Spent $60 on a fancy AI photo tool, then learned my phone already does 90% of it

Tyler Bell · 2026-10-03T05:35:02.69864+00:00

I paid for a month of this AI upscaler app last week to fix blurry pictures of my kid's birthday, and it took about 90 seconds per photo to give me results that looked slightly plastic. Then I remembered my phone's free built-in editor has a sharpness and denoise slider, and when I tried that on the same batch of 20 photos, they came out sharper in under a minute total. Is there some AI photo feature that's actually worth paying for, or is most of this stuff just riding the hype?

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