Add a Date Stamp to a Photo
Use the date the photo was taken or type any date, and get the orange corner stamp old compact cameras printed. No app, 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
70s Print
Heavily faded amber print: washed-out blacks, low saturation, soft detail, dark corners.
Fade 30 · Grain 28 · Softness 26
80s Print
Faded drugstore-print colour: warm, pink-leaning, low contrast, soft grain.
Grain 32 · Fade 26 · Softness 24
90s Snapshot
Point-and-shoot flash, coarse film grain, punchy lab colour, neutral warmth.
Grain 34 · Bloom 18 · Softness 12
Matcha Latte
Soft matcha green: pale soft highlights, a green-olive cast, gentle haze, clean detail.
Tint 80 · Softness 22 · Grain 18
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.
Yes, when the file has one. Loading a photo reads its capture date from the file on your device and puts it straight into the stamp, still editable. Plenty of files carry no capture date, though: screenshots, pictures saved from the web or a chat app, and copies exported by some editing and camera apps. For those the page says so, and you type the date instead. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded.
Yes, up to 20 at a time. Under Stamp several photos, pick them together: each one gets its own capture date when its file has one and the date typed in the stamp when it does not, with the look and export settings you have set, and they download as a single zip. For hundreds of photos, desktop software built for batch work is still the better tool.
Usually because the file is not the original. When an app edits or filters a photo it often saves a new file, and that copy may have no capture date or, with some apps, the date it was saved. Messaging apps tend to strip the date too. If the original is still in your gallery, load that instead; otherwise type the date you want.
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.
It reads the date a photo was taken from the file when the file has one, and it can stamp up to 20 photos in one go, each with its own date, saved as a zip. Screenshots and copies saved by other apps often carry no date, and then the date is whatever you type. 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.
2Check the date
The stamp is switched on already. If the photo's file records when it was taken, that date is filled in for you; if not, it shows today's. Either way it is plain text, so overwrite it with the year the memory belongs to, or clear it 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.
Wrong date, or no date? Check the file first
The visible stamp is text drawn onto the new image. The capture date is metadata inside the source file. A file’s saved or modified date is a third thing: it can change when you download, copy or edit a picture and is not used as proof of when it was taken.
Original camera file
Try the original photo from your library. If the file contains a readable capture date, this page fills it in and offers Photo date. Check it against your own record before downloading.
Screenshot, chat copy or edited export
These files may have no capture date, or the date may have changed. No capture date found means the file did not provide a usable date; type the date you know rather than treating today’s default as the shooting date.
The picture already has the wrong printed date
Changing the stamp field only changes the new overlay. It does not remove text already burned into the source photo. Use an unstamped original when possible; this tool does not erase existing stamps.
Several photos from different days
In Stamp several photos, use each photo’s capture date only when that file provides one. Read the batch summary and inspect files without dates; one manually entered date is not correct for an entire mixed-date album.
Reading a capture date does not verify it or preserve all original metadata in the exported image. The source file is unchanged; keep it if its metadata matters to you.
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.
Tap Upload and choose a photo from your library. A download is not automatically added to Photos: look in the browser’s downloads or Files, then use the system share options to save the image if available. HEIC decoding depends on the browser; if the photo will not open, choose a JPEG copy. The exported image is 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.
Stamp several photos handles twenty per run and saves them as one zip. Everything happens in the browser’s memory, so that is the ceiling; for hundreds of photos you want desktop software built for it.
The capture date comes from the photo file’s own metadata, read on your device. Screenshots, pictures saved from chats or the web, and copies exported by editing apps often have none, and then the date is whatever you type.
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.