File Download
Your dated photos, saved back to your computer in folders that make sense to you.
Choose at download time
Pick a layout when you download. You see a preview with your own files first, and you can come back and download again in a different layout at no cost. Uploaded the backs of your photos? Include them with one checkbox; a back always saves beside its front.
Your own folders and file names, exactly as they arrived. Every photo now carries its corrected date inside.
The safe choice if your current folders already mean something to you.
Every photo in one folder, renamed so name order is date order. Handy for slideshows and digital frames.
A folder for each year of your family's story. Add month folders if you like.
Tap an option above to preview it.
A folder for each person you named on the Faces page. Everyone's life, gathered in one place.
A photo of two people is placed in both folders. Photos with no one you tagged gather in “Everyone else.”
New here? Start with the plain-language overview: how Timeline Scan sorts your photos into folders by year, for you.
No lock-in, by design
The folders are just packaging. The important information is written inside each photo, where any app can read it.
Written inside every file
Add the files to Google Photos, Apple Photos, Immich, or Amazon Photos. The photo lands in its real year everywhere.
Saved as the photo's description, so the story on the back stays with the picture forever.
Sideways scans show right side up in any modern photo app.
Saved inside the file in a standard format. Photo apps that support it, like Immich, digiKam, and Lightroom, pick the names up automatically.
Never changed
Same scans, same resolution, same quality. We never recompress or edit the image itself.
No proprietary format, no companion app, no subscription needed to keep what you downloaded. The files are simply yours.
Built for real archives
Up to about a gigabyte, you get one ZIP file in your Downloads folder. One click, done.
On Chrome and Edge, big downloads skip the ZIP. Pick a folder and the photos stream into it. If your connection drops, it picks up where it left off.
Big archives arrive as a few numbered ZIP parts. Allow multiple downloads when asked, and keep the page open until the last part saves.
Prefer delivery straight to a library?
Want them side by side? Compare what every option keeps.
Start with free photos, no credit card required. Every archive includes the full download.
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