Colorize black and white photos. See the story anew.

Use a JPG, PNG, or WEBP up to 20 MB and 25 megapixels. An upload copy is compressed in your browser before processing, with a maximum long edge of 4000 pixels. Your original file stays unchanged.

No. Our example photos were created with AI. Damage, grayscale, and blur are simulated to demonstrate the comparison interface. These are not measured restoration results.

You can upload and preview a photo without signing in. Sign in to start a restoration — each new account includes one free trial restoration, limited to one photo.

Choosing a photo creates a local preview on your device. Only when you start processing and agree to the consent notice is an upload copy sent to our server and the configured AI provider. We keep encrypted processing results in your private account history for 7 days; the original upload is not stored in history. Only your own signed-in account with a verified email address can retrieve saved results. To remove a result sooner, go to My account → Photo history → Delete → Confirm deletion. This removes the result from the live database and prevents further downloads. At 7 days, results become inaccessible automatically. Expired records are cleaned up on service startup and every 15 minutes while it runs; if the service is unavailable, cleanup resumes when it returns. Hosting infrastructure backups, if enabled, follow the provider’s own retention schedule and cannot be accessed through photo history. Deleting history does not delete copies you have downloaded or copies held by the AI provider; that provider’s own data and retention policies still apply.

One separate processing request uses one available credit. Selecting restoration with natural color in the same request uses one credit; restoring a photo and later submitting it separately for colorization uses two. The current new-account trial covers one photo. Daily Free is available to claim. Pay for Pro subscriptions and one-time Credit Packs through PayPal. Prices are $12/month for 200 photos, or $72/year with 200 photos refreshed each month: 6¢ and 3¢ per photo respectively when the full allowance is used. Credit packs are $5/50 photos, $12/132 photos, and $18/270 photos, approximately 10¢, 9.09¢, and 6.67¢ per photo when fully used. Each pack expires 365 days after purchase; no reset.

AI uses shapes, tones, textures, and visual context to estimate a plausible palette. A gray tone does not uniquely identify an original color, so colorizing black-and-white photos creates an interpretation rather than a verified recovery. Skin tones, clothing, and surroundings may differ from the original scene. A believable result can still be historically wrong. Keep the black-and-white source and any family notes or surviving color references, especially when the photograph documents a uniform, a place, or a specific event.

The current interface colorizes the whole photograph. It does not provide a brush, selection mask, or controls for assigning an exact color to a particular object. AI interprets the image to propose colors, so you cannot use this interface to specify a particular coat, wall, or eye color. Review the whole result before saving it. If you need precise local color editing, you will need a separate editing tool.

Repeated requests may produce different colors or textures. Colorization can reinterpret fine detail as well as adding color, so compare facial features, lettering, clothing patterns, and edges with the original. Repeating the process does not establish which palette is historically correct. Keep the black-and-white source and save useful results separately so you can compare them without losing your reference.