One Master Library. Fix and protect it, find and understand it, create from it, capture and share it — and keep control of all of it, on your own machine.
Date repair is still the foundation — but Version 3 grows it into a complete, premium photo suite. At the center is your one Master Library — storage you control — with everything else orbiting it. PDR runs locally from your Windows PC and never uploads your library to Photo Date Rescue.
Seven things PDR does with your library — with Ask PDR connecting every part. Choose an area to see it.
Ask PDR connects every part
Built on Security · Privacy · Ownership — the foundation everything sits on.
Your working Master Library can live on a suitable internal drive, an external Library Drive or a supported network/NAS location — chosen for the speed and capacity you need. Not every network path is equally fast, so the Library Drive Advisor helps you choose well. Plan storage and backups →
Which of these sounds most like you?
This changes the order of what follows, and nothing else. Every capability stays on this page whichever you pick. Nothing is added, nothing is taken away, and no part of PDR belongs to one kind of person rather than another. The choice is not saved to your computer and is not sent anywhere — it sits in this page’s address so you can link to it, and it is gone when you leave.
Plan & Protect
A serious photo library deserves a serious home. Before you commit years of memories to the wrong place, the Library Drive Advisor helps you estimate the space you'll need — across photos, videos and every source — then looks at the drives already connected to your PC and compares them on capacity, free space, speed, connection type and reliability. It flags the risk of using your Windows system drive, distinguishes a fast working Library Drive from slower NAS or network storage, and explains the trade-offs between NVMe/M.2, SATA SSD, external SSD and budget HDD, so you can pick a permanent home with room to grow. It's guidance, not a setup wizard — never a stream of "next, next, next".
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Restore
Add sources — folders, ZIP archives and external drives, including Google Takeout export structures — into one workspace. PDR reads date signals from EXIF, video metadata, Takeout JSON and filename patterns, then gives each photo a confidence-scored recommendation labeled by how the date was found. Apply the run as copies to a new location: your originals are never touched, duplicates are skipped, and you can choose to write the corrected date back into the EXIF.
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Organize
Memories relives the library as a chronological timeline, and Albums let one photo belong to many collections without ever duplicating a file. The People Manager detects and clusters faces on-device — name a person once and that name flows through PDR, including into Family Trees. A folder of files becomes a library you can actually navigate.
Discover
Search & Discover finds photos from the vaguest clue, with a details panel for people, camera, exposure, location and tags. Filter and combine those signals to surface exactly the moments you're after — all read from your own metadata, on your own machine.
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Create
The focus of the 3.0.x line is a genuine design studio. Arrange layouts and frames, crop and add per-photo effects, style dividers and layered backgrounds, and use a full text studio with per-word and inline multi-color, fonts, effects and a format painter. Build multi-page carousels at sizes like Instagram's 1080×1350, with an IG safe-zone, alignment guides and Magic Resize. Every export goes through the same engine that draws the editor, so what you see is pixel-for-pixel what you get — ready for social posts, marketing and printable gifts. Work is auto-saved as an editable project, and finished images land in the "PDR Collages" album.
Create
A signature, differentiating surface: build family trees and attach library photos to the people in them. A focus-person model with generation and branch controls and sibling/extended-family panels connects faces across generations. Relationships always come from your own data — never guessed from the layout — and trees export to PNG or Print-PDF. No DNA, no surveys, no cloud.
Capture
Record your screen with resizable webcam bubbles — up to 4×, and up to two live cameras at once — plus on-device virtual backdrops (blur, portrait depth, pixelate, scenes, a brand palette or your own picture). Switch to a Cam-only full-screen mode, blend mic and voiceover with system audio, and use manual or automatic zoom toward your clicks. Content-protected blur regions keep private details out of frame, and every backdrop and effect runs locally. While you record you can also grab still screenshots without stopping. And because you shouldn't have to record just to take a screenshot, PDR includes a separate Screen Capture tool that works on its own — grab the whole screen or just a region you select, no recording required.
Share
Move finished work wherever it needs to go. Send to Phone transfers over your own Wi-Fi with a QR code and a LAN transfer — no cloud round-trip. Print or Save PDF to local and network printers, copy an image to the clipboard, or drag-and-drop multiple files straight out of PDR into any other app.
Who it's for
Repair decades of mis-dated scans and phone exports, let the People Manager name everyone, and build a Family Tree with real photos attached to each person.
Turn your library into Instagram carousels and collages in the design studio, then record polished tutorials with Screen Capture and share them anywhere.
Produce on-brand marketing posts and printable pieces with WYSIWYG export, and record product demos with virtual backdrops — all without a subscription to a cloud tool.
Consolidate Google Takeout exports and exported photo libraries into one Master Library with confidence-scored dates, then keep Albums and Memories consistent without duplicating files on disk.
Ask PDR
Not sure where something lives? Ask PDR sits in the app's Help & Support and lets you type a question in your own words — like "How do I get my photos in?" or "Where do my collages go?" It searches PDR's own curated, built-in help and shows the single best answer, plus up to three related answers, each with a link to read the fuller guidance in the right place.
It's completely offline: there's no download, nothing is sent to the internet, and it never invents an answer — every reply comes straight from PDR's built-in help, so nothing leaves your computer.
Getting started & guidance. New to PDR? The website Guides walk through migrating from clouds, phones, scans and social apps, and the Support page answers common questions. Inside the app, an "update available" message shows the release notes each time PDR updates itself.
Start with the full Windows desktop trial, or try the free web demo first.
