Chronos Notes vs Elastic History I
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chronos Notes
Organize historical notes and events into a visual, chronological timeline. Create timelines for any historical period or event, navigate through them, and use tags for easy searching and filtering.
- Chronological timeline creation
- Organize notes by date
- Navigate via timeline or event list
- Tagging for easy filtering
- Search historical events
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Chronos Notes offers a way to organize historical notes into a coherent, chronological timeline. Notes can be created in any order and Chronos Notes will arrange them into a timeline for you. Want to see the first world war mapped in time and place? What about the crusades? You can create any kind of historical events; Chronos Notes will help you organize them. You can navigate using the timeline or view events directly using the event list. Attaching tags to events will help you find them easily through filtering and search.
Elastic History I
Visualize historical events on an interactive timeline, spanning days to millennia. Supports custom data input via CSV files for personalized historical exploration.
- Interactive historical timeline
- Zoomable interface
- CSV file import
- Supports diverse time scales
- Educational visualization
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Any event can be displayed on this timeline, whether they are days or millenniums apart. Pinch to zoom. The app accepts CSV-files as input.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Elastic History I at Free against Chronos Notes's $0.99. Elastic History I also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Chronos Notes's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 2.6). On 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
Elastic History I is free to download; Chronos Notes costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chronos Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elastic History I has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chronos Notes ships an update every 9 months, Elastic History I every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chronos Notes | Elastic History I |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jan-Wouter Arendsen | Pieter A.E. Hoppenbrouwers |
Customer experience
Chronos Notes
Elastic History I
In-app purchases
Chronos Notes
No in-app purchases
Elastic History I
No in-app purchases
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