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Life & fun · January 29, 2024

Unsqueeze

Intelligent video upscaling powered by Metal

Unsqueeze launched on January 29, 2024 with 126 votes, #406 of 4,437 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Powered by Metal on Apple Silicon, Unsqueeze uses the latest and greatest upscaling algorithms, and runs entirely on the GPU, making higher quality videos (8k+ resolution) faster than other upscaling tools. Available on iOS and macOS.

Download Unsqueeze: AI Video Upscaler by Finn Voorhees on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Unsqueeze: AI Video…

As other have said, the results are nearly instant but are about the same as just increasing the window size. Things don't seem clearer, just bigger. Recently, a bug has been introduced where the exports won't play in other applications, so I can no longer watch the videos this produces. An update purports to fix this, but the issue remains. So, for now it's a free/$9.99 window resizer which produces videos you can't watch. For ten dollars I'm not mad. I think there is a lot of potential here and I'm interested in seeing where it goes. That said, I hope the export bug is fixed sooner rather than later because as of now, it's just broken. As other have said, the results are nearly instant…from apps.apple.com

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