About Verno

Verno is a place to build history you can see.

You lay down moments on a timeline — what happened, when, and why it mattered — and Verno helps you fill them in and gives each one an image. The result is something you scroll through rather than read down: a period as a sequence of scenes.

Real, invented, or both

A timeline can be world history, and it can be history that never happened. Both are welcome here, and Verno marks which is which per moment, so a reader always knows what they are looking at.

That is the part most people find surprising. A timeline about the fall of Constantinople and a timeline about what would have happened if the walls had held are the same kind of object here, side by side, honestly labelled.

Timelines branch

A moment is not always the end of the line. Any moment can open into another timeline — the life of one person in it, the century that followed, the war it started. Follow a branch and you are reading someone else's work, which links back to yours.

Over time that makes something no single timeline can be: a web where the same year is described by different people from different angles.

What else is here

• Meanwhile — stand on a moment and see what was happening elsewhere in the world at the same time, laid out per subject.
• The atlas — the same history on a map, with layers you can switch on and off.
• Stories — a timeline read as a story, which you can also have spoken aloud.
• Discovery — the front page: everything public, grouped by period and continent.

Everything set to public is readable without an account. You only need one to build.

What it costs. An account is free, and so is building: laying down moments, having them suggested, ordering them, linking them. Only what an AI model charges per item — an image, a video, a spoken recording, a longer story — comes off your credits. You get some when you sign up, and you see what each action costs before you confirm it. Why it is divided that way is on the foundation page.

Who makes it

Verno is run by the Verno Foundation, from the Netherlands. It is young, and it is being built in the open — which means you will find rough edges. Tell us about them: info@verno.foundation.