The project workspace for pinball restoration
A thousand parts. One clear path back.
Pathways keeps every photo, part, and step of your restoration organized — from the first screw out to sliding the glass back on.
14-day free trial · Cancel anytime · Web, Windows & Android
Command center + sidekick
Capture at the machine.
Organize and plan on the big screen.
A restoration lives in two places — the desk, where you plan and source, and the bench, where your hands are full. Pathways is built for both, and they stay in step by themselves.
The Sidekick
Your phone is already under the glass — Pathways makes it count. Capture straight into the right tag, check what a connector looked like before you unplugged it, and keep moving. It's on the big screen before you've washed your hands.
The Command Center
The web app owns the whole record: your photo library in grid, cinema, and timeline views, a customizable tag tree that can mirror the machine's own anatomy, parts and sourcing, budgets, operation manuals*, and the full documentation log.
*when original machine manual is available
Real benches, real headaches
How restorations actually go
Playfield tear-down & repopulation
Three hundred parts come off in a precise order. Six weeks later, that order lives only in your memory.
The photo timeline records the teardown as you shoot it, grouped into work sessions, every shot tagged to the machine's anatomy. When it's time to rebuild, run your timeline in reverse — the teardown you documented becomes the reassembly manual.
- Session timeline
- Tag tree
- Reverse playback
Circuit board & wiring repair
Every unplugged connector is a future question: where did this go?
Photograph each header before it comes off and find it again in two taps from under the cabinet. Snap a mystery component and identify it against the machine's published manual*, then drop it straight into your parts list with sourcing info.
- Before-shots
- Part identification assistant*
- BOM & sourcing
*when original machine manual is available
Cabinet touch-up & mechanical tuning
The last 10% is a hundred small fixes nobody wrote down — and a budget nobody tracked.
Pair before/after shots, flag each mechanism stable as it's dialed in so the worklist shrinks honestly, keep notes with AI summaries, and let the parts list quietly become the project's true cost sheet.
- Before / after
- Stable flags
- Cost tracking
Everything in the box
Serious tools, zero ceremony
Photo workspace
Grid, cinema, and timeline views over every shot you take.
Tags that mirror the machine
Backbox › Playfield › Drop Targets — a fully customizable tree that organizes by anatomy, not folders.
Live sync
Web, Windows, and Android stay in step within seconds.
Recycle Bin
Deletes are reversible. Nothing is gone until you say so.
Bill of materials (BOM) & sourcing
Parts, vendors, manufacturer part numbers, and costs tracked next to the photos that need them.
Operations Manual intelligence
Identify parts from photos against the machine's published manual.
Pinball database
Link your project to its game — art, history, and specs attached.
Capture-time order
Photos sort by when they were really taken. The timeline never lies.
Pricing
Built for every bench
Hobbyist
$9/month
$90/year
For the one-machine-at-a-time restorer.
- 2 active projects
- Unlimited archived projects
- 10 GB media storage
- Full photo workspace & tags
- Pinball-database linking
- Web & Android
Most popular
Restorer
$19/month
$190/year
For the serious solo restorer.
- 10 active projects
- 100 GB media storage
- Everything in Hobbyist
- AI manual intelligence
- BOM & parts sourcing
- Windows app
Pro Shop
$49/month
$490/year
For commercial repair benches.
- Unlimited projects
- 500 GB media storage
- Everything in Restorer
- 3 team seats
- Priority support
Every tier starts with a 14-day free trial. Cancel anytime — your photos and data remain yours.