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  • A pixelated, blocky or heavily compressed image
  • Small images and screenshots work too
  • JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB

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Unpixelate Image

Unpixelate image files online: upload a blocky or pixelated picture and get a cleaner one back. Your first image is free, no sign-up.

Original: Pixelated photo of a man in his mid 30s with a beard: Unpixelate ImageBefore
Unpixelate Image result: Pixelated photo of a man in his mid 30s with a beard: Unpixelate ImageAfter

Example result. Upload your photo to make yours.

Unpixelate Image result

Fix pixelated photos and blocky JPEGs

One upload, one button, no settings to tune.

Pixelation shows up as visible squares, stair-stepped edges and flat color patches. It happens when a small picture is enlarged, when a JPEG is compressed too hard, or when a screenshot or video frame is saved at low resolution.

This tool sends your photo to an AI image model that redraws it without the blocks: smoother edges, cleaner gradients, finer texture. It aims to keep the faces, objects, colors and framing of your original.

Your photo is only used to create your images and is never used to train AI models.

The result is an AI redraw, so compare it with your original before you use it.

Use it when you want to unpixelate image files you already own: an old scan, a small download, a screenshot or a frame pulled from a video. It takes one photo per run, and the result appears next to your original so you can check it before you download.

Made for

  • Old scans
  • Low-res screenshots
  • Over-compressed JPEGs
  • Video frames
  • Small web images
  • Downloaded thumbnails

Pixelated or blurry? Check before you upload

Zoom in on your picture. Pixelation has hard square blocks or a mosaic grid, and edges that climb like stairs. Blur looks smeared and soft, with no squares at all.

Blocks mean you want to unpixelate the image here. A soft, smeared picture is a job for the Unblur Image tool instead, which is built for focus and motion blur. Mixed cases exist: a photo that was shrunk and blown up again can show both blocks and softness. Pick the one you notice first.

What the redraw can and cannot bring back

The model cannot read the original pixels back out of a block. It draws detail that fits the shapes and colors it sees, so a texture or a pattern in the result is a plausible guess, not a record.

That matters for a mosaic added on purpose over a face or a line of text. The block hides that information, and the tool will not reveal it: it draws something that looks sharp, and it may be wrong. Use it to clean up your own low-quality images, not to uncover what someone hid.

The best inputs are ones where the blocks are small relative to the subject and the shapes are still readable: a face in a small portrait, a product on a plain background, a landscape. The less the picture shows, the more the model has to invent.

AI unpixelate vs a sharpen filter or a resize

What each way does to a blocky picture.

This toolSharpen filterPlain resize
What it doesRedraws the picture without blocksRaises contrast along existing edgesStretches the same pixels bigger
Block edgesSmoothed into clean linesOften sharper, so more visibleStay, just larger
New detailDrawn by the modelNoneNone
Your effortUpload and press one buttonSliders and trial and errorOne size field
RiskFine details can changeHalos and noiseSoft, still blocky

Frequently asked questions

Upload a JPG, PNG or WebP file up to 10 MB, press the Unpixelate Image button and download the result when it appears. There are no presets or text box to fill in.

Your first image is free, with no sign-up and no credit card. After that there is no paid plan yet; a dialog lets you leave an email for when more images are available.

Often it can be made much cleaner. The tool removes blocks and jagged steps and draws smooth detail in their place. It cannot return details that were never in the file, so very small or extreme cases still look like a guess. Start from the largest, least compressed copy of the picture you have.

Three common causes: enlarging a small picture, saving a JPEG at very low quality, and screenshots or video frames taken at low resolution. In each case the file simply holds too little information for the size it is shown at.

No. A mosaic placed on purpose removes the information underneath, and the tool cannot read it back. It would draw a new, plausible face or word, which may be wrong. It works on images that are low quality by accident.

No. Upscaling adds pixels to make a picture larger; unpixelating removes the blocky look from the pixels it has. This tool does the second and returns about 1024 px on the long side, so use an upscaler afterward if you need a bigger file.

It aims to keep the same people, objects, colors and framing. Because it redraws the picture, small details such as skin texture or fine patterns can change, so compare it with the original before you use it.

The result comes out at about 1024 px on the long side. If you need a larger file after cleaning up the blocks, an upscaler is the next step.

No. Each run takes one photo, and there is no batch mode. Your free allowance covers one image for the whole site, not one per page.

Yes, both are typical inputs, as long as the problem is blocks and not heavy blur. Text in a screenshot is redrawn too, so check every letter and number before relying on it. To unpixelate image text that is only a few pixels tall, expect guesses.

Your photo is only used to create your images and is never used to train AI models. The photo goes to the AI model provider, which keeps the result for a limited time so you can download it.

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