Comparison

World Timeline vs Knovli

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

Head to head
About

World Timeline

Explore world history visually with an interactive globe and a comprehensive timeline. Tap events to learn their significance and generate study prompts. Designed for homeschoolers and students, it offers a big-picture view of civilizations and historical moments.

Highlights
  • Interactive globe with shifting political maps
  • Scrollable timeline from Creation to present
  • Detailed event descriptions and significance
  • Study playground for AI prompt generation
  • Offline functionality
  • Year-by-year political map redraws
Features
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World Timeline turns the whole span of world history into something you can hold in your hand and explore. Spin an interactive globe and watch the political map redraw itself century by century. Scrub a single timeline from Creation to the present day. Read one short history lesson a day. Built for homeschool families, students, and anyone who has ever wondered what was happening in China while Rome was falling. WHAT'S INSIDE Daily Study - new A guided reading a day, with your place kept for you. The first guide, World History in 30 Days, walks from the Tower of Babel to the edge of living memory. Each day is a 5 to 8 minute reading: what happened, what else was going on in the world at that same moment, what historians are sure of and what is still argued about, and one question to talk over at the table. Tap a place in the reading and the globe opens to it in that very year; tap an event and its full entry opens. A new chapter unlocks each day, and more guides are on the way. Interactive Globe A year-by-year political map reaching back to 4000 BC. Move the year slider and borders, empires and nations shift in front of you. Tap a region to see who held it at that moment and read a full write-up on that people or nation. Search any person, place or event and jump straight to it. Timeline More than six thousand years on one scrollable canvas, from Creation in 4004 BC to today, across 37 parallel streams of civilizations, rulers, inventions, wars and turning points. Era blocks give the ancient world as much room as the modern one, so you can see which powers were rising while others fell. Events A searchable, filterable list of more than 1,700 events and 200 historical figures: Biblical events, ancient battles, city foundings, voyages of exploration, scientific milestones. Tap any one to jump to it on the globe and the timeline. Study Playground Pick the people, places and events you are studying and generate a ready-made study prompt for ChatGPT or Claude, with one-tap presets for a dozen major topics. Works offline The globe, every historical map frame, the daily readings and all the history data ship inside the app. No account, no login, no signal required. BUILT FOR HOMESCHOOL World Timeline is made by a homeschool dad to give kids the big-picture view a textbook chapter cannot: how the stories, civilizations and events of the past line up on one map and one timeline. It pairs with any history curriculum. The chronology follows the Masoretic text as computed by Archbishop Ussher: Creation in 4004 BC, the Flood in 2348 BC, the Tower of Babel about 2242 BC, the Exodus in 1491 BC - the dates printed in most Bible margins and used by most homeschool curricula. History is presented in an atlas-style voice and, where relevant, from a Biblical perspective, so families can use the lens that fits their studies. World History in 30 Days is written for every family, not only Christian ones. The first reading lays out the framework the guide is dated by; from there the days are ordinary world history. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL UPGRADE World Timeline is free to download and everything above is included. Ads appear occasionally as you explore, and a one-time in-app purchase removes them permanently. There is no subscription. Everyone who bought the app before it went free keeps the full ad-free version automatically. A NOTE ON ACCURACY History is big and the record is imperfect. Historical borders come from a public research dataset that maps political control at snapshot years; between two snapshots the app shows the most recent mapped borders and labels which year they are from, rather than inventing a map. Dates and details are simplified for clarity, and reasonable sources disagree. Use World Timeline as a learning companion and a starting point for deeper study. If you spot something wrong, the About tab has a feedback form and every message gets read by an actual person. Made by BlessedHomeschoolDad.com

About

Knovli

Features
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Knovli makes learning genuinely fun — whether you're a student cramming for an exam or a teacher running a live classroom game. FOR STUDENTS - STUDY YOUR WAY Review and master content your way: • Flashcards — classic study mode to lock in vocabulary • Multiple Choice — test your recall under pressure • Speed Quiz — race the clock and sharpen your thinking • Vocab Maze — explore words in a whole new way • The Daily Quiz — every day at midnight, a brand-new quiz drops covering today's top news headlines. Stay sharp. Stay informed. Vocabulary Decks and Quizzes can be gamified to make learning on Knovli even more fun! • Solo — play to see how well you can do OR play in ranked mode and see how you compare to the world! • 1v1 — challenge a friend and go head-to-head • Group Play — play against a group of friends and see who comes out on top. You can also play as teams in group mode if that's your thing. A LIBRARY BUILT FOR REAL LEARNING Knovli includes a broad, ever-growing library of quizzes and flashcard sets spanning history, geography, science, literature, current events, pop culture, and more. From AP® U.S. History and Constitutional Amendments to Europe Geography Map Quizzes and Halloween trivia — there's always something new to explore and master. CONTENT CREATION IS A CLICK AWAY AND CREATED YOUR WAY! • Create flashcard decks and quizzes using our easy-to-use authoring tools, OR • Use AI to create flashcard decks and quizzes from your handwritten notes or uploaded documents! KNOVLI IS READY FOR TEACHERS Teachers get the tools they actually need: • Build and manage classes with ease • Assign specific content to your students • Track individual student progress • Run live group games that the whole class can play together • Easily create vocabulary mastery plans for your entire class • Create custom rewards for your students for studying or completing quizzes, such as homework and late work passes. Teachers set the requirements and the rewards. Students join the fun through the same gameplay they love, while teachers stay in control of the learning. KNOVLI ATLAS Explore geography and expand your world knowledge with Knovli Atlas — a dedicated space for map-based learning. SIGN IN YOUR WAY Create your Knovli User Profile and sign in with Google, Apple, or Microsoft — whatever works best for you. HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT The built-in Help Center lets you browse FAQs, get support, and track your requests — all without leaving the app. Knovli is where studying meets gameplay. Download free and start playing smarter today. — This app offers auto-renewable subscriptions: • Student (Individual) — month — $2.99 • Knovli Teacher — month — $9.99 • Knovli Premium — month — $4.99 • Teacher — month — $9.99 • Knovli Teacher PRO — month — $19.99 Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://knovli.com/tos.html Privacy Policy: https://knovli.com/privacy

Screenshots

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Knovli4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Knovli at weekly against World Timeline's every 3 weeks. Knovli also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. World Timeline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Knovli sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

World Timeline ships an update every 3 weeks, Knovli weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
World Timeline versus Knovli: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorld TimelineKnovli
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size225 MB46 MB
Age rating+49+
DeveloperMatthew WasheHarborframe Labs LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

World Timeline

One-time1
  • Unlock World Timeline$0.99
12 purchases

Knovli

Subscriptions3
  • Mind Match Education Premium$4.991 Month
  • Mind Match Education Teacher$9.991 Month
  • Mind Match Education Teacher -$19.991 Month
One-time9
  • AI Written Answers Pack: 250$1.99
  • Question Sets/Apply What You K$1.99
  • AI Page Scans: 100$2.99
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  • AI Written Answers Pack: 1000$4.99
  • Question Sets/Apply What You K$4.99
  • AI Page Scans: 250$5.99
  • AP Page Scans: 500$9.99
  • Question Sets/Apply What You K$9.99
  • AI Written Answers Pack: 2500$9.99

Questions

Is World Timeline free?
World Timeline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Knovli free?
Knovli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do World Timeline or Knovli have ads?
Both World Timeline and Knovli show ads.
Which is updated more often, World Timeline or Knovli?
World Timeline ships an update every 3 weeks, and Knovli weekly. Most recently, World Timeline was updated on October 25, 2026 and Knovli on October 24, 2026.

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