Photo Scan App by Photomyne Reviews

by Photo_Craze

During the trial phase, PhotoScanApp worked like a wonder. Even in dim yellow light, it cropped, sharpened the images, and autocorrected the lighting. I paid for it, and things went downhill 90 degrees. I tried putting the photos in light, dark, and neon colored backgrounds, and still, the pics were getting cut all funky, on top of having the backgrounds taking up a chunk of the photos’ spaces. Nothing was auto adjusted anymore, the images come out blurry. If I would have known, I definitely wouldn’t have paid for this. I used white light, natural light, yellow light, positioned the pictures in all sorts of ways, and nope, they still came out bad. I hate writing negative reviews, but well, I have to because I’m so angry. If it wasn’t for the fact that I have thousands of old photos, I’d use this FREE app that takes longer, but works far better. I followed the Instructions by the developer(s) to the T and nope, doesn’t work well still. I read the negative reviews and when it came to people talking about quality, the developer denies any issues with PhotoScanApp . Nothing is perfect, and we are just giving you honest reviews to help you improve. Have some humility seriously.

by Thelizmercer

PhotoScanApp appears free, but in order to save many photos to your device, you must upgrade to a subscription. The initial price point is just to download PhotoScanApp . To save more than a couple photos to your device, you must subscribe to PhotoScanApp .

It’s a time consuming process to scan your photos due to the abundant amount of pop ups any time you complete a single option. Each time you save a photo and attempt to view or edit it, you must wait through multiple pop ups of “photo successfully saved” and “your album is complete.” You cannot skip these pop ups, and there is no “ok” button to make them go away. You have to wait for each pop up to disappear on its own. Although only a fraction of a second long, the waiting time for the pop ups to disappear will add 10-15 minutes to the process if you’re scanning lots of photos.

Photo quality is better than a few other apps I have tried, but still subpar without very steady hands. If you take a shaky photo, good luck wading through the 5 different panels in order to get to the delete option. Would not recommend for anyone who struggles with hand tremors.

Altogether PhotoScanApp provides a misleading price point as well as a time consuming process. For a quicker, more easily navigated app: try Google Scan.

by AnjanT

I appreciate the effort but it is not there yet. AI engine needs more training. It gets confused if I scatter the photos randomly on a table - it cannot detect the edges of the photos; and gives a wrong mix, some photos are combined into one, and other photos are split into two photos. Even if I line up the photos carefully with distinct gaps separating photos it sometimes fails to detect edges correctly. At other times it works fine.
PhotoScanApp is pricey too. I do not like the subscription model. With one time payment options I can purchase only upto 2 years. Recurring price of $10/mo adds up very quickly, and I am wondering if it would be lot cheaper to take shoebox full of prints to a local photo scanning service and have them digitize all for a one time fixed cost? Or even buy a photo scanner for a fixed one time cost?
The freemium version is useless since it saves in low quality.

by Scifimom42

Photomyne scans the photos really well. Mine ran a little darker than the original, but that’s fixable and probably due to bad lighting on my end. So the service is amazing until you try to back up your photos.
I’m on a quest to get ALL of my photos on one hard drive. From there, I’ll share via USB to family. Photomyne has a SHARE button. This is very easy to use. Select your album or your individual photos and BAM! Sent via email(that’s all I’ve used) very easily. The photos download so that you open them in Photomyne. I don’t want to open them in Photomyne. I want MY pictures downloaded without having to report to the mother ship. So you have to tap on each picture, click on Save Image As and download ONE BY ONE.
Photomyne, these photos are mine.I need you to help me get photos from albums and negatives to a digital form. I thank you for your help, but now you have to let go—of MY photos—and let them go easier and faster than one. photo. at a time. 🤦‍♀️

by Mrs.Haverland

I was so excited when I first downloaded Photomyne that I went right for a 5 year membership. The “samples” I started with turned out wonderful! A few weeks later I put it to the test with over 400 photos. The first few were fast to crop and the voice feature worked slick. As I added photos, the cropping took longer and the voice feature occasionally worked. The most I added to an album was 150 pictures and it turned into a slow process. The quality was nice, but I ended up buying a light box so I didn’t have to rely on the natural lighting to avoid glares. I’m about 2/3 of the way through the stack and I’m frustrated with how slow it is to crop and the voice feature doesn’t work very often. I found it was faster to hold the button for 3 seconds than say “go” 5 times in a row. I am using and iPhone XR running iOS 14.

by Ffattbboyy

Functional, nice, well thought out app but it is not clear how much it is going to cost until you are well along in use. At the time of this review PhotoScanApp costs $60 to “own” without subscription. I purchased for a month at $5 but now I need to remember to cancel my subscription to avoid the recurring charge. The developer may say these facts are discoverable, I’m sure they are. However navigating the cost is in no way as intuitive as PhotoScanApp . I hope this review helps set expectations for future potential purchasers. I may have made the same choice if the developer had been more up front. I would definitely have been more happy about it though. As it is, I spent some time being irritated and trying to find out purchase prices and what they included. I also felt like I was being sold a club membership, I just want a nice clean app, not a photo scanning lifestyle.

by Desert Hobo Aka Obi Wan

All these other reviews may seem like they really are just vouching for PhotoScanApp, trying to make it sound great. But I’ll tell you straight up, this is the best thing since sliced bread. I had an old picture on my wall, it happened to be of my grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather, and great great great grandfather. So I scanned it (the picture was in B&W of course) and that was cool enough, to see the picture on my wall transform to digital form perfectly cropped, then it said I could colorize the photo. Initially I expected a cheesy idly colored disaster, ruining the beautiful picture as it was. But as I hit the colorize feature, the picture changed, and much for the better. I saw the colors come to life. All original, whether they were the real colors, well, I can’t tell. And that is just how good PhotoScanApp really is. If you have a prized possession of a picture, where there is only 1 print. Please get this, this was really epic. I also want to thank Photomyne for this. I really appreciate it.

by Momma Cheez

OMG! I just found out about PhotoScanApp and so far, it’s a game changer!! I started the process of taking all the photos out of my ugly outdated wedding album in order to make a wedding scrapbook for our 25th anniversary and heard about Photomyne so I thought it was a good time to try it! People…. When I tell you it’s so easy, even a monkey could do it, I’m not lying! You simply hold your phone over the picture, or pictures, , hold a button for 3 seconds and PhotoScanApp does the rest! What could be easier! Now I am writing this with ing minutes of trying it so I’ll have to explore PhotoScanApp further to see about storage of photos and how easy it is to access them but for now, it gets a huge thumbs up!!

by Flute Twins

I just took pics of my wedding album from 1983… almost 40 years ago!! The photos are absolutely AMAZING!!!! This will allow me to share our precious memories with friends and family!! And I just did a collage on Snapfish for a 20 x 24 size canvas print… I look forward to to seeing the canvas in a few weeks!! I also have lots of albums since the birth of my twins who are 30 years old now!! I am on book #3 and it will take a long time to complete, but I love the results of the quality of the 4x6 pics!! The glare is an issue sometimes, but I will continue to work around that (depends on time of day that I am using PhotoScanApp )!!
UPDATE: the 20 x 24 canvas was FABULOUS… THANK YOU PHOTOMYNE!!

by Powell Lover

I’ve really enjoyed using PhotoScanApp. My Mom passed away last August and have been going through her photos. Thousands of photos!! I’m saving them here a little a time and sharing them with family - many of whom have never seen the pictures. In fact my cousin had never seen her since divorced parents in a friendly photo before and when I shared it from PhotoScanApp to Facebook she messaged me that she cried when she saw it! I’m also finding family pictures from the Colorado River days and a mutual friend looking at the pictures I posted said he’s so happy to relive those days that brought so much joy in his younger years. So thank you for this wonderful way so save and share photos from the “old days!”

by MrsHappyJW

It’s exactly what I needed for years. I usually lay photos flat on my dinosaur scanner, go through the whole process of getting it to scan... wait for it wait for it.... oh good, it’s done. THEN get the scan onto Photoshop, & do the cutting, cropping & straightening & then saving each photo as a new JPEG file. 🤦‍♀️ So time consuming! The first time I tried Photomyne, I was floored at how fast it was. Then I stared in amazement as it went through each of the 9 small, 40 year old photos of baby pictures, & aligned each one, photo retouched it & made it its own file. All within seconds! The photo editing isn’t perfect, but it’s still impressive. PhotoScanApp will save me hours of boring work & let me move onto to the fun part of organizing & Photoshopping. I couldn’t be more more happy with it. Thank you Photomyne!!! (We’re also getting the slide app for my father-in-law who has a gazillion slides.🥰)

by Cleo Aimes

We are cleaning out my family home and there are 54 years worth of my mother being a serious picture taker. I didn’t want to toss them, but also needed a smart and fast solution to digitize them. PhotoScanApp came up and it is honestly magic. You can scan multiple photos at once and it automatically drops them. I have only had it one evening and was able to transfer over 700 pictures so far in 2.5 hours. I still have a lot to go, but PhotoScanApp made it incredibly easy. I can keep the family memories (even more accessibly) without letting pictures rot in boxes in my attic. I haven’t attempted to transfer them to anything else yet (I.e. google photos), but so far I’m incredibly impressed. A+++

by Pat Mihlfeld

PhotoScanApp is great! It is effortless. Place the pictures in a grid in any orientation and scan. PhotoScanApp does the rest. It took me just minutes to get familiar with how it works. It’s so easy! I was going to bite the bullet and pay a service to scan these hundreds of pictures and it was going to be expensive! Not only will I be able to scan my own pictures but I can add information for each picture right with it!
I know about 90% of the people in these pictures have a pretty good idea of their time taken but I’m the last person who knows this information. If something happened to me or these pictures before I got this done all of this important family information would be lost!!!!

by Aaopv

I never ever rate an App because, at least in my opinion once I download PhotoScanApp , it did not do what they claimed it could, but this one is different.

App does exactly what it claims it can do; it’s pretty easy to use and directions are in layman terms.

The first time you play around with PhotoScanApp, it will create an album (which you could always re-name and date). Love that you can line up a bunch of pictures and after it scans, it crops, clears and separates each as a new photo.

Also while playing around with App, I found it can work as a camera too and does the same functions as it would with scanned pictures.

The ONLY THING TO REMEMBER while you are playing around and testing PhotoScanApp, make sure you tap on the album you want pix to go into FIRST before scanning new pictures, otherwise you’ll have a bunch of new albums for each pix you take/scan & I have not found how to move pix from one album into another but I’m sure I will figure it out eventually.

That’s it, very easy and App delivers as promised. If down the line, something changes in a negative way, I will change my recommendation, but for now it’s all good!!

by Maryjolly

I’ve had PhotoScanApp for less than a week and I’ve scanned in nearly 2,000 pictures, just scanning while I watch TV in the evening. It’s intuitive and EASY! I’m scanning all kinds of pictures, from the 1920’s to current and it handles them all well. It’s amazing how some of the pictures are better AFTER I scan them. I upgraded to the family plan and the siblings are enjoying seeing all the old family photos. I also am VERY pleased with the support. I’ve had a couple questions along the way and they are responsive and helpful. Wish I had done this years ago. I freed up a lot of closet space! There are a couple things I wish it did easier or settings I wish I could adjust, but for the price I have no complaints at all.

by Sk472

I have downloaded so many free apps and purchased many as well. I was hesitant to pay for PhotoScanApp but my father-in-law is finishing a book on his life and needed some old pictures scanned for the publisher. Not only is it easy to scan a page of pictures with an old photo album, but the actual quality of the scan is better than the picture in many cases. We only needed 10 pictures but scanned over 100 in a short amount of time. You can scan the back and front and add text to explain who and what is happening in the pictures. It’s an incredible gift later for the grandkids (and there are many) because the photos can also be shared. The whole family was impressed with PhotoScanApp. Amazing job!!

by BLDL1234567890

I had put together photo albums from our families photos about 20 years ago. I put multiple photos on one page and had glued them down and placed them within a plastic sleeve. Ugh! To scan all those photos would have been a nightmare. I just pulled each page of photos up out of the plastic and used PhotoScanApp to photograph the entire page. It takes each picture and alters the color and save it as each image rather than the whole page. Super time consuming so far I’ve done the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, on to the 90’s next. I love having them on my phone too. So after using Photomyne to scan and save to my phone, I open my Google photos and back them up. It’s fantastic! Plus, so old photos I had had the orange and purple tinge to them and PhotoScanApp removes the awkward coloring! Thank you Photomyne!!

by Dseale55

I am very impressed. I have a HUGE number of family photos to scan. It has been a very slow process using a flat bed scanner and I have not been able to add any notes. Using Photomyne, I can scan multiple photos at once, add comments and it all saves to the cloud. I can download photos from the album there into my phone so I can move them to an iCloud album. I will eventually download them to my PC so I can burn them to multiple DVDs for family members. I have a tripod that will hold the phone so I can capture the photos at the correct angle. Photomyne is the ideal software for not only scanning a lot of photos, but just the occasional scan. Like you might be working on family tree stuff. It doesn’t have to be a photo, just anything scannable.

UPDATE: August 1,2021

Still the best. Have not had any glitches. Using iPhone 6S+

by R.Taba

I was unable to see the “Save Photos” download button on Photomyne’s website. After spending $60 on PhotoScanApp, adding 47 albums and 2500 photos to PhotoScanApp, this was very distressing to me. I loved the promise for saving my albums and photos for 10 years, and the excellent editing options, but was frustrated by not being able to download it. Over the next 5 days, through the weekend, and at off-hours, Lara would email me questions, and try her best to problem solve. Found out that my browser (Chrome) was not compatible with the Photomyne website, and by switching to Safari (on my Mac), I was able to see the button. But more importantly, the iPhone app was more robust in all ways, than the Photomyne website. All good learning, thanks to Lara and Photomyne!!! I am so appreciative for this wonderful app and now I can share my daughter’s childhood as she prepares for her wedding!

by =)Leesee

I was searching for an app that would make scanning and restoring my old family photos easy.
I was using my printer scanning 1 photo at a time, then using a photo editing program that took up to several minutes to use. I have over 1000 old family photos and I knew it would take me months to do them all.
I am simply amazed with PHOTOMYNE! I can scan several photos at once and it auto restores each picture and saves them separately as an individual scan.
The only bad thing I can say is that I wish there were more free features, however to be honest this is one of those rare times I really don’t mind paying for the premium version!
Everyone needs PhotoScanApp especially if you have old photos that are at risk of fading and being lost forever!

by Dkjordan

It’s absolutely amazing that you charge for this service. I was excited to use PhotoScanApp , then, after loading it I see it is pay service to scan photos. It’s really sad because there are many free apps out there that do this, they may not be as good as yours, but charging for this is incredible. You should offer a basic scan service for free and have a pro subscription that offers more, a value to those that like your app, and want to add more features, but for those that just want to scan and go it should be free. For gods sake, Google offers a scan app that does the same thing for free...I was comparing yours to it to see which I liked better, I think I have my answer now. Sure, I’m just one little voice, but it’s amazing to me that you would charge even 1 penny for this service. The amount to me is irrelevant, it’s just the fact that charging for this is just ridiculous!

by Rikki51

I love PhotoScanApp! I am using it to create a photo album and website for my 50th class reunion. I was able to easily import pictures from my black-and-white photo album from 50 years ago. PhotoScanApp quickly recognizes and separate multiple photos on the same page and craps them. This is a huge timesaver. What really blew me away was the ability you colorized these black-and-white photos. Not all of them turned out great: my class picture still look black and white with a bluish tent in the background. But many other photos really came to life, so overall the feature was a very impressive addition.

Where I believe the application needs more development is to expand the ability to import photos from dropbox, Google Drive and other websites.

by PattyB 65

This is definitely the best app I have ever seen for scanning photos. You can scan a whole page and it will break each picture into an individual file which really saves time. It does an amazing job of correcting the color on old black-and-white photos. And you can even colorize the photo if you want.

They have a very easy set up for using PhotoScanApp to email yourself a zip file so you can move the pictures to another computer very easily. Have only had this for a short time but I am very very satisfied. Customer support is also very good.

by Ccaustin2

After uploading, colorizing and annotating 100s of old family photos, I am seriously pleased with PhotoScanApp. Like any fairly new application, there are bugs to work out but I believe those fixes will come soon. I would love the ability to connect PhotoScanApp with genealogy apps like Ancestry and photo creatives like Snapfish. It is breathtaking to see generational photos come to life with the technology in colorizing. Hopefully this will continue to be refined and applied to early Polaroids and colored photos that are fading away completely. I am truly glad I found and use Photomyne! ~ Cynthia Austin, League City, TX

by LBlovesPics

Excellent app, I cannot do without Photomyte! I lost my last cell phone and all my pictures so now I have a way to back up new pictures and copy photos from photo albums and picture frames. They are safe now even if I lose this phone. I can also create slideshow presentation gifts for loved ones and send them via email, message or Facebook. One more important thing, we had a house fire in early 2000 and lost a lot of pictures, now I can back up every picture in my home and on my phone. Great work Photomyte!!!❤️

by Jennyar15

I have recently undertaken to convert about 100 pounds worth of my in-laws family photo albums into digital format. Most of these are older photographs
(1970’s) with a terrible yellow tint to them. I can’t believe how well PhotoScanApp cleans that up! I love the fact that I can title albums and images. This will be an absolute wonderful project to do with my husband‘s grandparents over the winter. It’s really everything I wanted in a nap. Quick, intuitive, and it works well with both my device and my PC. Sending a poignant to a family member via text or email is a snap too. No complaints. Well worth the cost even after the free trial!!

by Jdelgado_50

Nothing like have all your photos in one place specially those memories taken before the digital cameras. It’s easy to use and very convenient to have access among all your devices. It’s not cheap and honestly the fees are confusing. I will like someone explaining more about it. It gets to the point you don’t have much photos in paper to scan anymore but you still have to pay a monthly or yearly fee which is way too high. Why not have a life fix price? Anyway I will probably end up becoming a subscriber but not sure for how long.
An excellent product. There is no doubt about it. It’s so easy to create a 30 Pictures album with very good quality results.

by Lp7817

I never write reviews but PhotoScanApp saved me hundreds of dollars digitizing my parents photos. I was going to use a company like Legacy Box because I figured it would take forever for me to do it myself. Then, I found PhotoScanApp and started using it with the free trial. It took me just minutes to scan a hundred photos. I set six photos down, take a picture, and it finds and crops each photo. Occasional errors that you can easily fix by manually cropping. I was impressed by the quality. It even makes some older photos look better. I ended up spending the money on it for a month and may cancel when I’m done with all the digitizing. Great app and very happy I found it!

by Piffistic

This is an amazing app. Like all new things it takes some getting use to. I recommend starting out with 8 pictures, whether loose or on two album pages. Try everything: change the lighting, add captions, experiment with the filters, try to improve cropping. Just play with all the possible effects that are available to use on just those 8 images. Once you feel in charge with them, you can take on a big fat album with the confidence that you won’t mess up part way thru and give up in discouragement.