Atlas is the place where your digitised videos, photographs, slides and audio finally come together — backed up safely, beautifully organised, and ready to share. Index the films you'd like Atlas to read, and they grow rich with the dates, people, events and places behind them.
Available now · Atlas Archive launches 26 June 2026
Above · Your archive, the morning after Atlas has had a look around
HOW ATLAS WORKS
Free Atlas keeps every file safe, organised and yours to share. When you'd like Atlas to read a film — recognising the people, places and dates inside it — you index it: three free, then a little per film, or every file automatically with Atlas Archive. No tagging spreadsheets, no batch jobs — you just correct the bits only you can know.
Index a video — or let Atlas Archive read every one — and quietly, in the background, Atlas picks up the people, the places, the dates, and the small details that turn a clip into a story.
Photographs land beside the videos they were taken with. People you haven't named yet are gently grouped, waiting for a name. Your library starts to read itself.
Atlas takes the correction and quietly threads it through every other place that person appears. The archive gets richer every time you visit.
FOR EVERY VIDEO
For every video you index, Atlas writes a short description of what it sees — who's there, where it is, when it was filmed. Names link out to that person's photographs and films across the rest of your archive. Places open onto a map. Dates anchor the moment in time.
If Atlas isn't sure, it says so. Correct it once and the new fact lives across the archive — quietly, in the background.
LIBRARY
Sort by date, by place, by the things that matter to you. Folders from your tapes preserved just as you left them — so the Florida 1999 reel is still the Florida 1999 reel.
PEOPLE
Atlas helps you group the same faces across different tapes and decades. You can tell Atlas their name once; then Atlas remembers. Three generations of family land in one place — and stay there.
PLACES
Cities, regions, streets, landmarks. Pin Norfolk and watch a hundred clips appear; pin Cape Town and find the trips you almost forgot about.
TIMELINES
Family stories. Your aunt's life. The band your uncle was in in the '90s. Atlas drafts the timeline — you keep what it got right and edit what it didn't.
A LIFE THROUGH ATLAS
Name one face, and Atlas helps you pull them out of every tape and photograph — placing each appearance on a timeline, with a short description of what was happening. This is what an archive looks like when it knows itself.
EARLY READERS
“I'd put off labelling these tapes for nineteen years. Atlas had them read in an afternoon.”
Helen Marchetti
Beta reader, six VHS reels
“My father in 1984. I named him in one clip and he appeared in forty-two more. I cried, twice.”
Daniel Park
Beta reader
“I gave my mum a login last weekend. She made a timeline of her mother's life before bed.”
Sophie Akande
Beta reader, photo album cohort
Names changed at participants' request — full quotes on file.
YOUR ARCHIVE
Whether your tapes have already been digitised or they're still in a shoebox in the loft, Atlas is where they're meant to live. Backed up. Catalogued. Remembered.