Interactive timelines in minutes
Timelines show events in order, making stories easy to follow. They’re perfect for visualizing historical events, project roadmaps, or any content where sequence and timing help audiences understand the bigger picture.
With Flourish, you can build interactive timelines in minutes — add images, text, and context to bring each moment to life. Fully responsive and beautiful on any screen, no coding required.
USE CASES
Help your audience follow the story
Use timelines to make connections clear, whether you’re sharing historical events, company milestones, or project updates
Map out key events
Bring clarity and focus by transforming milestones, highlights, and turning points into striking visual moments that your audience won't miss.
Visualize history
Present historical sequences with context, showing how points in time connect and influence each other over months, years, or decades.
Showcase progress
Track product launches, campaigns, or initiatives with timelines that make growth and change clear and easy to follow.
FEATURES
Everything you need to create interactive timelines
Powerful features that make data visualization easy and beautiful
No coding required
Create beautiful visualizations without writing a single line of code.
Responsive design
Timelines adapt to any screen size, so they look great on desktop or mobile.
Works everywhere
Embed timelines on websites, share as links, or add them to reports and presentations.
Two layout modes
Choose between horizontal or vertical timelines with a single click.
Flexible customization
Add event images, background visuals, custom markers, fonts, and styles to match your story.
Customizable steps
Decide how your audience moves through time – step by step or event by event.
Horizontal timeline
Show events in a left-to-right layout for a clear view of progress over time.
Vertical timeline
Stack events top to bottom — a great option for mobile or longer stories.
Timeline with background
Add background images that change as you move through events.
RESOURCES
Data visualization resources
Tips, guides, and resources to make your online timelines even more effective
Timeline – an overview
A step-by-step overview of how to get started with Flourish timelines
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Frequently asked questions
Timelines excel at showing chronological sequences of events – perfect for project milestones, historical narratives, or any story where the sequence and timing of events creates context and understanding for your audience.
There's no strict limit, but 10-50 events typically work best for readability. For larger datasets, consider grouping events by categories, using filters, or breaking into multiple timeline sections to maintain clarity and user engagement.
Flourish makes timeline creation fast and flexible — no coding required. Choose horizontal or vertical layouts, add images and backgrounds, and customize every detail to match your brand. Timelines are fully responsive, easy to embed in websites or presentations, and include interactive features like captions and step controls that most tools don’t offer.
Flourish offers a free plan that’s perfect for exploring interactive data storytelling. You’ll get access to the full range of visualization types available in Flourish (including Timeline graphs), unlimited projects, full privacy for your unpublished work, plus helpful support resources.
If you’re an individual creating presentations and reports, our Presenter plan might be the right fit. It includes access to the Flourish app within Canva, along with image and SVG export options for your visualizations.
And if you’re ready to create fully branded visuals without attribution, collaborate across teams, connect your systems via API, and unlock advanced storytelling features like scrollytelling, our premium plans are designed for you. Reach out to our team to find the best option for your business.
Once you publish your Flourish visualization, you’ll get a responsive embed code you can paste anywhere HTML is supported – from WordPress and Medium to custom CMS platforms. Your chart will look great on any screen size, no extra setup needed.
Every project also comes with a unique URL, so you can easily share your work on social media or link to it directly.
