Folder and file names
Album labels, box names, and filenames like Jul89_001.jpg can anchor photos that have few visual clues.
For Your Scanned Family Photos
Your Scanned Photos Deserve Their Place in Time
Timeline Scan automatically sorts your existing scanned photos by when they were originally taken
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How It Works
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Four steps. No technical knowledge needed.
1 Upload
Drop a folder, walk away.
Drag your scanned photos straight into the dashboard — the whole shoebox, all at once. We accept JPEG and TIFF.
Any archive size, from a single envelope to decades of boxes.
2 Tag
Tell us who's in the photos.
We group every face we find — you just add a name and a birth year. That single hint anchors decades of guesses to a real person.
Optional, but it makes the dating noticeably sharper.
3 Process
Watch decades fall into place.
Behind the scenes our model reads each archive in bulk — locating timestamps, deciphering handwriting on the back, and cross-referencing the faces you've named. You can close the tab; we'll email when it's done.
Typical archive: a few hours, occasionally up to 48.
4 Download
Your photos, back in chronological order.
Download the same files you uploaded — pixels untouched — sorted oldest to newest, with the restored dates baked into EXIF metadata. Drop them into Google Photos, Apple Photos, Immich, or whatever you use, and each one lands in the right year.
No account lock-in. Your archive, yours forever.
Date estimation
How We Estimate the Original Date
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Timeline Scan does not rely on one clue. We combine the evidence around each scan, then use the strongest signals to place the photo near its real moment in time.
Front and back timestamps
Printed date stamps, lab marks, and faint back-of-photo timestamps often narrow the estimate faster than visual clues alone.
Notes on the back
Handwritten dates, names, places, and captions are read and used as direct evidence when they are present.
Faces and age clues
Known people, birth years, and apparent ages help rule out years that do not fit the people in the photo.
Context inside the image
Clothing, hairstyles, cars, decor, print borders, color, and film character all help identify the likely era.
Neighboring photos
Photos scanned in alphabetical order often belong together, so nearby files can give useful context to each other.
See the Difference
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Scanned photos show in your timeline on the date they were scanned, not when they were taken. That means every photo from a scanning session piles up in the same spot. A wall of decades-old memories wedged right in the middle of your library.
Your photo library without Timeline Scan
Hard to find. Hard to enjoy. Just sitting there, out of time.
Optional · for Google Photos users
Skip the download. Send straight to Google Photos.
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If your library is Google Photos, skip the ZIP altogether. Connect your Google account once and we'll drop your dated archive into a fresh album — in date order, with the EXIF dates we restored baked in. No download, no second upload from your device.
From
Timeline Scan
Your dated archive
To
Your Google Photos library
New album, ready to share
What you grant Timeline Scan
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Add new photos to a new album in your library
photoslibrary.appendonly - Read, modify, or delete anything already in your library not requested
Choose the album per archive, or skip the integration and use the regular ZIP download — either path is fine. Disconnect any time from your dashboard or directly from your Google account; we delete the stored token immediately. How we handle the connection →
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Give your family photos the place in time they deserve. It's easy, affordable, and makes all the difference.
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