Photomyne is the fastest and easiest way to turn photographs into live digital records and share them with others. Download to see the magic of powerful scanning action, built with cutting edge AI technology.
This free app offers a taste of what Photomyne has to offer. Use it for basic photo scanning, to see if it suits your needs (before deciding if you wish to upgrade).
SIMPLY HOLD & CAPTURE – SCANNER WILL DO THE REST
* Scan multiple physical photographs in a single shot.
* Scan an entire photo album in minutes.
* The photo scanner auto-detects picture boundaries, auto-rotates sideways pics, crops, restores colors and saves them into a digital album.
EDIT AND CURATE YOUR COLLECTION OF MEMORIES
* Add details to albums and photos (locations, dates and names)
* Add audio recording
* Apply color filters & colorize B&W photos
SAVE & SHARE YOUR REDISCOVERED MEMORIES
* Save photos to your mobile device or computer
* Share your scanned photos via a web link
* Create gifts with your scanned photos such as photo collages and slideshows
USE SCANNED PHOTOS TO MAKE SPECIAL EVENTS TRULY UNFORGETTABLE:
* Add a dose of nostalgia to reunions
* Honor memorials with photo memories
* Celebrate anniversaries with old photos
* Add an element of surprise to birthdays
OPTIONAL IN-APP UPGRADE:
For unlimited use, consider purchasing an optional paid plan (in-app purchase).
Here are the premium features you get with a paid plan:
1. Scan, save & share to the max – Unlimited scanning, sharing and saving to your device or computer in print quality
2. Access anytime, anywhere – Unlimited photo backup, access on other devices and online, and free up space on your device
3. Unlimited enhancements – Enjoy unrestricted photo design effects and creations such as B&W photo colorization and more
The app offers an optional paid plan via monthly/yearly auto-renewing subscriptions**, as well as a One-Time plan which is paid for by a single upfront payment (valid for 2 years). These offer unlimited access to the premium mentioned above.
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Terms of Use: https://photomyne.com/terms-of-use
Great app to capture old photographs and digitize them. It’s easy to use and also easy to edit the results. It automatically finds the corners of the photo and instantly crops out extra trash for you. It is the best app that I have found in any category in a long time because it does what it promises to do and it does it quickly and effortlessly. In other words, I highly recommend it! I thank the developers for their hard work and for making it easy to use.
I absolutely love this app! I does such a great job! I love the colorizing feature! I have found it to be pretty good. Some times it doesn’t colorize right but I have found that it is because the photo had a sepia tone to it. It works good on true black and white photos. I’m so excited to have good quality digital copies of my parents baby photos. Everything I have digitized I can share with family members with the share feature. Love it!
Scans are the highest quality of any app I tried—too bad the auto-cropping feature doesn’t work. I’ve scanned over a hundred photos so far, and in each one the crop is off on the right and left sides, by the same amount, every time, meaning I have to go back and re-crop each one manually. Not fun.
Love this thing! Sure, there are alternatives to how we can digitize old photos, but I’d much rather use a handy tool like this than try to hack/edit/store with my camera. I have many printed photos / albums at risk of being lost, if anything were to go awry where they currently reside, so it’s a relief to know soon they will be safe! I appreciate 3 day free trial & look forward to finally digitizing my years of precious, old photos in coming months! Thx!
This app sucks! The scans don’t upload to Google photos or smugmug from my phone. You have to purchase additional items to keep glare and reflections out of your photo. The scanner can’t distinguish how to crop a document. It cuts off the words on both sides. I have an s21 ultra and although I was close I still was not able to get a decent file size. Everything i uploaded to my phone was in the kilobytes zone. So far I haven’t seen one over 2 megabytes shared directly from the app to my PC
Very nice app. Basically makes it easier on you to scan your pictures and edit them. I recommend if you like saving time. It does a good job in that sense and allows you to try the app fully, which is nice. I wish there was a monthly payment option, other than only yearly.
If your looking for a free app this is not it! I thought I would give it a try cause I just wanted to save some old photos. I was not aware those photos would not be accessible to me out side of the app. So I destroyed a few pictures I took on Photomyne. I also wasn’t aware my free app had a limited time before I had to purchase a membership. So when I went back on the app to save my pictures to my phone I no longer add access to them. Wrote several times but lost those pictures forever!
This app is completely deceptive. I did a 3 day trial and now can’t find a way to cancel it. Wish the reviews on here were realistic. It also scans at a very low resolution. You’ll be better off just using your camera. That’s what I will do. Recently disappointed. Giving it 1 start is too many.
Pure money grab. Savvy users will recognize this and move on. App content is walled off from other apps so you can’t inspect images in your normal gallery apps. They want to control all vectors and steer you into the paid app, then lock you in. Photos are low quality. Zoom into a captured image to see how fast the quality deteriorates. Try to find image details anywhere in the app. (dimensions, metadata, etc..) Image capture does not use standard camera shutter button. This prevents from using a Bluetooth controller to snap pics to give you a steady capture. In fact it makes you HOLD the shutter button down which increases your chances of a blurry capture. Doesn’t appear to write metadata to image AFAICT, which means it must use a proprietary db. (so not portable) All this makes me sad because the workflow and layout of the app is intuitive and well thought out. I wish they would use their powers for good instead. I would happily pay handsomely for an app like this that respected my privacy and didn’t try to wall me in. A true shame.
Works as advertised. Scanned a140 picture album in about 40 minutes including adjusting some cropping and playing around with the features. Would have taken me at least 2 hours or more with a traditional scanner. I will say that I did remove most pics from the album sleeve for best results. Depending on your album’s material you still may get a little glare leaving them intact. But, the fact you can scan 4 photos at once (and in about 5 seconds) is a real time saver. I understand the comments about the monthly subscription. Not ideal for most consumers. However, I got a seven day free trial and then a $11.90 yearly subscription, which is well worth it. Wasn’t easy to find, but once I signed up for the free three day trial I think it was an option to upgrade. There was also a 5 year deal for maybe $29.99? So if you have boxes or albums of old pics you want to digitize and save forever, don’t let the cost dissuade you.
Easy to use. Quick scans. Quality varies depending on condition of source photo and using the app properly. Lighting is critical to avoid glare and you must hold your phone parallel over the photo. It does a good job of auto cropping and color adjustment. I had some photos that were covered with a red tint that it cleaned up amazingly. The photo editor is the weakest part . I would like to resize some scans. I have paid version and it’s worth it.
Have used for both B&W and color pictures. If the lighting is good, then you can get good scans. I still need to figure out the best set up. I like the ability to name pictures and tag people . Unfortunately, you can’t store a list of names to choose from, so I have to type it bbn in each time. You can record up to 1 min of voice memories per folder Wish you could do this per picture. Still playing with it..will update as I use it more. Thier YouTube videos are good for help too
I’m so glad to find this! I have hundreds of old photos from cleaning out my mom’s house, and I dreaded scanning them with a scanner. So far, I’ve scanned 20 or 25 in minutes, including doing multiples into separate pix. The cropping is very slightly off in a couple, but the corrections are good. Saving, editing in another program, and sharing are easy. What’s the best way to scan multitudes of old photos? The one I will actually do! and enjoy! Highly recommended.
I’m trying to transfer all of my old family photos to digit, which is proving to be quite the task…that being said, this app is awesome and hurrying the process since you are able to scan multiple photos at once and it drops them automatically. That being said, the photos can’t remain in their albums, or you will get the inevitable glare. In the FAQs it says you should remove any plastic film avoid thos, no way am I taking thousands of photos out of their albums in order to take their picture.
This app has truly been a life saver! The free version works great! Better than any other I’ve tried. Now, the paid version, that’s where it’s really at. Awesome features provided like auto croping, B&W to color, transfer to pc or other programs. I highly recommend this app. I will suggest getting the paid version if you have a lot of photos to scan in due to the added features. This app is must have if you need to digitalize old photos!
The app works great. Just disappointed that the is not a free version for those that dont scan alot of photos. When I initially downloaded the app that was an option and as I don’t scan alot of photos it was sufficient. I just dont scan enough to justify the price of the app. Wish they would bring back a free version even if it didn’t offer all the features of the paid version
This is an extremely useful application. I am in the process of digitizing 30 photograph albums and this would not be an easy task without this application. I did not give the application five stars because of some messing functionality. The date and time is not recorded in the photographs metadata. You cannot set the location of an event if that location no longer exists (business closed). No option to set the filename to something useful when exporting (like date and time).
Its a good app with plenty of potential. Filters or adjustment sliders and maybe even some effects to add a little extra to the pics. This could be an all in one photo app if it builds up more and more. Sucks you have to pay to save your pictures to the phone and that’s this apps most massive let down. You should at least be able to save to your phone for free. Cloud service i guess would be a paid feature but I dont use cloud services so I’m indifferent to it. Hope to see this app grow.
Outstanding. Less than 30 min to scan an album with over 93 photos. may be the app of the decade. Customer service is outstanding. Email a question and get an answer with in an hour. It’s great! Been using the app for 2 years and still love it. Just purchased a Photomyne photo tent and can’t wsit to use it. One of the best apps for a smart phone. Still great after all these years!! After three years. It is still great.
Excellent app, $10/mo is ridiculous. Unless i have a million photo albums to scan, the cost cannot be justified. I also don’t want to create another account somewhere and get tied to some other environment. EDIT: developer says there are other payment options, but that is not obvious at all. On the main screen when you start your trial it says “Plan auto-renews at $9.99 a month until cancelled.” There is no indication there are other plans or pricing levels available.
My only issue is having to individually label each picture. I have thousands of photos im trying to upload and going through them all to change the date and place is a headache. I need to be able to select multiple photos in an album and update the date, place, etc all at once. Other than that, its a pretty good app.
The app is good, HOWEVER, they say you have a free trial period but bill you immediately, and there’s no way to cancel. I contacted them within the trial period and they didn’t fix the problem. I’ll amend my review if they make it right. EDIT: I contacted customer service and got a snotty email in return. I was originally planning to subscribe once I was ready to dive into my project, but now I’ll be looking for a different app.
This app does not seem to be compatible with the way I want to digitize and use my photos. I need them scanned into my Windows 10 computer so that I can use Office apps to manage and process them. I need to save my scans as .jpg or .tiff. It appears to me that this app is designed for people who want to scan photo’s via mobile phone and share them as html files via mobile devices. I can’t find any only articles that contradict this. Note also, that quality of scanning by mobile devices depends very much on the camera capabilities of the mobile device. New, powerful phone/camera capabilities work a lot better on this app than older mobile devices with outdated camera systems. The scope of the app should be made clear in the on-line advertising in order to avoid wasting the time of the general audience.
Intuitive and well thought out; I have waited for a photo scanner like this for awhile. It has far exceeded my expectations. Make sure you realize you will be defaulted to use Photomyne’s cloud system if you purchase the product but with a few extra steps Photomyne allows you to download and transfer your photos to other storage systems. Well done!
I love this app. I used it recently to get many, old, photos that were my deceased parents. Photos that are over 60+ years old. I was surprised how easy & how well the photos turned out. The only issue that comes to mind is, when using the option to colorize a black & white photo. When the photo has people in it & an arm is laying on something, such as a shirt. The colorize option will turn the arm a very, creepy looking color. Other than that, its a great app
Love this app. Even the free version is cool enough. Some photo apps give you the basics for free, but with this one, you get MOST of the paid features, just a lighter version. I do love how it colorizes b&w pictures. They’re not perfect, but they are still cool. I will more than likely upgrade to the paid version soon. P.S. After reading my review, I realized it should have been 5 stars.
I have loved working on my photo project using Photomyne! For the most part it works great. I had a problem uploading too many photos at once and it crashed my tablet, took several days to get back in order. I still have some questions about transferring photos from Google Photos to Photomyne, directions don’t seem to work. I’m confused on that and nervous about attempting again after my last problem. But the scanning, editing, arranging in albums works great and I would highly recommend!
I am giving this 2 stars because the app is super cool, but I didn’t read the fine print and you have to pay to do anything with the pictures you scanned. I discovered this after scanning 200 photos! I am not tech savvy enough to trust being able to cancel the monthly charge of $10.00. With that said it was really nice to take a picture of a whole photo album page and then the app separated them!
It does a good job, but too expensive. I don’t do subscriptions. I’d pay maybe 25-30 bucks (one time) for this app. It’s convenient, but not a whole lot different from just photographing and cropping. Just giving honest feedback. Most apps run 3 to 6 dollars, one-time fee, and provide a service I can’t do without it.
Does well except that the app keeps your pictures. Unless you pay a HEFTY amount per month, you can neither download your scanned photos, which you already own, nor share them with loved ones. Pointlessly stingy. Furthermore, $10 a month is far too much for something I’d use a couple of times. Imagine paying $120 a year for this app!! Perhaps I’d consider a s m a l l one time payment. Right now, I just wanted to share a very old memory. To the next option I go…
This is the best scan and share app I have found . I’ve tried many. Easy and quick to scan.Very clear scans . Allows you to create and share photo albums on Facebook . Even gives you option to scan a very old photo abd tap and restore the photo and / or , if its an old black and white photo , tap , and turn it into a colored photo. I did get stuck on something , i just messaged the site for help and they were very quick to respond and walk me through to fix . 5 stars without a doubt .
Scanning process is slick & awesome! Saving is persnickety. If I save 1 photo at a time or save with details, the JPGs don’t go to my Gallery and instead are buried in a folder on my phone that I struggled to find. Saving with photo details also caused the app to crash repeatedly. Solution: If I save multiple photos at once and save without details, then the photos go to my Gallery. However, file names include none of the details I recorded, not even date. Annoying to have to rename every file!!
Dream come true, i was an avid photographer with film. I have tons of photos. The thought of scaning, loading them on my laptop croping and then printing them, way to much time. I looked at anything that could make it a less cumbersome. This is it, line it up, crop it, color it, one touch to send to album on phone, anything you want to “fix or update” this is the best app ever.
Fantastic tool for digitizing old photos, especially for the ability to capture a whole page of photos and auto-cropping each image. When auto-cropping fails, it is trivial to adjust the crops from the overall image and the app automatically updates and generates the new cropped images on the fly. Worth it’s weight in gold of you’re digitizing old photo albums!
Easy interface. Did a great job on old b/w photos from my grandfather’s WWII days. In a couple of photos it scanned weird but the tool allowed me to manually crop what I wanted. **Warning** you can’t download or email your pictures on the free trial. I would have rated this 5 stars if that was made clear up front. The pricing is reasonable but nobody likes that kind of surprise.
very easy to use and photos come out terrific for our use. not going to be able tonmake large prints from them, but great for saving and viewing. only reason 4 stars and not 5 is that i wish you had the option to save the photos to an SD card installed in your phone. currently they are stored on the phones internal memory taking up a lot storage with the 1,300 photos i have scanned. after speaking with tech support their response was to save scans to the cloud only. i will update this after.
I’ve really enjoyed this app! It works well, & I like being able to scan & save photos to my phone. I only gave four stars because I feel like it’s a little pricey. I understand that to have a good app, that works efficiently, & is fun to use, takes work, effort, & investment, I just am not quite ready to pay $40 for it. I’m not downplaying or minimizing the work put into it, but for me, it’s a little more than the total return. Having said that, I’m glad to use the free version for now.
I wanted to love this app! It started off great but then just issues and frustration. After scanning almost 5,000 photos half of them randomly gave errors, didnt show up, couldn’t be edited or exported and all the effort I made to label picture useless. When you export to your computer they all get named photo1, photo2 etc so any titles and dates you entered not there. Wasted a bunch of time and not even sure which photos have to be rescanned. *I followed directions presented by support
Are your photos in albums behind shiny coverings? Good luck, lighting is almost impossible to make this work. This is not a reflection on the quality of the app, but rather a reflection on the difficulties of trying to use a camera to do the work of a scanner. Best results would mean peeling off the shiny film overlay in your old albums or removing photos from their shiny sleeves in more recent albums. By the time you’ve done that work, you might as well just throw them on the scanner. If you don’t have a scanner, then this may be the product for you.
This is the most amazing “scanning/restoring” app I’ve ever used! It scans and crops automatically, but still allowed for manual adjustments, and the filters allow you to optimize the tone of the photo. The clarity is great! I just scanned and restored an album from the 1800s. Even the most faded photo or darkened tintype came or perfectly!