. magickimg icon

    magickimg

     4 likes

    Elevate your images with cutting-edge AI technology and a suite of tools for restoration, upscaling, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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