Every street corner, viewpoint, and park bench holds decades of photographs — scattered across archives and strangers' phones. SharedPics layers them onto the spot where they were taken, so you can scrub through time from exactly where you stand.
A century on one corner. Drag the slider to travel through it yourself — this is what any spot becomes in SharedPics.
The same corner, frame by frame
Five eras. One point of view.
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How it works
SharedPics launches pre-loaded with tens of thousands of geolocated photographs from public archives. You add the layer that's missing: today.
No. 1
Find a spot with history
The map glows where photographs exist — city corners, viewpoints, storefronts, trailheads. Some spots go back a century.
No. 2
Add today's layer
Take one photo from where you stand. Your shot joins the record and unlocks the spot's full timeline — every era, every angle.
No. 3
Scrub through time
Drag the slider and watch the place change: signage, cars, skylines, seasons. History you can stand inside.
Live now
Timelines you can open today
From Reykjavík to Mumbai, London to New York — real places already seeded with archive photography. Open one and scrub, then add the layer only you can: right now.
Point your camera and a translucent overlay of an old photograph appears — taken from the very spot you're standing on. Match the framing, press the shutter, and SharedPics registers the two images perfectly.
The result is a then-and-now pair you can crossfade, slide, or morph — the kind of image people painstakingly recreate by hand today, made in ten seconds.
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From the archive
Built on a century already photographed
Holdings · seeded
1,100+ photographs
Public-domain and Creative Commons images from the Library of Congress, NARA, and Wikimedia Commons — placed on the exact spot they were taken.
Span · earliest to now
1850 – today
From the Taj Mahal on an 1850s plate to the mail steamers of 1893 Bombay. Drag the slider and the decades pass in place.
Cities · and counting
115 cities
The Taj Mahal in 1850 to Machu Picchu — 115 cities on six continents, seeded with archive photography, and anyone, anywhere, can start a new timeline where they stand.
It starts with your own camera roll
Before anyone else's photos matter, SharedPics is a time machine for your own life.
Your life, mapped
Import your camera roll and every geotagged photo lands on the map. A private atlas of everywhere you've been — years of it, instantly.
"You were here"
Walk past a place you photographed nine years ago and SharedPics quietly surfaces it. Your own history, returned to you exactly where it happened.
Share when you choose
Everything imported stays private by default. Contribute a photo to a public spot only when you want to unlock its timeline.
Launching city by city
Be there when your city gets its time machine
We're opening one city at a time, seeded with its local archives. Tell us where you are — cities with the most signups go first.
You're on the list — we'll write when your city opens.
No feed, no ads, no spam. One email when we launch near you.
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