History Timeline vs Stele

History Timeline is desktop software for creating and exploring interactive timelines about history. Its time-zoom interface ranges from very long historical spans to events measured in yoctoseconds. Users can begin with an Excel template, import data as CSV, and add events, icons, hyperlinks, styles, and event hierarchies. Timeline items can link to online articles and original documents. The site provides timelines covering world and United States history, geology, science and technology, biographies, and art history. Finished timelines can be saved as JPG or PNG images, or printed across multiple pages with configurable paper size, orientation, and margins. Online display and website embedding, including customized timelines, are available by request. The software runs on Windows 11, 10, or 8 and macOS 10.15 or later, with at least 2 GB RAM and 400 MB free storage. A free version has limited features and content; Personal costs $24.50 a year, Professional $49.50 a year, and Perpetual 119.50 USD one-time.

Stele is a history learning app for Android and the web, with interactive maps, animated tours, lessons, timelines and quizzes. Map tours show historical events unfolding as borders, cities and campaigns change. Lessons provide a brief summary alongside deeper context; Battle mode narrates armies moving along real routes. Voices presents social-media-style posts attributed to people from the past, but its dialogue is creatively imagined, not historical quotation, and should not be cited as such. Listed timeline subjects include Rome, Ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, American history, World War I and World War II. Guided study paths, quizzes and knowledge checks offer ways to explore and review topics. The Rise and Fall of Rome timeline is free to explore. Stele says there are no subscriptions or recurring charges; other timelines require a single purchase, and new timelines may be optional one-time add-ons. Google Play reports no data collected and none shared with third parties.