What Photomyne does

Photomyne is an Israel-headquartered consumer mobile technology company that develops AI-powered applications for scanning, digitizing, restoring, and preserving physical photographs and family memories. Founded circa 2015 with headquarters in Tel Aviv and representative offices in Hamburg and London, the company distributes its apps globally through the Apple App Store and Google Play, targeting individual consumers seeking to convert physical photo albums, slides, film negatives, and children's artwork into durable digital formats.

The platform's core technology stack integrates computer vision (auto-detect/crop, perspective correction, color restoration) with generative AI (B&W colorization, photo sharpening, photo animation, AI Couple Portrait) and NLP (auto-text detection, AI-assisted support). The product portfolio includes dedicated apps segmented by media type — Photo Scan (general photos), SlideScan (slides), FilmBox (film negatives), Colorize (B&W colorization), Sharpy (sharpening), and FridgeArt (children's artwork) — plus a web portal accessible via QR code, Google Photos export, and Memorial Pages for tribute use cases. Voice control is supported on iOS.

Photomyne operates a product-led growth model. The primary revenue stream is $59.99/yr subscriptions with a 3-day free trial, bundled as the Photomyne Scanning Suite across Photo Scan, SlideScan, FilmBox, and Colorize. Secondary revenue derives from hardware sales (phone holders, light pads, gloves, slide viewers) via an Amazon storefront. The company has been featured by The New York Times, TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, NBC's The Today Show, and Apple App of the Day, and operates a strategic partnership with FamilySearch's Rootstech genealogy conference. Photomyne maintains GDPR (EU and UK) and CCPA compliance with biometric data retention capped at 30 days.

Name

Photomyne

Legal name

Photomyne Ltd.

Website

https://photomyne.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Photomyne develops AI-powered mobile apps that scan, digitize, restore, colorize, and animate physical photographs, slides, and film negatives for individual consumers and families preserving personal memories via a $59.99/year subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Photo Digitization Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Photofinishing (81292)

SIC

Services-Photofinishing Laboratories (7384)

akta.pro primary industry

Real-Time Vision at the Edge (on-device CV/video) (HDAAAJAE)

Keywords

• Photo scanning apps
• AI photo digitization
• Family memory preservation
• Slide and film scanning
• Photo enhancement software

Headquarters

HQ city

Tel Aviv

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Annual Subscription (Scanning Suite): Primary revenue stream from annual subscriptions at $59.99/year for access to the full Photomyne Scanning Suite including Photo Scan, SlideScan, FilmBox, and Colorize apps. Includes 3-day free trial for new users. Subscription auto-renews until cancelled.
2. Scanning Accessories: Sale of physical scanning accessories including phone holders, light pads, and gloves through Amazon storefront to complement the app experience.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Photomyne develops and distributes AI-powered consumer mobile apps that scan and digitize physical photo albums, slides, negatives, film, and children's artwork using a smartphone camera. The product suite includes Photomyne Photo Scan, SlideScan, FilmBox, Colorize, Sharpy, and FridgeArt, bundled into a $59.99/year Scanning Suite subscription with a 3-day free trial, plus complementary scanning accessories sold via Amazon. The platform uses computer vision and generative AI for auto crop/rotate, color restoration, B&W colorization, sharpening, and animation.

Product overview

Photomyne is a family nostalgia and photo preservation platform offering a suite of AI-powered mobile scanning apps. The core offering consists of four main products: Photomyne Photo Scan (primary photo scanner), SlideScan (for slides), FilmBox (for film negatives), and Colorize (for B&W photo colorization). Additional products include Sharpy (photo sharpening), FridgeArt (kids' art scanner), and Photo Family Tree (family history organization). The Photomyne Scanning Suite bundles all scanning apps plus Colorize as a premium subscription ($59.99/year). Users can also access their scanned library via the web portal, create memorial pages, and share photos through web links or the Photomyne Share app. The platform uses generative AI for colorization, animation, and photo enhancement features.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Colorize: Photo colorization app that adds color to black and white scanned photos.
• SlideScan
• FilmBox
• Sharpy

Products and services

• Photomyne Photo Scan AI-powered mobile scanning app that digitizes physical photographs from albums, shoeboxes, and loose prints using a smartphone camera. Targets individual consumers who want to preserve family photo collections.
• SlideScan Dedicated mobile scanning app for converting film slides into high-quality digital images using a smartphone camera and AI processing. Targets photography enthusiasts and consumers with legacy slide collections.
• FilmBox Mobile app for digitizing film negatives using a smartphone camera and AI-powered processing to produce high-quality digital images. Targets photography enthusiasts with legacy film negatives.
• Colorize Generative AI-powered mobile app that adds realistic color to black-and-white photographs. Targets individual consumers revitalizing legacy family photos.
• Sharpy AI-powered mobile photo sharpening app that enhances clarity and detail in blurry faces and old or low-quality photographs. Targets individual consumers wanting to clarify legacy family photos.
• FridgeArt Mobile app that allows parents to digitize and preserve their children's artwork using a smartphone camera. Targets parents and families wanting to save kids' creative work.
• Photomyne Web Portal Web-based portal that lets users view, edit, and manage their scanned photo library on a desktop computer, accessed via QR code login from the Photomyne mobile apps. Targets existing mobile app subscribers wanting larger-screen access to their photo archive.
• Scanning Accessories Physical scanning accessories sold through Photomyne's Amazon storefront, including phone holders, light pads/backlight sources, slide viewers, and photo handling gloves, designed to complement the mobile scanning apps. Targets existing Photomyne app users wanting to improve scanning quality.

Quantifiable outcome

• Scanning speed: 93+ photos in under 30 minutes
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability9 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• FamilySearch (Rootstech)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPhotomyne partners with FamilySearch and Rootstech, the world's largest family history conference. The partnership positions Photomyne as a key tool for family historians looking to digitize and preserve genealogical records and family photos. Photomyne has been featured at Rootstech events since at least 2024.
• AmazonminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPhotomyne operates an Amazon storefront selling scanning accessories including phone holders, light pads, slide viewers, and photo handling gloves. The storefront page is hosted at amazon.com/stores/page/3728836B-2938-49EA-9C40-1C656343F0B7.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Memories.ai: Emerging AI-driven consumer app for organizing, recalling, and animating personal photo and video memories. Targets the same nostalgic, AI-enhanced family-memory use case as Photomyne from a more recent, generative-AI-native starting point.
• Remini: AI photo and video enhancer widely used for face restoration, sharpening, and unblurring of old photos. Directly competes with Photomyne's Sharpy/colorization features via a mobile-first subscription, but lacks dedicated album-scanning workflows.
• Forever (Forever Inc.): Subscription-based photo and video preservation service with permanent storage guarantees and family-sharing features. Closely comparable to Photomyne's long-term archive and family-sharing positioning, though less focused on AI-driven enhancement.

Others

• FamilySearch: Free genealogy platform operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Photomyne's existing Rootstech partner. Adjacent rather than directly competitive, but increasingly adds photo features that overlap with Photomyne's value proposition.

Broad incumbents

• Ancestry.com: Leading global genealogy platform with photo storage, storytelling, and family-tree features. Overlaps with Photomyne's family memory use case at a much larger scale and includes photo-driven record discovery, though less focused on scanning-and-enhancement than Photomyne.
• Google Photos: Google's flagship consumer photo storage and AI-enhancement product. Offers free photo backup, search, animation, and increasingly AI-driven restoration features that overlap with Photomyne's scanning-and-enhancement value proposition, though at no incremental cost.
• Apple Photos: Native iOS/macOS photo management app that now includes scanning of physical photos, Memories animations, and on-device AI enhancement. Directly threatens Photomyne's iOS-first paid scanning workflow by offering comparable features for free to every iPhone owner.

Direct peers

• ScanCafe: Professional photo, slide, and negative scanning service that digitizes physical media for a per-item fee. Targets the same consumer need as Photomyne's Photo Scan, SlideScan, and FilmBox but via a mail-in service rather than an AI mobile app.
• MyHeritage: Genealogy and family-history platform with built-in photo scanning, colorization, enhancement, and family-tree tools. Competes head-on with Photomyne in the family-history enthusiast segment and also serves as a similar B2C subscription model.
• MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia / Reimagine: AI-driven features from MyHeritage that animate and enhance historical photos, directly competing with Photomyne's generative-AI animation and colorization capabilities within the same family-history buyer segment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/photomyne
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCecU6umHbTT_6M3iT4NvC-Q
• Facebookfacebook.com/Photomyne
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/photomyne-ltd
• Instagraminstagram.com/photomyne
• TikToktiktok.com/@photomyne

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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