Comparison

Scoria vs Timeline Visualize

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Scoria

This app automatically tracks your location history, allowing you to analyze your travel and activities with detailed maps and statistics. All your data is stored locally on your device, ensuring complete privacy. Explore your movement patterns and visualize your journeys without compromising your personal information.

Highlights
  • Automatic location history tracking
  • Detailed movement maps with data colormapping
  • Offline map viewing and data caching
  • Export data to CSV or GPX
  • Always-on logging with battery optimization
  • Save favorite places with custom icons
Features
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Privately collect and analyze your location history. Scoria is your toolkit for automatically tracking activity, travel, and places visited. Make detailed and beautiful maps of your movement, all without your data ever leaving your device. Location data is deeply personal and sensitive, and we take privacy seriously. Data logged with Scoria is kept on your device where it is only accessible to you. We don't automatically collect any information about you or how you use the app. Check out the in-app introduction or visit https://scoria.info/privacy for more. See your movement in detail. · Log and view location, altitude, speed, time, course, location accuracy, and more. · Designed for always-on logging with automatic location accuracy adjustment to get high accuracy data when moving, and save battery when stationary. · Super low power modes when battery life is critical. Easily turn off logging with a tap. Make beautiful maps. · Data colormapping for speed, course, accuracy, time, altitude, etc. · Multiple map styles with varying levels of detail. · Save your favorite places to the map with up to 5 emoji for each icon. Powerful features. · See stats from your location history and a timeline of places visited. · Map data caching for offline map viewing and lower data use. · Export selected data to CSV or GPX. Why Scoria? · Scoria is free — We believe everyone should have the tools to understand what their location data says. Scoria’s core features will always be private and free. · Easy to use — Scoria makes it easy to dive into your location history and make beautiful visualizations. · Scoria is private — We don’t spy on you to show you targeted ads or sell your data. Privacy is at the core of our mission. For more about Scoria's privacy, see our short and readable privacy policy at https://scoria.info/privacy.

About

Timeline Visualize

Features
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Turn your trips into an animated travel map video, a 3D photo globe, travel posters and a journal you can watch. Timeline Visualize finds trips automatically from the dates and locations in your photo library, maps the countries and cities you have visited on a 3D globe, and turns each trip into an animated route video, travel poster, postcard or printable PDF photo book. You can also pick photos and short clips yourself, tap the map to place photos without GPS, or import a location history export to map years of travel. AUTOMATIC TRIP DISCOVERY & 3D PHOTO GLOBE • Finds trips and special days in your photo library automatically • Spin your 3D photo globe and explore the countries, regions and cities you have visited • Browse all your trips by year in the Trips tab, with route distance and visited places • Create year and month travel recaps from your journeys MAP VIDEOS, POSTERS, POSTCARDS & PDF PHOTO BOOKS • Animated route video: photos and clips pop up on the map at the places they were taken • Travel posters, postcards and 4-photo strips ready to save and share • Printable PDF photo book generated from your trip moments and captions • Share a web link to a journey: friends open the route and photos in their browser without installing anything, and you can remove the link at any time HOW IT WORKS • Let the app find trips in your photos, pick trip photos and clips, or import a Timeline JSON export • Or start with a sample journey: Paris, Tokyo, New York and more • Preview the journey and set exact dates and times • Pick a map style, camera movement, route colour and emoji pin • Export a portrait, square or landscape video, poster, postcard or PDF photo book MADE FOR SHARING • Long flights and drives speed up, so local moments stay easy to follow • Label-free map themes for a clean look • Trim a clip and keep or mute its sound • Add music and sound effects to your video • Every video is kept in History on your device FREE AND FULL Free covers journeys from the latest 90 days, up to 3 photos or clips per journey (one of them can be a video clip), and 720p video with a Timeline Visualize watermark. Full unlocks every older date, unlimited photos and clips, 4K Ultra HD and 1080p video without the watermark, premium poster designs, the cinematic camera view, and re-creating saved journeys. Full is available as an auto-renewing subscription, a single-trip unlock, or a one-time lifetime purchase; the plans on offer are shown in the app. YOUR DATA Videos are created on your device. There is no sign-in and no live location tracking. Your journeys are kept on this device. With cloud saving on, your journeys, photos and locations are also backed up to cloud servers under a random ID the app creates, not an account; you can turn it on or off, restore journeys from it, or request deletion, in the app at any time. A web link is created only when you choose to share a journey; its route and photos are then visible to anyone who has the link, until you remove it. Product analytics are on by default and can be turned off in the app. Works with location history exported from Google Maps Timeline. Timeline Visualize is not affiliated with Google. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your account settings. Terms of Use: https://timeline.barbarda.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://timeline.barbarda.com/privacy Map data © CARTO, © OpenStreetMap contributors Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Scoria4 screens
Timeline Visualize4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scoria at none against Timeline Visualize's 10. Timeline Visualize's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Timeline Visualize sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Scoria asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scoria ships an update every 3 months, Timeline Visualize daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Scoria versus Timeline Visualize: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScoriaTimeline Visualize
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB175 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAperture Beam Technologies, Inc.Mert Can Kasapoglu

In-app purchases

None

Scoria

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Timeline Visualize

Subscriptions5
  • Timeline Visualize Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Timeline Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Timeline Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
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  • Full, yearly$19.991 Year
  • Annual Pro Access3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time5
  • Just this video$2.99
  • Timeline Visualize Full$8.99
  • Timeline Visualize Full$12.99
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  • Full, lifetime$39.99
  • Timeline Visualizer Pro$49.99

Questions

Is Scoria free?
Scoria is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timeline Visualize free?
Timeline Visualize is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Scoria or Timeline Visualize have ads?
Neither Scoria nor Timeline Visualize shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scoria or Timeline Visualize?
Scoria ships an update every 3 months, and Timeline Visualize daily. Most recently, Scoria was updated on October 24, 2026 and Timeline Visualize on October 25, 2026.

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