Crisp
Restore old family video to 4K, 100% offline on your Mac
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Details
- External ID
- 1251625
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Crisp
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7682903893172842
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Video
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Restore and upscale video to 4K on your Mac, fully offline — every frame stays on your machine. A real timeline editor: cut, auto-montage to a beat, deinterlace old DVD footage, denoise, export to 4K. Photos too. Free tier with watermarked exports; Crisp Pro is $129 once — no subscription, no credits, no account. 30-day refund, no reason needed. Requires an Apple silicon Mac, macOS 26 or later.
Enrichment
- Niche
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline video upscaling to 4k for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Offline native 4K video upscaling and timeline editing requires deep expertise in digital signal processing, metal shaders, CoreVideo, and local neural super-resolution models (Real-ESRGAN/waifu2x).
What it would actually take: Requires building a native macOS app using AVFoundation, Apple Metal / CoreML, and specialized video processing pipelines (deinterlacing filters, denoising, optical flow frame interpolation, and Real-ESRGAN or similar GAN models optimized via Apple Neural Engine). The hard engineering parts are building a responsive multi-track timeline video editor in Metal/SwiftUI and achieving performant 4K rendering locally without thermal throttling or memory exhaustion.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 348 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 349 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
- Upscale Video to 4K Free · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- tondi · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Local Video Upscaler · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Friday · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Screenrecplus · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Private & Pay As You Go · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Reviva · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MacDissect · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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