Best Timeline Apps

2. Venngage

Venngage is one of the best free timeline makers that offer tons of customizable templates for almost all sorts of design needs. It lets you create beautiful timelines in a matter of minutes – even if you don’t have any design experience. 

You can choose from dozens of minimalist or extensively customizable timeline templates and create your own compelling timeline using this tool.

The free plan allows you to create only 5 timelines and lacks an export option.

Platform: Free on desktop with premium features

3. Toggl Track

Toggl is an easy-to-use timeline app. The team timelines feature is a Gantt chart alternative that enables you to organize both the project and the team while the project scheduling module makes it a breeze to create visual roadmaps.

Toggl includes great time-saving features integrated with its intuitive interface. This is a great alternative to time-sheets if you need to track how much time you spend on different projects.

Platform: Android, iOS and desktop

4. Lucidchart

Lucidchart is a web-based timeline maker tool used by people in various industries to create detailed timelines out of images, data, or templates. With Lucidchart you can create flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, concept maps and many types of helpful visual communication.

It works on the principle that you drag and drop content pieces, so creating timelines is completely intuitive. Lucidchart is completely free for students and teachers.

Platform: Free on Android, iOS and desktop with premium features 

5. Asana

There’s no shortage of timeline app and to do lists out there, but Asana is one of the best options and has been for a while. The app lets you set up your projects and tasks intuitively, keep track of where your time’s going, set reminders of urgent jobs, and juggle multiple commitments at once. 

Asana Timeline provides flexibility to your plans which allows you to alter the plan according to the need of the hour. Moreover, all your team members can also see these alterations and work on them accordingly. You can integrate your Asana Timeline with a number and variety of third-party applications and software like Salesforce, Slack, Dropbox, Google Calendar, etc.

Asana Timeline is free to use for up to 15 users. 

Platform: Free on Android, iOS and desktop with premium features 

6. Visme

Visme is a free online timeline marker with professional templates and powerful features for advanced visualization. Their easy-to-use timeline templates provides a quick and easy way to create timelines. 

There are hundreds of thousands of icons and photos to add to your timelines. This offline app is particularly useful if you want to keep sensitive data on your local drive instead of the cloud.

Platforms: Free on desktop with premium features

7. Aeon Timeline

Aeon Timeline is the best timeline maker for Mac. It is an easy-to-use application that helps you create detailed timelines. Aeon Timeline maker provides you the flexibility to add date ranges in your timelines as per your liking. You can also color-code and label all parts of your project for an easier understanding.

Aeon Timeline is a flexible timeline creation tool meant for writers and other creative thinkers.  It does not support showing images on the timeline. You can try Aeon Timeline free for 14 days.

Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad

8. Timetoast

Timetoast is a web-based tool for creating interactive timelines. you can use to create timelines of different events. There is no upper limit to the number of events you can add but Timetoast recommends up to 50 items. Timetoast lets users create simple historical timelines with events displayed above a long horizontal bar.

There are thousands of public timelines to sift through and learn from; however, the lack of quality of many of them necessitates better curation than is currently offered. 

Timetoast has a free plan that lets you create unlimited public timelines.

Platform: Free on desktop with premium features

9. TikiToki

TikiToki is a cloud-based timeline maker that lets you create interactive timelines with a distinctive stylish graphical background. Unlike most other tools, Tiki-Toki lets users embed videos (YouTube, Vimeo, or MP4) directly in timelines.

This tool enables students to create interactive timelines in order to construct and present content knowledge. It also helps students easily understand events and dates in a visualized way as well as allowing them to actively participate in the learning process.

Platforms: Android, iOS and desktop

10. Timeline Maker Pro

Timeline Maker Pro is a Windows based Microsoft Office-like offline timeline creator application. There are a huge number of templates in horizontal, vertical, and Gantt chart formats available on this software.

Free usage for up to 14 days.

Platforms: Windows