Name: Colorize - Color to Old Photos
Rating: 4.6 (1742 reviews)

About Colorize - Color to Old Photos

Google Play

Brought to you by the developer specializing in family nostalgia apps, Photomyne is proud to now also offer an AI-powered B&W colorization app with impressive and accurate colorization results.

IT’S AUTOMATIC - JUST ADD B&W PHOTOS:

1. Scan a B&W photo or upload one from your device
2. Just a single tap automatically adds color to your monochromatic photo
3. All done - browse the gallery of your colorized photos
4. Save or share your photo memories, now in full color!

Turn monochromatic old photos into vibrant photo memories full of life and color in just seconds, with accurate AI photo colorization.

OPTIONAL IN-APP SUBSCRIPTION:

The Colourise app offers an optional auto-renewable subscription plan. Enjoy these premium features with a subscription:

* Unlimited photo colorization
* Unlimited saving of colorized photos
* Unlimited sharing of colorized photos
* Photo backup and access from multiple devices

The app also offers a One-Time plan that is valid for a varying multi-year period and is paid for by a single upfront payment. It offers the same subscription features mentioned above.

Got any questions? We’d love to connect: support@photomyne.com
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App Store

Brought to you by the developer that built the smartest photo scanner app, Photomyne is proud to now also offer an AI-powered B&W colorization app that will blow you away. It’s one of the most accurate old photo colorization apps - the results will amaze you.

IT’S AUTOMATIC - JUST ADD B&W PHOTOS:

1. Scan a B&W photo or upload one from your camera roll
2. Just a single tap automatically adds color to your monochromatic photo
3. All done - browse the gallery of your colorized photos
4. Save or share your photo memories, now in full color!

Turn monochromatic old photos into vibrant photo memories full of life and color in just seconds, with accurate AI photo colorization.

OPTIONAL IN-APP SUBSCRIPTION:

The Colorize app offers an optional auto-renewable subscription plan. Enjoy these premium features with a subscription:

* Unlimited photo colorization
* Unlimited saving of colorized photos
* Unlimited sharing of colorized photos
* Photo backup and access from multiple devices

The app also offers a One-Time plan that is valid for a varying multi-year period and is paid for by a single upfront payment. It offers the same subscription features mentioned above.

Payment will be charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew itself unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings in the App Store. If offered, if you choose to use our free trial, any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

Got any questions? We’d love to connect: support@photomyne.com
Privacy Policy: https://photomyne.com/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://photomyne.com/terms-of-use

Surprised Me
Jul 16, 2019

By Tom Gibson

I didn’t really expect much, but it really works (most of the time). Since I didn’t have any b&w photos, I downloaded some from the web. It seems to struggle when there are multiple people in different lighting. It seems to know patterns and is able to color based on those patterns such as bricks or wood. It was unable to colorize the U.S. flag, however. I had a color picture of a Buckingham Palace guard that I turned b&w and ran through the app. It knew the coat was supposed to be red. Overall, this app is very good at what it does. I’m hoping there will continue to be improvements.
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Feb 6, 2021

By David R

Very impressed. Seems to work well on portraits. I used it on a portrait photo of my mum and the result just blew my mind. The app had even selected the correct hair colouring. On the down side it seemed to struggle with outdoor photos will several people in them. I think if there is a lot going on in the photo, the app struggles to get a good result (hence the 4 stars) but apart from that I'm pleased.
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A Great Start for a Great Tool
Jun 19, 2019

By Joshua D.

I appreciate and am grateful for what the app does, many thanks to the developers for this program. It's fun turning black and white photos into color photos. Still, when the render process happens I noticed that it leaves spots of the photos I'm using untouched with color. A majority of the photo will be colorized very well and it's quite remarkable I think how well and seemingly magically this app performs this function. But, in pretty much every photo I've uploaded and imported. The render process will always leave spots of the photo I'm using untouched and those spots remain black and white or sepia or whatever else the original tint was in the source. I haven't tried taking a scan of a black and white photo to colorize yet, so the app may provide better results using it that way. Overall, though, I'm happy and grateful for such a nice, free application, thank you. Maybe with some updates to the program that I'm sure will follow. The developers could hone the process some more so that the render and transformation process doesn't leave any spots of imported photos untouched please. Thanks if you'll look into this issue. Also, thank you again for this wonderful free tool and if you'll consider looking into refining and improving the colorization process and God bless.
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Feb 18, 2021

By Zack Dunn

WOW I don't believe people realize how hard this is to do, especially for an AI. The photos and color quality were astonishing! I got with my mother, and transformed a bunch of her photos from when she was a child, and she's never seen a picture of her dad in color. (He passed away when she was 7. She's 58 now. ) It made my mother so happy, and that makes me happy. 5 STARS!
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Feb 15, 2021

By Andrew Knudson

I was blown away guys. One flaw I ran into was it took a picture I imported and turned it on its side. When it tried to colorize it, it failed, basically a new shade of black and white. I then opened the photo up that was colorized poorly and rotated it back upright. Then the app made a few changes and provided me with a colorful photo. I'm very impressed.
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Here’s a few tips to the developer.
Jan 2, 2020

By Ronsterbot

Naturally the software used is infantile, but it is quite amazing. It record images with a great recollection for colors-sometimes. Skin tones are amazing but don’t always cover the entire body. Sometimes the face will be perfect but the chest or arms and hands won’t be colored. Other times the clothes are passed over entirely. I’m sure as time goes on the recoloring will better, but for now it is an amazing tool. Hopefully someday you will be able to totally recolor an image with a fair degree of accuracy. Also another small thing, when uploading, you should be allowed to choose what album you want to search through. Scrolling through my moments for a specific date is quite a pain. Other than that, great app!
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Feb 10, 2021

By John Kingston

Ultra simple to use. Excellent results. Obviously the app can not know what colour the original was in cases such as clothes or a car, for example. Some editing may therefore be required. But skin colour is usually excellent and trees, sky etc. I love B&W photos, but the application of colour can bring old photos to life and in particular bring to life people in very old photos, who can otherwise seem very remote.
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Fun enough
Aug 12, 2020

By Brocchus

If you have a lot of B&W photos and some patience this app will hit a home run about 1 in 10 times. Is that worth the monthly fee? Depends on the user. Most of the time clothing converts to some shade of gray often with annoying red tints and patches. Hands, feet, and ears frequently stay their original shade giving them the appearance of dead limbs. Objects of obvious color such as flowers inevitably convert to grayish or brownish colors. If your originals are out of focus you are probably out of luck. And the auto-crop sometimes takes off the top of a head or mutilates group photos. I know it’s just an app, but if these issues could be corrected or if colors could be manually attached to objects, this app would rock. As it is, for me anyway, for now I will hang around for those home runs. Ciao.
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80% awesome
Oct 1, 2019

By ibanezadam

So I’ve just started using the app and honestly the pictures look pretty awesome. My 2 main issues so far are.... 1. The slider doesn’t go all the way across the photo. So there’s always a strip of B/W down the right side of every photo. I don’t need a slider at all, and it just seems to be getting in the way. 2. I have no control over the cropping, so for the problem above I would just shrink the photo slightly to make sure the colorizing goes all the way across, but I can’t, so I don’t. The lack of these basics options are frustrating. Pictures look great for the parts that get covered! Hopefully that’ll be fixed soon or I’ll figure out a way around it.
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Jan 31, 2021

By Paul Forshaw

It produces some interesting results, even if often not always the most convincing, but portraits seem to work quite well. EDIT Having tried several other apps, this easily gives the best colour. One tweak could be allowing you to adjust the cropping. This is the only app that needs to crop images, but not always ideally.
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Colorization
Feb 5, 2021

By babyandblue

It’s awesome
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Surprised Me
Jul 16, 2019

By Tom Gibson

I didn’t really expect much, but it really works (most of the time). Since I didn’t have any b&w photos, I downloaded some from the web. It seems to struggle when there are multiple people in different lighting. It seems to know patterns and is able to color based on those patterns such as bricks or wood. It was unable to colorize the U.S. flag, however. I had a color picture of a Buckingham Palace guard that I turned b&w and ran through the app. It knew the coat was supposed to be red. Overall, this app is very good at what it does. I’m hoping there will continue to be improvements.
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Feb 18, 2021

By Zack Dunn

WOW I don't believe people realize how hard this is to do, especially for an AI. The photos and color quality were astonishing! I got with my mother, and transformed a bunch of her photos from when she was a child, and she's never seen a picture of her dad in color. (He passed away when she was 7. She's 58 now. ) It made my mother so happy, and that makes me happy. 5 STARS!
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Feb 15, 2021

By Andrew Knudson

I was blown away guys. One flaw I ran into was it took a picture I imported and turned it on its side. When it tried to colorize it, it failed, basically a new shade of black and white. I then opened the photo up that was colorized poorly and rotated it back upright. Then the app made a few changes and provided me with a colorful photo. I'm very impressed.
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Feb 10, 2021

By John Kingston

Ultra simple to use. Excellent results. Obviously the app can not know what colour the original was in cases such as clothes or a car, for example. Some editing may therefore be required. But skin colour is usually excellent and trees, sky etc. I love B&W photos, but the application of colour can bring old photos to life and in particular bring to life people in very old photos, who can otherwise seem very remote.
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Love it
Jul 28, 2020

By Latin Film Fan

I was impressed by this app. It takes seconds to colorize a black and white photograph and does a great job most of the time. There are some instances where it doesn’t color all of the skin on a picture and sometimes there is a bit of a rainbow pattern on some of the clothing (especially if the clothing was originally red). Regardless of the occasional issues, which will hopefully be fixed with more updates, the app really is amazing with what it can do. The result can be jaw dropping. I also tried it out on old pictures which were originally color photographs but had aged so that badly I was unable to fix the colors- I simply made them black and white and ran them through the app and they looked a hundred times better. I would highly recommend this app to anyone who is interested.
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Feb 16, 2021

By Nigel Coulton

Unbelievable. Astounding. I honestly could not believe my eyes when a black and white photo of my grandparents wedding near instantly became a colour photo with even small details like the flowers my grandmother was holding being coloured accordingly. Amazingly clever app. Brilliant.
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Feb 8, 2021

By Mike Vaughan

Very impressed as converting black and white to colour is most difficult The company helped me as I had a faulty copy and this company cares about its customers .. SUGGESTION to make it the best... Put sliders to adjust finished picture like contrast, brightness, and hue .. Has great potential ....
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BEAT APP I LOVE THE PAST!!! (Few problems though
Sep 30, 2020

By captainmike32

So I love learning bout the HISTORY I LOVE IT!! And I was going to images and Wikipedia for WW2 but then I’m like...wait what color are their uniforms and their tanks and stuff and other old pictures I found and surprisingly IT WORKED but I thought there was blood in the picture but then in every picture had blood so I’m like...this is not the picture, it’s the app... so I don’t know if you could fix that or if it’s just normal buttttt......THX FOR THIS APP!!!
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Feb 1, 2021

By Lisa Wagoner

Omg... I had never met my grandmother as she passed away when my mom was 8 yrs old. I only have two black and white photos of her. I used this app and it brought the photos to life for me. The picture looks so much better! I cried when I saw it because it gave me a better vision of what she looked like.
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Fantastic!
Jul 25, 2019

By Macgeekgrl

I downloaded this app on a lark, just to see what it can do. I’ve been researching my family tree so I have a lot of black and white pics to test it on. I’m really surprised by the results! A few pics didn’t turn out very well but they were poor quality to start with. The others have turned out so well, and it’s amazing to see these long lost relatives in color for the first time. I’m so happy with the results!
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Feb 6, 2021

By David R

Very impressed. Seems to work well on portraits. I used it on a portrait photo of my mum and the result just blew my mind. The app had even selected the correct hair colouring. On the down side it seemed to struggle with outdoor photos will several people in them. I think if there is a lot going on in the photo, the app struggles to get a good result (hence the 4 stars) but apart from that I'm pleased.
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A Great Start for a Great Tool
Jun 19, 2019

By Joshua D.

I appreciate and am grateful for what the app does, many thanks to the developers for this program. It's fun turning black and white photos into color photos. Still, when the render process happens I noticed that it leaves spots of the photos I'm using untouched with color. A majority of the photo will be colorized very well and it's quite remarkable I think how well and seemingly magically this app performs this function. But, in pretty much every photo I've uploaded and imported. The render process will always leave spots of the photo I'm using untouched and those spots remain black and white or sepia or whatever else the original tint was in the source. I haven't tried taking a scan of a black and white photo to colorize yet, so the app may provide better results using it that way. Overall, though, I'm happy and grateful for such a nice, free application, thank you. Maybe with some updates to the program that I'm sure will follow. The developers could hone the process some more so that the render and transformation process doesn't leave any spots of imported photos untouched please. Thanks if you'll look into this issue. Also, thank you again for this wonderful free tool and if you'll consider looking into refining and improving the colorization process and God bless.
more less
Here’s a few tips to the developer.
Jan 2, 2020

By Ronsterbot

Naturally the software used is infantile, but it is quite amazing. It record images with a great recollection for colors-sometimes. Skin tones are amazing but don’t always cover the entire body. Sometimes the face will be perfect but the chest or arms and hands won’t be colored. Other times the clothes are passed over entirely. I’m sure as time goes on the recoloring will better, but for now it is an amazing tool. Hopefully someday you will be able to totally recolor an image with a fair degree of accuracy. Also another small thing, when uploading, you should be allowed to choose what album you want to search through. Scrolling through my moments for a specific date is quite a pain. Other than that, great app!
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80% awesome
Oct 1, 2019

By ibanezadam

So I’ve just started using the app and honestly the pictures look pretty awesome. My 2 main issues so far are.... 1. The slider doesn’t go all the way across the photo. So there’s always a strip of B/W down the right side of every photo. I don’t need a slider at all, and it just seems to be getting in the way. 2. I have no control over the cropping, so for the problem above I would just shrink the photo slightly to make sure the colorizing goes all the way across, but I can’t, so I don’t. The lack of these basics options are frustrating. Pictures look great for the parts that get covered! Hopefully that’ll be fixed soon or I’ll figure out a way around it.
more less
Jan 31, 2021

By Paul Forshaw

It produces some interesting results, even if often not always the most convincing, but portraits seem to work quite well. EDIT Having tried several other apps, this easily gives the best colour. One tweak could be allowing you to adjust the cropping. This is the only app that needs to crop images, but not always ideally.
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Worked really well
Jul 26, 2020

By thesmokingpeanut

I’m doing a painting of my grandfather who died when my dad was young, so I never got to meet him. My reference was a black and white picture taken of him during the 40s and since I’m doing this as a surprise for my dad, I can’t really ask him what color his hair was or what shade his eyes were. So I thought I would just have to go with what I picture in my head. When I saw this app I didn’t expect much but I tried it on the reference picture and it was so real looking. This is certainly gonna help a lot with finishing the painting. Definitely would give this app a try!
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Jan 26, 2021

By martin dowd

Fantastic on what it does and brought some old photos to life but I feel the subscription fee is too high. I understand it can create new memories for people but at 22.99 I feel that's way too steep. If you're going to give people a basic option then do that. Not limit them to only 6 photos.
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Needs more consistency
Sep 17, 2019

By egbdf93

The only thing keeping me from purchasing this app is the inconsistency it has with coloring. I’m not expecting complete transformations but one photo it will do really well and the next is blotchy or missing most everything. I even tried to finish some in Photoshop but that’s even worse. Don’t know if it gets better if you purchase...$40 is a lot for something not that dependable. Have to say it is the best one out there right now just too expensive for only doing half the job half the time. I’ll keep checking on improvements!
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Feb 21, 2021

By Natalie Butler

For a free app, this definitely exceeded my expectations. Made me quite emotional seeing photos of my late grandmother that I had never seen in colour.
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Brought My Pics Back to Life
Dec 22, 2020

By 6Klub

I love this freakin’ app. It does exactly what I wanted it to do. No, it’s not 100% (some spots on my photos are discolored, uncolored, or miscolored) but it is perfect for bringing life back into my photos, which is invaluable to me as a family researcher and historian. I’m using it to colorize photos from my family tree on Ancestry and it’s already helping my photos there to pop and speak out. I was paying a girl about $5-$10 per photo to colorize and restore on Fiverr. Now I van colorize as many photos as I want for less than $6/month (yes, I sprang for the paid version). Every now and then, an app comes along that’s worth the extra coin. And to think, I found out about it through one of those IG ads that pop up in the middle of your Story feed. If they figure out how to incorporate photo restoration, I might just be an annual subscriber.
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Fun enough
Aug 12, 2020

By Brocchus

If you have a lot of B&W photos and some patience this app will hit a home run about 1 in 10 times. Is that worth the monthly fee? Depends on the user. Most of the time clothing converts to some shade of gray often with annoying red tints and patches. Hands, feet, and ears frequently stay their original shade giving them the appearance of dead limbs. Objects of obvious color such as flowers inevitably convert to grayish or brownish colors. If your originals are out of focus you are probably out of luck. And the auto-crop sometimes takes off the top of a head or mutilates group photos. I know it’s just an app, but if these issues could be corrected or if colors could be manually attached to objects, this app would rock. As it is, for me anyway, for now I will hang around for those home runs. Ciao.
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Scan or upload? Can’t search albums?
Dec 31, 2019

By R.L. Moss

Maybe I’m missing something. Why can’t I choose a pic from an album that I already scanned years ago? The option I’m given is scan or upload. After that I’m able to choose from the “moments” folder. How do I choose any other folder? Either I missed it or the developers did. I’m guessing me. Hopefully it’s me but I’m not seeing any other options in this app to choose albums! I get that the algorithms can not be exact. I’m not reviewing that part (though there should be a way to fine tune what the software isn’t picking up).
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Good app but buggy
Mar 17, 2020

By sara_stovall

This app is awesome, but I had an issue with crashes. I just downloaded it and it was working well until I tried uploading a third photo. It crashed 3 times consecutively when I tried to colorize the photo, then told me I had used up my free shares and editing. Conceptually, it’s awesome. The first two photos I attempted were very well edited. I just wish the bug hadn’t happened so I could see the full range of colorization of my old family photos.
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Feb 20, 2021

By mathmoss

It has a problem with blues and browns and TBH unless your a professional photo restorer it's a app that is a 5 minute life span and for £25 a year it's not worth it. You can get free apps that do the same without having to spend £25 to save a image with poor results.
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Jan 27, 2021

By Aj Coughlan

Ok, so I compared 2 apps using same photo and this one fell very short from the other, colour restore is mainly in the green spectrum and the cropping is far too much. Also could not get it to import from Google photos via the app. I have uninstalled and use colorize images instead
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Feb 6, 2021

By David Bristoll

Advertised on Facebook without stating there was a 3 day trial and £22 / year subscription. Tried it anyway and the app failed. Looks like a scam counting in people not cancelling their subscriptions. Avoid.
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Laughable
Sep 12, 2019

By Eric Hendrix

Wish you could see the result of the app’s introductory colorization. I gave it a crisp black and white portrait, and it returned the same image with just a splash of skin tone color from one eye, across the bridge of the nose, to the other eye. Roughly 90% of the image remained black and white (and remember the photo is all head and top of the shoulders, very little background around the edges. A very close up selfie if you will). And there isn’t any way to give the app “hints” of what areas are skin, hair, cloth, etc. No way to adjust the app’s colorization. I’m sorry Photomyne, but buyers move along, nothing to see here.
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Feb 20, 2021

By mathmoss

It has a problem with blues and browns and TBH unless your a professional photo restorer it's a app that is a 5 minute life span and for £25 a year it's not worth it. You can get free apps that do the same without having to spend £25 to save a image with poor results.
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Jan 27, 2021

By Aj Coughlan

Ok, so I compared 2 apps using same photo and this one fell very short from the other, colour restore is mainly in the green spectrum and the cropping is far too much. Also could not get it to import from Google photos via the app. I have uninstalled and use colorize images instead
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Feb 6, 2021

By David Bristoll

Advertised on Facebook without stating there was a 3 day trial and £22 / year subscription. Tried it anyway and the app failed. Looks like a scam counting in people not cancelling their subscriptions. Avoid.
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Laughable
Sep 12, 2019

By Eric Hendrix

Wish you could see the result of the app’s introductory colorization. I gave it a crisp black and white portrait, and it returned the same image with just a splash of skin tone color from one eye, across the bridge of the nose, to the other eye. Roughly 90% of the image remained black and white (and remember the photo is all head and top of the shoulders, very little background around the edges. A very close up selfie if you will). And there isn’t any way to give the app “hints” of what areas are skin, hair, cloth, etc. No way to adjust the app’s colorization. I’m sorry Photomyne, but buyers move along, nothing to see here.
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