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Timeline Scan

AI finds the real date of your scanned family photo

Scanners stamp every photo with the day you scanned it. Timeline Scan's AI reads timestamps, handwriting on the backs, faces, and era clues to restore each photo's real date. Export to Apple/Google Photos or Immich to restore your timeline.

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👋 Hello, I'm Spencer, maker of Timeline Scan.

Last year I scanned 8,000 of my family's photos. The scans looked great, but every photo app sorted them by the only date they had: the day I scanned them. Twenty years of family history collapsed over a few months, with my parents' wedding sitting next to last week's family photos.

Timeline Scan fixes that. Upload your scans and the AI works out when each photo was actually taken, using the same clues a person would:

  • The orange timestamp old film cameras printed in the corner

  • Lab stamps and processing dates on the back of the print

  • Handwriting on the back ("Christmas 96", names, places)

  • The people in the photo and how old they look

  • Era clues in the scene: decor, clothing, the film stock itself

  • File names, folder names, and the photos scanned around it

It writes the recovered date into each file's metadata (your pictures are never altered, we only fix the date), so your collection snaps into chronological order in Apple Photos, Google Photos, Immich, or plain folders.

A few things that might matter to you:

Try it free: 50 photos, no credit card. Use code PH500 for an additional 500 under the account tab in "Redeem a code".
No subscription: one-time pricing per batch of photos dated, from $49.

I'd love to hear how you've dealt with digitizing your own family's photo boxes and how you've viewed them since.

I'm here for questions. 🙂 Honest feedback welcome.

About Timeline Scan on Product Hunt

AI finds the real date of your scanned family photo

Timeline Scan was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #93 on the daily leaderboard. Scanners stamp every photo with the day you scanned it. Timeline Scan's AI reads timestamps, handwriting on the backs, faces, and era clues to restore each photo's real date. Export to Apple/Google Photos or Immich to restore your timeline.

On the analytics side, Timeline Scan competes within Productivity, Photography and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.3M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Timeline Scan performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.

Who hunted Timeline Scan?

Timeline Scan was hunted by Timeline Scan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.

For a complete overview of Timeline Scan including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.