This app uses AI to revive your old and unshareable photos

Homescreen Heroes: Remini lets you enhance photos with a lot of fun features thrown in

Features By Paul Hatton published 6 October 2024

With AI technology all the rage at the moment, there is no shortage of AI-powered tools that are making our lives easier. This is evidenced, maybe most obviously, in the photo-editing world, with the likes of Luminar Neo and Lensa making a big splash when they launched.

All of this begs the understandable ethical questions of how these AI tools are trained and whether the resulting images are marked as generated by AI. It is important that we protect art that is created without AI so we can truly appreciate the skill and hard work that has gone into what has been created.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t a place in our world for AI photo-editing tools. For example, AI is amazing at restoring photos that are blurry, lit poorly, and lacking the clarity we’ve come to expect with modern camera technology. It is in this area of photo-enhancing that Remini has taken up residence.

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Over the years, I’ve seen lots of apps that perform individual and specific photo editing and enhancing tasks. There are existing tools that fix blurry photos and apps focused on upscaling photos. There are also those quirky and fun apps that turn your selfies into animals or Disney characters. Remini does all of the above and more. It is the Swiss army knife of photo enhancers.

Remini pitches itself as an app for both hobbyists and professionals. The ability to restore old family photos and turn your selfies into animated characters will have broad appeal. Upscaling images for large format printing and features to turn social media content into progressional-grade images will appeal to creative professionals. Hobbyists might even use it personally before deciding it’d complement their professional work as well.

Because I’m a sucker for a bit of fun, the first thing I did after opening the Remini app was to go straight into the AI filters tab. It is here that Remini makes it possible to turn yourself into alternative versions, including ‘Mini Toys’, ‘Animal Toon’, and ‘Toon’. Who doesn’t want to see what they would look like if both their parents were toys or animals?

The app is incredibly simple to use with a clear and intuitive interface. All you have to do in the ‘AI filters’ tab is pick the style you want to adopt, select a photo from your gallery, and then let Remini take it from there.

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