Pixelift

Family footage and photos — in color again

Upload an old film or photo. AI brings back the color, sharpness and detail that time took away. See the result before you pay — no account needed.

A lake holiday, 1938. The curtain sweeps from the original to our colorization.8 s · Prelinger Archives, public domain
No training
we never train models on your files
No account
watermarked preview in 3 tools
No subscription
pay once, with credits
from $8.99
smallest credit pack

What we restore

Each tool does one thing and shows the result on your own file before you pay.

Video colorization

preview, no account

Black-and-white family film gets color frame by frame, with the original sound and clips up to 5 minutes. The free 5-second preview usually comes back within a minute, and flicker after stabilisation measures 2.83 against 3.81 for ordinary camera footage.

Video upscaling

preview, no account

Old tape recovers sharpness and detail, up to 1080p or 4K. Before paying, you check the effect on a single frame from your own footage, and that test is free.

Damage restoration

Creases, cracked emulsion, damp stains and tape marks disappear, while the original grain stays. Half of all photos come back in 33 seconds.

Sharpening

Facial features and lettering come back to legibility from a blurred frame, without inventing things that were never there. Usually 24 seconds.

Photo upscaling

A scan for print and archive: more pixels without blur, up to 8× enlargement. Fabric and hair detail stays in place, and the result is usually yours in 17 seconds.

Family photos

The faces you know from stories

A box from your grandparents, an envelope of communion photos, film with no negative. Start with a single photo — drag the slider and see what comes back.

We never touch the original file. You always get a new copy, and the old one stays with you exactly as it was.

Colorize a family photo
Comparison: black-and-white family photo and the AI-colorized version
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BeforeAfter colorization
Drag the slider — original on the left, colorized on the right.

Pricing without a subscription

You buy credits once. Nothing renews, there is no monthly fee and no card saved “for later”.

To start

60 credits. Enough for: video colorization × 6 or photo restoration × 20.

$8.99
Choose
For video

A film and photos

100 credits. Enough for: video colorization × 10 or photo restoration × 33.

$9.99
Colorize video

The whole archive

250 credits. Enough for: video colorization × 25 or photo restoration × 83.

$19.99
Choose

Creating regularly? There's also a subscription — STARTER: 200 credits every month for $15

Questions we hear most often

Will AI ruin my photo?

The original stays untouched — you get a new file next to it. If you don't like the result, you simply don't save it.

Do I need an account to see the result?

No. Video colorization, photo colorization and video upscaling all give a watermarked preview without signing up. An account and credits are only needed to download the clean file.

How long does it take?

A photo — seconds. Video — usually a good fifteen minutes, depending on length and resolution. With an account the finished clip waits in your history; a free preview without an account has to be downloaded right away.

Is this a subscription?

No. You buy a credit pack once — from $8.99. Nothing renews automatically.

Which files can I upload?

Photos in JPG, PNG and WEBP, films in MP4, MOV, AVI, WEBM and MKV — including scans from a home scanner and footage pulled off tapes. The bigger the source file, the more detail we can recover.