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TimeStory for Mac and TimeStory for iPad & iPhone are graphical timeline drawing apps, for everything from project plans and product roadmaps to family stories and historical research. Timeline authoring is designed to be fast, simple, visual, and direct. Despite their ease of use, they provide advanced features for styling, filtering, structuring, importing, exporting, and more.
The two apps apps are 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, without compromise.
Both apps are built by Aaron Trickey and Hemi Trickey, a husband/wife team in the suburbs of Chicago. Aaron writes all the code; the design, testing, sample timelines, documentation, and business are a joint effort. 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 in 2019; Hemi worked from programming roles up into corporate leadership and architecture roles before moving her focus to join Aaron in 2025. (Astute observers will notice the shift from "I" to "we" in release notes and news text around that time.)
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 built 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 released the iPad app in 2024, and extended that app to iPhone in 2025.
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.
