Truly Simple Timeline was built by a professional author to keep track of narrative arcs, story beats, and character moments across a novel. It’s a clean, tactile workspace where you can add events individually or in bulk, drag and drop them across centuries or hours, and adjust all your milestones whenever and however you please.
Features:
• Intuitive interface: Drag and drop events across hours, days, or centuries.
• Flexible event types: Mix large-scale narrative arcs, single-date events, and duration periods seamlessly.
• Paper-like design: Organize with a curated color palette of warm creams, slate blues, and earthy greens, paired with your own custom hues.
• Reliable device sync: Your data flows effortlessly between your Mac, iPad, and iPhone, and your sync status is viewable any time.
• Fully accessible: Built natively for Apple devices with full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, and high-contrast readability.
• Share timelines: Export timelines, which can then be imported into another device running TS Timeline (where it can be viewed, edited, etc)
• Pay once, keep forever: All core features are free. Unlock unlimited timelines with a single one-time, lifetime in-app purchase. No subscriptions, no ads, no hidden fees.
Great app for keeping track of story elements! My only complaint is that there does seem to be a way to use the horizontal display. From the screenshots, I thought you could choose between a vertical timeline and a horizontal one, but I cannot find how to do that. Other than that, it’s great and easy to use!
It’s okay
Moroama
It’s functional enough and I guess it will work to keep track of my events but I wish it was more visually appealing. Like I don’t want to have to scroll and scroll horizontally to see my entire timeline. Also really annoying that in order to create a timeline you have to pick a start and end date when my story does not involve dates so I just had to pick a start date at random and I don’t know how long yet I want the events to carry on so I also had to pick an end date at random which again throws the entire thing off visually. In other words it will do for now but it is not very visually appealing
Indubitably
Ringing ringer
Very helpful to map out my stories!
• Share your timelines: export any timeline to a file and import it into another copy of Truly Simple Timeline
• Added a confirmation step before deleting a timeline, so nothing disappears by accident
• Smoother timeline loading on Mac: no more flicker when a timeline first opens
• Improved VoiceOver support and color contrast for better accessibility
• Bug fixes and refinements
Version 1.0.9
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