News & Updates

Version 2.2.1 is out, with a small fix to the calendar picker.

TimeStory version 2.2 for iPad/iPhone is now out! This brings the ability to add links to title and description text in your timelines, for use while browsing in the app or in PDF exports. This is particularly important for historical timelines with external sources, but it can be useful for anyone who wants to reference more info than can fit in an event’s description. Learn more at the release notes!

TimeStory 4.1 is now out, with a new UI for comfortably editing long description text, support for custom event properties, better support for re-importing from exported CSV files, and more! It’s a big update; see details in the release notes.

TimeStory for iPad/iPhone 2.1 is also out. This is a smaller update, for compatibility with the Mac edition’s 4.1, the corresponding CSV features, and a bug fix.

Version 4.0.3 is out, fixing three bugs: one when importing from CSV with the “update” option, one affecting anyone entering BC dates in the Inspector on a Mac set to a non-English locale, and one that caused some odd-looking layout on some Inspector fields on macOS Tahoe.

Details in the release notes. As always, thanks to the customers who reported these problems.

Version 4.0.2 is out, fixing a couple of bugs related to text input in the Description and Title fields of the Inspector. These bugs could potentially cause those fields to be set to blank when selecting multiple events. Details in the release notes Thanks to the user who reported them, and apologies for the error!

Version 4.0.1 was just released. This fixes a single bug in 4.0.

As described in the release notes:

When you use the right or left arrow keys to nudge an event forward or backward, TimeStory flashes a little tooltip with the date, so you can place the event precisely even if individual days aren’t visible. In 4.0, however, a bug caused this tooltip to show the date you were moving from, not the date you were moving to, making it easy to accidentally put an event on the wrong day.

(Since this could result in people entering incorrect dates, we decided to push out an update as soon as we found it. Sorry for missing this earlier!)

Version 4.0 for Mac and 2.0 for iPad/iPhone are now out!

We’ve refreshed the UI, rethinking some controls to remove modes and taps, and taken advantage of some of new Apple OS features.

On iPadOS 26, Apple added support for Mac-style main menu bars at the top and easily resizable and movable multiple windows, and TimeStory for iPad now leans into this. We took care to fill in the main menu, provide quick ways to create new windows, and support any window size. (These features were probably our favorites of all of Apple’s 2025 OS announcements.)

On macOS, we’ve pulled some controls out of the crowded toolbar, moving them into clearer, simpler, dedicated controls floating at the bottom of the document. (On macOS 26, they use a form of the new Liquid Glass material.) We also updated the look of the Inspector, tweaked a number of menus and controls, and more.

On both platforms, there’s a new, often-requested “Event Lock” feature, for when you want to avoid accidentally moving events around while working on other things. There are also some bug fixes and smaller changes picked up during the several months this version has been under development. Check the full release notes for details!

Version 3.10 (Mac) and 1.7 (iPad/iPhone) are now out. On Mac, get a new vertical hover line to help point out dates (kind of like the Stocks app). On both platforms, push your prehistoric timelines back to 1 million BC, with improved date formatting, and your exports will handle gridlines better. Plus other improvements and bugfixes; full details in the release notes.

Version 3.9.3 is now out. This small update takes care of a couple of problems that appeared when running TimeStory on the latest update of macOS, 15.5, in the app’s toolbar.