Comparison

Tellytide vs Channel Timeline Viewer

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

Head to head
About

Tellytide

Features
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Turn “one more video” into “one more why.” Less doomscrolling. More STEMscrolling. Choose educational YouTube creators you trust. Tellytide brings their videos together for your child to explore science, technology, engineering and math, alongside space, history, nature and other interests. Two ways to watch In Videos mode, swipe through videos, browse your chosen creators, and save discoveries to watch again. Search the channel chooser to jump straight to a favorite creator, even in a large library. Find finished videos in History. When the selected videos run out, the feed ends. Put curiosity on the telly Not every book is a choose-your-own-adventure. Sometimes, you just want to turn the page. With GOFT (Good Old Fashioned Telly), parents choose the channels and programmes play back to back. There’s no need to choose a new video after each one. Open the remote control to change channels, pause or play, skip to the next video, or restart the current one. Clear channel icons help children recognize what they want to watch. Parents can choose an icon for each TV channel on the web. Parents choose Videos, GOFT, or both modes. When both are allowed, viewers can switch using Change viewing mode in Settings or the GOFT viewing options. Start with a preview Try the sample feed in the app before creating your own. Set up your family feed: - Choose creators and viewing settings at tellytide.com. - Pair an iPhone or iPad with a six-character code. - Watch videos from your chosen creators, with settings managed by a parent. Parents can set a daily limit, add limits to individual creators, and decide whether Shorts appear. The parent dashboard shows watch activity. Search, comments and links out to the rest of YouTube are blocked in the player. No behavioral advertising or analytics SDKs are included in the child-facing app. We store pairing and watch time so the feed, history and limits work. We do not sell your data. Videos play through YouTube's official embedded player, so YouTube ads may still play. Tellytide is independent and is not affiliated with YouTube.

About

Channel Timeline Viewer

This app helps you watch YouTube channels from the beginning, tracking your progress and allowing you to resume exactly where you left off. It's ideal for educational content, long series, or catching up on a channel's back catalog, with features for note-taking and organized viewing.

Highlights
  • Browse channels from oldest uploads
  • Track watched videos and progress
  • Resume playback from exact position
  • Add notes to videos
  • Autoplay to next video
  • Mark videos as watched or skipped
Features
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Channel Timeline Viewer helps you watch YouTube channels from the beginning without losing your place. Browse a channel from its oldest uploads, track what you have watched, resume from the exact playback position, and keep notes as you go. Archives, courses and long-running series stay in order. WHO IT'S FOR • People learning from YouTube tutorials, lectures, courses, educational channels and long-running series • Anyone catching up on a channel's back catalog • Viewers who want to know exactly how far they've watched • Channel operators who want viewers to work through their older uploads in order MAIN FEATURES • Paste a channel URL, or share a video or channel from the YouTube app or Safari • Uploads listed oldest-first (or newest-first) • Per-channel progress: watched count, percentage, progress bar • "Up next / Continue" takes you straight back to where you stopped • Resume from the exact second you left off • Autoplay to the next video in the list (on by default, and you can turn it off at any time) • Repeat one or repeat all • Mark videos watched or skipped; play unwatched only • Filters: all / unwatched / watched • Search within a channel to narrow videos by title • Notes for each video, for studying or series viewing • Playback speed and captions controlled outside the player • Position shown as "February 27, 2026 (1,034 / 3,500)" • Five navigation buttons — first, previous, undo, next, last — where undo restores both the video and the position you were at • Channels you have opened before load instantly from a saved list PLAYBACK Videos play in YouTube's official embedded player (IFrame Player). FREE AND PRO You can save one channel for free. Inside that channel everything works without limits: sorting, watched tracking, resume, jump buttons, notes, progress, and playback in the official player. You can swap in a different channel for free, but doing so deletes the watched history, progress, and notes of the previous one. To follow several channels side by side and keep every record, buy Pro. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. PLEASE NOTE • This app is not the official YouTube app. • It does not download videos, block ads, or play in the background. • Video lists are retrieved via the YouTube Data API v3. • Autoplay is on by default, but it only moves to the next video in the list you opened, and you can turn it off on the player screen at any time. • The free version shows ads. Pro is a one-time purchase with no ads — no subscription. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.

Screenshots

Tellytide4 screens
Channel Timeline Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tellytide at none against Channel Timeline Viewer's 1. Tellytide also leads on ads (none vs shown). Channel Timeline Viewer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. Channel Timeline Viewer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tellytide asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tellytide ships an update every 10 days, Channel Timeline Viewer every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tellytide versus Channel Timeline Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTellytideChannel Timeline Viewer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAUGE XR AG株式会社ジュエリーサンフラワー

In-app purchases

None

Tellytide

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Channel Timeline Viewer

One-time1
  • Channel Timeline Viewer Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Tellytide free?
Tellytide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Channel Timeline Viewer free?
Channel Timeline Viewer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tellytide or Channel Timeline Viewer have ads?
Channel Timeline Viewer shows ads; Tellytide does not.
Which is updated more often, Tellytide or Channel Timeline Viewer?
Tellytide ships an update every 10 days, and Channel Timeline Viewer every 3 days. Most recently, Tellytide was updated on October 29, 2026 and Channel Timeline Viewer on October 16, 2026.

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