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RecolorthePast
Free on iPhone and Android
Recolor the Past

Your phone is the photo scanner

Photograph prints straight from the album. The app finds the edges, straightens each photo and takes out the glare, then colors it with the same engine as recolorthepast.com.

Free to download, with optional credit packs. Requires iOS 15 or later, or Android 8.0 or later.

Prefer a computer? Color a photo in your browser
The scanner with corner guides placed around a printed photo

A scanner that handles glare

Point the camera at a print and the app finds its edges and corrects the perspective. For glossy prints and album sleeves, Glare-free mode combines shots from several angles to remove reflections.

Albums that stay on your phone

Scan photo after photo into a folder. Scans stay on your device until you choose to restore them, and then a whole folder can go at once.

Same engine, same account

Natural color, face improvement and scratch repair, with a free watermarked preview before you spend a credit. Sign in with the same account and your credits work on the web and in the app.

Private by design

Scanning happens on your phone. A photo leaves it only when you start a restoration, and it is processed in the EU and deleted automatically.

The app's home screen with buttons to scan a photo, choose photos or buy creditsA before-and-after slider comparing a black-and-white shop photo with its colorized versionThe photo library with scans sorted into folders such as Family, Portraits and Europe

Got a shoebox of prints? Start with one.

Scan a photo, check the free preview, and decide from there.