Comparison

FieldTrip Hub vs Parallel

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

Head to head
About

FieldTrip Hub

Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

FieldTrip Hub4 screens
Parallel4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Parallel sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. FieldTrip Hub asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
FieldTrip Hub versus Parallel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFieldTrip HubParallel
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 18 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn ParinoAnatol Knotek

In-app purchases

None

FieldTrip Hub

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Parallel

One-time4
  • Painters & Sculptors XL$1.99
  • Buildings XL$1.99
  • Science & Technology XL$1.99
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  • Parallel Pro$3.99

Questions

Is FieldTrip Hub free?
FieldTrip Hub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parallel free?
Parallel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FieldTrip Hub or Parallel have ads?
Neither FieldTrip Hub nor Parallel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FieldTrip Hub or Parallel?
FieldTrip Hub ships an update every 18 months, and Parallel every 3 weeks. Most recently, FieldTrip Hub was updated on November 3, 2026 and Parallel on October 31, 2026.

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