Photokive digitizes every album by hand, without ever removing a photo, then returns your originals home - so the memories inside are safe for years to come.
4.9 average · 12,000+ reviewsPhotographed by hand. Never scanned.
Handled with the care a lifetime of memories deserve.
Your Safekeeping Kit includes a crushproof box, a weatherproof bag, a prepaid UPS label and an AirTracker so you can follow the box on its way to our studio. Pack up your albums and send them in. We'll email you the moment they arrive.
One of our archivists photographs every album by hand, capturing each page in place and individually editing and retouching every image - all while keeping your album completely intact.
We return your originals exactly as you sent them and email you a link to your private gallery, where every photo is ready to view, share with the whole family, or print as a Photo Book.
The price per album drops the more albums you send. We'll digitize every photo in each one.
Have more than 20 albums? We take orders of any size - every additional album is $79.
Scanners flatten, bend and pull pages apart - so we never use one. In our Los Angeles studio, a trained photographer captures every page and photo in place at a custom-built station, so nothing is bent, removed or mishandled.
Trained archivists - not automated equipment - handle every album from the moment it arrives to the moment it ships home.
Built to capture delicate album pages without damaging them or taking them apart.
Photos fade, scratch and tear over the years. Every image is individually edited to clean up dust, scratches, folds, tears and stains.
Here's our promise: if disaster ever strikes and your original albums are lost or destroyed, we'll reprint copies of them at no cost.
The Photokive Guarantee™ is an annual membership. A single annual plan gives you unlimited storage for every image we digitize - backed up, organized, and easy to share with your whole family.
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Every image we digitize, backed up, organized, and easy to share with your whole family.
If fire, flood, or an everyday accident takes your originals, we reprint them at no cost.
Members save on every Photo Book they order, even if they never need to file a claim.
Once we’ve digitized your albums, we can print Photo Books of all of your images - beautiful hardcover copies you can hand to a sibling, child, parent, grandparent or friend. They make great gifts, so everyone in the family has the memories. Order yours on the form inside your Safekeeping Kit, or any time after your albums are digitized.
From the hands that photograph your albums to the box that carries them home, every step is considered.
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A team of professional photographers works at dedicated photo-stations to capture every page in place – with individual image retouching on each image, so your albums stay completely intact.
We pack and protect your albums for the safest possible journey back to you, with an AirTracker included in every shipping box so you always know where your memories are.
Once digitized, your memories are effortless to share – so every family member can keep their own copy of the albums you all treasure.
This was a big project that I was a little nervous about - five boxes of albums mixed with loose photos. Every photo came back in order and accounted for, and now everything is backed up safely. I've been telling everyone to do this before it's too late.
When the Palisades fire took everything, Photokive reprinted our family’s photo books free of charge. We lost our home, but thanks to Photokive, not our most cherished memories.
Your team made it so easy to send in the pictures, and the digitals came out with good quality. Thanks for keeping this simple as we worked to go through our parents' estate.
It was an easy process and I felt completely comfortable with giving my important memories to the team to digitize.
I had a great experience with Photokive. The whole time they were in contact with me to help make all my photos go digital. I worked with a concierge and she was wonderful.
I'm so happy I found Photokive to help archive my old pictures. It was a fantastic experience. I particularly enjoy the fact that I can download the pictures in bulk to my home computer. Everything was easy and speedy and my albums came back fully intact.
The process was very quick and easy. The turnaround time was sensational. Very appreciated.
Excellent communication and updates about my project. I really appreciate the labeling of my photos.
Love the communication from receiving the box with instructions to getting everything back. Kept me informed every step of the way.
I appreciate the quick and helpful responses to email questions.
We don't put albums through a scanner. A photographer captures each page in place at our Los Angeles studio, then every image is individually edited and retouched. Nothing is bent or removed.
Most photo scanning services need loose prints, and some won't take albums at all. We photograph albums as they are, so nothing is peeled off a page.
Yes. Scrapbooks and collages are photographed page by page like any album. Oversized or unusually thick ones are checked by hand when they arrive, and we confirm with you before anything changes.
Yes. Your Safekeeping Kit ships with an AirTracker so you can follow your albums the whole way. We treat them like our own and include $500 of UPS insurance in each direction.
Never. We photograph each page in place, so your albums come home exactly as they left – bindings and keepsakes intact.
Most orders are digitized and on their way back within 4 to 5 weeks. You’ll get updates at every step, and your private library – ready to share with the whole family – is set before the box even returns.
$129 for one album, sliding to $79 an album when you send 20 or more. Loose photos are $29 per 100. Photo Books are $150 a book. See the exact numbers on our pricing page.
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