Whenly: Before or After
Before or after? Daily history
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
One event. One year. One call: BEFORE or AFTER?
Whenly is a daily history game about a skill you didn't know you had — placing moments in time. See an event, see a year, and decide which came first. Simple to start, genuinely hard to finish.
TEN QUESTIONS, TIGHTENING
Every game is a quick ten-question run. Question 1 gives you centuries of room; by question 10 the gap is a single year and the clock is tight. A miss never ends your run — you always play all ten — but only a perfect run earns the title. The Near-Miss Reveal shows exactly how close you came on a timeline, and tells you one thing worth knowing about what just happened.
WHENLY DAILY
Ten questions, identical for every player in the world, one attempt a day. Share your emoji grid, build a streak, and climb a global leaderboard that is scored on our servers — not on your phone.
THE MUSEUM
Every event you place correctly becomes a card in a permanent collection, arranged along your own timeline of history. Rarer events, rarer cards.
RACE A TIME TRAVELER
Go head-to-head against characters with their own quirks and specialities — or against a ghost of your own best run.
EVERY DATE, CHECKED
A trivia game is only as good as its facts. All 1,000 events were verified against Wikipedia and Wikidata by an automated pipeline, and every one the pipeline couldn't confirm was researched and resolved by hand. No date ships unchecked.
Plays offline. No ads. No account required — you can start playing the second it opens.
More variety in every game.
A quirk in the difficulty rules meant the early questions could only ever come from a handful of categories — Film & TV and Pop Culture could never appear before the later levels at all. That's retuned. All eight categories can now turn up at any level, so no two games open the same way.
Also new:
• Daily reminder — pick a time and keep your streak alive
• Share a solo run, not just the Daily
• Your streak now shows on the home screen while there's still time to save it
• A readable Museum timeline: each era gets equal space, instead of everything crowding into the right-hand edge
• VoiceOver labels throughout, and a status bar that's actually visible in light mode
The developer, JACK DOUGLAS FRENCH, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- JACK DOUGLAS FRENCH
- Size
- 35.8 MB
- Category
- Trivia
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jack French
