This serves as our Press Kit as well as our general About page for anyone interested. Scroll down to find the story of the app, tons of facts, and images and screenshots you're free to use.
TimeStory lets you create any kind of graphical timeline, from project plans and product roadmaps to family stories and historical research. (See below for the kinds of things it's been used for.) Timeline authoring is designed to be fast, simple, visual, and direct. Despite its ease of use, it provides advanced features for styling, filtering, structuring, importing, exporting, and more.
There are Mac and iPad editions of TimeStory, sold separately. These share common code, can open and edit the same documents with full fidelity, and can work together via Handoff and iCloud Drive sync, but each one was designed and built specifically for its platform using native UI technologies.
TimeStory is built by Aaron Trickey, an independent developer and the owner of Casual Programmer, LLC. Its design, direction, and testing are in partnership with his wife Hemi. Aaron's background includes many years of programming on various platforms and a variety of development and leadership roles at a few different companies before going solo.
Over our careers in software and technology, we have often needed to create, present, and iterate on timelines for projects, products, and tasks. Sometimes we'd reach for a project management app, but those are often complex and cumbersome to use, especially for rough estimates and quick iteration, and often limited in formatting and layout choices. Other times, we'd manually lay out a timeline in a spreadsheet or drawing app, but these documents are hard to update, search, manage, and use as a timeline—the app just thinks it's a grid or a picture.
In 2019, we started designing TimeStory to fill this gap with a native Mac app. We wanted a free-form timelining tool which could support project and product planning, as well as historical and personal timelines. We always intended to bring a touch-first version of this app to iPad, and in 2024, we shipped 1.0 of TimeStory iPad Edition, with a redesigned, native interface, built on the same core timeline logic.
Here are a few of the customers who've shared their stories with us:
Please email support@timestory.app for bug reports, feature requests, or any general input, or media@timestory.app for press or media inquiries.
Note: The images below are up to date for the Mac edition, but iPad images are still in progress.
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