Upscal
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Upscal, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Upscal's own pricing page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Core image/video enhancement · offline processing · no account · mobile batch up to 5 images |
| Monthly Plan | — | Unlimited usage |
| Yearly Plan | — | Best value |
| Lifetime Plan | — | Lifetime access |
| Monthly Pro | $3.99 a month | Removes mobile image-batch limit · Monthly |
| Yearly Pro | $19.99 a year | Removes mobile image-batch limit · Yearly |
| Lifetime Pro | $39.99, paid once | Removes mobile image-batch limit · One-time purchase |
The facts
Each one read from Upscal's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Account requirement
- The app can be downloaded and used without creating an account or signing in.checked 21 Oct 2026
- API access
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- API and integrations
- Slashdot lists no integrations for Upscal, and the product pages expose no public API or SDK.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Batch processing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Commercial use
- The terms permit commercial processing of images and videos when users have the necessary rights and comply with law.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Diagnostics
- Anonymous diagnostics may include app and operating-system versions, device category, crash traces and error logs transmitted through Firebase or similar services.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Image enhancement
- The image workflow targets blurry, compressed, old and low-resolution photos to improve edges, textures and detail.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Independent risk criticism
- ScamAdviser showed a trust score of 0 and cited low traffic, an IPQS phishing report and an IPQS suspicious classification, despite a valid SSL certificate.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Independent security criticism
- Gridinsoft assigned upscal.app a 59/100 trust score, citing limited reputation data and a relatively new domain while noting no major malware or phishing detections.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes uses including old photos, creator and social video, product and marketing images, anime, illustration, and digital art.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Upscal grants a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable use licence; the proprietary application is not open source.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: crashes and encoding
- Mac reviewers reported crashes during short-video processing and failures to encode video exports.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile video quality
- An iOS reviewer reported that video upscaling produced little visible improvement and a much larger file; the developer attributed this to mobile hardware and traditional video algorithms.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: speed
- A Mac reviewer complained that rendering was slow, while another iOS reviewer said the app was slower than a website workflow.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Media privacy
- The privacy policy says normal enhancement runs locally and does not upload, transmit, or share processed media with an external processing server.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Company funding disclosure
- Crunchbase lists Vertexshare Limited as an active private for-profit company and shows no funding amount or employee count.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Company legal identity
- Independent software directories identify the vendor as Vertexshare Limited.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Company location and founding
- Slashdot lists Vertexshare Limited as founded in 2018 with headquarters in Hong Kong.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Company profile
- Vertexshare describes itself as a Hong Kong startup making Windows and Mac software, online tools and mobile apps.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Company registration
- Hong Kong Companies Registry records Vertexshare Limited as company number 2730205 incorporated on 3 August 2018.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Hong Kong SAR, Chinachecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Desktop app
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Limit: device memory
- The App Store listing warns that outputs above 144 megapixels may exhaust device memory and advises keeping the app open while processing.checked 21 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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