dawarichYour favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)

dawarich

Dawarich is a self-hostable web application that replaces Google Timeline, giving you complete control over your location history data. It enables you to track, visualize, and analyze your movements with an interactive map interface while maintaining full privacy through self-hosting.

Key Features

• Location Tracking: Monitor your live location using native iOS/Android apps or third-party integrations like OwnTracks, Home Assistant, and GPSLogger
• Interactive Visualization: View your location history on customizable maps with heatmaps, points, lines, and fog-of-war layers
• Travel Analytics: Analyze trips, distance traveled, countries and cities visited, and time spent in different locations broken down by year and month
• Family Sharing: Share your location with family members and view their locations on shared maps with granular privacy controls
• Multi-Source Import: Import location data from Google Maps Timeline, Strava, Immich, GPX files, and photo EXIF data
• Photo Integration: Connect Immich or Photoprism to automatically visualize geotagged photos on your location history map
• Insights & Statistics: Get detailed analytics including most-visited places, days spent per country, and travel patterns

Use Cases

• Privacy-Conscious Tracking: Replace Google Timeline with a fully self-hosted alternative that keeps your location data completely private
• Travel Documentation: Create and analyze trips to review your travels, distances covered, and durations spent in different locations
• Tax Residency Tracking: Monitor days spent in each country for tax purposes and visa compliance documentation
• Family Location Sharing: Safely share location data with family members while maintaining control over your data

Who Is It For

Dawarich is ideal for privacy-focused individuals who want to self-host their location history without relying on Google or other cloud services. It's particularly valuable for frequent travelers, digital privacy advocates, families seeking location sharing features, and anyone who wants complete ownership and control over their personal location data.