NostalgiaFamily Archive
Scan a faded print with your phone, and Nostalgia repairs the fading, scratches, and water damage time leaves behind. Then it keeps the names, dates, and the story attached, in a private archive built to outlast the shoebox it came from.
The iPhone app is the best way in: scan, restore, and organize on the go. Prefer to start at your desk? Restore a Photo Free in your browser, no download.
A faded glass-plate portrait, carefully restored. Drag to compare. Your original is always kept safe.
See the AI’s repair plan, then drag to reveal the result.
Glass-plate portraits, faded prints, multi-generational family groups, and motion-blurred snapshots. See the range of what's possible before you try your own.
Showing the faithful restored result for each public example.
AfterBeforeA young soldier in a glass-plate portrait, faded by time and storage. Restoration brings back contrast and facial detail, and optional natural color can sit beside the restored record when the family wants it.
Archive context: original saved, keeper chosen, names and caption ready for private sharing.
AfterBeforeA grandfather and grandchild on the front steps. Fading is repaired, the original mood remains, and optional color can sit beside the restored version when the family wants it.
Archive context: original saved, keeper chosen, names and caption ready for private sharing.
AfterBeforeA young mother and her baby in a creased, faded portrait. Repair clarifies the likeness while preserving the original beside the keeper.
Archive context: original saved, keeper chosen, names and caption ready for private sharing.
AfterBeforeA multi-generational family seated under banana trees. Yellowing is reduced and contrast returns, with optional natural color available beside the restored record.
Archive context: original saved, keeper chosen, names and caption ready for private sharing.
AfterBeforeA WW1-era soldier with the two young women beside him, on a print blotched and stained by a deteriorating negative. A stronger restoration pass clears the mottled damage across the scene and sharpens every face, while the original is kept for comparison.
Archive context: original saved, keeper chosen, names and caption ready for private sharing.
AfterBeforeA soft, motion-blurred portrait improved with targeted deblurring so faces and fabric texture are easier to read.
Archive context: original saved, keeper chosen, names and caption ready for private sharing.
Restore a photo first, then choose to share it here. Every submission is opt-in and reviewed before it appears, and your original photo stays private.
Everything for the photo in your hand stays in one flow: capture, Photo Insight, restore, compare, and share privately. The app picks up right where you left off.
Scan a print with your camera or import from your camera roll, then pick up any restore right where you left off.
Progress & Review groups your scans and repairs, so you always know what is safe-restoring, ready to review, and needs a decision.
Photo Insight points to the next useful action: better capture, repair, caption, people, or sharing.
Keep the Original beside the result, choose a Keeper, then share privately.
Restore is just the start. Nostalgia recognizes the people in your photos, brings color and stories to faded prints, and keeps the whole family archive private and shareable.
Put a name to every face. The app groups the same person across the decades (watch a grandparent grow up) and surfaces On This Day memories so the right photo finds you.
Browse by personRepair fading, scratches, and tears, then add natural color to black-and-white prints. Not quite right? Try another look. Your original is never overwritten.
See colorizePhoto Insight reads each photo before you spend a restore, drafts a caption, estimates when it was taken, and can turn the scene into a short story you keep and edit.
How Photo Insight worksSend a private link, open a Family Vault for a whole branch, or gift a restored memory for a birthday, and every vault invite brings more of the family in.
Sharing & vaultsMobile is the best way to capture and restore. Web is the workspace for imported trees, larger batches, review queues, paid Family Vaults, and careful cleanup across a collection.
Open web for longer restore queues, Albums, Timeline, duplicate cleanup, and Progress & Review.
Open the web appImport GEDCOM exports on web, keep your tree platform as the source of truth, and browse people on mobile.
Read Tree Import GuideUse web when inherited boxes become batches, albums, captions, and keeper decisions.
Plan a Large CollectionSend a private link for one keeper, or use paid Family Vaults for a branch or collection.
See Family VaultsPhoto Insight checks the source first, then recommends the safest repair path before any optional color or generative step.
Names, caption drafts, dates, notes, originals, keepers, and versions live with the photo instead of getting lost as loose files.
Use private links for individual keepers, then use paid Family Vaults when a larger branch or collection needs shared space.
“The grandparent who knew the names doesn’t always come back.”
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 accounts include 10 photo restores a month, private links for individual keepers, and full Archive access. Paid Family Vaults are for shared branch or collection spaces.
For the founder story and privacy posture, read why we built Nostalgia.
The questions families ask before their first 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.
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.
The free plan includes 10 photo restores a month plus caption and story help. Plus is $5.99/month and Pro is $11.99/month, available today with checkout on the web and through the App Store on iPhone. Local pricing and full plan details are on the pricing page.
The original and restored version stay together in your private archive. From there Nostalgia recommends the next useful action: choose the keeper, 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.
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.