You never get stuck on a photo
Photo Insight checks the source first and recommends the safest next step. When a rescan won't help, it routes you to crop or restore anyway, so you keep moving instead of getting stuck.
NostalgiaLiving Archive
Bring them back. Keep them forever.
Restore faded prints, capture the names and stories while family still remembers, and keep every original beside the version you love. Scan one photo or a whole stack from your phone.
Get the app on iPhone or join the Android test, or restore one photo in your browser: free, with no sign-up or card.
Live on iPhone App StoreNever sold or used to train AIYour originals are always preservedBuilt after a personal loss
A faded glass-plate portrait, carefully restored. Drag to compare. Your original is always kept safe.
ScanCapture a whole stack
RestoreRepair scratches & fading
KeepNames, dates & the back of the photo
GatherVaults, memorials & timeline
Watch one photo become a living archive
One photo
This photo spent forty years in a drawer
A garden in Mysore, June 1962. Three generations squinting into the sun. Creased, faded, and one flood away from being gone.
Rescue
First, bring it back
Scan it with your phone. The creases close, the fading lifts, the faces come back. The original is kept forever, untouched.
Colour
See the garden the way they did
One tap adds colour. The saris were red and gold. The banana leaves were that deep green. Now everyone can see it.
The back of the photo
The handwriting comes too
Someone wrote on the back for a reason. Scan that side and the note becomes part of the photo: who, where, when.
People
Name the faces once
Tap a face, give it a name. From then on the archive knows Meera wherever she appears, at every age.
Places and family
Give it a place in the family
Pin it to Mysore on your family map. Import your family tree, and the people in the photo become relatives, not labels.
The archive grows
The rest of the drawer finds its place
Scan the rest of the drawer. Photos gather around the people, places, and dates your family has confirmed.
Story
The story weaves itself
From the dates, places, names, and notes, the archive writes the first draft of the family story. You keep the pen.
Together
The family joins in
Share it to a private family vault. An aunt names a face you could not. A cousin adds the photo you never had. The archive comes alive.
That drawer of photos at your parents’ house? It is an archive waiting to happen.
Why families choose Nostalgia
Built so your family still knows who these people were.
Every face keeps its name
Names, caption drafts, dates, notes, originals, and restored versions live with the photo, so the people in it are still known in twenty years.
The shoebox actually gets done
A Home base shows what to pick up next and resurfaces 'on this day,' so a shoebox becomes steady progress. Scan a stack hands-free, not an all-or-nothing afternoon.
Bring the whole family in
Use private links for a single restored photo, then open a Family Vault when a branch or collection needs shared space. Every invite brings more of the family in.
“The photos are how we keep everyone. The ones who are here, and the ones who have left us.”
I started Nostalgia after losing my father. Going through old family photos, I saw how fast the faces fade, and how fast the names and stories go with them.
Free restoration room, private by default.
Scanning and organizing your whole archive is free forever, and restoring starts free too: 10 restores every month, plus 30 never-expire welcome credits to begin with. Free also includes private links for a finished photo, full Library access, and one shared Family Vault for up to 5 relatives and 50 photos. Top up with never-expire credit packs, or go Family for a bigger monthly allowance and unlimited vaults.
- Your photos are never shared or sold
- Encrypted uploads, private by design
- You keep full ownership of originals and results
- AI never trains on your photos
- Export or delete your data anytime
For the founder story and privacy posture, read why we built Nostalgia.
FAQ
The questions families ask before their first restore.
What can Nostalgia restore?
Nostalgia helps with scratches, fading, tears, blur, glare, weak scans, lost contrast, and black-and-white photos that could use color. Photo Insight checks the source first, then recommends the next best action for that photo.
Are my photos private?
Yes. Your photos are processed to deliver the restoration and archive features you request. We do not use uploaded photos or restored outputs to train AI models. You keep ownership, and you can export or delete your data.
What does it cost?
You start free with 10 restores every month and 30 never-expire welcome credits, plus caption and story help and one shared Family Vault, no credit card. When you want more, top up any time with never-expire credit packs (from $9.99, they never run out), or go Family for $7.99/month (or $79.99/year): 40 restores a month for the whole household, unlimited Family Vaults with up to 10 members each, 50 GB storage, and unlimited caption and story help. Checkout is on the web and through the App Store on iPhone. Local pricing and full details are on the pricing page.
What happens after my first restore?
The original and restored version stay together in your private archive. From there Nostalgia recommends the next useful action: choose the restored version to keep in use, name people, review caption and story drafts, add dates or notes, organize into albums, review similar photos, and share privately with relatives.
Need direct help with one important photo? Visit the Support page for a personal reply.
Working on family history? Read the archivist’s overview: how Nostalgia handles the photo side of FamilyEcho, Ancestry, MyHeritage, RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker, Gramps, or FamilySearch.
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Get Nostalgia on your phone.
Start with the photo in your hand, then continue on web whenever a larger archive workspace helps.
iPhone is live on the App Store. Android remains in Google Play testing until public availability is verified.