Add a Date Stamp to a Photo
Type any date, get the orange corner stamp old compact cameras printed. No app, no account, no upload.
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Presets in this editor
iPhone 4
Soft edges, gentle grain, slightly warm 2010s smartphone vibe.
Grain 38 · Softness 32 · Vignette 18
Warm Digicam
Golden-hour point-and-shoot warmth with punchy colors.
Grain 28 · Softness 18 · Warmth 66
Cool CCD
Cleaner, slightly cool vintage sensor feel (subtle green/cyan lean).
Grain 22 · Softness 14 · Aberration 12
Flash Pop
Harsh highlights + glow like a built-in flash at night.
Bloom 20 · Grain 18 · Contrast 60
Soft Nostalgia
Dreamy, faded, warm — heavy softness + bloom for a nostalgic vibe.
Softness 48 · Grain 30 · Bloom 26
2000s Y2K
Warm, faded early-digicam color with soft grain and a gentle vignette.
Grain 30 · Fade 18 · Softness 16
Disposable Flash
Hard close-flash glow, warm grain, casual single-use snapshot energy.
Grain 26 · Bloom 24 · Softness 12
Huji-Style
Warm flashed glow with grain, made for the corner date stamp.
Grain 29 · Softness 14 · Bloom 14
Dazz-Style
Cool CCD glow with extra bloom and old-sensor color fringe.
Grain 22 · Bloom 14 · Aberration 13
Kodak Gold
Golden film warmth with soft skin tones and fine grain.
Grain 22 · Warmth 63 · Softness 12
35mm Film
Fine grain and restrained, true-to-life analog color.
Grain 25 · Softness 14 · Vignette 8
Film Grain
Fine, even film texture over otherwise natural color.
Grain 35 · Softness 10 · Fade 10
Lomo Punch
Dark toy-camera vignette with loud, punchy color.
Vignette 30 · Grain 23 · Saturation 62
Vintage Fade
Old-print warmth with lifted blacks and darkened corners.
Grain 28 · Fade 21 · Softness 20
Polaroid
Washed instant-film fade with gentle warmth and a soft glow.
Softness 22 · Fade 21 · Vignette 20
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Open this page in Safari or Chrome on the phone, pick the photo, type the date, then download. There is nothing to install, and because the work happens inside the browser the photo never leaves the device. iOS puts the download in Files, and from there you can add it to Photos. HEIC shots off the camera work wherever the browser can decode them, which on an iPhone it can.
Yes. It is a web page, not an app, so anything with a current browser can run it — Android phones including Samsung, Windows, Mac and iPad. The only difference between devices is where the saved file lands.
Whatever you like: the field is free text. It starts on today's date, written with a leading apostrophe as in the 25 12 31 style many point-and-shoots printed. Cameras were commonly switchable between year/month/day, month/day/year and day/month/year, so there is no single correct order. Typing 2003 08 14 or 14/08/03 is equally valid.
No. It does not read EXIF metadata, so the date is whatever you type. That is deliberate as much as technical — most people using this want to choose the date rather than reproduce it. If you need the true capture date, check the photo details in your gallery app first and copy it across.
Not currently. It handles one photo at a time. For a handful of images that is quick enough; for hundreds you want desktop software with a batch mode instead.
A small orange dot-matrix date in the bottom-right corner, the style compact cameras printed in the 1990s and 2000s. It is a deliberately retro look rather than a neutral timestamp, so it suits photos and keepsakes more than documentation or paperwork.
About This Tool
Cameras used to print the date straight onto the picture. Film cameras with a databack burned it into the negative; the compacts that followed drew it over the JPEG. Then digital made it unnecessary, because the date moved into the file as metadata: accurate, invisible, and completely uncharming. This page puts the visible version back.
Load a photo, type a date, and a small orange dot-matrix stamp prints in the bottom-right corner. The field is free text, so the format is yours to choose — cameras were commonly switchable between year/month/day, month/day/year and day/month/year, and none of them is more correct than the others. It opens on today's date, which you can overwrite with any year you like.
The whole thing runs inside the browser, which is what makes it work on a phone with nothing installed. Open it in Safari or Chrome on an iPhone, pick a photo, download the result, and add it to Photos from there if you want it in the camera roll. Android, Samsung, Mac, Windows and iPad behave the same way. HEIC shots straight off an iPhone work too, because the browser decodes them for us rather than the page converting anything.
Two honest limits. It stamps one photo at a time rather than a batch, and it does not read the capture date out of the file's metadata, so the date is whatever you type rather than whatever the camera recorded. If you want the whole photo to look like it came from the era the date suggests, the vintage camera filter adds the warmth, grain and fade to go with it.
How to add a date stamp to a photo
Three steps, none of which involve installing anything.
1Open the photo
Drag it in, paste it, or tap Upload. Nothing is sent anywhere — the file is read by the browser on your own device and stays there.
2Type the date
The stamp is switched on already, filled with today's date. Overwrite it with whatever you want: a real date from the photo, the year the memory belongs to, or nothing at all if you would rather leave it off.
3Save it
Download writes a new copy with the date drawn into the image. The original is untouched, and the date is now part of the picture rather than hidden in the file.
On your device
It is a web page rather than an app, so the steps barely change between platforms. What changes is where the finished file ends up.
Open this page in Safari or Chrome, tap Upload and choose from your library. Downloading hands the file to iOS, which puts it in Files; adding it to Photos from there is one more tap rather than automatic. HEIC shots off the camera work because iOS decodes them for us, not because the page converts anything, and what comes back is a JPEG or PNG.
The same flow in Chrome, Samsung Internet or Firefox. Downloads land in your Downloads folder and normally show up in the gallery within a few seconds. If the gallery has not noticed it yet, opening the file from Downloads once tends to prompt it.
Drag the photo onto the page, or paste it straight out of the clipboard with Cmd+V or Ctrl+V. The download goes wherever your browser normally puts files. Desktop is the easier place to do several in a row, since the page keeps your settings between photos.
What this will not do
Worth knowing before you start, so you do not get halfway through and find the thing you needed is missing.
There is no batch mode. For a few pictures that is fine; for a few hundred you want desktop software built for it.
The date is what you type, not what the camera recorded — EXIF metadata is never opened. If you need the true date, look it up in your gallery app first and copy it across.
A small orange dot-matrix date, bottom-right. That is the thing people picture, but it is a period look rather than a neutral timestamp, so it fits photographs better than paperwork or evidence.
Making the date look like it belongs
A stamp on its own is just text in a corner. On a sharp, clean, modern photo that is exactly what it reads as. The date only stops looking added once the picture underneath has some of the softness and warmth of the era it claims to be from.
If that is what you are after rather than a plain date, the vintage camera filter is the same editor with warmth, grain and fade turned up to match, and it covers which looks a stamp suits and which it quietly spoils.
Also on this site
There are also the make-a-photo-look-old page, the vignette tool and the black and white converter, listed together on the tools page. If you would rather apply a finished look in one step than set anything yourself, that is what the filters are for.