Artguru upscales images to 8K, restores old photos, enhances videos up to 4K and sharpens blurry PDFs from one web workspace, with batch processing and an API for e-commerce teams. A free plan covers personal use, while commercial rights require a paid subscription.
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Artguru is an AI photo enhancer and media clean-up suite that positions itself around a single promise: Upscale photos, enhance videos, clarify PDFs, and restore old memories with one click, without any manual editing skill. Where most tools in this space pick one lane — an upscaler here, a restoration app there — Artguru bundles photo enhancement, 8K upscaling, old-photo restoration, video enhancement and document sharpening into one web workspace, and rounds it out with background removal, object removal and an AI image generator.
The product is operated by Cygnus Space (Hong Kong) Company Limited, the entity named in its Terms of Service, and its disputes are governed by Hong Kong law. It ships as a web application first, with a mobile app for on-the-go use and a documented open API for teams that want to wire enhancement into their own pipelines. It is worth knowing that Artguru's public identity has shifted over time: older third-party reviews still describe it primarily as an AI art generator with face swap features, but the current site is organised around enhancement, and the old face swap blog pages now return 404. The art generator survives as a secondary tool in the navigation rather than the headline act.
Two facts shape whether Artguru fits your workflow more than any feature list. First, the free tier is genuinely usable for testing but is limited to personal, non-commercial purposes, so client work requires a subscription. Second, the terms give the company broad rights to use uploads for model training — a point covered in detail below, because it matters for anyone processing sensitive or client-owned material.
Yes — the official FAQ states that Artguru offers a free plan so you can try the enhancer and see results yourself. Expect the free tier to watermark exports and restrict high-resolution downloads, with full-quality output reserved for paid plans.
Only under a paid plan. The Terms restrict free-plan outputs to personal, non-commercial purposes; purchasing a qualifying subscription such as Artguru Pro (or a one-time purchase that permits commercial use) grants a limited, revocable commercial licence covering outputs generated under that plan — not outputs you made earlier on the free tier.
The Terms state that, as between you and the company, we do not claim ownership of your Output. However, Artguru also disclaims any warranty that outputs are unique or original, since results are generated statistically and could resemble existing content — worth remembering for logo or commercial art use.
The content licence in the Terms covers operating and improving the services, including training and refining models, and this use becomes irrevocable once your Input has been used to train or update our models. You can delete your account or use "Clear your data" to remove stored personal data (typically within 30 days), but completed training use cannot be undone.
Videos: up to 1GB and 20 minutes per file. PDFs: up to 100MB. Photo restoration and background removal: up to 200 images per batch. Supported image formats include JPG, PNG and WEBP. The web product advertises batch processing of thousands of product images for e-commerce workflows, and the highest advertised image output is 8K.
Yes. The documentation at docs.artguru.ai describes image upload plus enhance, restore, unblur and upscale endpoints, authenticated with an x-api-key header, with task polling until SUCCESS/FAIL/ERROR and endpoints for querying credits and usage. Video and PDF endpoints are not documented in the public API.
The privacy policy explicitly treats face photos as potentially sensitive or biometric data depending on jurisdiction, processed with consent. The Terms prohibit content that impersonates any person or misleads about identity. If your photos include other people, securing their permission before uploading is on you — particularly for portraits you intend to publish.
Yes — an iOS app (launched December 2024) and an Android app by Cygnus Space (4.3 stars, 50K+ downloads). The apps concentrate on photo and video enhancement plus background removal; PDF enhancement, the image generator and API access remain web-side.
The website currently has no public pricing page; plan prices and credit quotas appear during sign-up and in-product checkout. The Terms establish the structure — subscription credits valid only within the billing period that grant them, automatic renewal, optional extra-credit purchases and a self-service refund flow — but concrete numbers are only visible in the product.
