Customer Stories

My abuela Elena left Mexico in 1954 and we only had three photographs of her. They were cracked, faded, and barely recognizable. I uploaded the clearest one to Revivo on a whim, and when it played — when I saw her eyes move and her lips curve into a smile — I completely broke down. I showed it to my mother and she grabbed my hand and whispered, 'That's her. That's exactly how she looked at me.' We sat together and cried for twenty minutes. I've since restored all three photos and my mom watches them every single morning. Revivo gave us something we never thought we'd have: a moment with someone we lost decades ago.

Hurricane Matthew flooded our garage in 2016 and destroyed almost everything, including our wedding album from 1981. The photos were stuck together, warped, and covered in mold stains. We thought they were gone forever. Our daughter convinced us to try scanning and uploading them to Revivo. The restoration was nothing short of miraculous. The AI removed the water damage, filled in the missing sections, and even colorized the shots that had faded to near-white. When we saw our wedding day in vivid color for the first time in decades, it felt like stepping back in time. We printed the restored photos and they now hang in our hallway. Best anniversary gift we've ever given each other.

My grandfather served in the 761st Tank Battalion — one of the first Black armored units in WWII. We had a handful of black-and-white photos of him in uniform, but they were small, grainy, and hard to make out. I used Revivo to restore them, colorize them, and bring the portrait shots to life. When I showed my two sons — ages 9 and 12 — their great-great-grandfather smiling in his uniform in full color, their jaws dropped. My oldest said, 'Dad, he looks like you.' That one sentence meant everything. I've since created a digital family archive with over 30 restored photos. Our family history finally feels alive, not just preserved.

For my mom's 70th birthday, I secretly gathered every old family photo I could find — from her childhood in Korea, her immigration to the US, her wedding, and us kids growing up. I restored and brought over a dozen of them to life through Revivo and compiled them into a video slideshow with music. When I played it at her birthday dinner, the entire room went silent. My mom watched herself as a six-year-old girl in Busan, then as a young bride, then holding me as a baby — all moving, all in color. She held my face in her hands afterward and said it was the most thoughtful thing anyone had ever done for her. I still get emotional thinking about it.

My husband Tom passed away suddenly in 2023 after 38 years of marriage. The grief was overwhelming, and for months I could barely look at his photographs without falling apart. A friend told me about Revivo and I was hesitant — I worried it would feel artificial or disrespectful. But when I uploaded his favorite portrait and watched it come to life, it didn't feel like technology at all. It felt like him. The way his eyes crinkled, the slight tilt of his head. I watch it every night before bed now. It doesn't replace him, nothing could, but it gives me a kind of comfort that's hard to explain. It's like a gentle reminder that he's still with me, smiling.

Jess and I have been deep into genealogy for years, but our family tree always felt incomplete because the photos we had were in terrible shape. Faded, torn, some from as far back as the 1890s. When we discovered Revivo, we went all in — restoring and colorizing over 60 photographs spanning five generations. The results were stunning. Great-great-grandparents we'd only known as blurry figures suddenly had faces full of detail and character. We created a printed family album and shared it at our family reunion last summer. Cousins we hadn't spoken to in years called us afterward, sharing stories and memories the photos sparked. Revivo didn't just restore our photos — it restored our family connections.

When my father passed away last spring, I wanted his memorial service to be more than just sadness. I wanted people to remember him alive — his warmth, his humor, his smile. I used Revivo to bring to life and restore photos from every decade of his life: as a young man in Taiwan, as a new immigrant, holding me as a baby, at my wedding. The living slideshow played during the reception and I watched sixty people go from tears to laughter to tears again. Several people told me afterward it was the most beautiful tribute they'd ever seen. My father's best friend said, 'For a moment, I forgot he was gone.' That's exactly what I wanted.

I'm not a computer person. My grandkids have to help me with just about everything digital. But my daughter set me up with Revivo and I uploaded a photo of my late wife, Betty, from 1972. It was the photo I fell in love with — her laughing in the garden, hair blowing in the wind. When I saw her laugh again, I just sat there. I didn't cry right away. I just smiled. It had been four years since she passed and I'd forgotten what it felt like to see her move. Now I have it on my phone and I show it to everyone. The cashier at the grocery store, my barber, the guy at the hardware store. Everyone needs to see how beautiful my Betty was.