Comparison

Documented vs Casetimeline

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

Head to head
About

Documented

This app securely logs parenting moments with automatic timestamps and optional location data. Entries are sealed to prevent tampering and can include notes, photos, and voice memos. An optional upgrade allows for secure PDF export for legal purposes.

Highlights
  • Sealed, timestamped entries
  • Log notes, photos, videos, voice memos
  • Automatic timestamp and GPS
  • Tamper-evident record keeping
  • Private by default, no account needed
  • Secure PDF export for legal sharing
Features
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Documented is a private record of how you show up for your kids. Log what happened (a handoff, a missed exchange, a first sentence, a doctor's visit) and it is sealed the second you save it. Time captured automatically. Place attached if you want it. Nothing you can quietly rewrite later, which is exactly what makes it worth something. WHY SEALED MATTERS A note you typed months after the fact is a memory. A record made at the time is a different thing. Every entry gets a SHA-256 fingerprint linked to the entry before it. Change one character and the chain no longer matches, and the app tells you. Edits can't be hidden. That's what tamper-evident means. Separately, each entry's fingerprint is sent to an independent Time-Stamping Authority, which signs a statement that it existed at that moment. The stamp is requested the moment the entry seals, and if your phone is offline it's obtained as soon as you reconnect. Only the fingerprint leaves your phone, never your words, your photos, your children's names, or where you were. A fingerprint can't be turned back into your content. BUILT FOR HOW THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS Thirty seconds, one-handed, in a car park, before you forget. Write it, tag it, seal it. • Log notes, photos, videos, voice memos, receipts, and message screenshots • Tag which child, and which co-parent, each moment involved • Automatic timestamp and optional GPS, captured rather than typed • Corrections are amendments: the original stays, the correction sits beside it • Search and filter by child, category, or date PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No password. Documented opens straight into your record. Your entries stay on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud storage if you turn sync on. We can't read them. Your co-parent is never contacted, never notified, and never given access. Naming someone in your record is a label on your record, nothing more. WHAT IT COSTS Documented is a subscription, with a 7-day free trial. The subscription is the app, not an add-on to it. Included, with no limits of any kind: writing new entries, sealing them, the independent timestamp, photos, videos, voice memos and receipts, iCloud sync of your own record, search, filtering, amendments, the PDF export, and encrypted sharing with your attorney. No entry limit. No attachment limit. No storage tier. Free, whether you subscribe or not: reading, searching and verifying everything already in your record. Nothing you have sealed is ever locked away from you, and if a trial ends without a purchase the record becomes read-only rather than closed. People who installed Documented before this change keep their original free terms permanently. WHEN YOU NEED TO PRODUCE IT Your whole record becomes one PDF, ready to hand to your attorney: every entry in order, with its seal, an integrity statement, and your attachments. Any single entry can go on its own. You can send that record to your attorney encrypted on your device, to a key only they hold. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS Documented is a record-keeping tool. We're not a law firm and we don't give legal advice. Whether any record is accepted is decided by a judge under the rules of evidence where you live. What we can do is make sure that when you wrote something down, it's provable that you wrote it down then, and that nobody, including you, quietly changed it since. If something is on the line, talk to a licensed attorney in your state. Privacy Policy: https://documented.co/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://documented.co/terms

About

Casetimeline

Features
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> CaseTimeline turns the evidence you already have — messages, emails, photos and documents — into a clear, dated timeline. > > CaseTimeline uses Sign in with Apple exclusively — there's no separate username/password login. > > Free tier: 1 case, 3 AI-powered Evidence Finder searches per month — enough to evaluate the app's core organising features without purchasing. > > CaseTimeline Plus (auto-renewable subscription, 1/6/12-month terms, via in-app purchase): removes those limits and enables full AI-assisted evidence extraction and the "Lawyer Ready" export pack. Accessible from More → CaseTimeline Plus. > > The app organises evidence the user provides into a timeline; it does not give legal advice, assess the truth of any material, or determine legal outcomes. AI-generated summaries are always shown next to the original source text and require explicit user approval before being added to the timeline. > > Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ > > Privacy Policy: https://lively-speculoos-08d26e.netlify.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Documented4 screens
Casetimeline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Casetimeline at none against Documented's shown. Casetimeline also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Documented's advantage is chart position (#102 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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. Documented sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month and Casetimeline sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Documented ships an update every 4 days, Casetimeline every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Documented versus Casetimeline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocumentedCasetimeline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (201 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings201 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#102 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRise Advertising LLCmatt gilmore

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Documented

Subscriptions6
  • Documented Plus7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Documented Plus14 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Documented Plus1 Month trial$17.991 Month
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  • Documented Plus - Yearly7 Days trial$179.991 Year
  • Documented Plus - Yearly14 Days trial$179.991 Year
  • Documented Plus1 Month trial$179.991 Year
3 purchases

Casetimeline

Subscriptions3
  • CaseTimeline Plus — 1 Month$12.991 Month
  • Plus — 6 Months$59.996 Months
  • Plus — 12 Months$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Documented free?
Documented is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Casetimeline free?
Casetimeline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Documented or Casetimeline have ads?
Documented shows ads; Casetimeline does not.
Which is updated more often, Documented or Casetimeline?
Documented ships an update every 4 days, and Casetimeline every 3 days. Most recently, Documented was updated on October 29, 2026 and Casetimeline on October 26, 2026.

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