Nostalgia Photo Scanner
Scan photos. Keep their story.
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Now one window: scan a batch, see every photo found and turned upright, check it, and back up online when you choose. Your originals stay on your Mac.
Preserve the photos. Keep the family story.
Make a start on a box of family photographs. Nostalgia Photo Scanner is one window for your scanner, your albums and your photos. Work a batch at a time and pick up where you left off.
SCAN A BATCH, SEE EVERY PHOTO
Lay several prints on a flatbed scanner and scan them together with a scanner supported by macOS Image Capture, or import files from the scanner software you already use. Nostalgia finds each photo on the scanner bed, cuts it out and turns sideways photos upright. Check each one: drag a corner to fix an edge, turn a photo, undo a change. Then choose Done, or Scan Next Batch.
KEEP YOUR ORIGINALS AND YOUR WORK
Every full scan stays on this Mac beside the photos cut from it. See an album as photos or as scans, show only the photos still to check, link a photo to its back and leave a note on where you stopped. Search albums and notes. Export photos as files and save a checksummed copy of the whole archive to another drive. Scanning, checking and export work without an account.
BACK UP ONLINE WHEN YOU CHOOSE
Link your Nostalgia account and checked photos back up to an online album on their own, carrying on after sleep, a dropped connection or a quit. Each full scan is kept, and each checked photo becomes its own photo online.
On the Nostalgia website and mobile apps, restore faded and damaged photos and add people, places, dates and stories. Your scan stays separate from every restoration. Online features need an account and may have plan limits; restoration and family sharing do not run on the Mac.
Requires an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 14 or later. Direct scanning needs a compatible scanner and its macOS driver. Support varies by manufacturer and model. Keep an independent backup of important photographs.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
One window for everything.
- Scanning, checking, backup and your albums now share one window. Scan Station is no longer a separate app.
- Scan mode turns the album into the scanner bed: scan a batch, check each photo beside it, then scan the next.
- Sideways photos are turned upright as they are found.
- See an album as photos or as scans, and show only the photos still to check.
- Once your account is linked, checked photos back up on their own.
- Photos open and turn without waiting for the full scan.
- Albums and scans from earlier versions open as before.
The developer, Sushanth Ramesh, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Sushanth Ramesh
- Size
- 1.2 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Sushanth Ramesh
