1826 → 2000 · 2.3M PHOTOGRAPHS
See your street a hundred years ago
A worldwide archive of historical photographs, pinned to the spot the photographer stood — most of them pointing the way the camera faced.
Free to browse · iPhone, iPad and the web · No account needed to look around
1957 Broadway from Grant Avenue
Neon over Chinatown on a Kodachrome afternoon. The arrow on the pin points the way the camera faced, so you can stand in the same spot and look the same way.
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2.3M
Photographs pinned to the spot they were taken, most of them carrying the direction the camera faced.
1826 – 2000
From the first surviving photographs to the end of film as the ordinary way to take a picture.
1955 →
Everything from this year onward opens without paying. The map, the search and the years are free to everyone.
THE MAP
Every photograph knows where it was taken
Pins are tinted by year — oxidised red for the 1820s, sun-bleached straw for the 1990s — and most of them point the direction the camera faced. Pull the two handles to narrow the era and the map answers straight away.
- Clusters break apart as you zoom, down to a single frame.
- Search a city, a street, or drop yourself where you are standing.
79 years selected
THEN & NOW
Stand where the photographer stood, and take the shot again
The camera lays the original over your viewfinder — as a ghost, as traced edges, or split down the middle. Line up the roofline, tap the shutter, and share both frames as one.
1936 Today Ghost
The archive frame fades over the live view. Blend it until the two sit on top of each other.
Edges
Only the traced outlines of the old photograph — the rooflines and windows you are lining up.
Split
Then on one side, now on the other, with a divider you drag while you frame the shot.
SAVED & ALERTS
The archive keeps growing where you are looking
Follow a place in the iPhone and iPad app and Time Portal tells you when new photographs of it are added. Star the ones you want to keep — saved photographs sync to every device you sign in on, the app and the web alike.
PRICING
Browse for free. Unlock the whole archive once.
Without Pro the map, the search and the year scale are all yours, and so is every photograph from 1955 onward. Older frames show up veiled until you unlock them.
Browse
No account, no card, no trial
Free
- Every photograph from 1955 onward
- The whole map, the search and the year scale
- Saved photographs, synced to the app and the web
Pro
Monthly, yearly, or once and for good
Priced where you buy — the App Store, or checkout on the web
- All 2.3M photographs, back to 1826
- Then & Now camera on iPhone and iPad, with all three modes
- Everything added to the archive later
- One purchase covers the app and the web
Prices are set per country, so they are quoted where you buy rather than here. A subscription can be cancelled any time in Settings.
Open the map where you are
Time Portal is free to download for iPhone and iPad. Point the camera at your street and see what stood there before.
Or browse the archive in your browser — nothing to install
