Timeline Maker Pro alternative: Boromlia vs Timeline Maker Pro

Choose Boromlia if

• Your team uses Macs, Linux or tablets as well as Windows.
• You want a source on every fact and a filter that shows the unsourced ones.
• You want colleagues on the same chronology without a seat each: on Advanced, you let the people holding its share link add events, and each signs in with a free account.
• You want to start free, then pay $12 a month or $49.99 once for your own account, not a licence for every seat.

Stay with Timeline Maker Pro if

• You need large-format printed charts for the courtroom.
• Your firm requires software and files that stay on your own machines and work offline.

The main difference: installed and per seat versus browser and per timeline

Every Boromlia event has a source field for the document, statement or exhibit it came from, and a date that can carry a time down to the second, for a matter that turns on one afternoon. Filters by search, tag, category, period and source carry through to export, so a PDF of only the events tagged "disclosure" is a filter and a button. Timelines stay private until you decide otherwise.

Boromlia vs Timeline Maker Pro, feature by feature

Timeline Maker Pro details as published or reported, last checked 2026-09-06. Timeline Maker Pro 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. Timeline Maker Pro: Timeline, chronology and flag charts, built for printing

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. Timeline Maker Pro: to be verified

Sortable table view. Boromlia: Yes, the Log style on Advanced: one row per event, with the columns you choose, sortable. Timeline Maker Pro: 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. Timeline Maker Pro: Yes

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

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

Event description. Boromlia: Rich text, plus people, place and tags on the same event. Timeline Maker Pro: Yes

Chapters and tags. Boromlia: Chapters group events into periods; tags cut across them. Timeline Maker Pro: to be verified

Filters. Boromlia: Search, tag, category, period, and with or without a source, remembered per timeline. Timeline Maker Pro: 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. Timeline Maker Pro: Yes, from spreadsheets

Export. Boromlia: On every plan: an A4 PDF, a CSV of every field, and the photos as a zip with an index file. Timeline Maker Pro: Large-format printed charts, plus common document formats

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. Timeline Maker Pro: to be verified

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. Timeline Maker Pro: Files kept on your own systems

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. Timeline Maker Pro: Multi-user licences, priced by seat

Runs in. Boromlia: Any browser. Windows, macOS, Linux, tablets and phones, with nothing installed. Timeline Maker Pro: Installed Windows software, works offline

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. Timeline Maker Pro: One-time perpetual licence, roughly $50 to $1,835 depending on seat count. No free tier

Moving from Timeline Maker Pro to Boromlia

• Get your chronology into a spreadsheet: export one if your version offers it, or copy the entries across.
• Save it as CSV, then in Boromlia choose Add multiple from a file (Advanced) and match the columns, Source included.
• Preview every row and import, then set the source filter to Without source to see which facts still need one.

Questions

Does Boromlia run on a Mac?

Yes. It runs in any modern browser, so macOS, Linux, Windows, tablets and phones all work with nothing installed and no licence key to manage.

Can every fact carry its source?

Yes. Every event has a source field of its own for the document, statement or exhibit behind it, and a filter shows only the events without one, so the gaps in a long chronology are easy to find.

How precise can the dates be?

Down to seconds. The time level is set per timeline and runs from seconds through minutes, hours, days and months to years, so the same events can be read against whichever axis the question needs.