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Upscayl

Free open-source desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) using Real-ESRGAN on a Vulkan GPU

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What Upscayl does

  • Free open-source desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) using Real-ESRGAN on a Vulkan GPU
  • Upscales up to 16x with multiple models for photos, digital art and compressed images
  • Fully offline; batch mode

Upscayl — straight answers

What is Upscayl?

Upscayl is listed under AI Image Editing & Enhancement, in the Content & Media Generation category on Flocci AI Tools. Free open-source desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) using Real-ESRGAN on a Vulkan GPU. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at upscayl.org.

Is Upscayl free?

Upscayl is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Upscayl do?

Upscayl does 3 things the catalog singles out: Free open-source desktop app (windows, macos, linux) using real-esrgan on a vulkan gpu; upscales up to 16x with multiple models for photos, digital art and compressed images; fully offline; batch mode.

What is the best free alternative to Upscayl?

Affinity by Canva is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Image Editing & Enhancement sub-category and is free. BAGEL (ByteDance), BiRefNet and Krita AI Diffusion also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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