File Download

Your Files, Organized the Way You Think

Your dated photos, saved back to your computer in folders that make sense to you.

Always included Original files No lock-in

Choose at download time

Four Folder Layouts

Pick a layout when you download. You see a preview with your own files first. You can also come back and download again in a different layout, at no cost.

Default

Just as you uploaded them

Your own folders and file names, exactly as they arrived. Every photo now carries its corrected date inside.

  • Grandma's albums52 photos
    • album_page_01.jpg
    • album_page_02.jpg
    • … and 50 more
  • Summer 199814 photos
    • beach_day_01.jpg
    • … and 13 more
  • loose_scan_047.tif

The safe choice if your current folders already mean something to you.

One folder, oldest to newest

Every photo in one folder, renamed so name order is date order. Handy for slideshows and digital frames.

  • image_0001.jpg 1955
  • image_0002.jpg 1958
  • image_0003.jpg 1962
  • image_0041.jpg 1987
  • image_0041_back.jpg the back rides with its front

In folders by year

A folder for each year of your family's story. Add month folders if you like.

  • 19749 photos
    • birthday_04.jpg
    • … and 8 more
  • 198723 photos
  • 199841 photos

Tap an option above to preview it.

In folders by person

A folder for each person you named on the Faces page. Everyone's life, gathered in one place.

  • Grandma Eleanor88 photos
    • porch_swing.jpg also in Danny's folder
  • Danny52 photos
  • Everyone else17 photos

A photo of two people is placed in both folders. Photos with no one you tagged gather in “Everyone else.”

Uploaded the backs of your photos and want them back? Include them with one checkbox. A back always saves beside its front.

No lock-in, by design

Everything We Learned Lives Inside Each File

The folders are just packaging. The important information is written inside each photo, where any app can read it.

Written inside every file

The corrected date

Add the files to Google Photos, Apple Photos, Immich, or Amazon Photos. The photo lands in its real year everywhere.

Handwriting from the backs

Saved as the photo's description, so the story on the back stays with the picture forever.

Upright orientation

Sideways scans show right side up in any modern photo app.

Faces and the names you gave them

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

The pixels

Same scans, same resolution, same quality. We never recompress or edit the image itself.

Your independence

No proprietary format, no companion app, no subscription needed to keep what you downloaded. The files are simply yours.

Built for real archives

From a Shoebox to Ten Thousand Scans

Most archives: one ZIP

Up to about a gigabyte, you get one ZIP file in your Downloads folder. One click, done.

Huge archives: straight to a folder

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.

Safari & Firefox

Big archives arrive as a few numbered ZIP parts. Allow multiple downloads when asked, and keep the page open until the last part saves.

Bring Your Archive Home in Order

Start with free photos, no credit card required. Every archive includes the full download.

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