See history laid out end to end.
Place kings, prophets, exiles and empires on a single canvas. Stretch an event across four centuries or fix it to one hour, say plainly what is uncertain, and anchor the dates you are sure of while you work out the rest.
No account needed to start — open a worked example and edit it. Keep what you make by creating an account whenever you want to.
Overlapping events, color coding, notes and stated uncertainty — on one scrollable canvas.
Built for dates that refuse to sit still
Most timeline tools assume you know exactly when things happened. Ancient history rarely obliges.
Moments and periods together
A king's birth sits as a single point; his forty-year reign stretches beside it as a bar. Both live on the same canvas, and they are free to overlap.
Say how sure you are
Mark how much earlier or later a date could be — a few years, three months, an afternoon — and the canvas shades that stretch in soft bands around the solid best guess, instead of pretending to a precision nobody has.
Anchor and link
Anchor an event to its date so nothing dislodges it, or link events to one another so they move as a group, keeping their distance however the rest of the timeline shifts around them.
Notes that stay out of the way
Attach as much commentary as an event deserves. It collapses to a small icon until you click it, so a dense timeline stays readable.
Zoom from an hour to a millennium
Sweep out to see six thousand years at once, then drop in until a single afternoon fills the screen. Dates snap to the decade, year, month, week, day or hour — or to nothing at all.
Borrow other people's work
Lay any public timeline over your own to compare them, or import it outright and carry on editing. Either way the original author is credited.
How it works
Start with what you know
Double-click anywhere on the canvas to drop an event, or hold Shift and drag to sweep one out. Name it, color it, and set the date as precisely — or as loosely — as the evidence allows.
Anchor the fixed points
Anchor the dates you are confident about, and link events that belong together so they keep the gaps you chose. Everything else stays free to move while you work.
Stack it up
Scroll down for another row, and another. There is no ceiling on how many events can share the same stretch of time.
Publish, or keep it to yourself
Timelines are private by default. Make one public and it becomes searchable by text and by date, ready for anyone to overlay or import.
Start without signing up
Open a worked example and edit it straight away. Create an account when you want to keep it — an email address and a username is all it takes.
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