Comparison

Timeline Visualize vs Map Timeline Visualizer

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

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About

Timeline Visualize

Features
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Turn your trips into a travel map video and a journal you can watch. Pick photos and short clips from a trip and Timeline Visualize reads where and when each one was taken, draws your route on the map, and animates it into a video you can share. No location in your photos? Tap the map to place them, or import a location history export to map years of travel. A PHOTO JOURNAL ON THE MAP • Photos and video clips pop up at the places they were taken • Add a caption to every moment • Every journey is saved, so your trips build up into a travel journal • 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 • Choose trip photos and clips, or a Timeline JSON export • Or start with a sample journey: Paris, Tokyo, New York and more • 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 and share it MADE FOR SHARING • Long flights and drives speed up, so local moments stay easy to follow • Label-free map themes for a clean look • Trim a clip and keep or mute its sound • Add music and sound effects to your video • Every video is kept in History on your device 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, the cinematic camera view, and re-creating saved journeys. Full is available as an auto-renewing subscription or as 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. Cloud saving keeps your journeys, photos and locations in your account, backed up and ready to restore; you can turn it on or off, 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 Ā© CARTO, Ā© OpenStreetMap contributors

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Map Timeline Visualizer

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Your Google Maps Timeline already knows every trip you have taken. Map Timeline turns it into a video you can actually watch: your route drawing itself across the map, day after day, ending on the full picture of where you went. Everything happens on this iPhone. Your Timeline file is read on the device and never uploaded. HOW IT WORKS 1. In the Google Maps app, tap your profile picture, choose Your Timeline, then the ⋯ menu, then Location & privacy settings, then Export Timeline data. 2. Save Timeline.json to Files. 3. Open Map Timeline, pick the file, choose a period, and create your video. The app walks you through all of this the first time. NO EXPORT YET? Tap "Try a sample journey" to load a generated demo and see exactly what the app produces. Nothing to download, nothing to sign in to. PRIVACY, PLAINLY • No Google account and no sign-in • No location permission — the app never asks where you are • Your Timeline file is never uploaded, copied, or changed • Only the map imagery comes from the network CHOOSE YOUR JOURNEY • A range of months, or exact dates for a single trip • Square, portrait and landscape output • 10 to 60 seconds free, up to 5 minutes with Premium • 720p free, 1440p and 2160p with Premium BUILT FOR REAL TRAVEL HISTORY • Long flights are drawn as smooth great-circle arcs instead of straight jumps • Trips are detected automatically, so the camera zooms in when you arrive somewhere and pulls back when you fly • Steady, fixed or dynamic camera, whichever suits the trip • A conservative GPS filter ignores impossible out-and-back points and tells you how many it skipped — your file is never modified • Distances in kilometres or miles YOUR VIDEOS, YOUR FILES Finished videos land in the Files app and stay in the in-app library with a thumbnail, the period covered and the length. Watch them full screen, share them, or save them to Photos. Videos made before you installed the library can be imported too. PREMIUM One purchase, once. No subscription, nothing that renews, nothing to cancel. It removes every ad, unlocks 1440p and 2160p export, and raises the length limit from 60 seconds to 5 minutes. Map data Ā© Apple. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Privacy: https://gammapp.com/privacy/ Term of use: https://gammapp.com/terms/

Screenshots

Timeline Visualize4 screens
Map Timeline Visualizer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timeline Visualize at none against Map Timeline Visualizer's 1. Timeline Visualize also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Map Timeline Visualizer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timeline Visualize asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Timeline Visualize versus Map Timeline Visualizer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeline VisualizeMap Timeline Visualizer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMert Can KasapogluMinh Nhat Dang

In-app purchases

None

Timeline Visualize

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Map Timeline Visualizer

One-time1
  • lifetime$1.99

Questions

Is Timeline Visualize free?
Timeline Visualize is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Map Timeline Visualizer free?
Map Timeline Visualizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Timeline Visualize or Map Timeline Visualizer have ads?
Map Timeline Visualizer shows ads; Timeline Visualize does not.

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