Everything your family archive needs
Restore the photo carefully, name the people, preserve the context, and share privately with family. Photo Insight, People, captions and notes, timeline browsing, batch review, Family Vaults, and private sharing all sit on the same archive workflow.
Available on web and on the App Store for iPhone. Android remains in closed testing.
Restore
Make the photo usable without changing what matters. Photo Insight reads the source first, then a careful repair runs — color, detail, and face recovery are optional follow-ups, never defaults.
Photo Insight
Every upload gets a full Photo Insight report — damage labels, era estimate, a ranked repair plan (safe, optional, and blocked steps), capture quality grade, and conservation guidance when your photo needs careful handling.
Restore
Fix scratches, tears, and fading in old prints while preserving the character that makes them yours.
Colorize
Add natural color to black-and-white photos. Always optional, always reversible.
Denoise
Reduce grain and noise from old scans without losing the detail that matters — cleaner images ready for restoration or print.
Deblur
Remove blur from phone captures and photos-of-photos — turning a quick snap into something you can print.
Deglare
Reduce glare spots from glossy prints scanned under overhead light or captured through glass frames.
Face Enhancement
Dedicated AI for restoring faces in portraits and group photos — rebuilds expressions and fine features that general restoration misses.
Enhance
Sharpen and upscale low-resolution scans to 2× — recovering detail lost in small prints or old scanners.
Background Removal
Instantly isolate subjects for collages, scrapbooks, or clean profile pictures from old family photos.
Animate
Add gentle movement to portraits — subtle blinking, a slight turn. Brings a still photo to life.
Organize
Turn restored photos into a durable Library. Captions, notes, similar-photo cleanup, batches, and live progress sit together so the archive is searchable and easy to keep tidy.
Photo Library
Keep restored photos, originals, and versions in one private place with albums, AI-powered search, similar-photo cleanup, and restore progress tracking.
AI Captions
AI-written captions that capture the mood and story of each photo — ready for albums, sharing, or your own archive notes.
Archive Notes
Every photo carries a Who · When · Where · What · Story panel — so the context never gets lost when the photo gets shared. Back-of-photo handwriting can populate the note in one tap.
Duplicate Cleanup
Nostalgia automatically finds visually similar photos — exact duplicates, same-print rescans, and restored derivatives — then compares quality and merges metadata into the best keeper so your archive stays clean without manual sorting.
Batch Processing
Upload multiple photos at once and restore them in sequence with progress tracking and background notifications.
Real-Time Progress
Every restoration, batch, and scan streams live progress with ETA. Plus and Pro subscribers get priority queue placement so your jobs run first when the system is busy.
Family History
Connect photos to people and family context. Face clusters, GEDCOM imports, and per-person history make the archive organize itself around the tree you already keep.
People & Faces
Nostalgia clusters faces across your archive so you can name a person once and have them tagged everywhere. Confirm a cluster, add a date of birth, and the timeline of every relative builds itself.
Family Tree Import
Already keep a tree in FamilyEcho, Ancestry, MyHeritage, RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker, Gramps, or FamilySearch? Import GEDCOM, GEDZIP, or FamilyEcho FamilyScript on web (read-only) and Nostalgia suggests which photos belong to which person — by name, era, and birth/death window — so the archive organizes itself around the tree you already built.
Share
Let family see the keeper without receiving clutter. Private vaults, memorial vaults, before-after reveals, and cross-device handoff make the archive something relatives can actually use.
Family Vaults
Share restored photos with family in a private, invite-only space. Bring in relatives when a collection is worth keeping together.
Private Sharing
Send a finished photo or collection with a private link, optional passcode, and expiration — no account needed to view.
Photo Story Reveals
Turn any restored photo into a private before-after reveal you can send to family. Pick a square, story, or short video format — recipients open the link and watch the restoration unfold, no account needed.
Memorial Vaults
Open a person's record and tap one button to spin up a tribute vault that auto-fills with every photo of them. Invite the family, or generate a public read-only link relatives can open without an account.
Cross-Device Handoff
Scan a print on your phone, pick up on the web for the big editor, or hand a stalled run from web back to mobile — your library, restores, and version history stay in sync everywhere.
Trust
Family photos are irreplaceable. Nostalgia keeps them private, preserves your ownership, and never trains AI on your photos — export or delete your data anytime. Restoration is best-effort: we surface what AI changed, never overwrite the original, and keep version history so you can always go back.
Start with one photo, then decide how far to go.
Upload an old photo, see what needs fixing, and start with the recommended repair for free.