Addison-based Topaz Labs has put a sharp focus on its new mobile app, which it said allows users for the first time to enhance photos using AI on their phone for free.
Called Gigapixel iOS, the app allows users to recover faces, restore detail, fix focus, and upscale photos from their camera roll using AI.
The company said that unlike any other AI image editing app, Gigapixel iOS’ models are designed to run locally on the device, enabling core features to be used at no cost. The app focuses on realism, the company said, retaining and sharpening all realistic details, while also increasing the resolution.
Topaz said that once a user downloads Gigapixel iOS—called they will see the option to upscale and enhance a photo via the basic “Just Faces” model or the pro “Everything” model.
“Just Faces” runs locally on the user’s device for free, and “Everything” restores the whole image in the cloud for a cost.
As Dallas Innovates reported last week, Topaz Labs is nearly tripling the size of its headquarters in Addison on the way to 130 new high-tech hires.
More details on the app
Topaz said that for a limited time, new users will automatically be awarded 100 free Cloud Credits to test the full features of the app. It said that each image costs up to 20 credits, with the majority of use cases being around three or four credits. Gigapixel iOS is a selection of features from the popular desktop application, Gigapixel, which boasts “hundreds of thousands” of paid customers, the company said.
With images processed locally, Topaz Labs said Gigapixel iOS can also be used offline.
The company said that once signed in, users can turn off Wi-Fi for an internet-free experience using the “Just Faces” feature, keeping all image data locally. Topaz said that enables increased privacy, as well as those with intermittent access to the internet. To use the more powerful “Everything” feature, cloud processing is required as the AI models used are too large to be stored and run locally.
Topaz said the app is now live in the App Store for iPhone use only, and has already reached No. 10 on the list of free photo & video apps. Android access may be launched at a later date, the company noted.
Founded in 2005 and with 1.5 million paid customers worldwide, Topaz Labs is a pioneer in professional-grade AI image and video enhancement. Its core products—Gigapixel, Photo AI, and Video AI—give users the ability to upscale, sharpen, and remove noise from images and videos using AI.
The company said that the primary users of the software include commercial videographers, cinematographers, post-production specialists and consumer photographers. Commercial use of Topaz Labs’ products amounts to nearly half of the 50 largest companies in the world including NASA, Google, Nike, Coca-Cola, Target, Tesla, and NVIDIA.
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