Scroll without the brain rot. Every swipe is a real photo or film from a public archive, explained in under a minute. You get ten a day, then it ends.
The iPhone app is in App Review. It works in your browser today.
This letter carrier posed with a boy in his mailbag around 1900, as a joke. Parcel post began on January 1, 1913, and within weeks an Ohio couple did mail their baby son to his grandmother, for 15 cents in stamps and insured for $50. Postal officials soon banned mailing children.
This is the real app, running live. Scroll it, tap a story, guess a year.
It feels like the feeds you already scroll, and you finish with ten real things learned.
Ten real stories a day. Each is one photo or film and a caption you can read in under a minute. Then the feed ends, and you have spent about ten minutes.
Some stories hide their date until you guess. Trying first makes the answer stick, and a timeline shows how close you came.
Save stories, share them as a picture or a clip, open the source, or read the longer version of one that caught you.
Every photograph and film comes from a collection anyone can look up, and each story links to the original. Nothing is AI-generated or colorized by software.
Historidex includes short clips of real film from the 1890s onward: street scenes, stunts, workers, and a pair of cats in boxing gloves.
Share any clip as a video, or send the link and it opens right on the story.
From the first photograph of a person to ancient objects and early color. Each collection has its own page.
A history learning app that works like a feed. Every screen is a real photo or film from a public archive, with a short caption that explains it in under a minute.
Ten stories a day are free, with no account and no ads. Historidex Pro is $2.99 a month and removes the daily limit.
From public collections such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian, the Met and NASA. Every story links to its archive record, so you can see the original.
Each story is written from at least two sources, then checked by two independent fact-checkers. The rights to every image are checked three ways, so you only see pictures that are free to use.
Some stories hide their year. You pick one of three, then see your guess on a timeline next to the real answer. Guessing first makes the answer easier to remember.
No. There is nothing to sign up for. What you save stays on your device.
It is in App Review now. Until it is out, Historidex works free in your browser.
One, and only if you want it: a daily reminder at 8 a.m., noon or 8 p.m.
Open Historidex, read today's ten, and you are done for the day.