Observed arrival · 2026-08-30
Anchorframe Puts Dates Back on Film Scans
A Mac app that uses nearby iPhone photos to restore date, location, camera, and lens metadata to scanned film.
Field notes
Anchorframe compares a folder of film scans with nearby iPhone photos, offering candidate matches based on shared trips, dates, or rolls. A confirmed match writes date and place information directly into the scan files rather than maintaining a separate catalog. The page names camera and lens metadata as additional reconstruction targets and says the app has no network entitlement, account, analytics, or server; macOS place-name lookup is identified as the sole exception.
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