Hotpot AI Photo Restorer vs Reviva

Hotpot AI Photo Restorer uses AI to reduce wear in old black-and-white and color photographs. It is designed to reduce scratches, sharpen faded details, and enhance faces. Style references include natural, cinematic, vintage, Polaroid, classic color, and several black-and-white finishes. The workflow is to upload a scan or photograph, choose or describe a finish, review the result, and download a copy. Color enhancement, batch processing, API access, web use, and self-hosted deployment are listed. The free plan costs nothing and allows two images daily. Commercial use is billed at $0.02 - $0.25 per image; API access requires payment with pricing by contact. AI may invent details, especially in damaged or unclear images, and results may be weak for groups of more than two people.

Reviva restores damaged photographs, colorizes black-and-white images, and sharpens blurry faces. Its Restore mode addresses tears, creases, water stains, missing corners, and fading. Colorize adds color to grayscale pictures, including skin tones, skies, and fabric, while Enhance aims to recover facial detail in blurry, soft, or low-resolution photos. The maker says a restored image is usually ready in well under a minute. Results can be saved in full resolution, printed, or shared. Reviva is available for iOS and macOS; listed compatibility requires iOS 15.1 or later, or macOS 12.0 or later on an Apple M1 chip or later. The Free plan costs nothing and includes three restorations, full-resolution downloads, and no watermarks. Reviva Pro Yearly costs $59.99 a year and includes unlimited restorations and full restored history. Uploaded originals are deleted from the processing pipeline after successful restoration, while results stay in history until deleted. The maker says photos are processed by third-party AI providers and are not used to train its own models.