Retrograph uses AI to transform photo archives into interactive visual stories, showing how any street, building, or city has changed over decades. The past, layered onto the present.
Cities, museums, and families own irreplaceable photo archives. Most have never been digitized. The ones that have sit in databases no one visits. Stories locked in folders, gathering dust instead of inspiring people.
AI can now understand locations, dates, and visual context at scale. For the first time, it's possible to automatically match a photo from 1920 with its modern equivalent, and present the transformation as a story anyone can explore.
From dusty archive to shareable story in minutes.
Drop in historic photos. AI extracts dates, locations, and context from metadata, captions, or the image itself.
Retrograph locates the exact modern viewpoint using geolocation and visual recognition, then generates the side-by-side comparison.
Publish interactive timelines, embed comparisons on your site, or export visual stories for social media and print.
Turn your city's photo archive into interactive walking tours and shareable content that drives visitor engagement.
Make your collections accessible to the public with visual timelines that bring historical context to life.
Show how neighborhoods have evolved over decades. Visual proof of transformation that closes deals.
Interactive "then and now" comparisons that make history tangible for students at every level.
Retrograph is building the visual layer between past and present, one archive at a time. Starting in Vienna. Expanding everywhere.