Timelines is a personal time tracking app that focuses on presenting the tracked data in a meaningful and easily accessible way. Users can track various user-defined categories throughout the day and then see those time blocks visualized on a fully interactive timeline. They can also explore interactive reporting and easily drill down to more details — giving them clear picture of where exactly their time is going.
Timelines is for people who recognize the preciousness of time and who strive to make the best use of it. It’s used by people from various fields, such as independent business owners, freelancers, doctors, or students, just to name a few. They all have one thing in common: the desire to cut back on procrastination, increase productivity, improve work-life balance and ultimately be more fulfilled in their lives.
Pricing & availability
Timelines is available for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro as a free download with an optional PRO subscription ($7.99 / month or $39.99 / year). There is a 7-day free trial that allows you to fully try all paid features before committing. Timelines can be used on macs with Apple Silicon, and a native mac app is planned for later this year.
Time is like money: we never have enough, and we often can't remember how we spent it. Timelines is a razor-sharp instrument in our time-management toolkit, letting us categorise and visualise where the hours in our hectic days are going. We love it for everything from tracking billable time on projects to making sure we're setting aside chunks of our week to relax with loved ones.
What makes Timelines unique?
Fully interactive timeline – Seamlessly scroll from past to present and into the future. Zoom in to see hours or out to view weeks, months, and beyond.
Designed for effortless tracking – Start or switch activities with a single tap. Automatically import Health workouts or calendar events.
Intuitive and visual statistics – Access insights with a single tap. Analyze your time by swiping and pinching to navigate throught intervals directly on the timeline
Indie-crafted with care – Developed by a solo iOS developer with 15+ years of iOS development experience. Shaped by real user feedback and a deep focus on quality and reliability.
Here's how Timelines compares to most traditional time tracking tools:
Other time tracking software
Timelines
Focused on business
✓ Focused on personal growth
Reports are an afterthought
✓ Reports are front and center
Used out of necessity
✓ Used out of curiosity and hunger to grow
Basic visualization of time
✓ Fully interactive timeline with colored time blocks
You can add a timeline for each project or area in your life that you want to track. Then, you can conveniently start and stop timers using either the Timelines iPhone app, the Home Screen widget or the Apple Watch app.
View events on a timeline
At the core of Timelines you have this beautiful, fluidly interactive timeline where you can pan and pinch to navigate. Tracked events get overlaid on top of it using colored markers. You can quickly select which timelines you want to view - to either focus on how you’re doing in one particular area, or to see all of them and get the full picture of where your time is going.
Edit past entries
Each tracked event in Timelines can have an optional name and notes, which is useful for people who want to capture more detail. It’s also easy to edit both start and end times, in case you forget to start (or stop) a timer.
Statistics mode
With just one tap of a button, you can get to an interactive reporting state, with a pie chart and time summary of each of your projects for the currently visible interval. Instead of using some drop downs and specifying which day, week or month you want to see, you can just swipe and pinch on the timeline to get to the date range that you want.
Export to PDF or CSV
Tracked data can be easily exported to PDF and CSV files. Using a custom export dialog, it takes just two taps to get from given statistics to the detailed export.
Sync between devices
You can use Timelines Cloud to sync your tracked data and active timers between your devices. The whole sync mechanism was built from the ground up with focus on reliability and performance.
Event name statistics
You can optionally assign names to individual events, and then see a breakdown of them in a separate bar chart. This is handy for really drilling down on what tasks exactly take up most of your time.
Home and Lock Screen widgets
Timelines provides many configurable widgets for both your Home Screen and Lock Screen. There are widgets for reporting (pie charts and bar charts), tracking progress towards your goals, or interactively starting and stopping your timers. Timelines also offers Live Activity - great for seeing your currently tracked category at a glance.
Apple Watch app
With Timelines for Apple Watch, you can easily control your timers on the go. Thanks to custom watch face complications, you can see the running timer and access the app right from your watch face. During tracking, you can set a name of the event using dictation, or correct times with the digital crown. You can also do adjustemnts of your past tracked entries and view basic reporting.
Set and track your goals
You can set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for yourself, such as 'learn Spanish for 20 minutes a day', or 'practice piano for 4 hours a week', and then follow your progress towards them. When you reach a goal you get rewarded with a confetti. This is great for building healthy habits around your time management.
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The story behind Timelines
Timelines is crafted with love in Prague by Lukas Petr, a passionate indie app developer. This text was updated in June, 2025:
Pretty much since the first time I've used an iPhone and learned about the concept of building apps all these years ago, I was in awe of the idea that you can build something that is then used (and hopefully enjoyed) by people around the world.
Timelines is a culmination of many years of dedication, lots of sweat and tears, focusing on my vision of what a personal time tracking app can do. Carefuly balancing ease of use with powerful features. Sweating the details, making everything as reliable and seamless as it can be. Continuing pushing on it and believing in the mission, when many of the external factors were telling me that maybe it is not realistic to build a sustainable and profitable business out of it in this age of highly saturated App Store. But eventually it got there, and I am proud of where the app is now. If you are in need of a personal time tracking app, I highly encourage you to give Timelines a try. You won't be disappointed.
Here is Lukas's original story of how and why Timelines was built (written before Timelines launched in 2016):
"While developing apps and managing my own app business, I realized the huge importance of time. I often felt that I had almost no idea where the time went, and that I was not doing enough. I wanted to find out how I could become more productive, while preserving a healthy work-life balance and finding enough time for things like fitness and socializing. When I got the idea for an app that would feature an interactive timeline, it all somehow clicked. I ultimately decided to build a time tracker around that. I’ve been using it to track my work and life for well over a year now, and it has provided me with truly interesting and sometimes surprising insights into how I spend my time. It has been a long process, but those insights are helping me to become more efficient and more balanced. I hope that Timelines can do the same for anyone who decides to give it a go."
Past, present, and plans for the future
Timelines was launched on August 9, 2016. Shortly after launch it was featured on the front page of US App Store, reached the first page of Product Hunt, and was reviewed on MacStories and 9To5Mac. These are the main updates that were released throughout the years (each link leads to a blog post with more info and screenshots):
Update 3.8 (New bar chart widgets and more) | Dec 13, 2023
Update 3.9 (Improvements on all platforms) | May 15, 2024
Update 3.10 (Design, UX, and performance improvements) | Aug 6, 2024
Update 3.11 (New Control Center widgets and more) | Sep 14, 2024
Timelines 4.0 (Faster tracking of subcategories, combined goals, and more) | Jun 5, 2025
Plans
Especially after the recent release of version 4, Timelines is now in a great place. Some of the exciting things that are currently on the roadmap are: a native mac app, compatibility with the upcoming iOS 26 release, improvements in reporting layout, a new full-screen focus timer functionality, and much more.
