Path Timeline vs iTimely
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Path Timeline
This lightweight diary app helps you record life's special moments. Add photos, locations, moods, and tags to each entry, organized chronologically on a timeline. Protect your privacy with a password and ensure data safety with iCloud backup.
- Timeline view of life moments
- Add photos, places, moods, and tags
- Password protection for privacy
- iCloud backup for data safety
- Lightweight and easy to use
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Path Timeline, records the special moments of your life. This is a lightweight diary App, showing every moment and feeling by time line. You can add photo, place, mood and tag in a moment. Also you can set a password to protect your privacy, while providing the iCloud backup function to prevent data loss. Enjoy it please !
iTimely
This app helps you easily record life events, notes, photos, and milestones. It organizes your memories chronologically, allowing you to group them by day, month, or year. Track personal growth and important dates with a user-friendly timeline.
- Record notes, photos, videos, and locations
- Track countdown timers and anniversaries
- Create to-do lists and memos
- Group events by day, month, or year
- Append sub-records and comments
- Create custom libraries for different groups
- Auto Chart for data visualization
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Life Recording is an issue we have always thought about. It’s difficult to keep track of different type of things with multiple Apps, but combining them into one App could be overwhelming. How can we easily record things, such as notes, photos, videos, location, countdown timers, anniversaries, to-do lists, and memos in one App without making it too complex? Many things seem unrelated, such as her birthday, graduation certificate, marriage certificate, birth certificate, travel itinerary, a location, the scenery outside the window, a friend's laughter in a video, today's tasks, tomorrow's plans, and sudden inspiration that comes to mind. Although seemingly unrelated, these things have a common subject, "us", and are all "based on time". This commonality creates possibilities for simplicity among the complexity in iTimely. ## Be friends with time Time management is an essential skill for individuals. In reality, we are very prone to unconsciously fighting against time, treating it as an enemy, which leads to anxiety, tension, and pressure. By being friends with time and changing our mindset, we can negotiate with time. It's okay to stay up late, just take a photo of a street lamp outside the window in the deep night; it's also okay not to stay up late, don't think about the things that haven't been completed yet. Write down to-do lists as memos and cross them out when done, don't divide them into four quadrants... If you feel that your ability to manage time is out of control, meticulously record the time spent on each thing, and then replay each day in a statistical chart to make yourself leaner. On the other hand, being free is also good. By doing good deeds and making friends with time, you will naturally grow. Time is a silent friend, always with us, and iTimely can also record everything at any time. ## Orderly time, grouped events in library In iTimely, we can group records by "day, month, year", making it easier to record and organize. In iTimely, each record can have sub-records appended to it, commented on, followed up, and iterated. iTimely can correspond to many usage scenarios, and we can also create different libraries (work directories), where the timeline can be grouped into different groups. ## Even little daily things can be milestones Small daily things that seem insignificant are not just ordinary but also signify growth and recording. Behind these small things, milestones are being accumulated. For example, a child's height growth, an increase in income after starting work, or changes in data for a new business created. These numbers can also be quickly recorded. iTimely provides the "Auto Chart" function, and all we need to do is record without hesitation. ## Life with timeline, history on the timelines As a timeline App, iTimely also supports recording history. Coupled with the support of the search function, iTimely will also be an intimate learning assistant for friends who are studying history, besides recording daily life. ## Privacy and pretty UI are equally important With a simple lifestyle and pretty timelines in iTimely, becomes a friend of time. An app that is used daily should have a beautiful interface and an easy-to-use experience, especially for recording life, it should be much more beautiful. In this way, we will have a little bit of joy in the process of using it. Personal privacy is very important too. iTimely is a pure client software and does not rely on servers. You can synchronize and backup data across devices through iCloud or Git, or disable synchronization. All data belongs to you. iTimely will avoid any unnecessary privacy permission requests. iTimely strictly stays in the sandbox environment of the system, uses the minimum privacy authorization, and reduces a bit of convenience, but it will make users feel securer. - - - - - - - - - - - - Privacy Policy: http://markeditor.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: http://markeditor.com/page/terms.md
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iTimely at 4.4 against Path Timeline's 3.3. iTimely also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). Path Timeline's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 44%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Path Timeline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and iTimely sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
iTimely holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Path Timeline's written reviews are positive against 44% of iTimely's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Path Timeline ships an update every 2 months, iTimely monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Path Timeline | iTimely |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (9 ratings) | 4.4 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTD | Hangzhou Quanduan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Path Timeline
iTimely
In-app purchases
Path Timeline
- Pro Version$1.99
iTimely
- iTimely Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- iTimely Yearly3 Days trial$4.991 Year
- iTimely Flash Sale$12.99
- iTimely Lifetime$14.99









