Photo Unblur
Rescue a blurry shot. The AI reverses camera shake and motion blur, and can also clean the grain out of a dark, high-ISO photo. Run it free to preview the result; download the clean full-resolution image with credits.
Blur that erased the detail entirely cannot be recovered — no tool can invent pixels that were never captured. Moderate shake and softness restore well.
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Built for Motion Blur
The model was trained on real camera-shake footage, not synthetic blur — so it targets the exact failure a handheld phone shot produces: a smeared subject with everything else roughly in place.
Night Shots Too
Switch to grain mode and the same network removes sensor noise instead — the speckled mess a phone produces in a dark room, without smearing away the detail underneath it.
Private & Secure
Your photo is sent to our AI server for processing. The restored result is held only briefly so you can unlock the HD download, then expires automatically. Nothing is shared.
How it works
How AI unblurring actually works
A sharpen slider in a photo editor only raises local contrast — it makes edges look crisper without recovering anything. This tool does something different: a neural network (NAFNet) that was trained on thousands of pairs of the same scene shot sharp and shot blurred, so it has learned what the smear of a moving camera does to real detail, and how to reverse it. It reconstructs the plausible sharp image rather than exaggerating what is already there. That is why it fixes handheld shake and motion blur that no sharpen filter can touch — and also why it cannot resurrect detail that the sensor never recorded. Processing runs on our AI server and your original photo is deleted immediately. To check whether a photo was already edited before you got it, use the Authenticity Checker.
Getting the best result from a blurry photo
Upload the original file, not a screenshot or a WhatsApp copy — re-compression destroys exactly the faint detail the model needs to work from. Pick the right mode: blur mode for shake and movement, grain mode for a dark, speckled, high-ISO shot. Trying to unblur a noisy night photo with the wrong mode wastes a run. If the photo is sharp but small, you want the Image Upscaler instead; and to check resolution and print quality before you start, run the Image Quality Analyzer.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I unblur an image online?
Is the photo unblur tool free?
Can AI really fix a blurry photo?
What is the difference between this and a sharpen filter?
Can it remove noise from night photos?
What AI model does it use?
Are my photos stored on the server?
Scanly is an independent product. NAFNet is a third-party model we call through Replicate — an integration, not our brand. Scanly is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Replicate or the model authors, and all model names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. AI Disclosure.