Tiki-Toki alternative: Boromlia vs Tiki-Toki

Choose Boromlia if

• You want timelines private by default. A free Tiki-Toki timeline is public.
• Several people add to one timeline: on Advanced, you can let anyone with its share link add events. They sign in with a free account; there is no seat to buy.
• You want a map of located events, cards and spans and, on Advanced, a sortable table of the same record.
• Every event should carry a source and a place with real coordinates.
• You would rather pay once: $49.99 for everything Advanced has, or $2.99 per extra timeline of up to 50 events.

Stay with Tiki-Toki if

• You want its 3D timeline view, which Boromlia does not have.
• You teach and its Teacher plan ($150 a year) or Student Bronze ($7.50 a month) fits your budget.

The main difference: who pays, and who sees it

A Boromlia timeline is private to its owner until they share or publish it. On Advanced, the owner can let anyone with the share link add events, while settings, style and sharing stay with the owner unless they hand them over, so a small group keeps one timeline and one bill. Views are switched from a control rather than rebuilt: River, Cards, Map and Spans on every plan, with Ribbon, Log and Doc on Advanced.

Boromlia vs Tiki-Toki, feature by feature

Tiki-Toki details as published or reported, last checked 2026-09-06. Tiki-Toki 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. Tiki-Toki: 2D and 3D timeline, with category bands

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. Tiki-Toki: to be verified

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

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

Source on every event. Boromlia: Yes, a field of its own, and a filter shows the events with or without one. Tiki-Toki: 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. 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 with or without a source, remembered per timeline. Tiki-Toki: 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. Tiki-Toki: Yes, from a spreadsheet

Export. Boromlia: On every plan: an A4 PDF, a CSV of every field, and the photos as a zip with an index file. Tiki-Toki: 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. Tiki-Toki: Yes, from the Bronze plan

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. Tiki-Toki: A free timeline is 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. 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 plan, $2.99 once per extra timeline of up to 50 events, $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

Moving from Tiki-Toki to Boromlia

• Start from the spreadsheet you imported into Tiki-Toki, if you have one. If not, copy your stories into a sheet with date, end date, title and text columns.
• Save it as CSV. Boromlia does not read Excel (.xlsx) files directly.
• On Advanced, choose Add multiple from a file, match the columns, check the preview and import.
• Images do not travel in the file: add them to each event from its form, up to 10 per event.

Questions

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

No. On Advanced, the owner can let anyone with the timeline’s share link add events. Each contributor signs in with a free Boromlia account and only the owner pays, so the cost does not grow with the number of editors.

Can I embed a Boromlia timeline in my own site?

Yes, on Advanced, once the timeline is public or shared. The snippet is a single iframe tag with no script and no key, so it works on site builders that strip scripts, and it reads the live timeline: events added later appear in the embed.

Does Boromlia have a 3D timeline view?

No. Its views are flat and built for reading and checking: a river, cards, a map and spans, plus a ribbon, a table and a document on Advanced. If 3D is what your audience expects, Tiki-Toki does it and Boromlia does not.