Dawarich — Your Timeline, Forever | Dawarich
The private alternative to Google Timeline. Import your location history, keep it forever. No ads, no data selling.
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Dawarich is a self-hostable, privacy-focused alternative to Google Timeline for tracking, visualizing, and owning your location history forever, ideal for privacy-conscious users, travelers, and families.
🚀 Overview
Dawarich is a self-hostable web app that replaces Google Timeline (Google Location History), giving you full control over your location data without ads, tracking, or data selling. It allows you to track locations in real-time, visualize history on interactive maps, analyze stats like countries visited and distances traveled, and import years of data from Google Takeout.
The problem it solves: Google Timeline is 'free' but funds a $300B ad business with your data, limits access, changes formats unpredictably, and can't be self-hosted. Dawarich offers permanent storage, privacy (encrypted, GDPR-compliant cloud or self-host), and open-source transparency.
It's built for privacy enthusiasts, travelers creating trip journals, families sharing locations, and self-hosters wanting zero-trust data ownership. The creator built it as the 'Anti-Google Privacy Stack' to provide everything Google Timeline should have been, charging users directly for privacy instead of selling data.
✨ Key Features
- Interactive map with routes, heatmaps, Fog of War, globe views (Pro), daily replays, and photo integrations for trip journals
- Instant "Where was I?" search by date, plus life stats: countries/cities visited, km traveled, patterns, year-in-review
- Import from Google Takeout, OwnTracks, GPSLogger, Immich/PhotoPrism; export to GPX/GeoJSON anytime
- Official iOS/Android apps for background tracking with minimal battery impact; family sharing with consent
- Upcoming/experimental: Areas & Visits (Beta), advanced API (Pro), custom map tiles
🛠 Tech Stack
- Frontend: JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Backend: Ruby on Rails
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Auth: Custom
- Hosting: Docker Compose, Self-hosted / Railway / European cloud
👥 Who Is This For?
This project is useful for:
- Privacy enthusiasts who want to self-host and escape big tech location tracking
- Travelers logging trips, routes, and stats with maps and photos
- Families sharing real-time locations securely
📸 Screenshots / Demo
- Live demo: https://dawarich.app (sign up for cloud) or self-host with demo@dawarich.app / password
- GitHub: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich
🔥 Project Status
- 🟢 Actively building
Last updated: 2026-03-22
❓ FAQ
Is this project free?
Freemium / Open Source (Self-hosting is free with all Pro features. Cloud: Lite €49.99/year (12mo history), Pro €119.99/year (unlimited). 7-day free trial, no CC needed.)
Is the source code available?
Yes — https://github.com/Freika/dawarich
Can I contribute?
Yes! Read CONTRIBUTING.md on GitHub. Open issues/PRs for bugs, features, importers. Community helps maintain Google format changes. Hacktoberfest welcome.
📬 Contact & Links
- Website: https://dawarich.app
- GitHub: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich
- Twitter/X: N/A
- Email: Via GitHub issues or Patreon
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