Whatever the story, tell it on a timeline
Trace a life, chart an era, or build an imagined world. Zoom from billions of years down to a single minute.
Made for the timeline you have in mind
Six ways people use Timescrolly
- WorldbuildingA calendar and a map of your own, and the houses and factions of your world.
- NovelistsLay out a book by day, by chapter and by narrator.
- GenealogyImport a GEDCOM file and see every ancestor's life on a timeline, and the family as a tree.
- HistoryFrom deep time to a single day, for the classroom wall or the course page.
- Life storiesPhotos, letters and documents in the order they happened.
- ChronologiesCited evidence, time counted from T-zero, and a record of every change.
What sets it apart
Built to help you think clearer about time.
Dates as your sources give them
Eight calendars, BCE and years before present, as precisely as you know them — and every reader can switch to their own.
An assistant that knows your timeline
Ask what overlaps or what led up to an event, or have it draft items from a pasted article. Nothing changes until you review and apply it.
Events inside periods
Nest events in the period they belong to, and fold a period away when you want the bigger picture.
People, places and how they connect
Keep the people, places and organizations of your story as records of their own, linked to every item they appear in, and say how they relate, all the way to a family tree.
Rich items
Give anything on the timeline images, video, PDFs, voice memos and properly cited sources.
A map view
Give items a place, a route or a region, on a world map or a map of your own, and see the same story laid out on it.
27 more features
Each one with its own section on the features page: what it does, what it costs, and how it works.
- The viewer
- Custom calendars
- List view
- Custom maps
- Context timelines
- Data layers
- On this day
- On a phone
- Rich text
- Sources
- Import
- Tags and collections
- Table view
- Relations
- Family trees
- Sharing
- Secrets and reveals
- Remix
- Embeds
- Six languages
- Collaborators and teams
- Comments
- Suggested edits
- Change history
- Posters and images
- Booklets
- Data export
Featured timelines
A few public timelines other people are sharing right now.
Start free, grow when you need to
Every plan gets the full viewer. Paid plans add room, history, collaborators, teams and more assistant credits.
What's your timeline?
Your first timeline takes a minute. Free, with no payment details needed.