Your own Netflix for the films, TV and music you already have, on every screen.
Dawarich
Your own private location timeline and travel stats, replacing Google Timeline.
Hobbies
AGPL-3.0-only
Reviewed version 2dc26c4
What it does
Dawarich is a self-hosted alternative to Google Timeline. It records your location history from your phone, imports data from Google Takeout and other apps, and shows it on a map with tracks, visited places, statistics and yearly digests. Everything stays on your server.
- Timeline, tracks and visited places
- Imports from Google Takeout and many apps
- Statistics and yearly digests
- Family sharing options
Great for: People who loved Google Timeline but want their location history under their own control.
- LicenceAGPL-3.0-only
- Where it runsYour computer (free)
- Built withruby, javascript
- Your dataStays in your own copy
- SourceFreika/dawarich
Ways to use it
Your AI helps you choose, based on what you need, and sets it up with you in plain words.
- On my own computerFreeYour AI installs what it needs and explains each step. It works while your computer is on.
How people are using this project
Examples of what people ask their AI to do with Dawarich. Start from one, or just tell your AI and it will ask what you'd like.
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“Send my location from Home Assistant when my phone is at home.”
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“Share my live location with my spouse and nobody else.”
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“Create a summary of my year with countries, cities and distance.”
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“Hide points within 200 m of home in stats and maps.”
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Can I trust it?
- AGPL-3.0-only. Free to use and change. If other people use your changed version, including over a network (for example a website you host for them), you must offer them your source code under the same licence. Using it privately for yourself or your household has no extra obligations.
- Your data: stores personal data, on your own device or server. A Postgres database with PostGIS plus a storage volume for imports.
- Other services: Reverse geocoding (Photon or Geoapify) (optional, free self-hosted or free tier); Phone tracking app (OwnTracks, GPSLogger or the Dawarich app) (required, free)
- Reviewed version. Your AI always gets exactly the version we've checked.
- Location history reveals where you live and work. Never run it unprotected on the public internet.
- Don't paste your API key into an AI chat.
- Encrypt backups.
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