Upload your scans
Drag your scanned photos onto the page: JPEG or TIFF. A single shoebox or the whole attic.
For Your Scanned Family Photos Every photo you scan is stamped with the day you scanned it, not the day it was taken. Timeline Scan finds each photo's real date and puts your collection back in order.
Your photo library without Timeline Scan
Hard to find. Hard to enjoy. Just sitting there, out of time.
Four simple steps. No technical skill needed.
Drag your scanned photos onto the page: JPEG or TIFF. A single shoebox or the whole attic.
Handwriting on the back, printed timestamps, and film-era clues: every signal counts. Close the tab; we'll email you when it's done.
Happy with the results? You're done. Or tag the people you know: names and birth years anchor a second, sharper dating pass. Included, and entirely optional.
Download your photos with the real dates written inside, or send them straight to your photo app, sorted into the right years.
Your original pictures are never altered: we only correct the date stored inside each file, the same date Google Photos, Apple Photos, and Immich use to sort your library. That one fix is how we automatically organize scanned photos, in your folders and in your photo app alike.
Date estimation
Wondering how we could know? Your photos already carry the clues: we read them all.
A folder named 2011
anchors every photo inside it. A filename like Jul89_001.jpg
narrows just that one photo.
Printed date stamps, lab marks, and faint back-of-photo timestamps often narrow the estimate faster than visual clues alone.
Handwritten dates, names, places, and captions are read and used as direct evidence when they are present.
Tag the people you know after your first results: birth years and apparent ages rule out years that do not fit the people in the photo.
Clothing, hairstyles, cars, decor, print borders, color, and film character all help identify the likely era.
Photos scanned in alphabetical order often belong together, so nearby files can give useful context to each other.
Getting your photos back
Every finished archive comes back to you. Keep the files, send them to your library, or both. They land in date order either way.
The Timeline Scan iPhone app finds the scans stuck on the wrong date in your Photos library and writes the corrected dates back, right on your phone.
Dates fixed in place, in Photos and inside each file. Your full-size originals never leave your phone.
We add your dated photos straight to your Google Photos library, in date order. Album optional.
An export, not an import: we can't see or change what's already in your library. Google accepts no face names from any app, and handwriting notes appear under “Other” in the info panel.
Import from your self-hosted server, then we write the corrected dates straight back onto your photos. Dates, notes, rotation, and tagged faces, updated in place. Your original files are never touched.
Save the dated originals to your computer. Organize them as you uploaded them, oldest to newest, by year, or by person.
Dates, notes, and names are written inside every file, so any photo app can read them. No lock-in.
You can use more than one. Send an archive to your library and keep the download too. Not sure which fits? Compare what every option keeps, side by side.
Give your family photos the place in time they deserve.
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