Type your dates and what happened, and watch the line draw to each milestone in turn. Download it as a 1080p MP4, across the frame or down it. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
How it works
Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.
1
Fill in 2 to 8 rows: a date or short label of up to 16 characters, and what happened in up to 60. Add a heading over the timeline, or leave it empty.
2
Let Direction run the line down a tall frame and across a wide one, or pick one yourself. Show each milestone as text or on a card, with dots or numbers, and set the line color.
3
Give each milestone 0.6 to 3 seconds and the finished timeline up to 5 seconds of rest. Then pick one of six looks, or your own text and background colors.
4
Press Download. The video is rendered in your browser at 1080p and saved to your device, usually in a few seconds. No account, no watermark.
Ready-made versions
Each one opens its own maker with the settings filled in. Change anything, then download.
When a timeline animation isn’t enough
Here you get a clean timeline on a background. In Rescroll you describe the graphic you want in plain English, “walk through our five years as I tell the story, each year landing as I say it, in our brand colors”, and it's designed from scratch on your own video. Attach your logo, fonts or a screenshot and it matches them, and you change anything by asking in the chat.
Free timeline animation
Rescroll
One timeline design, in your colors
Any design you can describe, matched to your logo, fonts or a screenshot
A clip you overlay and key out yourself
Built on your own video, placed around you
Milestones arrive at a steady pace
Each milestone lands on the exact word you say
Change it with the settings here
Change anything by asking in the chat
Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.
Both built in Rescroll from a description.
The basics
A timeline animation is a short video in which milestones appear one after another along a line, each with a date and a line about what happened. It turns a history, a career, a project or a story into something a viewer can follow at a glance.
This maker draws the line out first, then sends a bright point along it. As the point reaches each milestone the dot pops, the date and title rise in, and that milestone stays highlighted while the earlier ones dim. At the end everything lights up together and rests, so the last frame works as a still.
Keep each title to a few words. A timeline reads best when every milestone can be taken in before the next one arrives, and short titles let the text stay large. If you need more time per milestone, raise Time per milestone instead of adding words.
In your editor
An MP4 has no transparent background, so the timeline animation comes ready to key. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key, or to black and use a Screen blend.
Download the timeline animation on a green background. In CapCut, drag it onto the track above your video so it sits on top as an overlay. Select it, open Video → Remove BG → Chroma key, pick the green with the color picker and raise Strength until the background is gone. Menu names move a little between CapCut versions; look for Chroma key. If you made it on black instead, set the clip's blend mode to Screen.
Put the timeline animation on a video track above your footage. From the Effects panel, drag Ultra Key onto it and click the Key Color eyedropper on the green. For a version on black, skip the key: in Effect Controls, set Opacity → Blend Mode to Screen.
Place the timeline animation on the track above your footage. On the Edit page, open Effects → Open FX, find 3D Keyer under Resolve FX Key and drag it onto the clip, then sample the green in the viewer with the Open FX overlay switched on. For a version on black, set Composite Mode to Screen in the Inspector instead.
Connect the timeline animation above your footage in the timeline. From the Effects browser, drag the Keyer effect onto it; it finds and removes the green by itself. For a version on black, set Blend Mode to Screen in the Video inspector.
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