Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Unfade

Scan your old printed photos and bring them back to life

Unfade is an iOS app that scans printed photos with an iPhone camera and automatically restores their faded colors. Users can apply filters, crop and rotate images, add dates and locations, and organize photos into… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Unfade launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
PhotoScan by Google▲1,219
Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future
2016 · blog.google · its alternatives →
2
Gemini Photos▲538
Clean up your Camera Roll
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
3
CleanUp.Pictures▲750
Remove objects and defects from your pictures - 100% free
2021 · cleanup.pictures · its alternatives →
4
Adobe Scan▲498
Adobe's free scan app with text recognition superpowers
2017 · adobe.com · its alternatives →
5
I took over Painteresque, a 14 year old Objective-C app and rebuilt it▲117
Around 3 weeks ago, I came across a reddit post from someone who was looking to see if anyone was interested in taking over a 12-14 year old objective c app which hadn't been on the app store for many years. I responded and decided to do it. The app is called Painteresque. It lets you turn photos to charcoal drawings, paintings etc while doing all the processing locally on device: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/painteresque-photo-to-sketch/i... The app is entirely free to use, has no ads, third party analytics, trackers, subscriptions or other junk. It does offer…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
6
Recently▲289
Your camera roll in a monthly (printed) magazine
2015 · getrecently.com · its alternatives →
7
Faded▲62
Premiere all-in-one photo editing app for the iPhone.
2014 · its alternatives →
8
Microsoft Pix▲277
A.I. photo app to help you take awesome pics
2016 · microsoft.com · its alternatives →
9
BLACK▲197
The stunning black + white photo app, now on iOS
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
10
Remover.app▲250
Remove anything unwanted in seconds - 100% free
2022 · its alternatives →
11
Plum▲85
Scan your printed photo album in seconds.
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
12
Unenhanced▲13
Take photos without iPhone auto-enhance
Mar 2026 · unenhanced.app · its alternatives →
13
Scandy Pro▲97
Full-color 3D scanning on your iPhone X (and up)
2018 · scandypro.page.link · its alternatives →
14
Picsify▲141
Ditch photoshop, enhance your photos in seconds.
2024 · its alternatives →
15
Unify▲86
People blink. Smiles fade. Create group pics everyone likes.
2019 · weunify.app · its alternatives →
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Our photo print & ship library for iOS▲96
2011 · dev.sincerely.com · its alternatives →
17
Restore Photo▲87
Reverse time to bring your old photos back to life
2023 · restorephoto.app · its alternatives →
18
Focos▲126
Refocus and edit iPhone portrait photos.
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
19
TripPix▲65
your photos off your phone and into a super sweet album.
2015 · shutterfly.com · its alternatives →
20
PixelFixer▲93
iOS app to remove unwanted objects from photos
2023 · its alternatives →
21
Snipit - Ultimate OCR app for Mac▲131
Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
22
WRD Camera▲78
Search physical printed documents using your iPhone camera
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
23
Photo Scan App by PhotoMyne▲86
Scan old photos and create digital family photo albums
2020 · photomyne.com · its alternatives →
24
Photorestoration.AI▲94
Automatically restore old damaged photos for free
2022 · its alternatives →

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