TrialLine alternative: Boromlia vs TrialLine

Choose Boromlia if

• What you mainly need is the chronology: every fact dated, sourced, tagged and filterable.
• Your team is more than one person: on Advanced, collaborators are added per timeline with no seat each.
• Cost matters: a free plan, $12 a month for Advanced or $49.99 once, against a reported $59 per user a month.
• You want a map of where events happened, and dates down to the minute.

Stay with TrialLine if

• You present in court or mediation and want a dedicated presentation mode with tablet control.
• You want documents, images and deposition video attached to events and played from the timeline.
• You need exports to Word.

The main difference: building the chronology versus presenting it

Most of the hours in a chronology go into building and checking it, not presenting it. Boromlia puts a date, a source, the people involved, tags and a place on every fact, and the source filter shows every line with nothing behind it. Exports follow your filters: an A4 PDF, a CSV of every field and a zip of the attached images. Timelines stay private until you share them.

Boromlia vs TrialLine, feature by feature

TrialLine details checked 2026-09-25.

Views of one record. Boromlia: River, Cards, Map and Spans on every plan; Ribbon, Log and Doc on Advanced. Switched without re-entering anything. TrialLine: A case timeline with a presentation mode for mediation and trial

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

Sortable table view. Boromlia: Yes, the Log style on Advanced. One dense row per event, in the shape the CSV writes. TrialLine: to be verified

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

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

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

Photographs per event. Boromlia: As many as the moment needs. Bulk upload reads the date and GPS out of the files. TrialLine: Documents, images and video attached to events

Event description. Boromlia: Rich text, plus people, place and tags on the same event. TrialLine: Yes, with supporting documents per event

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

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

Bulk import. Boromlia: CSV or TSV on Advanced, with column mapping and every row previewed before saving. TrialLine: to be verified

Export. Boromlia: A4 print PDF, CSV of every field, and a zip of images with a manifest. TrialLine: Word, Excel and interactive digital formats

Embed in another page. Boromlia: One iframe tag on Advanced. No script, no key, and it reads the live timeline. TrialLine: to be verified

Default visibility. Boromlia: Private to your account until you publish. Shared links are read-only and noindex. TrialLine: to be verified

Working with other people. Boromlia: On Advanced, collaborators are added per timeline and contribute events. No seat to buy each. TrialLine: Priced per user; one free guest user per TrialLine

Runs in. Boromlia: Any browser. Windows, macOS, Linux, tablets and phones, with nothing installed. TrialLine: Any browser, with tablet control for presenting

Price. Boromlia: Free tier, $2.99 a timeline slot, $12 a month, or $49.99 once with nothing to renew. TrialLine: $59 per user a month, or $499 per user a year. 7-day trial, no free plan

Moving from TrialLine to Boromlia

• Export your TrialLine events to Excel and save the sheet as CSV.
• In Boromlia, choose Add multiple from a file (Advanced) and match the columns, including Source and People.
• Preview every row, then import. Attached documents do not travel in a CSV, so put their references in the Source field.

Questions

Can Boromlia replace TrialLine in the courtroom?

For building the chronology, yes. For presenting it live, not fully: Boromlia has no presentation mode and no video playback. You can build and check the chronology here and present from the exported PDF, or keep a presentation tool for the courtroom.

What does Boromlia cost for a legal team?

Advanced is $12 a month for the account that owns the timelines, and collaborators are added to a timeline without a seat bought for each. There is also a free plan of one timeline with 20 events, and a one-time $49.99 option.

Is client data safe in Boromlia?

Timelines are private by default, with row-level security on every table, and shared links are read-only and kept out of search results. Import runs in your browser, so the file itself is never uploaded; only the events you confirm are saved.