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Aeon Timeline and TimelineTraveler compared
Aeon Timeline is an installed app for Mac, Windows and iOS, used by writers, legal professionals and researchers. It links events to people, places and other entities.
TimelineTraveler is an interactive timeline you can zoom from billions of years ago down to a single minute, with parallel lanes for stories that happen at the same time.
Facts about Aeon Timeline come from its own website, checked on September 24, 2026. Prices are in US dollars and can change.
Side by side
| Topic | Aeon Timeline | TimelineTraveler |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | An installed app on Mac, Windows and iOS | In the browser. Share by link or embed it in a page. |
| Price | $65 once, with a year of updates. $35 a year for further updates. 14-day free trial. | Free plan. Creator is $8 a month ($72 a year) and Pro is $20 a month ($192 a year). |
| Custom calendars | Full custom calendars with your own months, weekdays, eras and leap rules | Custom era names such as BBY and ABY, with whole years only |
| Writing apps | Syncs with Scrivener and Ulysses | No direct connection. CSV import and export. |
| Structure | People, places and relationships linked to events | Events in lanes, with events inside events and tags |
What Aeon Timeline has that we do not
- Its custom calendars go much further: invented months, weekdays and leap rules.
- It links events to people and places and tracks relationships between them.
- It syncs with Scrivener and Ulysses.
- It works offline, and you can pay once instead of subscribing.
What TimelineTraveler does
- More events appear as you zoom in
- An event opens to show the events inside it when it is wide enough on screen, from billions of years ago down to a single minute.
- Parallel lanes
- Each lane is a row with its own name and colour on one shared time axis, so readers see what happened in each at the same moment.
- Sources on every event
- Each event can list links, titles and quotes. Events from an AI draft are marked unverified until you check them.
- Start without an account
- Open the editor and build a timeline. It is stored in your browser until you sign in.
Moving from Aeon Timeline
Choose TimelineTraveler if you want to share a timeline by link, embed it in a wiki or website, or work on it with a co-editor in the browser, and whole-year era names are enough for your world.
To move events across, put them in a spreadsheet with columns such as title, start, end and lane, save it as a CSV file, and import it in the editor.
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Try it with your own events
Open the editor and import a CSV, or start a blank timeline. You do not need an account to start.
Open the editor