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24 alternatives to fx-upscale – Metal-powered spatial video upscaling
Hi! This is a quick lil CLI I've created for upscaling videos using Apple's MetalFX (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metalfx). There are a few improvements I plan to make, such as HDR support and a progress bar, but if it sounds interesting, please give it a try and let me know what you think!
fx-upscale is a command-line tool for upscaling videos using Apple's MetalFX technology. Designed for developers and video professionals on Mac, it leverages GPU acceleration to enhance video resolution. The tool is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. fx-upscale – Metal-powered spatial video upscaling launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Upscale videos up to 4K in one click
2025 · magnific.com · its alternatives →
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Upscale Pics▲343Increase your resolution with AI, with no pixelation.
2019 · upscalepics.com · its alternatives →
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Increase image resolution up to 4x with our free AI tool
2022 · upscale.media · its alternatives →
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Image Upscaler▲235Upscale and enhance your photo, animes and cartoons in batch
2021 · imgupscaler.com · its alternatives →
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Upscale & enhance your images up to 4x with AI
2022 · clipdrop.co · its alternatives →
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New Restoration model for sharper 4K results.
2024 · pcai.nero.com · its alternatives →
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Smart Upscaler▲485Use ML to improve and enlarge images for free
2020 · icons8.com · its alternatives →
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Amplify your workflow with effortless image upscaling plugin
2024 · upscale.media · its alternatives →
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Magnific AI▲294Advanced AI tech to achieve insanely high-res upscaling
2023 · magnific.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, author here. SHARP is Apple's recent single-image 3D Gaussian splatting model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685). Their reference code is PyTorch + a pretty heavy pipeline; I wanted to see if it could run in a browser with no server hop, so I exported the predictor to ONNX and ran it via onnxruntime-web with the WebGPU EP. What works: drop in an image, get a .ply you can download or preview live, all on your machine — your image never leaves the tab. The model is large (~2.4 GB sidecar) so first load is slow on a cold cache, but inference itself is a few seconds on…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Detect source resolution of upscaled images and videos - 0x09/resdet
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Upscale images unlimitedly on your mac for free
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Locally Increase Resolution of Images
Jun 2026 · free-ai-image-upscaler.com · its alternatives →
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MetalFX upscaling for Mac filmmakers — $19.99 intro
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Upscale your images, photos, cartoons and more with AI
2023 · imageupscalerai.com · its alternatives →
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This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The story of Vectorly — four pivots, three years, and a Hopin acquisition. From video compression to AI upscaling to virtual backgrounds. Founded 2018, acquired by Hopin December 2021.
2021 · vectorly.io · its alternatives →
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