Open Source Upscayl AlternativesImage Upscaling Apps like Upscayl

The best open source alternative to Upscayl is waifu2x. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Upscayl and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Upscayl are REAL Video Enhancer, Video2X, Real-ESRGAN and Waifu2x-Extension-GUI.

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  1. waifu2x icon

    waifu2x

     59 likes

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

    73 waifu2x alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • JP flagJapan
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  2. REAL Video Enhancer icon

    REAL Video Enhancer

     30 likes

    Cross-platform tool offering advanced video upscaling and frame interpolation using RIFE, RealESRGAN, Waifu2x, and IFRNET, with scene change detection, instant preview, Discord integration, and ability to enhance local files or YouTube videos on major operating systems.

    64 REAL Video Enhancer alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  4. Video2X icon

    Video2X

     30 likes

    Video2X is a video/GIF/image upscaling software based on Waifu2X, Anime4K, SRMD and RealSR written in Python 3. It upscales videos, GIFs and images, restoring details from low-resolution inputs. Video2X also accepts GIF input to video output and video input to GIF output.

    30 Video2X alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • CN flagChina
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  5. Real-ESRGAN icon

    Real-ESRGAN

     16 likes

    Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • CN flagChina
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  6. Waifu2x-Extension-GUI icon

    Waifu2x-Extension-GUI

     12 likes

    Video, Image and GIF upscale/enlarge(Super-Resolution) and Video frame interpolation. Achieved with Waifu2x, Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, SRMD, RealSR, Anime4K, RIFE, CAIN, DAIN, and ACNet.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • CN flagChina
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  8. Waifu2x Caffe icon

    Waifu2x Caffe

     24 likes

    Waifu2x Caffe rewrites only the conversion function of the image conversion software "waifu2x" using Caffe and is software developed for Windows. Although it can convert with CPU, using CUDA (or cuDNN) can convert faster than CPU.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  10. R

    RealSR

     6 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)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vulkan
    • PyTorch
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    RealScaler

     6 likes

    RealScaler is a Windows app based on Real-ESRGAN AI to enhance, enlarge and reduce noise in photographs and videos.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU
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  12. final2x icon

    final2x

     5 likes

    2^x Image Super-Resolution ??.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  13. Scapix icon

    Scapix

     15 likes

    An image, gif and video upscaling and denoiser app developed with electron, react, waifu2x and ffmpeg.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Global
    Scapix 2.0
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  14. chaiNNer icon

    chaiNNer

     9 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.

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    • Linux
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
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