01 / Preserve
From print to
something lasting.
Scan a photo, straighten the edges and keep the original. Separate pictures from a collage, capture the back, and save the story in your own words.
Crop photos and separate collages ↗A photo scanner for your family history
Turn old photos
into a family
timeline.
Start with one print. Scan it, record the story and use remembered ages and life events to review its date. Build an archive you can export and keep.
For Android & iPhone · £14.99 once in the UK, per store · No subscription
Your archive stays on your device. No Then & There account needed. Read about privacy.
Scan the photographsKeep the storiesPut memories in orderTake your archive with you
See the app in practice
An old photo.
A remembered age.
A useful date.
The family remembers Nadia being about 11 to 13 in this kitchen photograph. With her known birthday, that places it between June 1976 and June 1979.
- Start with what you remember
- Enter an age, a life event or a date you already know.
- Review the supported range
- Here, the age clue supplies 14 June 1976–13 June 1979.
- Choose a useful estimate
- The family selects 13 December 1977 for photo metadata. The original range and reasoning stay with it.
This is a reviewed estimate, not an automatically discovered historical date.
See this example step by step
More than a box of pictures
You remember the moment.
Let’s keep the rest of it.
Who’s that in the garden? Was it before the move? What did Grandma write on the back? Then & There brings the picture, the people and the clues together.
From print to
02 / Remember
Put names
to familiar faces.
Review detected faces, add the people you know and keep their birthdays and life events close by. A remembered age can become a useful date clue.
Name the people in your photos ↗03 / Connect
Find where
the moment belongs.
Use ages, life events and nearby photographs to narrow down a date. Choose a full date for export while keeping the clues and uncertainty behind it.
Estimate dates for old photos ↗A little remembering goes a long way
“It was after we moved.
Before her first birthday.”
Start with what you know. Then & There helps you turn those small clues into a timeline you can understand, adjust and trust.
Learn how to date a photo ↗TRY A SIMPLE EXAMPLEIllustration
A summer in the garden
The photo falls between two remembered events.
Where would you place it?
Moved house1 June 1992
First birthday31 August 1992
A best guess, with the original date range retained.
This example does not save or upload anything.
Your other photographs can help
A familiar face.
A useful reference.
Compare a scan with photographs you already have. Keep a few candidates, see them together and find the right place in the timeline.
Compare with Immich, Google Photos & iCloud ↗Immich
Browse the timelines of your connected libraries. Combine sources and use their available people filters.
Google Photos
Choose up to 2,000 reference photos through Google’s picker. Then & There compares the photos you choose.
iCloud & device photos
Import pictures you download from iCloud or select with your phone’s picker. You decide what to bring into the comparison.
A little help, whenever you need it
One photo at a time.
How to scan old photos with your phone
Scan printed family photos on Android or iPhone, check each crop and organise the pictures into a bundle you can keep adding to.
Read the guideCrop scanned photos and separate collages
Follow the real photo edges, remove a detected border and give each collage image its own place in the bundle.
Read the guideRecord the stories behind family photos
Save a familiar voice, correct a transcript and keep both sides of a print together.
Read the guideKeep the memories. Skip the subscription.
Yours to come back to.
Scan the photographs you have been meaning to organise, keep their stories and put them in order. £14.99 in the UK, paid once per store, with no subscription.
Your archive stays on your device; you can export photos and save a restorable backup. No Then & There account needed.
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The app at a glance
A family archive,
with the context kept.
A photo scanning app for family archives: preserve printed photos and stories, use remembered ages and life events to review photo dates, and export images with date metadata.
£14.99 once per store in the UK. No subscription, adverts or in-app purchases. Apple and Android purchases are separate; local prices may differ.
See two worked photo dating examples- App
- Then & There: Scan & Date
- Publisher
- Jamie Nandhra-Pezone
- Devices
- Android 10 or later; iPhone and iPad with iOS/iPadOS 16 or later.
- Interface
- English
- Photo dates
- Use family knowledge and reviewed clues to narrow a range, then choose a full calendar day. Estimated dates retain their uncertainty.
- Exports
- JPEG and PNG with embedded EXIF and XMP date metadata. Editable archive backups are separate from photo exports.
Start with the photograph
you keep meaning to ask about.