# A Past Day — Photos and footprints, revived

> Photos and footprints, revived (iPhone/iPad app by Yusuke Tanaka.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/a-past-day/id6784557053 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yusuke Tanaka](https://appshunter.io/developer/6784557055)
- Category: Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-07-02
- Data updated: 2026-10-12

## What is A Past Day?

"This café — it had been two years."
Circle a place you've been on the map, and the photos you took there line up across the years. A time you'd forgotten quietly comes back.
—— The rest, you'll discover just by tapping around.

A Past Day quietly brings back memories you'd long forgotten.

Not the photos you look at all the time — the ones you'd forgotten you had. A Past Day draws from your own photo library and, by chance, surfaces a single picture from a day you haven't thought about in years. One tap follows the thread — to nearby places, the same season in other years, a color, a feeling — and a memory you didn't know you still had comes quietly back.

• By chance — you don't search; a forgotten day finds you.
• Long ago — not yesterday's photos, but the ones from years back.
• Revived — one picture pulls a whole day back into focus.

On This Day
See this date across every year you have photos for. Feel how much time has passed — and imagine where the same stretch of time ahead might take you.

Footprints on the map
Photos with a location connect into the path you walked that day. Retrace where you went — and remember things the photos alone don't show.

Wander
From any photo, take an associative walk through your library — by place, time, or color. Each step is a small, involuntary discovery.

Everything stays on your device
Your photos are never uploaded to the cloud or any server. Storage and on-device AI analysis all happen locally on your iPhone. Nothing leaves your device.

Start with about 20–30 photos, or bring in your whole library.

## Is A Past Day safe?

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## Is A Past Day legit?

A Past Day has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for A Past Day is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.7 — 2026-08-23

・Photos now appear on the map even when viewing all time. Zoom out for a scattering of representative photos; zoom in to see the photos of that place.
・Importing photos is faster, and you can see the progress.
・The full-screen view is tidier: the clock and battery no longer overlap the photo, a delete button was added, and the action buttons are now compact icons.

### 1.6 — 2026-07-15

NEW IN 1.6 (since 1.5)
1) Hand-drawn footpaths — users can manually draw/adjust the day's route on the map (works
   even on days with no photos). Uses the existing on-device map; no new permission or data.
2) Sharing "day packs" — a user can bundle one day (its photos + route + notes) into a single
   file and hand it to a family member or friend through the standard iOS Share Sheet (or save
   it locally). The recipient opens that file in the app to view it.
   Please note this is NOT a social network: no server, no public feed, no accounts, and no way
   to receive content from strangers. It is a private file the user chooses to send to a specific
   person — equivalent to sending a document or AirDropping a file. All transfers are
   user-initiated via the OS share sheet; nothing is uploaded to us.
3) Minor refinements — re-photo UI polish, Location Logger distance options, timeline/map
   layout fixes, and bug fixes.

### 1.5 — 2026-07-11

New: Layered Shots — line up a place, then and now.

Your earlier photo appears faintly over the live camera, so you can
re-take the same spot from the same angle. Shoot again months or years
later, and what changed — and what didn't — stacks up in one frame.

• Organize into folders by theme (meals, outfits, a storefront, a child
  growing up, a room…)
• Compare then and now, side by side or overlaid
• Burst mode, self-timer, alignment grid

 Food Memories
On-device AI gathers just your food photos into a timeline — from
"what did I eat lately?" all the way back to that one dish long ago.

Also in this update
• Smooth even with 100,000+ photos (import can be paused; storage is shown)
• The timeline and map now reopen in the view you last used
• Refined map & layered-shots display, plus many bug fixes

Everything — photos and camera — is processed entirely on your device.
Nothing is ever sent anywhere.

### 1.4 — 2026-07-08

Right where you are, forgotten time comes back to life.

• Added " Here & now." Open the app and tap once — the photos you took around where you are line up oldest-first, across the years. "This café — how many years has it been?" Something you'd long forgotten quietly comes back.
• Choose how wide to look with a slider — just inside a shop, or the whole town.
• Tidied up the map, with one-tap time ranges (a week to three years) — take in a whole season of footprints at once.

### 1.3 — 2026-07-06

Now you can see a place across time.
Circle a spot you've visited on the map and your photos there line up across the years — "this café, two years ago…" — bringing back a time you'd forgotten.

• New "Locate me" button on the map
• Memory-place improvements and timeline fixes

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