Comparison

Timeline vs Timeline Visualize

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

Head to head
About

Timeline

This app creates a private, offline record of your travels and visited locations. It visualizes your journeys over time with maps and monthly summaries, and can even use photo data to retrace past trips. Your location history remains securely on your device.

Highlights
  • Records visited places and countries
  • Visualizes journey development over time
  • Retraces past trips using photo data
  • Creates private location history
  • Includes maps and monthly recaps
  • Completely offline functionality
Features
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Your personal timeline of places and journeys — completely private & offline. Timeline records where you have been, which countries and places you have visited, and how your journeys develop over months and years. You can also retrace past trips using the location data stored in your photos. Over time, this creates a private location history with maps, trends, and monthly recaps. No account, no cloud, and no uploads: Your data stays on your iPhone.

About

Timeline Visualize

Features
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Even without a location history, your photos are enough: Timeline Visualize turns them into an animated 3D travel map video, a trip postcard and a map poster in a few taps. Add the places you've been by searching for them, colour in your map and see where you rank among travellers. Timeline Visualize finds trips automatically from the dates and locations in your photo library, maps the countries and cities you have visited on a 3D globe, and turns each trip into an animated route video, travel poster, postcard or printable PDF photo book. You can also pick photos and short clips yourself, tap the map to place photos without GPS, or import a location history export to map years of travel. AUTOMATIC TRIP DISCOVERY & 3D PHOTO GLOBE • Finds trips and special days in your photo library automatically • Spin your 3D photo globe and explore the countries, regions and cities you have visited • Browse all your trips by year in the Trips tab, with route distance and visited places • Create year and month travel recaps from your journeys MAP VIDEOS, POSTERS, POSTCARDS & PDF PHOTO BOOKS • Animated route video: photos and clips pop up on the map at the places they were taken • Travel posters, postcards and 4-photo strips ready to save and share • Printable PDF photo book generated from your trip moments and captions • Share a web link to a journey: friends open the route and photos in their browser without installing anything, and you can remove the link at any time HOW IT WORKS • Let the app find trips in your photos, pick trip photos and clips, or import a Timeline JSON export • Preview the journey and set exact dates and times • Pick a map style, camera movement, route colour and emoji pin • Export a portrait, square or landscape video, poster, postcard or PDF photo book MADE FOR SHARING • Long flights and drives speed up, so local moments stay easy to follow • Trim a clip and keep or mute its sound • Add music and sound effects to your video FREE AND FULL Free covers journeys from the latest 90 days, up to 3 photos or clips per journey (one of them can be a video clip), and 720p video with a Timeline Visualize watermark. Full unlocks every older date, unlimited photos and clips, 4K Ultra HD and 1080p video without the watermark, premium poster designs, the cinematic camera view, and re-creating saved journeys. Full is available as an auto-renewing subscription, a single-trip unlock, or a one-time lifetime purchase; the plans on offer are shown in the app. YOUR DATA Videos are created on your device. There is no sign-in and no live location tracking. Your journeys are kept on this device. With cloud saving on, your journeys, photos and locations are also backed up to cloud servers under a random ID the app creates, not an account; you can turn it on or off, restore journeys from it, or request deletion, in the app at any time. A web link is created only when you choose to share a journey; its route and photos are then visible to anyone who has the link, until you remove it. Product analytics are on by default and can be turned off in the app. Works with location history exported from Google Maps Timeline. Timeline Visualize is not affiliated with Google. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your account settings. Terms of Use: https://timeline.barbarda.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://timeline.barbarda.com/privacy Map data © CARTO, © OpenStreetMap contributors Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Traveller rankings come with the app: everyone who accepts the Terms of Use takes part, and you can leave them at any time in the app, which deletes your ranking data. Timeline Visualize runs on Google Firebase, Cloudflare, RevenueCat and OneSignal; details are in the Privacy Policy.

Screenshots

Timeline3 screens
Timeline Visualize4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Timeline Visualize at daily against Timeline's every 6 days. Timeline Visualize also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.5). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Timeline sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Timeline Visualize sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timeline ships an update every 6 days, Timeline Visualize daily. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Timeline versus Timeline Visualize: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelineTimeline Visualize
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB179 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTobias EhretMert Can Kasapoglu

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Timeline

One-time3
  • Thanks!$1.99
  • Big Thanks!$4.99
  • Huge Thanks!$9.99
10 purchases

Timeline Visualize

Subscriptions5
  • Timeline Visualize Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Timeline Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Timeline Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
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  • Full, yearly$19.991 Year
  • Annual Pro Access3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time5
  • Just this video$2.99
  • Timeline Visualize Full$8.99
  • Timeline Visualize Full$12.99
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  • Full, lifetime$39.99
  • Timeline Visualizer Pro$49.99

Questions

Is Timeline free?
Timeline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timeline Visualize free?
Timeline Visualize is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Timeline or Timeline Visualize have ads?
Neither Timeline nor Timeline Visualize shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timeline or Timeline Visualize?
Timeline ships an update every 6 days, and Timeline Visualize daily. Most recently, Timeline was updated on October 29, 2026 and Timeline Visualize on October 29, 2026.

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