Your location history. Privately. Permanently.
Heatmaps, trips, and statistics for everywhere you've been — without feeding Google's ad machine, Life360's data brokers, or your own Raspberry Pi.
7-day free trial · Cancel anytime · Your data stays yours, in standard formats
Your location data is in one of three places right now.
None of them put you in charge.
Feeding ad targeting for a decade. Timeline now stranded on your phone, with no cloud backup going forward.
Sold as “aggregated insights” to advertisers. Read The Markup’s reporting if you doubt it.
Because every privacy-respecting alternative wanted you to learn Docker first. So you never started.
How it works
Three steps. There is no step four.
Sign up
Email, password, done. 90 seconds. 7-day free trial with full features.
Import your past
Drag-and-drop your Google Takeout zip, OwnTracks records, GPX files, or any of 15+ formats. Watch your history reconstruct itself on a map.
Track forward
Install the iOS or Android app. Background tracking starts automatically. Trips, heatmaps, and stats update in real time.
What actually makes Dawarich different
Hosting and backups are table stakes. Here’s what isn’t.
EU data residency
Hosted on Hetzner in Germany. No US transfers. No PRISM, no Patriot Act, no “we cooperate with US authorities” footnote.
Open-source escape hatch
The full Dawarich engine is on GitHub with OVER 9,000 stars. If we ever shut down, you self-host the same software with one command and import your exported data.
15+ import formats
Most competitors only ingest their own data. We ingest everyone’s — Google, Strava, Garmin, Apple Health, OwnTracks, and a dozen more.
Lifetime history, not workouts
Strava knows your runs. Polarsteps knows your trips. We know everywhere you’ve been.
Real visualization product
Heatmaps, Fog of War, Globe view, automatic trip detection, year-in-review. Not just a dot on a map.
Photo integration
Connect Immich or PhotoPrism — your photos appear on the map next to where you took them.
Why pay for what Google “gave away” for free?
Free wasn’t free. You paid in data — every coffee shop, every Sunday hike, every late-night drive — fed into Google’s profile of you.
What you’re actually choosing between:
| Service | Annual cost | What it does | What they do with your data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Timeline | “Free” | Killed it, moved to phone-only | Trained ad targeting for a decade |
| Life360 Gold | ~€170/yr | Live family location only | Sold aggregated location data |
| Strava Premium | €60/yr | Workouts only — not lifetime history | Public-by-default activity feeds |
| Dawarich Cloud Pro | €119.99/yr | Full lifetime history, heatmaps, trips, stats | Nothing. Ever. |
We charge less than Life360 charges to sell your data.
What People Are Saying
Featured in leading tech publications worldwide.
I imported my Google Timeline to this self-hosted app, and it's so much better than what Google offers.
Dawarich gives you everything Google Timeline does, and then some. There are no ads and no hidden data collection.
The UI is clean and user friendly. Basically no impact on battery.
I travel globally 60-70% of the year and was looking for something to keep my record without handing it to Google. I found Dawarich.app, set up my iPhone app in a few minutes, imported my Timeline history, and it just runs — tracking starts itself when I leave the house. I don't think about it anymore. My data is now my data again and meanwhile I have 260k km, 16 countries and 378 cities tracked.
I used Google Timeline for years but never felt comfortable with my entire life sitting on U.S. servers. I moved everything (a few years' worth of data) into Dawarich in just an afternoon. Now I have a private, permanent diary of my life — something I hope to pass on to my grandchildren one day. I look forward to future enhancements as they have already done a remarkable job.
I moved to Kazakhstan not knowing the city at all. Google Timeline wasn't an option anymore, and I didn't trust it either way. Set up Dawarich, and now the map is like fog of war for me — the more I go out, the more it fills in. Plus every trip stays with me — I can look back at any of them and share the route.
It's way better than OwnTracks, Overland, etc. — it's so much more accurate.
The app has been working great for me so far and hasn't had any effect on battery! Amazing job thus far!
I think it's a rather impressive piece of software.
The “you can’t lose” promise
“Trust us with your location data” is a big ask. So here’s ours:
7-day free trial
Full features for a week. Cancel from Subscription Settings if it’s not for you — your exports stay yours.
Cancel anytime
No annual lock-in penalty, no exit fees, no “are you sure?” emails.
Export-anytime
Every byte of your data, exportable in GPX, GeoJSON, KML, or raw JSON, on any plan, forever.
Open-source escape hatch
If Dawarich Cloud ever shuts down, you self-host the same software and import your exported data. We literally cannot hold your data hostage.
Own Your Location History
Less than €1 a week to keep a lifetime of memories. Your data is always yours — export everything, anytime, on any plan.
A private alternative to Google Timeline for casual trackers.
- iOS & Android native apps
- Background location tracking
- 12 months of searchable history
- Unlimited imports & exports
- Interactive map with routes
- Speed-colored routes & daily replay
- Trips & places management
- Basic stats & monthly breakdowns
- 200 req/hr API rate limit
Unlimited history, advanced visualizations, and full API access.
- Unlimited data history — forever
- Heatmap & Fog of War layers
- Globe view (3D)
- Trip photo integration
- Immich / PhotoPrism integration
- Full year-in-review & public sharing
- Full Write API access
- 1,000 req/hr API rate limit
Every Pro feature for the whole household — one annual subscription, up to 5 people.
- Up to 5 members on one subscription
- Each member gets full Pro access
- Invite or remove members anytime
- Members inherit access while in the family
- Real-time family location sharing
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Dawarich.
Stop renting your memories from companies that don’t care.
Your location history is the map of your life. The places you fell in love. The trip you took the year your mom got sick. The route you used to bike to your first job.
Start your 7-day free trial7-day free trial · Cancel anytime · Or self-host the open-source version if you’d rather. We support both. We always will.