NostalgiaFor the person keeping the family archive

See the face again. Keep who they are.

Nostalgia restores fading and damage without inventing a different person. Source stays beside the result so you can choose the keeper.

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  • Source is always kept
  • You choose the keeper
  • Family confirms what is true
The same demonstration photograph restored in color, with scratches and fading reducedRestored in color
A demonstration photograph before restoring: a young woman holding a small child, scratched and fadedSource
Public-domain demonstration photograph. Restored in color with Nostalgia; not presented as a customer's family.

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The keeper loop

See one face clearly. Then keep what the family knows.

Restore one photograph. Confirm one fact. Then bring the next, or send a question to the person who would know.

  1. The Nostalgia app comparing the accepted Source with the restored photograph.
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    Repair one photograph carefully

    Compare the complete Source and restored result. Keep it only when the person still looks like themselves; you choose the current Source, and it never disappears.

  2. The Nostalgia app open on Notes, with a next step to identify people, an editable caption, and archive notes for when, where and what.
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    Confirm one thing the family knows

    Add a name, date, place, or short note while the context is fresh. Nostalgia can suggest a next step, but nothing becomes a family fact until you confirm it.

  3. The Nostalgia app Family screen with People, Vaults, a memorial, family tree import, and gifts.
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    Bring the next photograph, or ask

    Bring a second photograph or send one focused question. A relative can answer without an account, and you decide what belongs in the archive.

The Nostalgia app on iPad, with the accepted Source beside the restored photograph.
The same Nostalgia app on iPad. Source stays beside the restored result.

Every account includes a private Archive and one free Family Vault — 5 members and 50 photos. The Family plan raises those limits. See what each plan includes.

Screens from the Nostalgia app on iPhone and iPad, photographed on a demonstration account.

Ask someone who would know

You send it. They answer. You keep what is true.

Relatives answer without an account. You confirm. An Exhibit is a handful of photographs you choose to share — not the whole drawer made public.

  1. ChoosePick the photographs that belong together and write one focused question.
  2. They answerA relative opens the link, compares the Source and result, and answers without installing anything.
  3. You confirmKeep or dismiss every answer. A suggestion never quietly becomes a fact.
See how family Exhibits work
ExhibitA few photographs, made meaningful together
Public-domain demonstration photograph of a young woman holding a small childWho is in this photograph?
Public-domain demonstration photograph of an older man and a childWhat story belongs here?
Public-domain demonstration family group photographWhen and where was this?
Product illustration using public-domain demonstration photographs. This is not customer content.
Thumbu Sammy, aged seventeen, photographed in profile at Ellis Island on 14 April 1911
Augustus Francis Sherman, 1911. New York Public Library, public domain.
Public Museum

Look at a public photograph. Yours stay private until you share.

What can one photograph tell you before a name appears?

He was seventeen. His name is on the record and the rest is not. Anyone can look at photographs like this one, say what they see, and correct us. The source stays with every frame. Your own photographs never appear here.

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Start with one photograph.

Bring the family photograph you most want to see clearly again. Try the restore without an account. The Source stays separate from every result.

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Private until you share. We do not train on your photographs unless you separately opt in.

Nostalgia - Living Archive