Photo Genius

Photo Genius is an AI photo editor and enhancer for iPhone, sold by Andrew Lee and listed on the App Store as Remove Object from Image App. It works on pictures from the camera roll, fixing blurry shots, restoring old and damaged photos, adding colour to black-and-white images and upscaling small pictures into larger ones. It is meant for people who want to repair or improve personal photos and family memories on a phone.

Photo Genius uses machine learning to process an image chosen from the camera roll. The models restore faded colours, sharpen clarity and bring out details that are hard to see in the original, and the upscaler turns small or pixelated pictures into higher-resolution versions. Results are exported in HD. Photo Genius also offers a background remover and an AI eraser for taking unwanted parts out of a photo.

Restoration is a central task in Photo Genius. The app repairs scratches and other damage in old photos and brings back faded colours in a few taps. Its colorization tool adds natural-looking colour to black-and-white photos. Other tools fix blurry photos and raise the overall quality of an image before it is saved or shared.

Photo Genius is free to download, with a PhotoGenius Premium subscription at $2.99 a week or $34.99 a year. It runs on iPhone and iPod touch with iOS 14.0 or later and is available in English. The developer states that no data is collected from the app. Questions and suggestions go to the developer by email, and the app has Instagram and Twitter accounts under @PhotoGeniusApp.

Use cases

• Restoring old, faded or damaged family photos
• Adding natural colour to black-and-white photos
• Sharpening blurry pictures taken on a phone
• Upscaling small or pixelated photos into larger, high-resolution images
• Removing the background from a photo