Timeline - News in Context App Reviews

The headlines read like op-ed pieces. This is commentary rather than news. Please trust your audience to draw their own conclusions once you have presented them with historical context, or dont call yourself a news app. Of course, everyone is biased. But there is a difference between trying to inform, holding neutrality up as an ideal, and treating all historical events as though they fit perfectly into your progressivist view of history. Thats just as dishonest as pretending to be personally neutral. All we are saying, is give nuance a chance.

Interesting, visually appealing and, yep, biased indeed. Thank you for the heads up, previous reviewers, but I needed to evaluate it myself. Same conclusion. Sad that outlets all take the same easy route.

The articles are mostly opinion pieces. It would be nice if they at least threw some moderate articles into the mix. For now, Timeline is mostly the liberal equivalent to Fox News.

Timeline serves up a limited menu of simplistic news stories. If you want twitter sized news, this is it. If you want some depth to the news this aint it.

I rarely rate apps, but this one deserves a shout, I am hopeful they release an IPad version soon, I dont necessarily think this will turn on anyone out there to down load the app, but I really think you should download it anyways... The subject to my not so helpful review should tell you all you need to know.

I heard about this app on Thrillist, which I generally find to be an entertaining and informative site. They rated this app as one of their 25 "must haves" for 2015. So I read the App Store description and think, sounds like a neat concept. Ive often noticed that once a major event happens, it seems almost impossible to find anything dated before the event to get information on the persons and places involved. I was hoping Timeline would be a factual aggregator that the user would drive to learn. Instead, this app is nothing more than a collection of opinion pieces with scant factual citation and heavy liberal bias. Few people and self-purported news sites know what it means to simply present facts and let the reader draw their own conclusions. "We cant have that, better to tell you what to think." NO THANKS--DELETED.

Everyones entitled to their own opinion. They are NOT entitled to their own facts. This app provides a fair representation of the facts.

My favorite news app. The detail they put into going back through history is brilliant.

The articles it present are mostly far-left biased news articles. I prefer to read from news outlets that are as close to being unbiased as possible and this app does a horrible job of presenting the whole story with world events. The app makes Fox News look like he most unbiased news outlet on earth.

The idea of this app is excellent. Showing how history interacts with current events is brilliant and much needed. By giving context to a story, it places that stores into a larger narrative with greater understanding. I highly applaud the concept. However, the journalism used by the writers is atrocious. It is extremely biased. The writers rarely try to articulate the crux of the issue they are writing about. Most often they merely give their own point of view, with arguments and past events curtailed to that view. Opposing arguments are either glossed over or never mentioned; in some cases they are even mocked. Very little of what is written is actual news, while the vast majority is Op-Ed.

Still the best news app out there.

Timeline may not have daily news like most apps but they more than make up for it with well researched stories. Their articles are beautifully illustrated and contain pertinent information about todays most important topics. UPDATE: I still feel the articles are incredible but when they are shared via messages of any kind, the links open a blank Medium page. Please fix this error!

But the stories are very one sided. If this app is trying to be unbiased news then it has failed. Get some new journalists and this app would be good.

Really bad app.

This app, Timeline, has the most recent and accurate news! I highly recommend this app who wants to improve their English skills or read news fast and clear! The most interesting part of this app was " DESIGN " and Im sure that everyone will like it! Thank you for making an application like this for us ! :D

Its all propaganda thats poorly written and no longer presented in timeline form. Junk.

This app helps surface the historical threads that get lost in our always on information overload existence

Well written, well researched, thought provoking………with great graphics. The articles are easily read, of topical interest and provide historical context as well as links to additional, relevant pieces. It very often answers the exact questions that pop up as I read and provides further information that I might have had to search for elsewhere. Concise and very readable…….I highly recommend.

I love this app- the timeline concept is a great idea. Thanks for creating wonderful product that keeps me up to date on world news, provides an education on history when I need it and entertains as well. Kudos, Timeline! CV

So refreshing seeing a solid background in the delivery of the news. This method is vital to the understanding of these stories and current happenings-- wish more news publications formatted like this