Hermosso Restore is an online photo restoration tool that repairs old, scratched, faded or black-and-white photos in about a minute for 150 credits per photo: one click runs a three-stage AI pipeline that repairs the damage, restores faces and colorizes the picture. New accounts get 400 free credits, so your first two restorations are free.
| Tool | Price | What it does better | Where Hermosso wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| MyHeritage | Around 10 photos with an account, then a genealogy subscription from roughly $119/year | A huge family-history ecosystem around the photos, plus the Deep Nostalgia animation feature. | No genealogy subscription needed — you pay per photo, and the same credits cover every other Hermosso tool. |
| Remini | A free tier with ads on mobile; Pro is around $10 a week | Best-in-class one-tap face enhancement on a phone, in seconds. | Full restoration — scratch repair, face restore and colorization in one pipeline — in the browser, with no weekly subscription. |
| VanceAI Photo Restorer | A small monthly allowance, then credit packs from $4.95 or subscriptions from about $10/month | A wide menu of specialist tools (sharpener, denoiser, upscaler) to fine-tune a result. | One pipeline instead of choosing between tools — and Hermosso credits never expire. |
| Hermosso Restore | 150 credits per photo (400 free credits on sign-up; plans from $9/month) | — | Repair, face restoration and colorization in a single click, with the restored photo ready to upscale to 22K, animate or edit in the same studio. |
Restore is built for genuinely old photos — scratches, fading, sepia and black-and-white. If a modern digital photo is simply blurry or too small, the 22K upscaler is the better fix, and cheaper from 50 credits. Badly torn prints with missing pieces come back plausible rather than accurate, because the AI invents what was lost — for a one-of-a-kind heirloom with severe damage, a human restoration artist is still worth it.
The model can only work with what the scan captures, so digitizing the print well matters as much as the restoration itself:
Yes — modern AI photo restoration repairs scratches, creases, dust and fading, rebuilds faces in sharp detail and colorizes black-and-white originals, and Hermosso runs all three stages in one click for 150 credits per photo.
Upload the picture and press Restore photo — the tool handles scratched, faded, sepia and black-and-white prints, and the restored version lands in your gallery in about a minute.
New Hermosso accounts receive 400 free credits and one restoration runs 150 credits, so you can restore two old photos free before paying anything; after that, plans start at $9/month — see pricing.
Yes — colorization is the final stage of the pipeline, and the colours are plausible, natural-looking reconstructions rather than the original scene's exact colours.
Restore is designed for old, damaged prints; for a modern photo that is just blurry or low-resolution, the AI image upscaler gives a better result from 50 credits.
One restoration runs 150 credits per photo, new accounts get 400 free credits, and plans start at $9/month — see pricing.
Read the guide: how to restore old photos with AI. Once restored, you can upscale it to 22K or even animate the photo into a video clip.