Timelines is an easy-to-use yet powerful time tracking app that helps you understand how you spend your day, improve your productivity, and build better habits. Track work, personal activities, health routines, and daily habits in one place, then visualize your time with an interactive timeline and charts to uncover patterns and make the most out of your time.
I personally wasn't happy with the way I was spending my time, so I decided to build a tool to help myself and others figure out a way to become more efficient. Timelines has been enabling me and other users to understand where our time is actually going, helping us improve our routines, build better habits, increase productivity, and achieve more in our personal and professional lives. I sincerely believe it can do the same for you.
– Lukas Petr, founder of Timelines
Timelines has been featured by Apple (New Apps We Love, App of the Day), and reviewed on 9To5Mac, MacStories, 9To5Mac, Tech Crunch, The Verge, Wired, and more.
▶ WHAT CAN YOU TRACK?
Timelines can help you track and understand how you spend time across all areas of your life:
- Work tasks and projects
- Personal activities and daily routines
- Habits and self-improvement goals
- Workouts, sleep, and health data
- Study sessions and learning
- Hobbies, side projects, and free time
- Family and social activities
- Anything you can imagine
▶ QUICK DATA ENTRY
- track work, habits, health, or any activity you want
- control tracking with just 1 tap
- grid mode of timers
- track from Home Screen with powerful widgets
- see your current activity on Lock Screen as a Live Activity
- easily edit and add past events
▶ POWERFUL VISUALIZATIONS
- see how you spend your time on an interactive timeline
- playful statistics mode with pie chart
- see trends over time using bar chart
- subcategories - breakdown of your events
- quickly filter categories
▶ SYNC BETWEEN DEVICES
- have an always up-to-date backup of your data with Timelines Cloud
- sync between your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, in real-time
- sign in using your email address or your Apple ID
▶ GOALS
- define daily, weekly, and monthly time-based goals
- see your progress and stay on track
- periodic reports with rich notifications
- get rewarded for reaching a goal with confetti
▶ AUTOMATIONS
- build workflows with Siri Shortcuts
- use Siri to start and stop timers
- import workouts, sleep, and meditation from Apple Health
▶ AND MORE
- detailed PDF and CSV exports
- timely and customizable reminders
- archive unused categories
- lots of possible customizations
▶ APPLE WATCH APP
- watch face complication for quick access
- haptic feedback on start and stop of timers
- set event names using dictation or choose from recent
- adjust start and end times using the digital crown
- see active timer’s duration and category on watch face
- real-time sync with iPhone and iPad using Timelines Cloud
- see list of past past entries and edit them easily
- daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly statistics
▶ WHAT IS FREE?
- track up to 3 categories
- basic exporting
- pie chart
- see events on a timeline
- events log
- reminders
▶ TIMELINES PRO
- sync between devices
- unlimited categories
- bar chart
- goals
- detailed exports
- import from Apple Health
- subcategories
- support development
Timelines has been in active development for over 9 years now. Lots of effort, attention and care went into every detail of the app.
Start taking control of your time today. In just a few days, you'll begin to understand your habits, improve your productivity, and make better decisions about how you spend your time.
I love working on Timelines, and a big part of my vision is to listen closely to users and incorporate their feedback. If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to me at
lukas@timelines.app.
– Lukas Petr, founder of Timelines
* Privacy policy: https://timelines.app/privacy/
* Terms of Use: https://timelines.app/terms/
Time is like money: we never have enough, and we often can’t remember how we spent it. Timelines is razor-sharp instrument in our time-management toolkit, letting us categorize and visualize where the hours in our hectic days are going. We love it for everything from tracking billable time on projects to making sure we’re setting aside chunks of our week to relax with loved ones.
Nearly Perfect!
Biyxtren
I started using this for a bit of a different reason than most.. It always seemed to me that my cats laid with my partner more than me 😅 so I started tracking when they laid with me (turns out they lay with me a lot too 😂🥰). I’m ADHD so I have really bad time blindness (things that I think take forever take practically no time and things I think take a ridiculously long time rarely do) so I started using this for basically everything and it has been so helpful! I’ve tried some others and this is definitely my favorite. I like the UI far better than others and I love that you can track more than one thing at a time. It would be awesome if you could track more than one thing at a time from the same timeline, but there’s ways around that not being a feature so it’s not worth losing any stars over. The only other thing is that I would really like a one time option to reorder your timelines. The reason for this is that the first 3 timelines I set up were the workouts, sleep, and meditation ones since it had prompts to do so. The problem is that if you no longer have pro, you are only allowed 3 timelines and those 3 only import if you have pro. There are other things that I would much rather track since those items are tracked in the Health app, but the only way I can see to rearrange them is to delete and reimport them (but I’ve added my own edits as well so I would lose those if I did that).But overall I love this app. And I’ve emailed the dev before, and they are very kind and responsive which is always a major plus!
Easy and Robust
Obsidianwinged
After reading 168 Hours, I really want to track my time and identify those opportunities in my week that I am wasting and to discover why I feel so tired all the time. The problem…. Time and ease. I really did not need another spreadsheet in my to do list(also on a spreadsheet).This tool makes it easy to track and analyze time usage at a glance. The best feature? Dual tracking. Yes I commute an hour each day, but I also “read” an hour a day during the same time period. I get my hair colored, but I grocery shop by shopping online for pickup at this time. If I am extremely tired during a week, I have found out it is because I have squeezed in too many multitasking time periods and not enough single focus activities like meditation, hiking or crafting. I able to adjust and feel more rested before I feel entirely spent. Love it! My next use for it? Using it to claim back the time I give to the takers at work… how much time am I doing what I think is important as opposed to fixing someone else’s emergency. I can’t wait to see the results? Is it as bad as I think it is or am just I oversensitive…. I can’t wait to find out! Thank you for this excellent tool!
I live by this app…
KenBotwinick
I use this app nonstop all day every day for years now. This isn’t just a time tracking app. You could use it for a full journaling solution. I journal extensively about health, fitness, nutrition, studies, all kinds of metrics. What food I eat and when, what supplements I take and when, how much piano I practiced, how much Chinese I studied and what kind of lesson it was, notes about my weightlifting, different physical symptoms I’m currently trying to improve, my mood, etc. The flexibility of the app lets me set it up exactly the way I want. Being able to use my Apple Watch to make entries ridiculously quickly is so helpful. I use the widgets to track daily goals. I export the data to CSV files and import it into a database so that I can integrate it with a custom solution I have to give me a 360° view of my entire life. The developer is incredibly friendly and helpful and responsive. In my opinion this app should have millions of users using it. I hope the developer always continues to maintain it because I would literally be lost without it. I have never found a better solution to solve the problem that I solve with this app.
• Various small bugfixes and improvements.
Version 4.2.3
The developer, Lukas Petr, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Purchases
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Lukas Petr
Size
70 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
