Photo Date Rescue v2 — from date fixer to full photo library
Everything we've built in 2026, in one release.
v1 did one thing well: it repaired wrong and missing photo dates. v2 is a complete premium photo library suite — date repair is the foundation, but layered on top is everything you need to turn a chaotic archive into a library you can actually use: face recognition, metadata search, automatic Memories, and fine-grained date editing. Same privacy guarantee. Same local-only philosophy. Just considerably more powerful.
New in v2
Search & Discovery
Find any photo in seconds — search by date range, GPS location, person name, camera model, or any metadata field. No more scrolling through thousands of files to find a single moment. Type what you remember; PDR finds the photo.
New in v2
AI Face & Name Recognition
PDR automatically groups photos by the people in them. Name a person once and PDR finds them across your entire library — across phones, clouds, years, and devices. The AI model runs entirely on your computer and never connects to the internet.
New in v2
Memories
PDR curates collections from your library automatically — by trip, year, season, and the people who were there. Your library stops being a folder of files and starts being a story you can actually navigate. Memories update as you add new photos.
New in v2
Parallel Structures
One Master Library, many custom views. From the same source files, PDR can spin off as many parallel libraries as you need — a chronological timeline, a Holidays archive, a folder-per-Family-member, a Friends collection, a Pets album, a Documents-only view, a Nature portfolio, an Architecture folder, a Relationships archive. Each library has its own organisation, all kept consistent with the master, never duplicated on disk. Build the structure each part of your life needs. Unique to PDR.
What hasn't changed
- Privacy unchanged — the desktop app still runs entirely on your machine
- AI is local-only — the face recognition model never connects to the internet
- No account required to start — download, run, try it free
- No subscription required to start — free trial includes up to 1,000 files
- Your photos are never uploaded, never retained, never used for training
What's coming next
v2.1 will unlock three big additions:
- Trees — automatic family-relationship mapping that connects faces across generations using only the metadata and connections already inside your library. No DNA, no cloud, no surveys.
- Date Editor — fine-grained per-photo date corrections with a full audit trail. Every change tracked, every change revertible.
- Photo file conversions — alongside the date and metadata fixes, PDR will optionally convert formats (HEIC → JPG, etc.) so you can hand a clean unified library off to anyone, regardless of platform.
All three are in active development.
Ready to try v2?
Start with the free web preview or download the full desktop app.