Does Boromlia make charts?

No. It draws timelines and a map of located events, nothing else. For bar charts or scatter plots alongside the timeline, keep a visualisation tool.

Can several reporters work on one chronology?

Yes, on Advanced. The owner lets the share link’s holders add events, and each reporter signs in with a free account and is credited with what they file, so the desk can see who added which line.

Flourish timeline alternative: Boromlia vs Flourish

Choose Boromlia if

You want an editor rather than a sheet to maintain: a form per event, with a source field and a place.
The chronology stays private while you report it, and the published data is only what you publish.
You want the same events as a map, cards and spans, not only a chart.
You want a free plan that is private: nothing you make is public until you publish it.

Stay with Flourish if

The timeline sits beside charts, maps and scrollytelling built from the same data.
Your newsroom already uses Flourish and wants one house style for every graphic.

The main difference: a chart from a sheet versus a chronology you edit

Flourish is a visualisation layer over your data: the spreadsheet is the record, and the timeline is one way to draw it. In Boromlia the timeline is the record. Each event has typed fields for the date, the place, the source, the people, the tags and the photos, and a CSV can go in on Advanced and come out on every plan, so it can still live in a spreadsheet when you need it to.

Flourish shows a category as a coloured band. Boromlia splits the same idea in two: chapters for the periods a story moves through, and tags for the threads that cut across them, such as a person, a company or a court.

Boromlia vs Flourish, feature by feature

Flourish details as published or reported, last checked 2026-10-24. Flourish is a trademark of its owner, and Boromlia is not affiliated with it.

Views of one record. Boromlia: River, Cards, Map and Spans on every plan; Ribbon, Log and Doc on Advanced. Switch between them without re-entering anything. Flourish: An interactive timeline chart, one of many visualisation templates

Map of located events. Boromlia: Yes. Each event with a place is a numbered waypoint, joined by an optional route line, on a choice of four base maps. Flourish: to be verified

Sortable table view. Boromlia: Yes, the Log style on Advanced: one row per event, with the columns you choose, sortable. Flourish: to be verified

Ranges and single dates. Boromlia: Both, on every plan, on one shared axis, so a two-week phase and a single decision sit together. Flourish: A start time on every row, an end time optional

Time scale. Boromlia: Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months or years, set per timeline. BC dates too. Flourish: to be verified

Source on every event. Boromlia: Yes, a field of its own, and a filter shows the events with or without one. Flourish: to be verified

Photographs per event. Boromlia: Up to 10 per event. Bulk upload takes up to 300 at a time and reads the date and GPS position from each file. Flourish: One image per row, uploaded or by URL

Event description. Boromlia: Rich text, plus people, place and tags on the same event. Flourish: to be verified

Chapters and tags. Boromlia: Chapters group events into periods; tags cut across them. Flourish: A category column groups the rows

Filters. Boromlia: Search, tag, category, period, and with or without a source, remembered per timeline. Flourish: to be verified

Bulk import. Boromlia: CSV, TSV or TXT on Advanced, up to 1,000 rows at a time. You confirm the columns and preview every row before saving. Flourish: Google Sheets, Excel or CSV, mapped to the template’s columns

Export. Boromlia: On every plan: an A4 PDF, a CSV of every field, and the photos as a zip with an index file. Flourish: to be verified

Embed in another page. Boromlia: On Advanced, for a public or shared timeline: one iframe tag, no script, no key. It shows the live timeline. Flourish: Yes; free accounts show Flourish branding

Default visibility. Boromlia: Private until you share or publish it. A share link is read-only unless you allow more, and kept out of search results. Flourish: Unpublished work is private; on the free plan, published data and visuals are public

Working with other people. Boromlia: On Advanced, you can let anyone with the share link add events. Each signs in with a free account; no seat to buy. Flourish: to be verified

Runs in. Boromlia: Any browser. Windows, macOS, Linux, tablets and phones, with nothing installed. Flourish: Any browser

Price. Boromlia: Free plan, $2.99 once per extra timeline of up to 50 events, $12 a month, or $49.99 once with nothing to renew. Flourish: Free public plan. Paid plans through Canva Business or by quote

Moving from Flourish to Boromlia

Download the data sheet behind your Flourish timeline as CSV.
In Boromlia, choose Add multiple from a file (Advanced): start time to When, end time to Ends, title to Name, text to Description, category to Chapter.
Preview and import. Images by URL do not come across as photos, so attach the files to each event afterwards.

Questions

Can I keep a Boromlia timeline private until publication?: Yes. Every timeline is private until you share or publish it. A share link is read-only unless you allow more, and is kept out of search results.
Does Boromlia make charts?: No. It draws timelines and a map of located events, nothing else. For bar charts or scatter plots alongside the timeline, keep a visualisation tool.
Can several reporters work on one chronology?: Yes, on Advanced. The owner lets the share link’s holders add events, and each reporter signs in with a free account and is credited with what they file, so the desk can see who added which line.