Scan
The app reads your library's timeline and finds every photo with no location sitting between photos that have one. Those neighbours are the anchors — the evidence for everything that follows.
Scan. Confirm. Apply.
Three steps. The first and last are the app's job — the middle one takes you a few swipes.
Confirm
Photos are grouped by moment, not reviewed one by one. Each group gets a proposed pin, both anchors, and the time between them drawn to scale. One tap confirms dozens of photos. Swipe to skip — it comes back later.
Apply
Nothing touches your library until you press Apply. Every write is journalled first, so one tap of Undo restores every photo to exactly what it was — even after the app quits.
Why do photos lose their place?
Gaps in an ordinary library
Scanned prints. Photos saved from WhatsApp or AirDrop. Shots where GPS never locked indoors. They sit in your timeline between geotagged photos taken minutes apart — the answer is already in your library, unread.
Real cameras don't have GPS
Import a day of Canon, Nikon, Sony or Fujifilm shots and none of them know where they were taken — but your iPhone shots from the same day do. Photo Geotag matches the two timelines and places the camera's photos from the phone's track.
Geotagging camera photos, including the wrong-clock problem →
Colour states what the app knows.
One rule carries the whole product. Every pin ring, chip and timeline bar speaks the same four-colour language — and the app is built so it cannot overclaim.
Certain
Taken within seconds of a geotagged shot, or between two anchors at the same spot. The app is not guessing.
Likely
Anchors close together, a walkable pace between them. A time-weighted point, worth a glance before you confirm.
Uncertain
No pin is ever drawn. Anchors 1,160 km apart? You were flying. You get the route and the truth, not a guess.
Manual
Drag the pin anywhere and the group is yours. The colour flips so you always know which placements the app proposed and which you chose.
“An uncertain proposal has no coordinate to read. It is not possible for the app to render a confident pin for a guess it cannot justify.”
— the design spec, and the reason to trust every green pin
1,200 photos. Under ten minutes.
Because you review moments, not photos.
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Groups, not photos
A morning at the market is one decision, not forty. Certain groups can be accepted in bulk before you make a single swipe.
The timeline bar tells the truth
Anchor — gap — anchor, widths drawn to real elapsed time. A four-minute gap is a sliver you confirm without thinking. A six-hour gap is a wide band you instinctively distrust.
Nothing is lost
Swipe to skip and the group returns next session. Ignore and it never bothers you again. Both live in a bin with a route back.
Your library never leaves your device.
The scan, the inference, the clock matching — all of it runs on-device. No accounts, no uploads, no “processing in the cloud”. The app never even sees the internet on your photos' behalf.
And writing is as careful as reading: locations are staged locally, applied only when you say so, and journalled before the write so Undo can always restore the exact prior state. Prefer files? Export a GPX track instead and keep your library untouched.
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Notes on where photos come from and how to put them back — cameras, clocks, scans, and the odd corner of Apple Photos.
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