Comparison

Live Focus vs Old Photo Restore

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Live Focus

This app allows you to add realistic depth and cinematic focus to any image after it has been taken. You can refocus photos, create background blur, and adjust focus points on existing images, including old photos and AI-generated art. Future updates plan to bring these capabilities to video.

Highlights
  • Refocus photos after shooting
  • Create cinematic background blur
  • Adjust focus point and depth intensity
  • Apply depth to AI-generated images
  • Revitalize old photos and artworks
  • Instant focus change preview
Features
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Shoot first. Focus later: Live Focus lets you add realistic depth and cinematic focus to ANY IMAGE, after it’s already taken. Photos, illustrations, AI-generated images, and even images from decades ago. If it’s an image, Live Focus can bring depth to it. No special camera or device. Just focus everything, reimagined. What you can do: - Refocus photos after shooting - Create cinematic background blur - Adjust focus point and depth intensity - Apply realistic depth to AI-generated images - Bring old photos and artworks back to life - Preview focus changes instantly Live Focus is expanding beyond single images. Support for serial media such as video is planned, bringing the same refocusing and depth experience to moving moments. Through this project, our long-term goal is to reconstruct past moments from ordinary photos and videos, enabling a new kind of spatial vision experience — where depth, perspective, and presence can be explored, even when they were never originally captured.

About

Old Photo Restore

Effortlessly enhance your photos with AI-powered tools. Remove unwanted objects, backgrounds, and blemishes with a simple touch. Improve image quality, restore old photos, and explore creative AI style changes for stunning results.

Highlights
  • Remove objects with smart object remover
  • Magic eraser for natural cleanup
  • Background removal
  • Watermark and text removal
  • Fix and restore old photos
  • Upscale image quality
  • AI hairstyle and clothes changer
Features
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A shoebox of old photos. A wedding picture faded to yellow. A grandparent you have one good shot of. ObjectsAI brings those photos back, and erases anything you do not want in a picture. Open an old photo and the AI repair goes to work in a few seconds. Scratches, spots, stains and blur are cleaned up, faces come back sharper, and you can colorize black and white photos with one tap. Open any other photo, type what you want gone, and the AI eraser redraws that part of the picture with what should have been behind it. OLD PHOTO RESTORE Repair scratches, tears, creases, spots, dust and water damage Fix old photos that came out blurry, grainy or dark, and make them clear again Unblur and sharpen faces, eyes, hair and clothes Colorize black and white photos, or keep the original look Bring faded and yellowed prints back to life Lift the quality of an old picture without making it look fake Restore old photos from a scan, or from a phone shot of a print in an album Old picture restoration that still looks natural. Hold the compare button to see the original underneath. FOR THE PHOTOS THAT MATTER Most people open this app for family. A torn photo of your grandparents. A vintage picture from an album nobody has opened in years. A faded snapshot of your mum as a child. Photo restoration is about memories, so the result still has to look like the person you remember. A RESTORATION MAKES A GIFT Restore it, save it, print it, frame it. A repaired family photo works as a birthday gift, a Mother's Day or Father's Day present, or an anniversary surprise for your parents or grandparents. It takes seconds and it means more than something bought. AI ERASER AND OBJECT REMOVER No brush. No mask. You type it. Remove objects from photo backgrounds: bins, wires, poles, signs Remove people and photobombers from a group shot Text remover for dates stamped in the corner, logos and writing Small fixes too: a blemish, a stray hair, a red eye Type "remove the car on the left" and the object eraser handles the rest. Once it is erased, the gap is filled with what belongs there. It is the magic eraser people look for, driven by a sentence. ADD AND CHANGE Add: type something you want in the frame, like a cup on the desk Change: a different shirt color, or a new look for part of the shot ONE TAP AUTO EDIT Tap once and the app does the thinking. This AI enhancer keeps your subject, then fixes lighting, color and contrast, cuts noise and softens blemishes. A quick photo cleaner for a messy shot. No sliders. BACKGROUND TOOLS BG eraser: cut your subject out and get a clean transparent background Change background of photo: type where you would rather be, like a beach at sunset CARTOON AND ANIME Pick a photo, pick a style, done. Seven styles, including anime, chibi, 3D, cartoon, cyberpunk and pencil sketch. It starts from your own photo, so the result still looks like you. HOW TO USE Pick a photo from your gallery or the camera Choose Old Photo Restore, Magic Edits, Auto Edit, Background or Cartoonize Type a short sentence, or tap a style Save it to your gallery, or share it WHY PEOPLE KEEP IT Keep going on the same image: restore an old photo, then erase something No account, no sign up, no ads FREE AND PRO Free: 4 edits, then a 6 hour wait before the next 4. Free saves carry a small watermark, and you get 2 watermark free saves, once, so you can try it properly. Pro, weekly or monthly: unlimited edits, unlimited downloads with no watermark, and no waiting between edits. Subscriptions renew until you cancel in your App Store account settings. Results depend on the photo. Badly damaged prints sometimes need a second go, and rewording usually sorts it. Edits are processed in the cloud, so you need a connection. Other apps hand you a toolbar. ObjectsAI asks you a question instead. Support: support@objectsai.app Terms of Use: https://objectsai.app/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://objectsai.app/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Live Focus3 screens
Old Photo Restore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Live Focus at 60% against Old Photo Restore's 0%. Live Focus also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Old Photo Restore's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (4.2 vs 4.0). On update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Old Photo Restore is free to download; Live Focus costs $4.99 up front. Old Photo Restore sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Live Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Old Photo Restore holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 18 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Live Focus's written reviews are positive against 0% of Old Photo Restore's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Live Focus ships an update every 6 weeks, Old Photo Restore monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Live Focus versus Old Photo Restore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive FocusOld Photo Restore
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.2 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings418 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB81 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTae ho LeeMobizion

Customer experience

Live Focus

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews96 reviews
Positive60.4%
Neutral7.3%
Negative32.3%

Old Photo Restore

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Live Focus

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App crashes when taking or saving pictures (iOS 13)
  • App crashes when taking pictures (various modes)
  • App crashes when trying to upload photos
  • App crashes when trying to use non-default focus modes
  • App crashes when trying to take a photo
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  • App won't load or delete/reinstall
  • Five-point focus adjustment isn't accurate
  • GIF creation is jerky
  • App crashes when trying to take a picture
  • Focusing is incredibly slow
  • Live focus doesn't work
  • Cannot edit saved images
  • Cannot upload photos from camera roll
  • App crashes
  • Doesn't allow adjustment of photos in library
  • Takes ages to take a picture
  • End result is not high quality
  • Subject cannot be moving
  • Took ages to figure out how to use
  • Takes blurry pictures
  • Cannot upload straight from camera roll
  • Focusing is subpar
  • App crashes on iPhone 6+

Requested features

8 requests
  • Portrait mode
  • Support for more complex objects
  • Instructions on how to use the app
  • Ability to edit saved images
  • Improve focus speed
Show 3 more
  • Allow drawing from photo library
  • Fix iOS 13 compatibility
  • Add more advanced features

Old Photo Restore

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Live Focus

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Old Photo Restore

Subscriptions2
  • AI Magic Eraser & Editor Weekly$3.997 Days
  • AI Photo Editor & Remover Monthly$8.991 Month

Questions

Is Live Focus free?
Live Focus costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Old Photo Restore free?
Old Photo Restore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Live Focus or Old Photo Restore?
Old Photo Restore is rated higher. Live Focus averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Old Photo Restore averages 4.2 from 18 ratings.
Do Live Focus or Old Photo Restore have ads?
Neither Live Focus nor Old Photo Restore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Live Focus or Old Photo Restore?
Live Focus ships an update every 6 weeks, and Old Photo Restore monthly. Most recently, Live Focus was updated on November 6, 2026 and Old Photo Restore on October 31, 2026.

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