For Windows · Runs on your own graphics card

Restore and upscale your videos overnight, on your own PC.

Family tapes, phone clips, client footage. Drop in a folder, answer three questions, and wake up to cleaner, sharper video. Nothing is uploaded.

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Works best with an NVIDIA graphics card. Check your hardware
Not on Windows? Try the free photo upscaler in your browser.

Exposition buildings and a slender spire across a bay of calm water, seen past a tree trunk in the foreground.

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San Francisco 1939. Two passes: even out flicker, stabilise, denoise and colorize; then denoise, 4x upscale, hold invented detail still and interpolate to 60 fps. The colour is the model's guess.

Footage: Prelinger Archives, Internet Archive.

Apollo 15, film JSC-572 (1971). Denoise, 4x upscale, then interpolate 24 to 60 fps. The zoom crops the same frames on both sides.

Footage: NASA. NASA does not endorse FrameLathe.

Space Shuttle STS-63 video (1995). Denoise, 4x upscale, then interpolate 30 to 60 fps.

Footage: NASA. NASA does not endorse FrameLathe.

Horses running at sunset. Interpolate 25 to 60 fps.

Video: Zeynep Sude Emek, Pexels.

The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954). Denoise, then 4x upscale.

The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936). Denoise, colorize, then interpolate 24 to 60 fps. The colour is the model's guess.

Footage: U.S. Resettlement Administration, via the National Archives.

Angel and the Badman (1947). Two passes: denoise and colorize, then denoise and 4x upscale. The colour is the model's guess.

Nosferatu (1922). Even out flicker, stabilise, denoise, 4x upscale, then hold invented detail still.

Set it up in a minute. Walk away.

FrameLathe checks everything before the batch starts, so you don't come back to a failed job.

The FrameLathe queue with three archival clips selected and a Before you start panel warning that the upscale will run through Vulkan and that the PC is short on memory — It warns before it failsA slower path on your graphics card, a PC short on memory — flagged before you walk away.

The recipe rail for three selected clips: what is wrong with them, what they are made for and the output size, and an estimated time for all three — Three questions, one recipePlus an honest finish time.

A restored daguerreotype on the Photos page, wiped across the boy's face: the black-and-white scan on the left, the restored photo on the right, with What ran listing 1 face sharpened, made 2x bigger and colour added (invented) — Old prints tooFaces sharpened, made 2× or 4× bigger, and a black-and-white print coloured if you want it. The app says the colour is invented.

The Videos queue in the light Paper theme: one clip rendering at 62 percent and one queued with a measured time, under Start, Pause and Stop queue — Light, if you preferPaper is one of six themes in Settings → Appearance.

How it works

1Drop the filesVideos or a whole folder. They stay on your computer the whole time.
2Answer three questionsWhat's wrong with it, where it's going, how long it can take. FrameLathe picks the settings.
3Review in the morningCompare each result side by side, keep the ones you like, redo the rest.

Free · in your browser

One old photo? Try it free.

The free photo upscaler makes a photo 2× or 4× bigger, sharpens its faces and can colour a black-and-white print, on your own graphics card. No sign-up, no watermark, and nothing is uploaded.

It does one photo at a time. The app does the whole box.

Try the free photo upscaler →

A very small scan of an 1860 portrait of Abraham Lincoln, restored: four times bigger with the face sharpened. — Drag to compare. Abraham Lincoln, 1860 campaign ambrotype, a scan only 152 px wide. **1 face sharpened · 4× bigger**
Ambrotype by George Clark, 1860. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Drag to compare. Abraham Lincoln, 1860 campaign ambrotype, a scan only 152 px wide. **1 face sharpened · 4× bigger**
Ambrotype by George Clark, 1860. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Your footage never leaves your PC.

All the processing happens on your own graphics card. There's no cloud to fall back to — not when it's busy, not ever.

What the app does connect for →

Footage uploadedNever
Usage tracking or crash reportsNone
Needs the internet to run a jobNo
Goes online forUpdates, activation, downloads you ask for

AI apps · MCP server

Hand the batch to your AI app.

FrameLathe includes an MCP server, so an AI app such as Claude Code or Cursor can plan, render and check clips on your PC. It is off until you turn it on, and the app can only ask: you approve each permission and folder.

How the MCP server works →

A request from the AI app claude-code to use FrameLathe, with its reason and the permissions Inspect, Render, Compare and See frames, each ticked, above Allow and Deny

Pay once. Keep it.

No subscription, no credits, no per-minute fees. Your graphics card is already paid for.

Full pricing Refund policy

$89$149Launch month

Two computers
1 year of updates
30-day refund, no questions
Windows installer, signed

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