Aeon Timeline
Aeon Timeline is a macOS timeline planning app for organizing events, dates, relationships, and story or project details in a visual workspace.
What is Aeon Timeline?
Aeon Timeline is a native desktop timeline and planning app that helps users organize events, dates, and related details in one visual workspace. It is used by writers, researchers, students, and planners to map stories, track historical sequences, build project timelines, and manage complex chronology. On macOS, the app provides multiple views for working with the same information, including timeline-style and structured editing layouts, so users can switch between overview and detail as they work. It supports flexible date handling, custom fields, and linked items, which makes it useful for fiction outlining, worldbuilding, research organization, and long-form planning. Aeon Timeline is published by Timeline.App Pty. Ltd. and is also available on Windows and iOS for people who work across devices.
Key features
- Build visual timelines to arrange events and see chronological order at a glance
- Edit event details, dates, and custom fields in an inspector-style side panel
- Switch between different views to work with the same project data in different ways
- Search for items and jump directly to events within a timeline
- Customize date precision, display formats, and timeline timescales
- Organize story, research, or project information with linked items and structured data
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Aeon Timeline is commercial productivity software for timeline planning and writing workflows, and its normal behavior is consistent with that purpose. Account sign-in, local document access, and optional sync-related activity can be expected when you use licensing, support, or cross-device features. Before keeping any installed copy, confirm that the app is signed as Aeon Timeline from Timeline.App Pty. Ltd. and that the bundle ID shown by the app or your security tools is app.timeline.aeon, especially if the file came from a third-party source rather than the publisher.
Recommendation: Keep Aeon Timeline if you use it for writing, research, or project planning. If you no longer use it, removing the app may also leave behind saved documents or support files, so check whether you still need your timeline data before uninstalling.
Common paths
/Applications/Aeon Timeline.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/app.timeline.aeon
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Aeon Timeline
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/app.timeline.aeon.plist
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