Crisp is a fast, 100%-offline AI upscaler, restorer & auto-editor for the Mac. Turn grainy, low-light, or damaged video and photos into clean 4K — and let it auto-edit long footage into highlight reels and music montages. All on your device. No cloud, no subscription. Drop a file and Crisp decides everything.
macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon · nothing ever leaves your Mac
Drag the slider — Crisp restores detail, fixes color, and lifts shadows before it upscales.
Topaz went subscription-only and moved its best model to the cloud. Crisp does the opposite: own it, run it offline, and let it decide.
Every frame is processed locally. No uploads, no credits, no 5-minute cloud caps. Built for footage that can't leave the building.
Topaz makes you learn ~15 cryptic models and a wall of sliders. Crisp probes the clip and picks the model, scale, and cleanup — then tells you what it chose.
Topaz killed perpetual licenses — lapse and you lose the app. Crisp is yours. No monthly bill, no rented access to your own tools.
Real-ESRGAN and RIFE run through ncnn → Metal, tuned for M-series. Quiet, cool, and fast — no NVIDIA, no fans screaming.
Denoise → low-light lift → upscale → optional smooth-motion → encode — with color and audio handled correctly. No washed-out output, no drift.
A fast Real-ESRGAN / Compact tier for interactive 4K, plus a generative Max tier — SeedVR2-3B diffusion, fully offline. Topaz-Starlight quality with no cloud.
Drop & go. Crisp reads resolution, noise, and brightness, then routes to the right model and scale — and shows the route it picked.
A dedicated shadow-lift + denoise stage rescues dark, noisy footage before upscaling — a lane Topaz simply doesn't have.
RIFE frame-interpolation to 2× or 3× fps (e.g. 30 → 60). Topaz strips your audio doing this — Crisp keeps it, perfectly in sync.
The generative restore lane (SeedVR2) brings back detail that was never there — entirely on-device. Topaz's Starlight is cloud-only.
Not just video — drop a JPEG, PNG, HEIC, or RAW-ish still and Crisp restores it to a crisp 4K in about a second. Same AUTO smarts, same offline privacy.
Hand Crisp a long video and it edits for you — Highlights finds the best action, Condense trims the dead air, and Music cuts your clips to the beat of a song. No timeline, no scrubbing.
Queue a whole folder overnight. Test a preset on a 10-second slice first. Inspect every result with a before/after split.
The structural differences Topaz can't undo after its 2025 subscription pivot and cloud-only flagship.
| Crisp | Topaz Video AI | VideoProc | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price model | One-time / owned | Subscription ($299–699/yr) | Cheap |
| Where it runs | 100% on-device | Flagship is cloud (uploads, credits) | Local, weak AI |
| Model picking | AUTO — drop & go | ~15 models to learn | Weak auto |
| Generative restore | SeedVR2, on-device | Starlight, cloud-only | — |
| Low-light stage | Dedicated lane | No low-light model | — |
| Frame interpolation | Yes — keeps audio | Yes — strips audio | Yes |
| Photos & stills | Upscale & restore | Video only | Video only |
| Auto-edit (highlights / montage) | Built in, on-device | — | Manual editor |
| Apple-Silicon native | Native (Metal) | NVIDIA-first | — |
No render queues to configure, no model docs to read. The whole thing is designed to disappear.
Drag any clip, still, or a whole folder onto the window. MP4, MOV, MKV, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, and more.
AUTO probes the file and picks the model, scale, and cleanup. Or switch to Montage to auto-edit — Highlights, Condense, or Music.
Watch the live ETA, then compare before/after and reveal the file. Color-correct, audio intact, fully offline.
Yes. Every stage — decode, AI upscaling, restore, encode — runs on your Mac. Your footage never touches a server, and Crisp works with the network completely off. That's the whole point.
Topaz moved to a subscription and pushed its best model (Starlight) to the cloud. Crisp is a one-time-owned, fully-offline app with a generative-restore lane on-device, an AUTO mode instead of a 15-model picker, a low-light stage Topaz lacks, and interpolation that keeps your audio.
Any Apple-Silicon Mac runs the fast tier (1080p → 4K at interactive speed). The generative Max tier is an optional download and is happiest with 32 GB+ of memory — it's the slow, overnight, best-quality lane.
No. Audio is stream-copied and never re-timed, even when you interpolate to a higher frame rate. Color is converted and re-tagged correctly, so nothing comes out washed-out.
That's exactly the target. Crisp denoises, lifts shadows, and restores detail before it upscales — so low-light and compressed clips come out clean instead of amplifying the mess.
Yes. Drop a JPEG, PNG, or HEIC and Crisp upscales & restores the still in about a second. And the built-in Montage mode auto-edits a long video into a highlight reel, a tightened condense, or a music montage cut to the beat — all on-device, no timeline required.
No subscription — ever. Crisp is yours once you have it. Pricing details are coming as it leaves beta; early access is free.
A fast, private, one-time-owned upscaler, restorer & auto-editor that runs entirely on your Mac. Video, photos, and montages. No cloud. No subscription. No catch.
macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon · free during beta