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Restoring your old and damaged photos for free

**ALL WORK IS DONE FOR FREE AND IN THE OPEN** A place for restoring old, damaged, or worn photographs of all types, (not retouching or altering them). **ALL WORK IS DONE FOR FREE** by helpful strangers on the internet. We may not be quick but all requests get fulfilled eventually. **AI slop will be removed and posters will be banned.** Thanks for stopping by!

18k subscribers64 posts / mo in Sep 202658 authors / mosince 2016

r/photorestore has 18k members (+28% over the last 12 months). It gets about 64 posts a month from 58 people. Top topics: Photo Restoration Requests, Family Photos Restoration and Photo Restoration Requests.

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Size and growth

How r/photorestore has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+28%in 12 months · +3.0% in 3 months · +0.8% in 1 month
Oct 202618k
Growing18k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/photorestore

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−68%vs Sep 2025 · −15% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202664
QuieterPeaked at 260 in Feb 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/photorestore

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Photo Restoration Requests16%
  2. Family Photos Restoration15%
  3. Photo Restoration Requests8.6%
  4. Colorize Family Photos3.9%
  5. Photo Restoration2.4%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Dropbox

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research