Here’s some of what’s in store for, or recently added to, TimeStory. These are just some key highlights—we’re constantly working on the app, and also have a huge backlog of smaller updates as well as larger, longer-term plans.
Have any requests? Want to put in a vote for one of these that you’re particularly waiting for? Send us an email!
Expect these in the next release or two!
Show a temporary highlight, labeled with dates, for any date or event your mouse moves over.
Blow past the current 500,000 BC limit for your geological timelines, with configurable scroll limits.
Also for those working on vast timescales, you'll be able to entirely disable dates and months, putting all events in terms of years.
Ideas in the planning, design, or concept stage
Compress a long timeline by hiding long blank areas between events, so you can scroll right past them.
Show a task's progress right on its event bar in the timeline.
Define your own fields for events and add them to the Inspector. Add Assignee to your project plans, Birth City to your family histories, and Source to your research timelines.
Assign different heights for specific rows which need more space for text or images.
Add bullet lists, headings, images, and more, to the description of any event or section, and do so in a nicer and larger editor.
Attach images to the background of your timeline, instead of to a specific event.
Draw arrows between events, to visualize project dependencies, historical relationships, or anything else.
Collect a set of events into a group. Drag them together. Collapse that group into a single summary event.
Set an event's start and/or end as approximate, to capture real-world uncertainty.
Some of our favorite features finished in 2025 and 2024
(See more at Release Notes)
Collapse any section or subsection into a thin strip, then click again to expand it. Put away timeline details until you need them.
Fill span-event bars with stripes or hatches, to call attention to them, mark them as tentative, or just to vary their look.
Add events in your long timeline to the new Bookmarks menu, to quickly scroll them into view.
The iPad edition became the iPad & iPhone edition, fully adapted to the new screens!
Allow scrolling to, and placing events in, the far past. Broke through the old technical limit of 4700 BC, extending back to 500,000 BC!
Lock any timeline with a password, encrypting its contents. An essential tool for people using TimeStory to communicate sensitive or medical information.
The second edition of TimeStory arrived on iPad, taking advantage of touch and Apple Pencil input, and fitting into iPadOS with a native UI and full support for multitasking.
A little thing, but often requested: TimeStory 3.6 finally provided a free-form zoom slider, instead of a set of fixed zoom levels.
