Old photo restoration · iPhone
The photograph comes back.
The face stays the face.
Most restoration apps hand you a stranger: skin turned to plastic, features redrawn, a face the family no longer recognises. Revera repairs what time did to the picture and leaves the person alone.
Before
After
What it repairs
Damage, not personality.
Fading and lost colour
Yellowing, washed-out dyes, the grey that decades of a drawer leave behind.
Tears and scratches
Cracks, creases, torn edges and missing corners — including damage that runs right across the picture.
Grain and blur
Noise from old film and cheap scans, and resolution too low to print.
Black and white
Kept in clean monochrome — repairing a photograph is not the same as colouring it. Colour is a separate button on the finished photo, offered only when the picture is actually black and white.
Where the photograph comes from
From the phone, or from the table.
Most of a family album never made it into a phone — it is still in a shoebox, in an envelope, behind the glass of a frame. Revera takes both: a file you already have, or the print lying in front of you.
From your gallery
JPG, PNG or HEIC, any size — or sent straight to Revera from the iOS share sheet. A scan of a whole album page gets cropped down to the one photograph you meant.
From a print on the table
Photograph it where it lies. You draw the frame yourself — nothing is straightened, guessed or quietly redrawn before you have seen it.
Before you spend anything
It says what it cannot fix.
Damage that runs across a face destroys detail no model can recover. What gets rebuilt there is a guess — a good one, but a guess. Revera puts that on the screen of every photograph, before you spend anything, instead of leaving you to find it out from the result.
“Where damage destroyed part of a face, those details are rebuilt approximately. Everything the photo still held is kept as it was.” Shown on every photograph, word for word, before it starts
Print size
Centimetres, not pixels.
People restore photographs to print them: a portrait for a funeral, a frame on the wall, a page in a family tree. So Revera shows how large the result will print before you spend anything — and warns you when it will come back smaller than the photograph you gave it.
Enlarging is offered afterwards, on the finished photograph, with the real factor for your picture on the button. Colour sits next to it, the same way. Neither costs a restoration.
Repair only. Colour, damage and sharpness fixed at the size the restoring model works at.
Repair plus resolution. Large enough to frame, and the face is still untouched.
Resolution is offered after the repair, on the finished photo — when you can see the result and judge whether you need it at all.
Where the photographs live
The album stays with the family.
Every original and every result is kept on the phone itself and in your own iCloud backup, side by side, so you can always show what the picture looked like before. Nothing is uploaded to an account, because there is no account.
- Photographs go to the restoration server only while they are being processed, and are not kept there afterwards.
- No sign-up, no email, no advertising, and nothing from your album is sold or shared with anyone.
- Delete one photograph or the whole archive from Settings — what you already saved to your library stays where it is.
Price
No subscription. Sorting a box of photos ends.
Two photographs are free — complete, full resolution, no watermark. After that you buy a pack once. Nothing renews, nothing expires, and running out means buying another pack, not discovering a charge you forgot about.
Two free
$0
Full resolution, saved to your library, no watermark.
20 photos
$5.99
$0.30 per photograph.
100 photos
$19.99
$0.20 per photograph. The whole shoebox.
Worth knowing
- Restoring needs an internet connection. One photograph takes about forty seconds.
- Small text inside a photograph — signs, documents — is redrawn more softly and may shift in tone.
- The app itself speaks fifteen languages, not just its App Store page: English, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese in both written forms.
- No account, no ads, and nothing from your family album is sold to anyone.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Will it change my relative’s face?
No. Colour, damage and sharpness are repaired; the features are left as they were. Where damage destroyed part of a face there is nothing left to repair from, and what appears there is an approximation — Revera says so on the screen before it starts, not in the reviews afterwards.
Can it colour a black and white photograph?
Yes, but only if you ask. Colour is a separate button on the finished photograph, and it appears only when the picture really is black and white: on one that already has colour the button is shown greyed out with the reason, because colouring it again would only spoil it.
How large will the result print?
The repair works at one fixed size — about 7 × 10 cm at printing quality. One tap on the finished photograph enlarges it to roughly 30 × 40 cm. Both numbers are shown in centimetres before you spend anything, because a pixel count tells you nothing about the frame on the wall.
Is there a subscription?
No. Two photographs are free — complete, full resolution, no watermark — and after that you buy a pack once. Nothing renews and nothing expires. Sorting a box of photographs is a job that ends, and the price should end with it.
Does it work without the internet?
No. The repair itself happens on a server, and one photograph takes about forty seconds. Your picture is sent only for that time and is not kept there afterwards.
What about a photograph with several people?
It works the same way. Every face in the frame is repaired and every face stays its own — group photographs from the seventies and eighties, faded almost to white, are one of the cases it handles best.
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