June 2026
The phone scanner now guides every capture: a live frame with coaching and automatic capture when you're lined up, a glare-removing burst for glossy prints, and an offer to split album pages into individual photos.
- A live guide frame coaches each capture — move closer, hold steady, level out — and the scanner captures on its own when the shot is steady and lined up, so there's no tap-blur.
- Glossy print? The scanner takes a short multi-shot burst and fuses the frames to remove reflections, instead of asking you to chase the glare around the room.
- Capture an album page, or several prints at once, and the app offers to split them into individual photos.
- Skew and perspective are corrected automatically, so prints come in straight — and your original capture is always preserved.
- Scan masters are saved at high JPEG quality with no baked-in filters, and restorations keep the scan's full detail.
- Guided capture is on iPhone today; Android is in Google Play testing.
Scanned photos are now straightened and cleaned up automatically after upload — orientation, perspective, and glare — on every device, with your original capture always preserved.
- Sideways or skewed captures are corrected automatically after upload, even when the phone couldn't fully correct them at capture time. This works the same on iPhone and Android.
- The cleanup is conservative by design: a scan your phone already corrected is never re-warped, and your original capture is always kept alongside the cleaned master.
- Repairs now start from the cleaned master, so geometry is fixed once and only once.
- Behind the scenes, every before-and-after example we publish must pass our own restoration validator — including a face-identity check that verifies the person still looks like themselves.
- Family tree import is now verified against real exports from Family Tree Maker and classic PAF archives, alongside the formats we already supported.
Nostalgia 2.2 brings a warmer, calmer redesign across the whole app, and surfaces the features families love most: find your people by face, relive 'on this day' memories, and add color to black-and-white prints.
- A refreshed Warm-Archive look across the whole app: easier to read and calmer to browse, consistent on iPhone and web.
- Find your people: browse the archive by face, watch someone through the years, and get 'on this day' memories that resurface the right photo.
- Colorize black-and-white prints, and try another look when a result isn't right. Your original is never overwritten.
- Photo Insight now drafts a caption, estimates when a photo was taken, and can write the story behind it, all editable, all yours.
- Faster, steadier scanning, restoring, and reviewing.
Finishing a restore now flows straight into sharing it. The result leads with the before-and-after, and private reveal links carry their own preview so the change shows up right in the chat.
- Restore results now lead with the before-and-after, so the first thing you see is the change. Then you can send it as a private reveal link.
- Paste a reveal link into Messages, WhatsApp, or email and it unfurls with a before-and-after preview instead of a bare URL. Family see the photo before they even tap.
- Already shared a reveal? Re-share the same one again in a tap, without recreating it.
- Reveal pages stay private: not indexed, optional passcode and expiry, and no account needed to view.
- Send a private link for one keeper, or use paid Family Vaults as the invite-only space for a whole branch or collection.
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May 2026
The iPhone app is the best way to scan, restore, compare, and share a family photo, while web is the companion workspace for larger archive jobs.
- iPhone is live on the App Store for capture, Photo Insight, restoration, Compare, Keeper review, and private sharing.
- Android remains Google Play testing-only until public Play availability is verified.
- Web is positioned as the companion workspace for batch review, GEDCOM tree import, duplicate cleanup, paid Family Vaults, and larger archive organization.
- Marketing examples now prioritize the strongest real transformations: Civil War ambrotype, Indian family, soldier-family repair, deglare, and deblur.
Nostalgia now brings scan quality, similar photos, captions, people, family-tree context, and private sharing into one clearer next-action system.
- Photo detail and restore results keep one primary Photo Insight action in front: rescan, crop, repair, add context, name people, or share privately.
- Progress & Review now groups background work such as better captures, similar photos, captions, scan decisions, and ready-to-share keepers.
- Family now prioritizes face-cluster review, person naming, and tree-import follow-through when those actions are more useful than generic prompts.
- Archive stays browse-first with subtle quality and review markers instead of becoming another work queue.
- Mobile keeps capture guidance fast on-device, while web remains the larger workspace for duplicate cleanup, tree review, and large people batches.
Nostalgia now makes phone scans easier to review, gives Photo Insight one clear next action, and keeps restore follow-through in Progress & Review.
- Scans and imports get to local editing sooner, with crop, rotate, adjust, filters, and previews available before cloud repair work is needed.
- Photo Insight now gives one clear next best action for the selected photo instead of asking you to compare repair tiers.
- Progress & Review is the place to finish restore results, compare Original and Keeper, retry safely, and continue into Archive or private sharing.
- The Original stays preserved while the cleaned-up working copy and any restored Keepers remain connected in the same photo history.
- iPhone is available on the App Store today. Android remains invite-based while broader Google Play availability rolls out.
The mobile app now gets you to a usable scan and edit state sooner, with more work happening on the phone before anything needs to wait on sync.
- Auto Crop is a stronger first step after scanning: it looks for the printed photo edges, straightens perspective when confidence is high, and falls back to manual edge adjustment when the source needs a human check.
- Single-photo scans and imports open into editing faster, with crop, rotate, adjust, filters, and previews available before cloud repair work is needed.
- Restore, captions, stories, dates, share links, and continue-on-web actions keep syncing in the background so the app feels less blocked by network waits.
- Archive search, filters, favorites, captions, tags, dates, collections, and people updates feel more immediate while the cloud record catches up.
- The original capture stays preserved while the cleaned-up scan becomes the default working copy for repair and review.
Archive photos now recover more gracefully when a saved preview needs refreshing, and Photo Insight is easier to read before you choose a repair.
- Photos and thumbnails recover without forcing you to reload the whole Archive.
- Opening a photo is more consistent across web and mobile.
- Photo Insight now has a clearer recommendation with condition notes, expected outcome, and optional follow-up steps.
- Recommendations can start with crop, repair, denoise, deblur, enhance, color, or manual adjustment in a more useful order.
- Archive stays focused on browsing photos, albums, and timeline while review tasks stay in Restore Progress & Review.
Archive now feels more settled when you return to it: recent photos appear quickly, syncing continues quietly, and failed thumbnails have a clearer recovery path.
- Recent Archive photos stay visible while the app checks for updates.
- Large Archives scroll more smoothly on web.
- Albums, Timeline, Restore, and account pages avoid repeating the same loading work.
- Failed thumbnails can refresh in place.
- Restore progress updates are quieter while still keeping Progress & Review current.
The latest Archive Intelligence pass keeps browse work in Archive while moving People to Family and review queues to Restore Progress & Review.
- Existing photos can receive better Photo Insight context without replacing captions, dates, tags, people, or notes you edited yourself.
- Family People is now the first-class home for suggested faces, named relatives, person detail, and tree import.
- AI descriptions can seed editable draft captions when a caption is blank, with source labels so user edits take ownership and future enrichment does not replace them.
- Photo Insight now captures front-of-photo printed date/time stamp candidates and offers a Use as date action when confidence is strong enough to review.
- Photo Insight recommendations now include manual steps such as crop, straighten, rotate, auto-adjust, and manual adjust before safe AI repair and optional creative tools.
- Archive now keeps Photos, Albums, and Timeline visible; Similar Photos, captions, scan sessions, and restore results live in Progress & Review.
- Help, sharing, and review links now show a calmer recovery if the phone cannot open them.
Duplicates, suggested faces, undated photos, draft descriptions, and smart album ideas now lead you to the right place to review them.
- Review queues now have direct destinations instead of passive dashboard cards: captions and duplicates open in Restore Progress & Review, while suggested faces open in Family.
- Timeline now places photos by Haiku-inferred decade when no user date is set, with an inline "approx." chip + one-tap "Confirm decade" promote.
- Bulk "Apply Photo Insight descriptions as captions" turns thousands of generated descriptions into draft captions in one undoable batch.
- Person detail can help find more photos that look like the same named relative, while still asking you to confirm the match.
- Mobile Similar Photos now matches the dedicated Duplicate Manager: match-type pill, manual selection, merge-into-selected, keep-all, full parity with Restore Progress & Review.
- Story help now works from Person, Timeline, and Memorial Vault views.
- GEDCOM import preview shows a Review-matches section so an auto-detected merge can be overridden per-row before commit.
- Archive search is better at finding captions, tags, people, and likely matches.
- Homepage examples now show how duplicates, people, and dates become easier to review.
Mobile scan review now shows the local capture first while saving continues, Photo Insight drives one clear next action, and Archive stays one photo per memory with Keepers and Originals clearly linked.
- Phone scans can open review from a local draft instead of waiting on every upload and session hydration step.
- Photo Insight replaces advice-only repair cards with one clear next best action.
- If a scan is still saving, the action can queue the selected recommendation for when the Original is ready instead of forcing another decision screen.
- Archive defaults to a Keeper-first, one-photo-one-tile model so raw captures, normalized masters, Originals, and restores do not clutter the grid.
- Versions and provenance remain preserved inside photo detail, with clear labels for Keeper, Original, earlier restores, raw capture, and back of photo.
- Archive selectors, editor tabs, and scan-review controls were tightened on mobile so more of the screen belongs to the photo.
- The same language and result-review order now appears on web: run the recommendation, compare Original, keep the result, then share or improve more.
Archive is now photos-first, Progress & Review owns the full work queue, and Family is the home for People, Family Vaults, tree import, and memorials across web and mobile.
- The shared app shell is now Archive, Restore, Family, and You across mobile and web.
- Archive opens directly into photos, search, filters, and the grid with no Progress & Review card above the browse view.
- Progress & Review now brings retries, ready-to-review restores, captions, Similar Photos, scan sessions, and sharing follow-through into one place.
- Family Vaults now live under Family, while You stays focused on account, plan, preferences, privacy, and help.
- Similar Photos now keeps user decisions: choose the keeper, merge after review, or tap Keep all so the same group does not immediately return.
- Replace Original lets you promote a better scan while preserving the older Original, existing restorations, Keeper state, and provenance.
- Feature pages and product descriptions now use current Archive terminology, mobile access, and web-first tree-import wording.
April 2026
We tightened the shared navigation model across iPhone, Android testing builds, and web. The current app gives Archive, Restore, Family, and You clear jobs, and makes Devices & Sync clearer when you move between screens and devices.
- Mobile and web now share the same top-level destinations: Archive, Restore, Family, and You.
- Restore remains the creation action, while Archive is reserved for Photos, Albums, and Timeline browsing.
- Family Vaults, People, memorials, and tree import now live together under Family instead of crowding Archive.
- Devices & Sync copy and current-device behavior are clearer across web and mobile sessions.
- iPhone remains available on the App Store. Android is rolling out through Google Play testing.
We've unified how we talk about the product to match what it actually is. It's the same app, the same data, the same plan, now framed around the job it really does: finish the family archive so the people and stories aren't lost. Restoration is still the entry capability (and still free on every plan), just no longer the whole story.
- New name: “Nostalgia - Family Archive” across the web and in the App Store. Your account, photos, entitlements, and pricing are unchanged — Free, Plus ($5.99), and Pro ($11.99) stay exactly as they are.
- Archive Notes on every photo: a Who · When · Where · What · Story record editable right inside Archive on web and mobile, pre-filled from the AI so you confirm rather than start from a blank form.
- Recently shipped: People suggestions from face clustering, Photo Book PDF exports, slideshow exports, and public read-only Family Vault links.
- Longer horizon: the archive can grow beyond photos into documents, audio, film, and video when those experiences are ready for families to use.
- Genealogy fit: if you already keep a family tree in FamilyEcho, Ancestry, MyHeritage, RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker, Gramps, or FamilySearch, Nostalgia continues to handle the photo side of the archive while the tree stays where it is.
A small polish pass after the Photo Story v1 ship: the Archive hero now welcomes brand-new accounts with three clear ways to start, finished restores have a one-tap entry into Photo Story, and any restore running in the background can be picked up on your phone in a single tap.
- Brand-new accounts with an empty Archive now see a welcome hero with three options (Scan a printed photo, Upload a digital file, or try the interactive demo) instead of a blank page.
- Every completed restore in Archive has a new “Create reveal →” shortcut that drops you straight into a private Photo Story share, no menu-hunting required.
- A dismissible Photo Story banner appears in Progress & Review once you have at least one finished restore, so the feature is discoverable without being pushy.
- Active restores on desktop now show a “Continue on mobile” button next to Open details, with a deep link that opens the same job on the phone.
- Breadcrumb navigation added to the photo workspace and the scan review flow so it’s easier to get back to Archive without losing context.
- Two new blog posts walk through Photo Story reveals and the refreshed editor.
Nostalgia now turns any restored photo into a shareable Photo Story, a private landing page where family members open a link and watch the restoration animate in. Square, story, and short-video formats, plus automatic Best Scan selection and a version filmstrip so you always share the best result.
- Pick a keeper and send family a private reveal link. The landing page shows the original on one side and the restored result on the other, animating in as they open it.
- Three layouts: Square for chats, Story (9:16) for vertical feeds, and a short video loop that plays right in the browser with no download required.
- Version filmstrip: every time you run a tool, a labelled thumbnail joins a strip under the photo so you can scrub through earlier results and pick the one to share without losing any of them.
- Best Scan: drop two or three phone shots of the same print and Nostalgia auto-picks the sharpest one as your Best Scan, with a quick tap to override if you prefer a different take.
- Reveal pages are not indexed, support an optional passcode and expiration, and the recipient doesn’t need a Nostalgia account to view.
- Cross-device: scan on your phone, review versions on your laptop. The filmstrip and reveal link sync automatically.
The Nostalgia iPhone app is now live on the App Store. Scan prints with your camera, restore on the go, and sync your Archive to every device you use.
- Search “Nostalgia - Family Archive” in the App Store or open the link below to install.
- Sign in with the same account you use on the web and your Archive stays aligned automatically — every restore, album, and Family Vault.
- Scan prints directly with your camera using the guided capture and damage-detection flow.
- Android is rolling out through Google Play testing — leave the Google account email you use on Android at /early-access for a tester invite.
A pass across every screen in the product — navigation, editor, Archive, subscriptions, preferences, help, and vaults — all polished and shipped together.
- Mobile nav simplified from four tabs to three (Archive · Restore · You). Completion notifications and Vaults moved into Archive so the follow-up tab is gone.
- Unified Asset Screen replaces the separate photo detail and editor screens. Photo on top, a five-tab drawer below (Fix · Enhance · Create · Adjust · Crop) plus an Info panel, with the Photo Health banner always visible.
- Errors and confirmations are clearer everywhere — small inline toasts for recoverable issues, full-tab messages when something needs a decision, and modal confirmations reserved for destructive actions.
- Subscription, preferences, help, and vaults screens all received the same pass: cleaner typography, consistent spacing, clearer state transitions, and identical copy across platforms.
- Cross-platform consistency: every polish landed on both the iOS/Android app and the web app in the same release window.
A wave of small quality-of-life changes across the app: a clearer subscription screen, faster scan home, and a direct line to the team when something goes wrong.
- Subscription screen now shows all three plans side-by-side so it’s easy to see what each tier includes.
- “Unlimited” pill replaces the numeric meter on Plus and Pro features that don’t have a cap (like caption and story help).
- Purchase errors give you a specific, actionable message — “already subscribed,” “no internet,” or “purchase cancelled” — instead of a generic failure.
- New in-app feedback form on the Help screen. Send a note directly to the team without leaving the app; responses come from a real human within a few days.
- Scan is now the most prominent action on the Restore home screen. Pick + Import sit as smaller peers beneath it.
- Sample photos stay visible for new users until their first real restoration lands, so the “try it” moment doesn’t disappear after picking one photo.
- When you have both a draft and a scan session open, you see one “Pick up where you left off” card with a “+1 more waiting” hint, not two competing cards.
A new landing page and guide for family archivists and genealogists — showing how Nostalgia fits alongside tools like MyHeritage and Ancestry, not against them.
- New family historian overview walks through Photo Insight, careful repair, and private Family Vault sharing.
- Flagship blog post “The Family Historian’s Guide to Repairing and Archiving Old Photos” covers scanning, damage assessment, repair order, and sharing with cousins.
- FAQ expanded with three genealogy-specific entries: working alongside existing trees, restoring ancestor portraits, and privacy around uploaded family photos.
Every upload now gets a Photo Insight report — a full damage assessment, era estimate, ranked repair plan, and conservation guidance, all generated automatically before you use a single restore.
- Photo Insight detects specific damage types — fading, scratches, tears, stains, glare, blur — and tags each one so you know exactly what the AI is working with.
- A ranked repair plan tells you which tools are safe to use, which are optional, and which are blocked (with a clear reason why).
- Era estimates and photo type classification are now part of every report, powering smarter search and album suggestions.
- Conservation guidance flags photos that may need careful physical handling — like mold, water damage, or fragile prints — before aggressive AI processing.
- Duplicate detection is smarter: it clusters exact duplicates, same-print recaptures, and restored derivatives separately, and recommends the best keeper in each group.
- Archive filters now let you browse by era, damage type, quality grade, and capture quality across your entire archive.
The web app now mirrors the mobile experience more closely — consistent navigation, polished interactions, and seamless subscription management across all platforms.
- Navigation aligned to three tabs (Archive, Restore, You) with icons, matching the mobile app. On phones, the web shows a bottom tab bar.
- Archive tabs redesigned as an animated segmented control with a sliding pill indicator.
- Restore upload screen uses polished action cards with icon circles instead of flat buttons.
- Buttons, cards, and photo grid now respond to presses with spring-scale feedback.
- Toast notifications upgraded with colored icon badges, exit animations, and a progress indicator.
- Account settings now show where your subscription is managed, with the correct link for Apple, Google, or web billing.
- Usage quota bars are now color-coded (green, yellow, red) with status labels to match the mobile app.
- Empty states across the app now use styled icons instead of emoji characters.
Small fixes across web and mobile to make the first-time experience feel calmer and more polished.
- First-time visitors on the web restore page now see a proper navigation bar with links to Home and Pricing instead of a blank header.
- Footer app links are now actionable: “Download on App Store” and “Request Android Tester Invite” instead of plain status text.
- Before/after photo labels on the homepage no longer overlap on small screens.
- Mobile screens no longer clip behind the floating tab bar — bottom padding was increased across every tab.
The web app is live and free to start. Upload an old photo, see what needs fixing, and keep the original and restored version together. iPhone is available on the App Store, and Android is rolling out through Google Play testing.
- Restore scratches, tears, and fading. Colorize black-and-white photos. Enhance faces and remove backgrounds — all powered by AI.
- Photo Insight analyzes every upload and recommends the right repair steps before you use a restore.
- Batch mode lets you process entire family albums — up to 300 photos per month on Pro.
- Family Vaults give you private, invite-only spaces to share restored photos with relatives.
- Family and never-expire credit packs are available on iPhone and on the web pricing page. Android is rolling out through Google Play testing. Web checkout is handled through Paddle. Free tier includes 10 restores per month.
- iPhone is available on the App Store. Android is rolling out through Google Play testing. Request a tester invite at the early access page.
- Start on the web today. Your Archive and all restored results sync to mobile automatically when you join.
You can now follow restore work in Progress & Review, then compare results, choose Keepers, and continue into Archive or Family.
- Progress updates show which photos are queued, restoring, ready to review, or need a retry.
- Restore work stays visible after you leave the page, so the next action is clear when you return.
- Plus and Pro add more monthly restore room and larger batch workflows for inherited collections.
- Batch processing now shows per-photo status and lets you retry individual failures.
- Browser notifications on web alert you when processing finishes, even in a background tab.
Scrolling through large photo libraries is significantly faster, page loads are lighter, and sign-in + restore flows are more reliable.
- Archive scrolling is up to 5× faster on large collections.
- Faster page loads across the marketing site and gallery.
- Fewer intermittent errors during sign-in and restore.
- Feature demos now show real AI restoration results instead of simulated examples.
Restore old family photos on the web today, download iPhone from the App Store, or request Android testing access while it rolls out through Google Play testing.
- Web is publicly live now with the repair-first restore workspace and Archive follow-through.
- iPhone is available on the App Store. Android is rolling out through Google Play testing.
- Free accounts include monthly restore room, caption and story help, and full Archive access.
- Paid-plan availability is shown on the pricing page and in the app, with mobile subscriptions managed by the relevant store.
The photo editor has been reworked so the image stays central, tool groups are clearer, and save/share decisions are easier to make.
- Adaptive canvas sizing removes the large black bars that used to waste screen space.
- Create tab now separates animation and background removal from repair-focused tools.
- Quick actions and version history are easier to reach while you compare results.
- Processing status is clearer, larger, and easier to read across mobile sessions.
Uploads now get richer automatic context so search, suggestions, and repair guidance are more useful from the first scan.
- Every photo gets an AI-generated description, era estimate, and suggested tags.
- Search now works across people, places, objects, and scenes instead of just filenames.
- Editor context shows richer information alongside Photo Insight guidance.
- Album suggestions are smarter because they can use theme and era signals from the archive.
March 2026
Nostalgia expanded language support on mobile while also tightening accessibility and account-protection work.
- Mobile is now available in English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, and Portuguese.
- Accessibility labels and screen-reader support improved across the mobile experience.
- Subscription retry handling now includes a grace period before a failed payment downgrades the account.
- Privacy and session handling were tightened alongside the language rollout.
The mobile Archive now supports more of the archive workflow so scans started on the phone are easier to continue on the web.
- Photos, albums, Progress & Review, Trash, and Vaults are now available on mobile.
- Cross-device sync keeps restore progress, albums, and archive state aligned across phone and web.
- Sorting and filtering options are more consistent between phone and web.
- Continuing from phone capture to web review is now much smoother.
Nostalgia moved beyond one-photo restoration into a fuller archive experience with organization, search, and multi-photo processing.
- Photo Archive shipped with albums, timeline view, and search.
- Batch restore made it practical to work through larger family collections.
- Repair order became more adaptive based on the condition of each photo.
- Google Photos import opened up an easier path from existing family collections.