TimeWoven

Artifact No. 0001 · A time machine for things

Photograph anything. Send it back in time.

Point your camera at an everyday object, choose an era, and TimeWoven writes the story of the day it turned up in the past, illustrated in that era's own art style.

Coming soon to theApp Store Your first story is free. No account needed.
Photo of a brown 1950s Stewart-Warner radio with a gold clock dial
The photo
Woodblock-style illustration: a man in a blue kimono in Edo Japan points in surprise at the same brown radio on a low table

Edo Japan, 1780

How it works

Three steps, about a minute.

  1. Photograph an object

    A mug, a radio, your sneakers. Anything on your desk. Take a photo or pick one from your library.

  2. Choose one of 18 eras

    Ancient Egypt, Viking Age, Edo Japan, Versailles, the Jazz Age, a Mars colony and more.

  3. Read, keep and share

    A short story of how people of that time made sense of it, a painting in the period's style, and a card ready for your stories.

Start free

Your first story needs no account. Save your account to get more free stories, plus one free story every week.

Patron when you want more

30 stories a month, or a pack of 10 that never expires. No ads, ever.

Your photos stay yours

Never used to train AI, never sold. Delete any story, or your whole account, from inside the app. Privacy policy