ChrnoxTimeline Studio

Create beautiful interactive timelines in minutes.

Perfect for history, biographies, genealogy, projects and personal timelines.

10,000 BC
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    You have arrived at today

    Your timeline
    starts here.

    Ten thousand years are already on the canvas. The only thing missing is you - and it takes about a minute.

    Start your timeline - free See what you can do ↓

    Or play today's puzzle - no account

    chrnox.com · free · desktop and mobile web · iPhone and iPad coming soon

    Chrnox 01 · Origin
    Start your timeline
    Years in view 12,000 yr
    Scroll to fly
    The real canvas

    See the whole story.
    Then zoom into the moment.

    Chrnox gives every event a place on one continuous, interactive canvas. Move from millennia to years, compare what was happening at the same time, and open any moment for its full story.

      Live preview · drag to pan · + − to zoom Start your timeline - free

    How Chrnox works

    Build the world. Reveal the shape. Tell the story.

    The dates find their place, the connections become visible, and the story becomes easier to understand - and remember.

    1. 01 · BUILD

      Capture every useful moment

      Add an event in seconds, enrich it from Wikipedia, and keep the context behind the date in one rich card.

    2. 02 · CONNECT

      Make the patterns visible

      Zoom, filter, organise into groups and lanes, then link events until sequence, overlap and causality appear.

    3. 03 · BRING TO LIFE

      Turn chronology into a story

      Write chapters, play with the chronology, share what you made, or build on a timeline someone else began.

    Shape the view

    Every story gets the timeline it needs.

    Create as many timelines as you like, for any subject, scale or idea. Within each one, organise hundreds of events without losing the shape of the story.

    • Give every event one clear colour with categories
    • Add flexible tags, then filter by either or both
    • Events arrange themselves into collision-free lanes
    • Create rules that gather events into collapsible groups
    Multiple timelinesAny time scaleCategoriesTagsAutomatic lanesCollapsible groups
    Chrnox Saved
    19401950196019701980
    Sputnik 1 Vostok 1 Apollo 11
    Rocket propulsion Guidance computers Reusable spacecraft
    Space Act Moon speech
    Filter
    Categories
    Tags
    Your timelines

    Try the filter, collapse a group, or open the timeline name. The data stays intact while the view changes.

    Your life, in time

    Turn your camera roll into a personal timeline.

    Choose the Personal life template and add your birth year. Your age appears beneath the years on the ruler, so every memory has instant context.

    • Start from photos and Chrnox prefills their capture dates
    • Or attach a photo and use its date in one tap
    • Several dated photos can set the start and end of one event
    • Personal categories arrive ready for milestones, family, travel and more
    Age on the rulerPhoto datesLife milestonesUp to 12 photos per event
    ChrnoxSaved
    19900200010201020202030202535
    Today Born1990 University2003 First studio2015 Airshow weekend27 Jul 2026
    New eventAuto-fill from Wikipedia off
    Airshow weekend
    2026＋ Month
    PhotosPhone photos usually include their capture date.

    Your years and your age stay together. Add a photo, use its date, and the memory lands in place.

    Wikipedia-assisted creation

    Find the right article. Choose what to bring across.

    Start typing and Chrnox finds a matching Wikipedia article. Tap once to bring in its title, image, summary and best-guess dates. Nothing changes until you choose.

    • See more matches when the first is wrong
    • Use only the article image
    • Read the full article inside Chrnox
    • Bring a useful date into the event
    • Add your own notes and tags
    • Attach photos, video, music and links

    New event

    Auto-fill from WikipediaTitle, dates, summary & image
    ×
    Event title
    French Revolution · 1789

    Wikipedia - The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates...

    When
    2026＋ Month
    ＋ Add an end date□  Still ongoing
    Category Manage
    PoliticsScienceCultureConflictDiscovery
    Also add▧ Photos☰ Summary✎ Notes◇ Tags▻ Video♫ Music & podcasts↗ Links
    Pick a category to continueCancel

    Suggestion → your choice → auto-filled fields. The article helps; you stay in control.

    Map relationships

    See not only what happened. See what led to what.

    Connect any two events as cause and effect, part and whole, or a broader association. Add a note to say why the link matters, then explore outward from any event while unrelated moments recede.

    CausalityHierarchyAssociationDirected causes & hierarchiesRelationship notes
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    ⌄ England 12 ⌄ Spain 8 CCatherine of Aragon⌘ MMary I of England⌘ HHenry VIII⌘ EElizabeth I⌘ Richard III IIsabella of Castile⌘ PPhilip II of Spain⌘ IIgnatius of Loyola 10 yr
    Link levels

    Choose an event, then follow its connections outward. Unrelated events recede; the timeline stays in place.

    From chronology to narrative

    Dates become chapters. Chapters become stories.

    Choose the events that belong together and create a chapter. Chrnox automatically fits and highlights those events on the canvas, while a writing space lets you explain what changed and why.

    • Move chapter by chapter through the timeline
    • Write introductions, notes and longer narrative
    • Let the chapter's events define its visible span
    • Include one event in more than one story
    ChrnoxSaved
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    The age of sovereigns5 ⌄ England 10 ⌄ Europe 14 OOliver Cromwell CCharles I LLouis XIV PPeter the Great VBattle of Vienna SWilliam Shakespeare WPeace of Westphalia NNewton's Principia LLocke
    The age of sovereigns

    Across the seventeenth century, European states became more centralised. Sovereigns built permanent armies, bureaucracies and more efficient systems of taxation.

    In France, Louis XIV made absolutism famous. In England, Charles I tried to rule without Parliament, provoking a civil war. Oliver Cromwell emerged from the parliamentary army to govern the country.

    Farther east, Peter the Great forced Russia towards Europe while the Battle of Vienna checked Ottoman expansion.

    The chapter's events lift into focus and fit beside the story. Everything else remains visible, but recedes.

    Remember by doing

    You built the timeline. Now play it.

    Turn the events in any timeline—your own or one you find on the Wall—into four quick games. Place moments in time, sort them into order, decide what came before or after, and work out who was alive in a given year.

    Or play Chrnox Daily: the same five connected events for everyone, with a new puzzle every day. Free, no account needed.

    Place it in timeTimeline SortBefore or AfterAlive That Year
    Play today's puzzle — no account
    Daily puzzleThe Communications Revolution · Chrnox Daily #7
    119

    Radio broadcasting begins

    1400160018002000 1671You Gutenberg's printing press1455 MRadio crosses the Atlantic1901 TThe first talkie1927 TVTelevision demonstrated1926 KDKARadio broadcasting begins1920
    16711920
    0 pts  ·  off by 249 years

    KDKA makes the first commercial broadcast. For the first time, millions hear the same voice at once.

    From “1900–1930: How the Modern World Was Invented”

    Chrnox Daily · Five connected moments · One shared puzzle every day.

    Discover and remix

    A world of timelines, ready to explore.

    Browse the Wall for community-built timelines and curated collections. Open one, learn from it, share it, or save a copy to your library and make it yours without changing the original.

    • Featured and curated collections
    • Search and filter by topic, tag and era
    • Publish a frozen, read-only snapshot when you are ready
    • Keep a timeline private for as long as you want
    The WallCommunity timelines
    FeaturedHistoryArtScienceMost saved
    ★ CuratedThe Italian Renaissance

    Artists, patrons, discoveries and rival cities across three centuries.

    42 events1.2k saves
    FeaturedWomen in science

    From Hypatia to the genome.

    28 events
    NewA history of flight

    Ideas that learned to leave the ground.

    19 events

    Open it to learn. Save a copy to make it yours. The original stays untouched.

    Wherever the idea finds you

    Big canvas. Small screen. Same timeline.

    Take the wide view on desktop. Add a thought or explore a story from your phone. Chrnox works on desktop and mobile web today, with dedicated iPhone and iPad apps coming soon.

    Start in your browser
    One timeline, every screenResponsive
    iPhone + iPad · coming soon

    Desktop and mobile web now · dedicated Apple apps in development.

    One canvas, every kind of story

    Start anywhere. Follow where it leads.

    A timeline can hold a civilisation or a single life, a research question or the project on your desk.

    History

    Compare civilisations, movements and discoveries across centuries.

    A life

    Bring milestones, memories, photos and family history together.

    Research

    Trace evidence, influences and turning points without losing context.

    Projects

    See what changed, when it changed and what it affected.

    More about the online timeline maker
    Your turn

    Start with one event. See where it leads.

    Create your first timeline free, add a moment, follow a connection, and let the story grow.

    Start your timeline - freePlay today's puzzle

    Works in your browser · desktop and mobile · private until you choose to share