Start
Begin with the photo source you have.
From one photograph
Bring it back. Keep who they are. Ask the family.
Start with the photograph in your hand. Repair what can be done faithfully, keep the names with it, and share a few pictures when you are ready. Relatives answer without an account. You confirm what is true.
Skip to the tool indexFrom a faded photo to a story you can pass on.
Restore it, add what you know, and ask someone who remembers.
- Bring it back
Restore a photo. Compare before you keep it.
Scan or upload a photograph. Nostalgia checks what may help, keeps each accepted scan or upload separately, and lets you compare the repair. AI can make mistakes: you decide whether the result looks right, and you can keep the photo as it was.
Home keeps the next photograph in front of you. - Keep who they are
Keep the names, notes, and dates with the photograph.
The archive asks who this is. It never guesses a name. Handwriting on the back, a confirmed person, a place, and a year become part of the same record.
It asks who this is, then keeps the answer on the photograph. - Ask the family
Share a few photographs. Keep the rest private.
Relatives answer without an account. You confirm what is true. An Exhibit is the handful you choose to arrange — not the whole drawer made public.
Family is where the few photographs you share live.
What would you like to do?
- Restore one photo free
Restore an old photo
Try a repair, compare it with your upload, and decide whether to keep the result.
- Explore photo scanning
Scan your prints
Scan a few prints together, return to the same album, and keep the names and handwriting with the pictures.
- Share a photo with family
Ask your family
Send a photo with a question. Relatives can answer through the link without creating an account.
Watch one photograph come back
One photo
Start with the photo that is fading
Creased, faded, torn at the corner. The kind that sits in a drawer because nobody knows what else to do with it.
Restore
First, bring it back
Scan it with your phone. Nostalgia checks the Source, repairs only what it can do faithfully, and keeps the accepted Source beside every result.
Optional colour
Explore a clearly labelled interpretation
Colour can make a scene easier to imagine, but it is a reconstruction—not historical evidence. The black-and-white Source and each Restoration result stay available.
The back of the photo
Keep the evidence around the image
Scan the handwriting on the back, then add the names, date, and place your family confirms. Nostalgia never guesses a person's name.
Story
Draft a story from facts you confirm
Nostalgia can shape confirmed dates, places, names, and notes into a first draft. You review every word and keep the pen.
Together
The family joins in
Send it to the family group with one question: who is that on the left? A relative answers on the page without installing anything. You confirm what is true, and the archive keeps it.
That drawer of photos at your parents’ house? It is an archive waiting to happen.
Tool index
Choose a tool only when you already know what the photograph needs.
Repair
Make the photo usable without changing what matters.
After you choose a restoration
Create an optional interpretation without replacing the archival versions.
Preserve
Capture the knowledge around the photo.
Organize
Turn restored photos into a durable archive.
Share
Let relatives see a finished photograph without receiving the whole archive.
Private until you share
Family photos are irreplaceable. Nostalgia keeps them private, preserves your ownership, and does not use your photos to train AI unless you separately opt in. Export or delete your data anytime. Restoration is best-effort: we surface what AI changed, you choose the current Source, and every accepted Source stays in Versions so you can compare before choosing what to use. See honest restore decisions, including withheld work, in the Restoration Lab and how families ask and confirm in Family Exhibits.
Start with the photo in your hand.
One free restore in the browser. Keep the accepted Source, every Restoration result, and the story together.