FieldTrip Hub vs Parallel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FieldTrip Hub
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A field trip is a jounery to an outside area of the daily routine normal classroom studies where children come in contact with nature's creation of mountains, forest, waterfall, rivers, so on.. This is will enhance the great motivation, self responsible and intreact with each others by having different experiences and learn real life lessons. There can be numerous visit places where students can explore hands-on opportunities and experience same. Furthermore, the application shows, Trip details such as starting date/time to ending date/time of trip along with the location. The Chaperone will be allocated to take responsiblity of each students during the trip. Calendar, show the date of the Trip followed by past trip, current trip and upcoming trip. Have a Safe Journey.. Cheers
Parallel
Explore historical connections by viewing multiple timelines simultaneously. Discover who lived at the same time as historical figures and events. Create custom collections or use curated ones to delve into specific eras and topics.
- View multiple historical timelines
- Discover contemporaries at a glance
- Access concise biographies with Wikipedia links
- Create custom history collections
- Offline functionality
- Private and no tracking
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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. Ten curated collections come built in, from earth history and the arts to sciences, 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. • Bring dates and the Wikipedia link straight from Wikidata into your own entry. • 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. • Zoom out from a single year all the way to 13.8 billion years. Every built-in entry is carefully researched, historically grounded, and fact-checked. Try it for free Ancient Rome is included as a ready-made sample collection, no Pro needed. In a few seconds you see how a collection comes together, and it stays with you afterwards. Buy once, no subscription. You buy Parallel just once. The Pro upgrade lifts every limit: unlimited collections and entries, creating and filling your own collections from a spreadsheet or from copied text, your own copies of the built-in collections, 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 Your entries stay on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no tracking. The app works offline. Only the Wikidata look-up needs an internet connection. History belongs to everyone, but your data belongs to you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FieldTrip Hub at none against Parallel's 4. FieldTrip Hub also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Parallel's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 18 months). On price and ads 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
Both are free to download. Parallel sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. FieldTrip Hub asks for nothing beyond the download.
FieldTrip Hub ships an update every 18 months, Parallel every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FieldTrip Hub | Parallel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Parino | Anatol Knotek |
In-app purchases
FieldTrip Hub
No in-app purchases
Parallel
- Painters & Sculptors XL$1.99
- Buildings XL$1.99
- Science & Technology XL$1.99
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- Parallel Pro$3.99
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