Shoebox: Photo Scanner
Scan Old Photos & Albums on iPhone
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Details
- External ID
- 1268978
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Shoebox: Photo Scanner
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3258772542988956
- Tags
- iOS, Photography, Photo editing
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Shoebox: Photo Scanner digitizes loose prints and album spreads. Photograph a page, review detection boxes, choose Original, Revive, or black and white, then save crops into a named Photos album. Detection, crop, and Revive run on-device. Shoebox does not require an account and does not upload your photos to its servers. Free tier includes 10 saved prints; Shoebox Pro unlocks unlimited saves and PDF albums without a footer.
Enrichment
- Niche
- iOS photo and mobile utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- photo scanning app for digitizing print albums
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An iOS application leveraging Apple's native Vision framework (VNDetectRectanglesRequest) for multi-photo detection on-device along with CoreImage filters.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 300 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #135 of 301 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 184 days after the earliest competitor.
- Scan Via Cam · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- PixBox — Photo File Manager · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Instant Photo Album · ph · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Pagefold: PDF Scanner OCR · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Recno · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- TurtleWiz PackCheck · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- PinShot · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Reclaim · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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