Pixelift
Family archive restoration

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.

Three tools give a free watermarked preview — no account. The clean file costs credits, paid once.

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 $1.49
smallest credit pack

What we restore

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

Damage restoration

Damage restoration

Creases, cracked emulsion, damp stains and tape marks disappear, while the original grain stays.

Sharpening

Sharpening

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

Photo upscaling

Photo upscaling

A scan for print and archive: more pixels without blur, fabric and hair detail stays in place.

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
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 try it

10 credits — enough for several photos: a colorization costs 1.5 credits each.

$1.49
Choose
For video

A film and some photos

50 credits — a short clip in color (10 credits) plus a reserve for photos from the same box.

$4.99
Colorize video

The whole archive

100 credits — for sorting out an estate: longer films and bigger batches of scans.

$9.99
Choose

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 — $1.49, $4.99 or $9.99. 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.