Old Photo Restore: Revera

Revera brings an old photograph back — its color, its sharpness, its detail — without changing the face of the person in it.

That last part is the whole point. Most restoration apps hand you a stranger: skin turned to plastic, features redrawn, a face the family no longer recognizes. Revera repairs what time did to the picture and leaves the person alone.

WHAT IT REPAIRS

• Fading, yellowing and lost color
• Scratches, cracks, tears and missing corners
• Grain, blur and low resolution
• Black-and-white photographs, given natural color — or left in clean monochrome, if that is what the picture is

YOU SEE THE PRINT SIZE FIRST Before you spend anything, Revera shows how large the result will print, in inches — not in pixels. A portrait for a funeral, a frame, a family tree: you know what you are getting.

IT SAYS WHAT IT CANNOT FIX Where damage runs across a face, the destroyed details are rebuilt approximately. Revera says so before it starts, not after. Everything the photograph still held is kept as it was.

NO SUBSCRIPTION Two free photos — complete, full resolution, no watermark. After that, one-time packs of 20 or 100 photos. Sorting through a box of family pictures is a job with an end, and you should not be paying rent on it.

QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No ads. Nothing about your family album is sold to anyone.

Revera needs an internet connection. One photo takes about forty seconds.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula