Zoom and crop fix · 12 free credits on sign-up

Enhance a zoomed-in photo

Digital zoom is just a crop. The person on stage, the bird in the tree, the licence plate across the car park: PixelUp rebuilds the detail the crop threw away.

Choose a photo or drop it here

JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC up to 20 MB · 6 credits per run · Deleted after 24 hours

4.4 on the App Store, 64 ratings Never used for AI training About 15 seconds per photo

Bearded man in a black hat after PixelUp enhancement, sharp beard and knit detail

The same portrait before, a tiny low-resolution file that looks soft and blocky

BeforeAfter

Cropped phone photo, one run of Enhance. Drag to compare.

Why zoom looks bad, and what can be fixed

Past the optical range, a phone crops the sensor and stretches the result. You get fewer pixels, more noise and a soft look. Each part of that is repairable.

Pixels put back

A 10x digital zoom leaves a few hundred real pixels. The pass reconstructs edges and texture at 1K, 2K or 4K so the crop looks like a proper photo.

Concert, sports and wildlife crops
Faces kept the same person

BeforeAfter

Noise from the small crop

Zoomed shots are noisy because the phone amplifies a tiny part of the sensor. Noise is removed in the same pass without the waxy look.

Clean skin and skies
Texture kept

Smiling woman with curly hair and freckles after enhancement, every freckle sharp

The same portrait before, a small blurry file with no detail

BeforeAfter

Crop after, not before

Upload the full photo if you still have it and crop afterwards; the model has more context to work with. If only the zoomed version exists, upload that.

Full photo gives the best result
Zoomed-only still improves a lot

Snowy hike with the second skier erased, clean snow where they stood

Snowy hike with a second skier in the background painted over for removal

BeforeAfter

How to fix a zoomed-in photo

Three steps, no software to install.

Upload the photo

Click the button or drop the file on this page. JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC up to 20 MB, straight from a phone is fine.

See the result

In about 15 seconds you see a full before/after. Drag the handle to check the exact spot you care about.

Download in HD

The download is included in the run. 2K and 4K are extra runs at 10 and 16 credits.

Questions people ask before uploading

Is this free?

Sign in with your email and get 12 free credits, enough for two runs. After that each run costs 6 credits at 1K, 10 at 2K, 16 at 4K, with the download included.

Can it read a licence plate or sign from a zoomed photo?

If the characters are partly visible, they sharpen into readable text. If they are a smear, they stay unreadable; PixelUp does not invent characters.

Is it better to crop before or after enhancing?

After. Upload the full-frame photo, enhance at 2K or 4K, then crop. The model uses the whole image for context.

Will a small face in the distance look right?

Faces down to about 40 pixels are rebuilt and kept the same person. Smaller than that, the improvement is limited.

Does it work on video frames?

Yes. Screenshot the frame and upload it; compression and softness from video are handled the same way.

What sizes can I download?

1K, 2K or 4K on the long edge, as JPG or PNG. 4K is about 4096 pixels, enough for an A3 print.

More fixes for the same photo

PixelUp for iPhoneFree on the App Store · 4.4 ★

The same fix, straight from your camera roll

Same AI, same credits. The iPhone app adds the tools that need a finger on the screen:

Color room: manual edits, LUTs, curves and filters
AI backgrounds from a text prompt
Save back to Photos in one tap

Download on theApp Store iOS 15 or later

BeforeErased

Rescue the zoomed shot

Enhance the photo