Warning: a new app can make you look more pimply and less hipster-chic.

That is, if you've come to associate how you look in real life with Instagram-filtered 70s-inspired photos of yourself.

Normalize, a new iOS app from developer Joe Macirowski, restores photos to "what they're supposed to look like."

"Normalize is the fast, easy way to bring new life to dull photos! The image-improving techniques used by this user-friendly application make colors more vibrant and hard to see details stand out like never before," says the app's description in the iTunes store. "The smart algorithm that powers Normalize automatically improves your photo without you ever having to make tedious manual corrections."

However, if you take a look at a February blog post from Macirowski, detailing his reasoning for creating Normalize, it's clear the developer has some pent-up frustration with now-ubiquitous, filtered photos.

"Instagram certainly isn’t new, and it’s actually an app I enjoy, but every now and again, I encounter a picture in the “real world” (AKA, any site outside of Instragram) where someone decides it’s a good idea to use it when trying to take a picture of something they’re legitimately trying to show," Macirowski wrote. "Something had to be done."

When it comes to functionality, you need to import photos from your library to Normalize. This makes the app a cumbersome tool for restoring your friends' Instagrams, as you would need to screenshot and crop photos from your stream. The app is really only designed for use on your own photos.

I took the app for a spin to see how it did at returning my filtered photos to their original states. I noticed that if you've already applied a photo-enhancing app to the photo, Normalize won't succeed at restoring your photo to its pre-filtered appearance. The app did best at getting rid of sepia tones. Take a look at these before (on the top) and after (on the bottom) shots.

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So in the end of the day, is Normalize worth the 99 cent download? Probably only if you've been on a sepia binge for the last two years, are subsequently now repulsed by the filter, and have deleted all the original copies of your photos.

Do you get annoyed by today's abundance of filtered photos? Would you use Normalize to restore photos to their filter-less states? let us know in the comments.