Ninety years
on one dial.
A camera that shoots in any decade from 1930 to 2020. The viewfinder changes with the year, not the photo afterwards.
See the decadesEvery year looked like something.
Ten decades, each built from how photography actually worked that year. One photograph, put through the app itself, all the way from 1930 to 2020.
Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash
Motion has a date too.
A still can carry the grain. Only movement can carry the judder. Video records at the era's own rate, built the way a projector builds it.
I have always loved the feeling of old photographs. A black and white frame, or an image from another era. It does not just show a moment. It shows how cameras used to see the world, and how far we have come since.
Today we take a photo, edit it, send it, and move on in seconds. But when I look at my old family photos I still go awww. They bring back people, places and moments I had almost forgotten.
So I wondered: what if we could feel that about the photos we take today?
I built Anno as a small experiment. Take a photo, and see how that same moment might have looked in another era.
Partly technology, partly nostalgia, mostly about making today's memories feel a little more timeless.
And one that puts you there.
The dial changes how a photograph was made. Travel changes what stood in front of the camera: take a photo, pick a decade, and it comes back with you in the clothes, the hair and the street of that year, keeping your face. It works on places as well as people.
Travel is the one part of Anno that does not happen on your phone. Your photo goes to Google's Gemini image model through Anno's own server, and Anno says so and asks before the first one ever leaves. It is optional, it is for ages 18 and over, and your first one is free.
One credit takes one photo to one decade. Credits never expire, there is no subscription, and prices are shown in your own currency in the app. A travel that fails gives its credit back.
The camera never leaves your phone.
No account
There is nothing to sign up for. Open the app and it works, on a plane or anywhere else.
No upload, unless you ask
Every decade renders on the device, on its GPU. A photo you take is never sent anywhere. Only a photo you hand to Travel leaves, and only after you have said yes.
No analytics
No tracking, no third party SDKs, no advertising identifier. The app asks for the camera and your photo library, and that is the whole list.