Ayer lets you pick any calendar date and instantly see all the photos and videos you took on that exact day across every past year. I built it after my second son was born exactly two years and one day after my first. I wanted to compare their photos on the same day, year over year. No app let me do that. Most photo apps decide what memories you see. Ayer lets you choose. 100% offline. No cloud, no login, no tracking.
👋 Hi Product Hunt, I’m Jaime, the maker of Ayer.
I built Ayer after my second son was born exactly two years and one day after my first.
I wanted to compare photos of them on the same calendar day — their first week, first month, first birthday — year over year. I assumed this would be easy. It wasn’t.
Every photo app I tried was timeline-based or relied on cloud “memories” picked by an algorithm. None let me simply choose a date and see that day across different years, and I didn’t want my family photos uploaded anywhere.
So I built Ayer.
Ayer lets you pick any date and instantly see all your photos and videos from that exact day across your years — completely offline, with no login, no cloud, and no tracking.
I’d love your feedback:
• Do you care more about privacy, or convenience?
• Would you use something like this as a daily ritual?
Thanks for checking it out 🙌
This looks great. My wife sometimes sends me photos from years ago, and I can see myself using this app to share meaningful photos with her as well. In the future, could there be more features built around sharing with family?
❤️ Love the origin story — comparing the same day across different years is such a human and underexplored way to relive memories. The “you choose, not the algorithm” philosophy really stands out. Curious: have you noticed users using Ayer more for emotional reflection (family, kids) or for practical comparisons like travel and projects?
Quick note before the day ends:
One thing I didn’t emphasize enough:
Ayer has *zero* network calls. You can literally put your phone in airplane mode and everything works.
I built it this way because I wanted a place for family photos that could never be breached, sold, or used to train AI.
Happy to answer anything technical or personal about the build.
Wow, Ayer looks incredible! I love the focus on letting me choose which memories to revisit. Does it handle photos taken with different cameras and aspect ratios gracefully? Super excited to try it!
Very cool! Google Photos has always scared me so this might just be what i'm looking for!
