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Free Online Timeline Maker: Look Professional With A Few Clicks

Create Your Timeline It’s free and easy to use.

Free Online Timeline Maker: Look Professional With A Few Clicks
  • Professional templates and powerful features for advanced visualization.
  • Create timelines for project management, company history and more.
  • Lines, shapes, icons and other design elements to decorate your timeline.
Free Online Timeline Maker: Look Professional With A Few Clicks

Chosen by brands large and small

Our timeline maker is used by over 27,500,000 marketers, communicators, executives and educators from over 133 countries that include:

EASY TO EDIT

Timeline Templates

Our easy-to-use timeline templates give you a quick and easy starting point to create your timeline. A professionally designed template is your fast track to stunning-looking visuals – simply choose a style from the timeline examples below, and click to start editing.

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Features of the Timeline Maker

Check out Visme's full suite of intuitive and easy-to-use features, helping you create informational timeline infographics in minutes.

Beautiful timeline templates

Log into your Visme Dashboard and click the Infographics tab. Once inside, click on the Timeline category at the top of the search results. Browse through all the available templates in the timeline maker to find one that pertains to your topic or industry.

Create Your Timeline

Beautiful timeline templates

Build your timeline

Once you’ve selected your template – or if you choose to start from scratch – Visme makes it easy to build out your timeline. Take advantage of drag-and-drop diagramming tools with various shapes and lines. Add pre-designed font pairs to flesh out your timeline information. Easily expand the length dragging the bottom of your canvas down to give you more space.

Create Your Timeline

Build your timeline

More Great Features of the Timeline Maker

  • Easy-to-customize templates to choose from Easy-to-customize templates to choose from
  • Mix and match fonts and colors to make it your own or upload your branding Mix and match fonts and colors to make it your own or upload your branding
  • Hundreds of thousands of icons and photos to add to your timelines Hundreds of thousands of icons and photos to add to your timelines
  • Easy drag-and-drop design tools, made with the non-designer in mind Easy drag-and-drop design tools, made with the non-designer in mind
  • Create a standalone timeline or add one to a presentation or report Create a standalone timeline or add one to a presentation or report
  • Download as a high resolution image to share online Download as a high resolution image to share online

Share, Download or Embed Your Timeline

Use the timeline creator to design animated infographics and embed them in a blog post or your site. 
Download your infographic as a high resolution JPEG or PNG to upload to your website or social media. Cite your sources at the bottom of the graphic and include your website URL and logo.

Share, Download or Embed Your Timeline

LEARN ABOUT TIMELINES

What is a Timeline?

A timeline is a visual presentation or display of a list of events in chronological order. It is essentially a graphic that depicts a linear (sometimes curve) bar composed of labels containing dates in parallel to it.

Timelines are useful to visualize any type of development by providing the viewer an easy-to-understand history of events and helping to grasp the past and ongoing trends in that period of time.

Create Your Timeline

What is a Timeline?

Use the timeline maker to create a linear representation of important events.

Create a timeline infographic that showcases a period of time in history, share a company’s history and how it got to where it is today, help viewers understand the history of a particular item or concept, and more.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED + MORE

More Than a Timeline Maker

With easy-to-use diagramming tools and a variety of lines and shapes, you can easily create a comprehensive and unique timeline design.

MAKE IT ENGAGING

Interactivity

Create interactive timelines with popup and rollover effects that allow your viewer to interact with your design to learn more information.

Charts & Graphs

VISUALIZE NUMBERS WITH A CLICK

Charts & Graphs

Visualize information beautifully with charts, graphs, flowchart elements, data widgets and other customizable design assets.

Images and Graphics

BEAUTIFY YOUR CONTENT

Images and Graphics

Choose from over a million stock photos, icons, illustrations, animated graphics and more to create a completely unique timeline design.

HOW IT WORKS

How to Make a Timeline in 5 Steps

Learn how to create a timeline with little to no design skills. With Visme’s easy to use timeline graphic templates and design friendly interface you can create beautiful and informative timelines in minutes. Follow these five simple steps to create your own timeline design quickly.

Follow these five simple steps to create your own timeline design quickly.

  • Browse through a collection of professionally made horizontal or vertical timeline templates to find one best suited to your needs.
  • Customize the timeline template with your own content, add your company branding, intended text or data, icons. Upload your own design assets or choose from our asset library for thousands of stock images, typography, animation, data visualization charts, graphs, and more.
  • Input your own information and data manually, or import data from apps such as Google Docs, Google Analytics, or Microsoft Excel, if needed.
  • Download your timeline as a high-resolution PNG or JPG image, PDF file, HTML code, generate a shareable link, or embed code.

QUICK TIPS

Make the Most of the Timeline Maker

We have timeline templates for biographical information, company history, processes and more. Select a template that’s in line with your needs to make customization quick and easy.

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We have timeline templates for biographical information, company history, processes and more. Select a template that’s in line with your needs to make customization quick and easy.

Put together an outline of your content on a piece of paper or in an online document before you start on the design so that you know how many items your timeline infographic needs to include.

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Put together an outline of your content on a piece of paper or in an online document before you start on the design so that you know how many items your timeline infographic needs to include.

Add a bold header to the top of your timeline that lets your viewer know at a glance what kind of information they’ll be learning about in your content.

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Add a bold header to the top of your timeline that lets your viewer know at a glance what kind of information they’ll be learning about in your content.

Use no more than 2-3 fonts and colors throughout the timeline design as to not overwhelm your viewer or create a cluttered infographic design.

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Use no more than 2-3 fonts and colors throughout the timeline design as to not overwhelm your viewer or create a cluttered infographic design.

Incorporate similar line and shape designs throughout your timeline to create a cohesive design.

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Incorporate similar line and shape designs throughout your timeline to create a cohesive design.

Drag and drop icons, photos, graphics and more from the left sidebar to decorate your timeline.

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Drag and drop icons, photos, graphics and more from the left sidebar to decorate your timeline.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you make a timeline in Visme?

Simply start with a template or blank canvas, add your information into the design, incorporate your brand fonts and colors, add design elements from the left sidebar, and download to share with your audience.

Are the timeline templates completely customizable?

Yes. The timeline generator lets you customize every single section of the template. You can change the icons, the graphics, the colors, the backgrounds, and fonts easily.

How much does it cost to make a timeline infographic with the timeline maker?

Making a timeline with Visme is totally free. You can download or embed the finished graphic and use it however you want. If you would like to download it as a PDF with bleed marks, or an .html file, then you will need a Visme Standard Plan.

Can I create an interactive timeline with Visme?

Yes, you can add animation to any section of your timeline infographic. The timeline maker will let you animate anything in the design. Remember to keep it balanced.

Can I use my Brand Kit when creating a timeline?

Yes, of course! All your Brand Kit assets are available in the timeline maker. You can apply your color palette, fonts and logo easily.
Your timelines deserve to be beautiful and so does the rest of your content Your timelines deserve to be beautiful and so does the rest of your content

Your timelines deserve to be beautiful and so does the rest of your content

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