hiBar combines a shared timeline, source-tracing, community scoring and mapping into a single tool for exploring — and building — the record of human history.
Every published fact from every contributor lives on a single, continuous canvas — a 2-D grid where the vertical axis is time and the horizontal axis is geography: regions laid out like a flattened map, so neighbouring columns are real geographic neighbours. Pan from prehistory to this morning, slide sideways from Iceland to Greece.
Contributions from everyone converge on one timeline. Write in any language — Microsoft Azure translation renders every fact instantly in the language your app is set to.
Build a claim on top of others and keep the citation chain intact and traceable.
Votes and evidence give every fact a live score — cross-checked core by core, so half-truths get flagged and strong claims rise.
Attach a precise latitude and longitude to any event — and watch the map redraw in real time as votes come in.
Assemble events into narratives — public or private, in folders — and publish when ready.
Your own notes as nodes over the global map — cloud-synced and visible only to you.
Instead of a single editor deciding what's true, hiBar lets the community weigh in. Each fact carries a transparent score shaped by sources and votes — so you always know how well-supported a claim is.
A node is your project: a piece of history you build, sign and publish. Here is its journey from your desk to the world's shared record.
Create a node and fill it with data: events, dates, real coordinates, sources. Work in one discipline (core) or across several — a node can hold annotations from Warfare, Politics, Economy and more at once.
When you publish, you become the node's signer — your name stands behind it. Others who contribute corrections and additions become subsigners, each backing the part they touched.
The community can validate or contest each annotation individually. Nothing is accepted on authority: every single claim carries its own live score, vote by vote.
On Global — the space everyone shares — only the dominant version of each event is shown. Alternative versions with lower scores stay masked, competing quietly in the background (up to 30 per slot).
If an alternative gathers evidence and votes and its score overtakes the dominant one, it becomes dominant — and the record everyone sees updates. History stays correctable, forever.
Writing, validating and sourcing annotations earns you monthly dividends. If someone builds on your published node, a quarter of its reference dividends flows back to you, the original author.
Dividends feed your hiBar Score, and your score makes your word count for more — especially inside the disciplines you've proven yourself in.
Your vote's weight grows with your score, and each tier adds a bonus on top — +25% at Tier 1, up to +100% at Tier 4. A specialist's word in their own core simply weighs more. On your own node, your vote counts ×5 — you defend what you signed.
Tier 1 at 250k, Tier 2 at 500k, Tier 3 at 750k, Tier 4 at 1M points. The higher you climb, the slower raw points accumulate — climbing is meant to be earned, not farmed. From Tier 1 you unlock hot topics: validating contested subjects and voting on the historic names of cities.
Scores fall at the level of the work, not the person: each annotation's score is the weighted sum of validations minus contests, and a node's score is the total of its dominant annotations. A contested annotation sinks — and it drags the node it belongs to down with it. Accuracy is the only lasting strategy.
History doesn't stop at the past — current events and news are recorded on the same timeline, and put through the same machinery: sources, votes, competing versions.
The timeline doesn’t stop at history books — it ends this morning. Pin breaking news, official statements and field reports to the exact hour and place they happened, and let the community test them like any other fact.
Behind it sits hiBar’s truth engine: 13 semantic cores that cross-check every claim like a puzzle piece. If every edge fits its neighbours — dates, places, causes, consequences — it clicks into the record. If one edge doesn’t, it’s flagged as a half-truth until the evidence agrees.
Every new account starts with a full-featured 14-day trial — the whole timeline, projects and your private layer. You pay nothing during the trial; pick a plan when it ends to keep contributing.
Everyone. Facts earn a community score based on sources and votes. There's no single gatekeeper — evidence does the work.
No — the timeline ends this morning. Breaking news, live events and ongoing investigations sit on the same canvas, checked by the same cores and votes as any historical fact, with a map that updates in real time.
Because the score rewards it. The first fast, truthful, well-sourced version of an event starts collecting votes and references immediately — and every later version has to outscore it. Being first with the truth builds your reputation and anchors the record.
Absolutely. Projects can be private, and your personal layer of notes is visible only to you and synced to your account.
All of them, effectively. People post facts in their own language, and hiBar translates them instantly — powered by Microsoft Azure — into whatever language your app is set to. A historian in Tokyo, a student in Bucharest and a researcher in Berlin read the same timeline, each in their own words.
€99 per year (auto-renew) after a 14-day free trial with full access — you pay €0 during the trial. Teams can get packs of 5 or 10 seats, and classes get the student pack 30+1 (thirty student seats plus a free teacher seat) from €490/year. Licenses come as 14-character codes you redeem in the app.
hiBar is available for Mac today, with more platforms on the roadmap. See the download page for the latest.
Get hiBar and start adding your corner of history to the shared record.
