# Nutlope/restorePhotos

Restoring old and blurry face photos with AI.

Repository: https://github.com/Nutlope/restorePhotos
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/restorephotos
Homepage: https://www.restorephotos.io/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-06-20T01:37:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 31/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 95
- inputs: {"age_days": 1333, "days_push": 805, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4427, forks 693 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:48.931089+00:00)

## What it is
A Next.js web application that restores old and blurry face photos using the GFPGAN ML model via the Replicate API. It provides a hosted service at restorephotos.io and can be self-deployed to Vercel with one click.

## Use cases
- restore old blurry face photos with AI
- fix damaged family photos from the 70s
- sharpen blurred portrait photos online
- self-host an AI photo restoration app
- deploy a photo restoration tool to Vercel
- enhance old scanned photographs

## When to choose
- you want a ready-to-use AI face photo restoration web app
- you want to deploy your own instance quickly on Vercel
- you want a simple Next.js example integrating Replicate ML models

## When to avoid
- you need batch or offline photo restoration without cloud APIs
- you need restoration of non-face images or documents
- you want to avoid third-party services like Replicate and Bytescale

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, machine-learning, web-framework, rate-limiting, auth, file-upload
- domain: image-processing, artificial-intelligence, web-development, photography
- platform: serverless, cloud
- tags: photo-restoration, gfpgan, replicate, nextjs, face-restoration, vercel, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- Nutlope/restorePhotos (main) score 31

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:48.931089+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:20:56.095230+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Nutlope/restorePhotos (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:48.931089+00:00, sha cc0db91987aa)
  - homepage: https://www.restorephotos.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:08:38.432695+00:00, sha 7bbab15b9bf1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.