Dawarich
Visualize your location history, track your movements, and analyze your travel patterns with complete privacy and control (alternative to Google Timeline a.k.a. Google Location History).
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 92% of tracked projects; popularity more than 80%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 11k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 1.15.2 · 22 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 22 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker |
Is Dawarich actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 2477 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 1143 of them.
The most recent tagged release, 1.15.2, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Among the 20 maps and global positioning system (gps) projects we track, Dawarich currently has the highest health score.
What Dawarich actually does
Dawarich is a self-hosted location history visualiser and tracking tool designed as a private alternative to mainstream timeline services. It allows you to record movements, plot coordinates, and review travel patterns while retaining complete control over your geographic data. The project provides an open-source platform for mapping activities locally without sending telemetry to third-party servers.
Best fit: This is a strong fit for privacy-conscious users who want to collect and analyse their location history on their own infrastructure rather than relying on commercial cloud tracking.
Worth knowing: You will need to maintain a reliable method for continuously feeding location data from your mobile devices into the instance, which can impact battery life and require careful client-side configuration.
Deployment notes
As a containerised application, deployment typically involves Docker and requires persistent storage volumes for your geographic database alongside a reverse proxy to handle secure TLS connections.
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