SlideScan by Photomyne 4+

I find it absolutely great, I’ve done a couple of hundred already and still in the free trial period. You do have to experiment a little to get even better results but all in all it’s brilliant. I use a picture I took of a sheet of white A4 (landscape), airdropped to my Mac, opened it in preview and hey presto, a backlight. I also made a slide holder out of wood as at 76 with arthritis, my hands are not that steady these days. Thanks guys, your SlideScan App has returned a part of my life I thought I’d lost forever. From my early teens through my youth to getting married, I’ve come alive again.
I would like to make one suggestion. A ‘Select All’ to help speed up saving photos to both library, and deleting afterwards. Thank you developers, for a great job.

This is so nice to hear :) Thank you for the comment! You can do that. Click on "share", and then on the circle on the top right of the screen. This way, you may save them all to your camera roll 🙂 Feel free to reach out to support@photomyne.com if you have questions.

Very absorbing. Great way to share old slides. Easy to save photos from app to ipad. Easy to delete pictures. App compensates well for slight shake when holding slide to be scanned. ‘Go’ voice activated feature to record photo is useful if you find it difficult to juggle the slide and ipad while pressing the take photo button at the same time. I used my ipad cover to stand the ipad on its side to make this easier.

In certain lighting, take care not to include a reflection of yourself or the camera aperture in the scanned photo. Difficult to copy slides with predominantly white or light blue background as they do not focus well and graining from the backlight shows through. Some colours are toned down by the app, especially blue skies and sand. The full screen view button is not obvious. Quite low resolution scans - I could not find a way to take a higher resolution scan.

Thank you! If scanned properly, the resolution quality would be about 2 MP. You can feel free to reach out to support@photomyne.com if you have questions.

Literally hundreds of 35 mm slides in racks, not knowing what to do with them (far too expensive to take to a photography shop for copying)...
...answer: use SlideScan to copy them to JPGs on my iPhone, & transfer to the hard drive on my laptop.
So quick and easy: press “Start scanning”, find an even backlight source (a white wall during the day is best; doesn’t need direct sun on it); hold slide in front of iPhone camera, a few inches away to at least fill 2/3 of the frame; press & hold the red button for 3 seconds - and copying is complete.
It doesn’t seem to matter if the slide moves slightly in your hand, it still produces a clear image.
If the original is good, the JPG is equally good.
The job is much easier if you have a stand for your iPhone. With this I can copy 3-4 slides per minute. I’ve copied hundreds of slides of expeditions to Ecuador, S Africa and Canada.

I’ve been waiting for this app for years. Many thanks SlideScan for a fantastic piece of software!
Dave Sage
July 2020

Thank you for this review! We're so happy you found us :)