Tiki-Toki alternative: Boromlia compared feature by feature

One record, six views, shared without seats

A Boromlia timeline can carry collaborators who add events beside the owner, while visibility, style and settings stay with the owner. For a small group keeping one chronology together, that is the shape of the thing: the cost follows the timeline rather than the number of people who touch it.

The views are switched from a control rather than rebuilt. A meandering river for reading, a grid of cards for a period at a glance, a map for the located events, bars on a shared axis for what overlapped what, a single horizontal ribbon, and a dense sortable table. Every timeline is private to its account until you decide to publish it.

Boromlia and Tiki-Toki, feature by feature

Tiki-Toki details checked 2026-09-06.

Views of one record. Boromlia: Six: River, Cards, Map, Spans, Ribbon and Log, switched without re-entering anything. Tiki-Toki: 2D and 3D timeline, with category bands

Map of located events. Boromlia: Yes. Every event carries real coordinates and draws as a waypoint on one route. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

Sortable table view. Boromlia: Yes, the Log style. One dense row per event, and the shape the CSV writes. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

Ranges and single moments. Boromlia: Both, on one shared axis, so a two-week phase and a single decision sit together. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

Time scale. Boromlia: Seconds through minutes, hours, days and months to years, set per timeline. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

Source on every event. Boromlia: Yes, a field of its own, and "has a source" is one of the filters. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

Photographs per event. Boromlia: As many as the moment needs. Bulk upload reads the date and GPS out of the files. Tiki-Toki: Yes, images per story

Event description. Boromlia: Rich text, plus people, place and tags on the same event. Tiki-Toki: Yes, with categories

Chapters and tags. Boromlia: Chapters group events into periods; tags cut across them. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

Filters. Boromlia: Search, tag, category, period and provenance, remembered per timeline. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

Bulk import. Boromlia: CSV or TSV on Advanced, with column mapping and every row previewed before saving. Tiki-Toki: Yes, from a spreadsheet

Export. Boromlia: A4 print PDF, CSV of every field, and a zip of images with a manifest. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

Embed in another page. Boromlia: One iframe tag on Advanced. No script, no key, and it reads the live timeline. Tiki-Toki: Yes, from the Bronze plan

Default visibility. Boromlia: Private to your account until you publish. Shared links are read-only and noindex. Tiki-Toki: A free timeline is public

Working with other people. Boromlia: Collaborators are added per timeline and contribute events. No seat to buy each. Tiki-Toki: Group editing on the paid plans, by account

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

Price. Boromlia: Free tier, $2.99 a timeline slot, $12 a month, or $49.99 once with nothing to renew. Tiki-Toki: Bronze $9.50/mo, Silver $25/mo, Teacher $150/year, Student Bronze $7.50/mo. Free tier: one public timeline

Questions

Do I need to buy an account for everyone who edits?

No. Collaborators are added to a timeline and contribute events alongside the owner without an account being bought for each of them. The cost follows the timeline rather than the number of editors.

Can I embed a Boromlia timeline in my own site?

Yes, on the Advanced plan. The snippet is a single iframe tag with no script and no key, so it survives being pasted into a CMS that strips scripts, and it reads the live timeline: events added afterwards appear in the embed.

Are Boromlia timelines public by default?

No, they are private to your account until you choose otherwise. There is no public listing to opt out of, and a shared link is read-only and served with a noindex header so it stays out of search results.