Position the photo
Place the print on a flat, contrasting surface in soft, even light.
Photo scanner for iOS and Android
Scan photos with your phone
Turn printed family photographs into clean digital files, organize them into albums and prepare them for restoration—all from Recolor the Past on iPhone or Android.
From printed photo to organized scan
Capture every corner
Use automatic border detection or adjust the four corners manually.
Correct and organize
Straighten perspective, crop, rotate and save related scans in an album.
Restore when ready
Preview colorization, scratch repair and faded-detail restoration before exporting.
Scan, organize and restore in one workflow
Better than an ordinary camera snapshot
Perspective correction turns an angled capture into a rectangular scan. Glare-free capture helps with glossy prints, while manual exposure and crop controls keep the original under your control.
Built for private family photographs
Photos are processed on EU infrastructure, are never used to train AI and are automatically removed from temporary cloud storage. Keep original scans with every edited result.
Start scanning your family archive
Download Recolor the Past for iPhone or Android and preserve the photographs that matter.