Parallel: History Timeline

Parallel: History Timeline

Who lived at the same time?

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  • July 16, 2026
  • August 3, 2026

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Who lived at the same time as Mozart, Van Gogh, or Napoleon? Parallel lays out several timelines at once, and the connections that usually stay hidden appear at a glance. It's your tool for assembling history around what interests you. Nine curated collections come built in, from the arts and sciences to rulers, empires, buildings, and the events that shaped history. They make it easy to start and give you a taste of what Parallel can do. The rest is yours to shape. For the curious, for the classroom, for everyone who loves history. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Swipe and zoom through the millennia, from antiquity to today. • Line up exactly the collections that fascinate you. • Highlight a person and see their contemporaries at a glance, while everything else fades into the background. • Open any entry for a clear, concise biography or summary, with a link to Wikipedia. • Follow a single thread through time, filtered by topic, place, era, and more. • Create your own collections and fill them with what matters to you. Every built-in entry is carefully researched, historically grounded, and fact-checked. Buy once, no subscription. You buy Parallel just once. The Pro upgrade lifts every limit: unlimited collections and entries, importing your own collections from a spreadsheet (CSV), and exporting the whole timeline as a PDF. No hidden costs. If you want to go deeper into specific topics, optional premium collections are available. Private and offline Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no tracking. The app works completely offline. History belongs to everyone, but your data belongs to you.
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What's New in Parallel

1.1.0

August 3, 2026

In this version I focused on clarity and readability. Focus mode The contemporaries of an entry now get a view of their own, tidy and with no gaps between them. You can share that view as an image, by message or on social media. Who lived in a particular year? A double tap on the framed year above the timeline narrows everything down to that single year. Look up your own birth year and see what happened and who was alive at the time. Search now finds hidden collections too Collections you have hidden still appear in the search results. Those matches are listed separately, below the rest. Easier to read Font sizes now follow your iPhone text size everywhere, including the labels in the timeline. Plus many small improvements, such as clearer guidance when creating your own entries.

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Parallel Pro

No entry limit, CSV import, PDF export.