# ChronoMap — Human history on a moving map > Interactive animated atlas and timeline of human history with detailed events and quizzes. (iPhone/iPad app by HOIPOI Co., Ltd..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chronomap/id6801120707 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [HOIPOI Co., Ltd.](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801120710) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 97 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-21 - Data updated: 2026-09-16 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chronomap/id6801120707/reviews.md ## What is ChronoMap? ChronoMap traces human history on a single world map and a single timeline. Move through time and the political map redraws itself, with events surfacing right where they happened. What was happening in China — or Japan — while Islam was spreading across the world? You can see it at a glance. ■ An animated atlas of 30,000 years 69 historical maps from 28,000 BC to the present. Press play and borders shift and flow. Switch between linear and logarithmic time scales to take in all thirty millennia at once. ■ 2,794 events and people, every one explained Every entry has a description, and major events have long-form commentary. Causes and consequences are linked, so one lookup leads naturally to the next. About 9,300 entries in total. ■ 52 narrated stories A thousand years of Rome, the Mongols, the Age of Exploration, the Onin War, the fall of the shogunate, the history of philosophy, the history of money, and a 16-volume story of Western art (584 works). The map flies to each scene, campaign routes extend, and borders change as chapters advance. Text-to-speech narration is supported. ■ Blank-map quizzes and drills Fill in a blank map: 195 countries with flags and capitals, Japan's 47 prefectures, 70 ritsuryo provinces, and historical maps from 500 BC to 1920. Drills for history, geography, and ethics offer year-entry and multiple-choice questions, filtered by era, region, and scope (favorites / missed questions). ■ Empires rising and falling Napoleon's France, the Japanese Empire. Guess how far the empire reaches next, tap the map, and watch the animated answer. ■ Relationship trees Eight themes — science, Western art, revolutions and nation-states, philosophy, Chinese history, Japanese history, the Islamic world, medieval Europe — laid out as chronological trees of people and events. ■ Collect cards, then review Answer quizzes correctly to collect event cards. Collected cards enter a spaced-repetition review queue (1 day → 3 days → a week → ...), with an optional daily reminder. ■ Geography built in Köppen climate zones, climographs for 80 cities, descriptions of the world's states and provinces, major rivers and landforms. ■ Search by place Type a place name and about 13,000 places match — cities, countries, regions, mountains, rivers, and historical states. Pick a city to see every power that ruled that spot through history (Paris: Rome → Francia → ... → France) and all events that happened there, across all eras. ■ Fully offline All data is bundled. Every feature works in airplane mode, from the first launch. ■ Japanese and English The entire app switches between Japanese and English with one tap. ■ Easy to trust - No ads, no in-app purchases, no account required - Your study records stay on your device and are never uploaded - No cookies, no identifiers * Historical borders and dates are simplified approximations for learning. Disputed regions and poorly documented eras are especially simplified. * Base map: Natural Earth / Historical borders: simplified from historical-basemaps (GPL-3.0) / Portraits and images: Wikipedia ## Key features - Animated historical maps from 28,000 BC to present - 2,794 explained historical events and people - 52 narrated historical stories - Blank-map quizzes and drills - Relationship trees for historical themes - Offline access to all data - Spaced-repetition review for collected cards ## Recent user reviews (5 of 5) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chronomap/id6801120707/reviews.md ### 5/5 — 時代の流れを目で追える *2026-09-11* とても楽しい。細切れの歴史の知識が地図で繋がっていく。 ### 1/5 — 何か意味あるんですか、コレ *2026-09-09* AIを使って実質16時間で仕上げたとの記事、拝見しました。 まあ、そういうクオリティですね。 間違いだらけどころか記述として意味不明な箇所も多く、とても実用には適いません。こんな訳わからん地図見てたらおかしくなりそう。 いや、開発者さんにとってはただの暇つぶしで、実用とか考えてないのは分かっているのですが。 ただ、歴史って目の前の情報を史実だと思えなければ何も面白くないじゃないですか。 「少なくとも現時点で史実とされている情報を提供してくれている」という信頼が持てないと、そのストーリーを「本当にあったこと」だと捉えられないでしょ。 実際に内容の精査が出来ているかどうかは関係なく、発信者は「ここにある情報は、私が責任を持って正確性を担保する所存です」という姿勢を崩しちゃいけないんじゃないですかね。そうでないと、受け手は萎えちゃいますよ。 それでいうと、このアプリはまさに、AIが確率に基づいて吐き出した数万の「それっぽい文字列」の寄せ集めなわけですが…… 本業がお忙しいでしょうから、誤っている箇所を今後修正していくとかそういうこともおそらく考えていませんよね。出来る量でもないし。 誰も真実性を担保出来ないAIポン出しのアプリとか、この現代ではもはや最も避けるべき情報源でしかない。 このアプリ、何か意味あるんですか。 ### 5/5 — 神アプリ *2026-09-09* 初めてインストールしたけど素晴らしいアプリでした ### 5/5 — 人を選ぶ上手く使えば最強最高のアプリ! *2026-09-09* 一言でこのアプリを表すと 「世界史版の辞書」確かに使いにくさはあるが極めればこれ以上の物はない。人を選ぶアプリであり上手く活用できれば得られる物は桁外れかなと。 情報量がすごく膨大で最高！！本当に無料でいいの？ってくらい。アプリ入れ立ての頃は情報量が膨大すぎて使いにくいさはあったが、慣れてしまったらもうこれ以外の世界史アプリは使えない。操作性が少し複雑なのでスマホってよりかはiPadだとかある程度大きい画面のものにインスールするのがおすすめ。年代を動かす際に少し重くなる（カクツキが生じる）ためある程度のスペックある電子機器に入れた方が快適かも。 ### 5/5 — 受験生へ *2026-09-02* 世界史選択の人はダウンロードすべき。 有料でも購入する価値あり。 細かい説明もありがたい。 一コメ。 ## Frequently asked questions about ChronoMap ### What is ChronoMap? ChronoMap is an educational app that visualizes human history on an animated world map and timeline. It allows users to explore historical events, political changes, and geographical information interactively. ### Does ChronoMap have ads? No, ChronoMap is ad-free and does not contain any in-app purchases or require an account. Your study records are kept private on your device. ### What historical periods does ChronoMap cover? ChronoMap covers approximately 30,000 years of human history, from 28,000 BC to the present, with 69 historical maps and detailed information on thousands of events and people. ### Can I use ChronoMap offline? Yes, ChronoMap is fully offline. All data is bundled within the app, allowing you to access all features, including the animated maps and event details, even in airplane mode. ### What kind of quizzes are available in ChronoMap? ChronoMap offers blank-map quizzes for countries, capitals, and historical regions, as well as drills with year-entry and multiple-choice questions filtered by era, region, and scope. ### How does ChronoMap track learning progress? The app includes a feature to collect event cards by answering quizzes correctly. These cards then enter a spaced-repetition review queue to help reinforce learning over time. ### What devices is ChronoMap available on? ChronoMap is available on iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices, indicated by its support for these platforms. ### How often is ChronoMap updated? The latest version of ChronoMap is 1.0.6, and it was last updated on September 7, 2026. This indicates a recent update cycle for the application. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.6 — 2026-09-07 The "Rivers": a continuous history for every country in the world. - Rivers of History: one line of cause and effect from prehistory to today. 103 rivers, from Japan, China and Europe to national histories, and every one of the 193 UN member states belongs to one. Each chapter asks a question, and the answer comes as you read. Choose "Key points / Standard / Detailed" to read at the level of a textbook's headings, bold terms or body text. - Rulers of the age, and the world at the same time: the king, emperor, president or prime minister in office at each section's year appears at the top (all reigns for Japan, China, England, Rome, Europe, the United States and Russia), and events from distant regions of the same years sit beneath every section. - Trunks and branches: regional trunks (Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and more) reread through each country's eyes, with "read in the trunk" and "read in another river" to follow one event across rivers. - Indigenous history: 41 new events and 25 sections for Native Americans and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, from the Iroquois Confederacy, the Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee and Alcatraz to Lake Mungo, the Stolen Generations, the Tent Embassy and the Voice referendum. - Histories of Power volumes 8 and 9: "The American Presidents" and "The Russian Tsars", with 45 presidents and 24 tsars pinned at their accession years. - New story: "Lenin: what did he build?", one life followed in 27 chapters, from his brother's execution to the sealed train, October and the testament. - The China, Korea and North Korea rivers were checked against Japanese high-school textbooks (Yamakawa): the Triple Intervention, the Twenty-One Demands, Manchukuo and the Lytton Commission, the Nanjing Incident, the Kanto earthquake massacre of Koreans, the Korean missions to Edo, the Pyongyang Declaration and the abductions, the comfort-women agreement and the forced-labour rulings, and the Senkaku Islands are now stated as the textbooks state them. - Improvements: pin detail levels in settings; timeline zooms to a single year; tap a place name to move the map there; fixed rulers from other countries appearing in a river and the map opening on Japan for other countries; story illustrations are now shown whole, with 14 mismatched pictures replaced. Now 6,308 events, 92 stories and 103 rivers. ### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-01 A big update to Story mode. - New series: Histories of Power, in 7 volumes: Japan's emperors, the emperors of China, the kings of England, the emperors of Rome, the popes, the kings of France and the German emperors. Each volume asks one question about why power endures, and an arrow traces where the seat of power moved, extending on the map as the chapters advance. - About 860 rulers pinned at their accession years: 126 emperors of Japan, China from Yu to today, 66 English monarchs, 179 Roman rulers, 34 popes, France from Hugh Capet to Macron, Germany from the Holy Roman Emperors to today's chancellor: all linked by "what followed", from Romulus to the present. - New stories: "Fifteen Years in the Quagmire: The Sino-Japanese War" and "Fire: the first power humans held", plus a new Religion shelf in the story list. - Share as image: build a picture with photo, locator map and QR code from any event or chapter, and post it to X, Facebook or LINE. Shared links now show it as their preview. - Improvements: the map quiz timer now starts when you press Start; event cards opened from stories show causes, aftermath and the favorite star; fixed place cards breaking when switching languages; "Save map as image" now saves to Photos on mobile. Now 3,870 events and 89 stories. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-08-29 - Stories of World Heritage has grown by 18 volumes to 20 in all: Painful Heritage, Heritage in Danger, Sacred Mountains, Megaliths and Empires, Living Cities, Memory of the Earth, The First Twelve, Dawn of Civilisation, The Theatre of Palaces, Houses of Prayer, Taming Water, Abandoned Cities, Memory of the Machines, What the Roads Carried, Making Heritage of the 20th Century, Making the Wild a Heritage, Walls and Fortresses, and a journey down Japan through all 27 of its sites from Shiretoko to the Ryukyus. Each volume asks one question, and the map flies to a site with every chapter. There are now 277 World Heritage cards covering 234 sites, each with its inscription year, site number and a link to the official page - Added a new series, History through Books: Sapiens, The Dawn of Everything, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Collapse, retraced chapter by chapter on the map and timeline. Every chapter carries the event cards the book draws on, plus a note on where current scholarship differs, and each volume closes with the book's answer and its critics - Rewrote Christianity: A Two-Thousand-Year Journey, Buddhism: The Road to Asia and Islam: The Story of Its Spread from the ground up, to the same standard as the other stories. The separate "tour" category is gone; everything reads as a story - Finishing a story now returns you to its place in the story list. The header now puts Stories first - Added a theme setting in the menu: follow the device, light or dark - On phones, the Previous and Next buttons for stories and article cards now sit at the top of the sheet where they are easier to reach. Fixed cards opened during a story that could not be scrolled or closed - Quiz journeys now count "questions" rather than "stops" - Fixed the Russian Empire label appearing over Britain (positioning for countries that cross the 180th meridian) - Fixed the event detail appearing to vanish when switching between Japanese and English with it open - The app now holds 3,034 events and 80 stories ### 1.0.3 — 2026-08-28 - Added a new series, Stories of World Heritage: an opening volume on why humanity decided to preserve things at all, and a Japan volume asking how a country built of wood and paper kept anything at all. All 27 of Japan's World Heritage sites appear - Added a World Heritage category. Turn the other categories off for a map of heritage sites alone, and each entry now shows its inscription year, site number and a link to the official UNESCO page - Added volume 15 of The Story of Art, Rivers That Merge, following the quarter-century after the war, including the Gutai group, Mono-ha and Yayoi Kusama within the wider world - Greatly expanded the Map Quiz: identify a country from its flag, or find the place from the name of a capital or prefectural capital. Also added a hard mode where correct answers are not filled in, timing for each question and for the whole run, and a ranking of your five best times per stage - Fixed a bug where a stage you had completely cleared could never be played again. You can now start over as many times as you like - Read-aloud now works throughout the app, not only in stories: quiz questions, event articles and the full-screen reader can all be read to you - Added sounds for correct and incorrect answers, which can be turned off from the menu - Added a setting to show pins from every era at once, so the categories you choose appear on a single map regardless of the time range - Added the mountains, volcanoes, plains, basins, peninsulas and major rivers of Japan, each with its own description, filling in a map that used to go blank when you zoomed in - Raised the maximum zoom considerably, so closely spaced places such as those in Kyoto and Nara can be tapped individually - Tidied up overlapping place, mountain and river names on the map and revised how label sizes grow as you zoom. The text size setting in the menu now applies to map labels as well - Fixed climographs not opening when tapping a city in the climate view. They can also be opened from a city's description - Fixed the menu closing every time you changed a setting inside it - Added a Reset view item to the menu for when a browser is left zoomed in and cannot be returned to normal ### 1.0.2 — 2026-08-26 - Added a link button to event details — copy a link to the event you're viewing, and whoever opens it starts with the details already showing - Added a link button to each story card to share a link that opens that story from the beginning - Added a Collection button in the header for one-tap access to your cards and favorites - Fixed event details sometimes not appearing right away when opening a shared link - Fixed switching languages sometimes pulling you back to a previous screen - Portraits and artwork now show author and license credits where attribution is required - Fixed a few events showing an incorrect image --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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