Bring your photos home — organized, private, yours.
A separate local Library is created; your sources stay where they are.
Only selected files are uploaded; no PDR Library is created or stored.
Pick one and we will lay out a short route — what to read, in what order, and why each step is on the list. Nothing is locked: every page in every route is also reachable on its own from the menu above.
Start with what a fix does to a file, then the reference, then the same job on your own library.
Where this overlaps: dates decide how everything else sorts, so this route stops exactly where the Organize route starts. If your dates are already right, pick Organize instead.
See the three ways of grouping first, then the reference, then one pass over a real library.
Where this overlaps: grouping by date leans on the dates being right. If yours are wrong, the Restore route comes first — otherwise you will organize around the wrong timeline.
What you can search on, how each filter behaves, and what to do when you cannot name the filter you want.
Where this overlaps: this is the one goal with no step-by-step guide, because finding a photo is a reading job rather than a run-once job — so the route stays inside the Help Center. What you can find also depends on how the library is organized.
What the studio includes, what each control does, then one piece built from an empty canvas.
Where this overlaps: a collage is built from photos you have already grouped, so the Organize route makes this quicker. If the finished piece is going to a platform feed, social media posts covers the sizes.
Work out how much room you need before deciding what to put it on, and only then buy anything.
Where this overlaps: half of this goal happens before anything is copied — deciding what is worth keeping is planning, not protection. The Protect reference covers the other half.
What can be sent and where, the reference for sending it, then the usual routes people actually use.
Where this overlaps: sharing sends copies out of the library, which makes it the one goal where it is worth reading what leaves your computer before you start.
Date repair is the foundation. Version 3 builds a whole photo library — and a creative studio — on top of it.
Version 3 — 2026 · Windows 10 & 11
Pick one to see what it does.
Build a family tree and attach photos to the people in it, connecting faces across generations. It runs on your machine: no DNA, no cloud, no surveys.
A real design studio rather than a template picker: text and emoji effects, a format painter, dividers, templates, and a project homepage that keeps your work.
Record your screen with a webcam bubble, a virtual backdrop, a second camera, mic and voiceover.
Send to Phone over Wi-Fi with a QR code, Print or Save PDF, copy, and drag-and-drop straight out to anything else on your desktop.
We don’t have a screenshot of this screen on the site yet. The reference page below describes it.
A dedicated view for the photos PDR would not date confidently, so the ones it is unsure about are handed to you rather than guessed at.
We don’t have a screenshot of this screen on the site yet. The reference page below describes it.
Deleting inside PDR is a soft delete. Photos and collages go to an in-app Recycle Bin and come back out again.
We don’t have a screenshot of this screen on the site yet. The reference page below describes it.
View and caption photos, transcribe video, enhance images and cut subjects out — all of it running locally, with your originals left as they are.
Private, offline guidance that points you at the right feature and the built-in help. No generative AI.
A swipe through the real Windows app — every screen below is the desktop software.
Which part of the job do you want to see?
Workspace & Dashboard
Thirteen separate sources analyzed as one library, with the result broken down before a single file is copied.
Search & Discover
Find the photo from the facts you can still state — a word, a date, a place, a camera — and see where its date came from.
Family Trees
The people you have named, mapped across generations.
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Explore the PDR ecosystem
Version 3 is far more than a date fixer. Choose the right home for your library before you begin, then explore the full suite — Collages & Carousels, Family Trees, Screen Capture, Sharing and on-device AI — on the dedicated features page.
See everything PDR does →One coherent timeline, rebuilt from every signal your files carry.
PDR reads EXIF, the XMP inside the file and Google Takeout's JSON records first, then filename and folder patterns — and shows the confidence behind every date, so you stay in control.
Google Takeout, iCloud, WhatsApp, Messenger, OneDrive, SD cards, scans and decades of mixed Android and iPhone photos are all in scope.
The desktop app runs entirely on your own computer. Your photos are never uploaded and never train anyone’s model.
Chronological order, consistent names and resolved duplicates leave you with a single library to keep, back up or re-upload.
Category-by-category, scored on each task's own published criteria.
Your PDR journey
Four stages. PDR takes in what you already have, shows you the evidence behind every date, hands back a correctly dated Master Library — and then Version 3 turns that library into albums, discovery, family trees, and things worth creating and sharing.
Point PDR at folders, ZIPs and drives from clouds, phones, apps, cameras and scans. Originals stay untouched.
PDR shows the evidence and confidence behind each date. You approve — changes are written as safe copies, never over originals.
Correctly dated and organized — the moment PDR turns from repair tool into everything in the next stage.
What would you like to do next?
Start free. Upgrade when you’re ready to restore everything.
Windows-only today. A macOS release is targeted for Q4 2026, potentially Q1 2027 — a target window, not a guaranteed date.
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Two ways to try
No credit card. No account. Just try it.
$19/mo
Desktop Version
$79/yr
Desktop Version
$199
One-time payment
How much do you need to fix?
How long will you need it?
Do you want to try it before paying?
This weighs up the list prices on the cards above and nothing else. Taxes are added at checkout, and anything to do with refunds is settled there rather than here.
The rules those questions apply, in full:
Prices shown exclude local taxes (VAT/GST may apply at checkout).
Some people fix a single ZIP, export, or Takeout — and never need the tool again. Others fix new batches every year as phones, clouds, and apps evolve. Subscriptions keep the app sustainable and continuously updated, while Lifetime rewards loyal users fairly.
Want the small print before you decide? Full plan detail, trial limits, devices and refunds
Weighing PDR against another tool? See the category-by-category comparison
Yes — that is exactly what it is built for.
Always. PDR never changes your originals.
No — you review, and PDR does the heavy lifting.
You are never locked in.
PDR is a Windows desktop application.
Bring scattered photos together, restore and organize them, protect your Master Library, and create and share with Version 3 — one calm set of guides for the whole journey.
Pull in cloud exports, phones, messaging apps, cameras and scans — without hunting through scattered folders.
Review PDR’s date evidence, apply fixes as safe copies, then arrange a clean, correctly ordered library.
Keep your Master Library safe with a real 3-2-1 plan, then create and share with everything in Version 3.
If you run a photo-organizing, digitizing, or printing service, PDR can quietly power the “date-fixing” layer behind your offers. Deliver cleaner libraries, better albums, and more meaningful photo products for your clients.
Inquire about affiliate & partner optionsEvery connection the app makes is listed here, with what it carries and when it happens. Each one links to the section of our Help pages that documents it against the shipping build.
Which one are you asking about?
This is not a setting you switch on. There is nothing to switch, because there is no upload to disable.
Activating a license is not creating an account, and it uploads nothing. There is no PDR account — no sign-up, no email and password, no profile and no sign-in. What is checked is a license key you already own, and no photo, filename or date travels with it.
Activating, refreshing or removing a license
This PC sends to Lemon Squeezy
Carries Your license key, and a one-way hash of a machine ID cut to 32 characters — not a hardware serial, not your Windows account. No email address and nothing about your files.
When First activation on a PC, a manual refresh, or removing the license. Not when you start the app — an ordinary launch reads a record already on your disk and contacts nobody.
The free-trial file counter
This PC sends to updates.photodaterescue.com
Carries Your license key and a number. That is the whole message — no filenames, no paths, no dates, no device details.
When Before and after every Fix run, on a free trial only. A paid license never calls it. A trial run is refused rather than allowed if the counter cannot be reached, so the offline promise covers paid licenses and not trials.
The license panel’s device and subscription screens
This PC sends to updates.photodaterescue.com
Carries Your license key, plus the identifier of a device you are removing. Nothing about your photos.
When Each time you open one of those two screens. Opening a settings screen is a network action, which is why it is listed separately.
Checking for updates, and downloading them
This PC sends to updates.photodaterescue.com
Carries A version number. It does not carry your license key, your machine identifier or anything about your library.
When Ten seconds after the window appears, then every four hours while the app is open. A newer version downloads automatically without asking, and no setting turns that off — your firewall is the only lever.
Optional AI model downloads
Hugging Face or GitHub sends to This PC
Carries A request for a model file. They are sent no license key and nothing about your photos — they see a download from your internet address, as any download does.
When Once per AI feature, and only after you switch that feature on. From then on it runs on your processor with no network at all. Face detection and matching ship inside the app and never download.
Send to Phone
This PC sends to Your phone, over your own wi-fi
Carries The files in that one share, straight off this machine. No account, no upload and no intermediary — nothing reaches the internet.
When Only while a share is open. The port is chosen at share time and is local-network only; the QR code carries a 128-bit random token, without which every address returns “not found”; each file has a random identifier so no other file on your disk can be requested; the share stops after fifteen minutes; one share at a time; up to 200 files. The connection is plain HTTP, not HTTPS — anyone able to watch that network could see the photos in transit, which matters on a café or hotel network.
Reporting a problem to support
This PC sends to Your own mail app
Carries A diagnostic file holding your description, app and Windows versions, processor and memory, license status, the email your license was sold to, and the last two hundred lines of the log — which routinely contain full file and folder paths.
When Only when you send it. There is no crash reporter and no automatic diagnostics. The app writes the file, opens your mail app with the message already written and shows you the file to attach. Close the mail window and nothing has left the machine.
This is the one real difference between the two, and it is the reason the demo exists: it has no access to your disk, so the files have to come to it.
Uploading the files you pick
Your device sends to The demo service
Carries Only the files you explicitly choose. They are handled as temporary working copies used solely to produce your result.
When When you start a run. They are not added to any library, and they are never used for marketing.
Deleting them again
The demo service sends to Nothing kept
Carries Each run works inside its own temporary folder, which is deleted the moment your download completes — and deleted just the same if the run fails, or if the upload is rejected for being too large or the wrong type.
When As soon as the run ends, either way. Nothing from a demo run is retained afterwards.
No account and no sign-in, so a demo run is not linked to a named person. It accepts a ZIP file of up to 200 MB containing photos, and your original files on your own device are never altered by it.
These claims are checked against the shipping build and dated on the Help page that documents them, including the gaps we know about.
If you have questions about huge libraries, edge-case exports, or professional use, reach out and we’ll help you plan the smoothest path.
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