# RetroFix - Old Picture Restore — user reviews > 431 indexed App Store user reviews of RetroFix by Denys Shevchenko, rated 4.60/5 from 6,935 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/retrofix-old-picture-restore/id6478808149/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/retrofix-old-picture-restore/id6478808149.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,940 · 4★ 345 · 3★ 180 · 2★ 131 · 1★ 339 ## What do users think of RetroFix? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and efficient - 💯 Impressive quality - 🎨 Excellent colorization - 🔍 Accurate facial restoration - 🤩 Wow-worthy results **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and freezes - 🔍 Inconsistent results - 💲 Expensive subscription - 🤖 Distorts faces/images - 🚫 Doesn't work as advertised **Commonly reported bugs** - Unable to save enhanced photos - Crashes on high-quality restoration - Incorrect color adjustments - Compatibility issues on older devices **Most requested features** - Ability to control AI intensity - Layer original and AI-enhanced images - Expand to video colorization - Provide more free/trial options ## Newest reviews (10 of 431) ### 3/5 — Simple Algorithm *2026-08-01, version 1.0.36* It uses the most basic edit on Free version! To add fake eyes? Like copy pasting something randomly on faces just to increase resolution?! Hm … Don’t get me wrong, the whole picture’s resolution improved very well but face details are extremely bad! I haven’t tried paid version but if it uses the same algorithm then the whole app doesn’t deserve to have higher than 3 stars! ### 1/5 — Photo enhancement *2026-06-29, version 1.0.34* Poor quality for the price of RetroFix ### 1/5 — TheotherMike *2026-06-22, version 1.0.34* Made absolutely no difference to a 40 year old picture.. waste of my time ### 1/5 — Scam! Scam!!! Scam!!! *2026-06-20, version 1.0.34* Avoid with all you’ve got! Run for the hills! Their free trial is not free and the app doesn’t work. Avoid! Avoid avoid!! They stole my money and the app doesn’t work!! Run!! Run!! ### 1/5 — Stürzt immer ab *2026-06-19* Die App stürzt immer kurz vor Beendigung der Bearbeitung an. Totaler Schrott. Ich Tipp mal die wollen, dass man ein Abo abschließt… ### 1/5 — Poor very disappointed *2026-06-08, version 1.0.34* You input your image, they bring random people as your finished product. (Scame) ### 2/5 — Not as advertised *2026-06-08, version 1.0.34* It’s horrible and doesn’t do anything like advertised. Made a baby photo into a 20 year old man’s face, no enhancements or wrinkles cleared. Waste of money and time. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-06-07, version 1.0.34* Love it and is fun. ### 1/5 — Cancelled within minutes *2026-06-05, version 1.0.34* Sorry, not for me - results were not what I expected or needed. ### 5/5 — Photo *2026-06-04, version 1.0.34* Works well ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t like *2026-08-16, version 1.0.36* Srry ### 1/5 — NOT FREE *2026-08-12, version 1.0.36* This is only free for first three days, then it cost close to $10 weekly ### 1/5 — Black Background & Poor Ai Performance *2026-08-05, version 1.0.36* Dear RetroFix by glitch or design your application’s Ai is lowering the performance creativity at Recreate Photos. Getting black background over and over is annoying. It used to create better backgrounds but lately not. Are you going to add more options for backgrounds? I’m a premium customer. Getting these clone renderings or not what you truly want is something that you can upgrade easy. Have you created a better version under another name? Need results not wasting time. Thanks. ### 1/5 — Update? *2026-07-18, version 1.0.35* The current update FAILED. The app was working just fine before the update. I don’t know why they just can’t leave well enough alone. Now when you animate a picture it won’t save it to your library as a video, only as a blurry, still picture. You get no animation, and I’m paying $9.99 a week for that! No thank you! ### 1/5 — ZERO STAR!! Beware!!! *2026-07-17, version 1.0.35* Signed up for what I thought was a “FREE TRIAL”. Like most apps, you have to input payment in case you do not cancel before the end of the trial. NOPE!!!! Once submitted, I became aware it processed for the full year subscription. Application didn’t even do what I needed, which was why I did the “TRIAL” account. Cancelled it right away, which was when I realized it wasn’t a trial, but the full subscription. BEWARE if you even attempt to download this app or its “FREE TRIAL”. Although I cancelled it immediately, they’ve refused to refund my money. I’d give it a BIG ZERO STARS if possible!!! ### 1/5 — Test kaum möglich *2026-07-17* Mit dem Probe - Abo getestet. Minimale Verbesserungen festgestellt aber nach 3 Bildern war Schluss mit testen. Dann wurde man erstmal mit Zwangs-Werbung zugedröhnt.So funktioniert das nicht, Leute. Sofort wieder deinstalliert. ### 1/5 — No funciona l aplicación *2026-07-16, version 1.0.35* Trato de editar fotos y se quita automáticamente ### 1/5 — Nice but *2026-07-12, version 1.0.34* It changes people faces ### 1/5 — Horrible app *2026-07-02, version 1.0.34* This is a terrible app. What a joke. How the heck do I cancel it before the three day trial ends!? ### 1/5 — Not a winner *2026-06-30, version 1.0.34* Tried cleaning up photos and it wasn’t any better than my efforts with photo app. Colorization was a total joke. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-08-13, version 1.0.36* Thank you so much! ### 5/5 — Putting old nicely *2026-08-09, version 1.0.36* Couldn’t be happier , keeping the old original but a also a beautiful improved one ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-07-26, version 1.0.36* Excelente app para restaurar fotos, me encanta ### 5/5 — Ed *2026-07-22, version 1.0.36* Awesome ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-07-19, version 1.0.35* Awesome features ### 5/5 — Very cool *2026-07-12, version 1.0.34* Playing with some old photos and newspaper photos from 40+ years ago. ### 5/5 — Super *2026-07-02* ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2026-06-30, version 1.0.34* Awesome ### 5/5 — Remarkable results *2026-06-29, version 1.0.34* RetroFix breathed new life into my grandfathers naval journal that contained photos from the 1920’s. Some of them were in bad shape … before I found them they had suffered water damage, mildew, discoloration, cracks, creases. You get the picture. THIS PROGRAM REVIVED THEM. My brother who is preparing them to exhibit in a D.C. naval museum curation; was blown away by how absolutely realistic the restoration was completed. Every one of the photos STILL LOOKED LIKE MY GRANDFATHER— not some weird alien ai version; but actually him. And the colorized mode was incredible. The moments came back to life for us. Thank you. What it’s worth, been graphic designer and used Photoshop for 20 plus years in many different capacities , and I will say RetroFix is way better for this kind of photo restoration Work. It is fast, intuitive and produces incredible results. Their tools, and AI algorithms are far more developed and on point. I would use this program over say, Photoshop any given day. To attempt similar restoration using Photoshop, you are referred to complete an almost 50 step, unnecessarily overly complex & useless tutorial, that yields results not even HALF as nice as RetroFix. NO thanks! Not so long as RetroFix is available.😂THANK YOU!!!🙏🏻 ### 5/5 — Amazing Timesaver *2026-06-28, version 1.0.34* I love this app. The quality of the images is excellent! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*