Evidence, not trivia.
Every location keeps its source trail and confidence in view.
The physical world is the search bar
What happened here?
Point your phone at any place. Pastline reveals the people, events, and evidence hidden beneath the present.
Evidence first Location specific
Live location scan
San Francisco, CAYou are standing here
Market Street / 5th
Three blocks from this location
The city changed overnight.
April 18, 1906 — an earthquake and fire reshaped this neighborhood.
Sources 12Confidence 92%Photos 08
20261906
History is everywhere. Most of it is invisible.
See it. Prove it. Share it.
01 / Discover
Move through time. Don't search for it.
One question opens a living historical record for the exact place under your feet.
Begin an exploration- 01
Point
Open Pastline and frame a building, street, park, or landmark.
- 02
Reveal
See events, people, photos, and sources connected to that precise location.
- 03
Investigate
Move through time, compare evidence, and save what you discover.
02 / Historical X-Ray
The past is a layer of reality.
X-Ray activeAligned view
Present
A new city street
1893
The opera house stood here
PastPresent
Precise by design.
Discoveries belong to the real places where history happened.
03 / Time navigation
Every era has something to reveal.
Pastline makes the era of a place tangible — from the city you recognize to the landscape it used to be.
Scroll through the record
2026
2000
1950
1906
1850
1700
1906 / Verified history
A city remembered in fragments.
12
Sources found
92%
Confidence
08
Images aligned
04 / Field access
Choose how deep you go.
Explorer
$0
forever
For discovering the history around you.
- Nearby historical reveals
- Saved locations
- Community investigations
- Shareable discovery cards
Field
$8
per month
For curious explorers who want deeper access.
- Everything in Explorer
- Historical X-Ray access
- Advanced time navigation
- Offline saved walks
- Priority archive updates
Institution
Custom
annual plans
For museums, schools, archives, and local history groups.
- Curated location collections
- Team research workflows
- Source and archive tools
- Organization publishing
- Implementation support
The field guide