- Your photos stay on your computer. Nothing is sent over the internet.
- Your original photos are not changed. You get new copies with the new names.
- You can't break anything. If you don't like the result, just close the page.
- Free while we're getting started.
Choose your photos
You can pick lots at once. Hold Ctrl (or ⌘ on a Mac) to choose several, or press Ctrl + A to choose all of them in a folder.
Check the new names
Your photos will appear here, in date order, once you've chosen them.
Save your photos
When you're happy, save the renamed copies.
A zip bundle is one file that holds all your photos together. On Windows, double-click it to open it, then drag the photos out into any folder.
What's really happening? (for the curious)
When you take a photo, your camera or phone saves a few extra details alongside the picture, such as the date and time it was taken and the camera model. This information is called EXIF data (short for Exchangeable Image File Format). It's a standard that almost every camera and phone follows. It works for the usual JPEG photos (names ending .jpg) and for iPhone photos saved as HEIC (names ending .heic), Apple's space-saving photo format.
This page reads the "date taken" from each photo's EXIF data. It then creates a copy with a new file name that starts with that date, written as year-month-day (for example 2026-09-30). Because computers sort file names alphabetically, putting the year first means alphabetical order is also date order.
If you choose your own words, each photo also gets a number: 01, 02, 03… The extra 0 at the front matters. Computers compare names one character at a time, so without it, 10 would come before 2 (because 1 comes before 2). Adding the leading zero keeps every number the same length, so they always stay in order.
All of this happens inside your web browser (the program you're using to view this page, such as Chrome, Edge or Safari). The page's instructions are downloaded to your computer once, and they run there. Your photos are never sent anywhere.
Some pictures don't have a "date taken", for example screenshots, pictures saved from WhatsApp or the web, or some edited photos. For those, the page uses the date the file was last saved on your computer, and marks it with an orange label so you know it's a best guess.
Saving: newer versions of Chrome and Edge can save files straight into a folder you choose (after asking your permission). Other browsers save a zip file, which is a single file that bundles several files together, a bit like an envelope.