Roadmap
What we're building next
See what's shipping next in Dawarich and a curated history of everything we've delivered along the way.
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What's in progress and planned, flowing into the milestones we've already shipped.
- In progressMobile apps
Insights and map refresh
A new Insights tab with yearly trends, activity patterns and digests, plus a refreshed map with a day ribbon, range selection and route replay.
- PlannedMobile apps
Demo data in the mobile app
Load a fully populated sample history straight from the app to see what tracking looks like before importing your own, and remove it in one tap.
- PlannedMobile apps
Photo geodata import in mobile apps
Import location data from photos on your phone into your Dawarich history.
- PlannedWeb app
Geofencing
Define areas that react when you arrive or leave, so entering and exiting the places that matter to you can be recorded automatically.
- PlannedWeb app
Search rework
A refreshed search experience for finding places and visits faster across your tracked history.
- PlannedWeb app
Place and area unification
Bring places and areas together in a consistent experience for managing meaningful locations.
- PlannedWeb app
Map matching
Match recorded routes to roads and paths for clearer journey traces on the map.
- PlannedWeb app
Database size optimizations
Reduce the storage needed for location history and related data, especially on large instances.
- Released
- v1.15.2MCP and exploration achievementsSeptember 2026
- Experimental read-only MCP endpoint for querying recent timeline data, latest location and visits (Pro, Family and self-hosted)
- Collectible country and region achievements, currently behind the achievements feature flag
- v1.15.0Faster maps and planned tripsSeptember 2026
- TREK integration brings trip plans, stops and day notes into Dawarich
- The main map now uses vector tiles for points and tracks by default, with direct point and track editing
- Video Studio adds a customizable Fog of War mode
- v2.6.132Mobile appsFamily and reliable trackingSeptember 2026
- Family location sharing, requests and map pins arrive in the mobile apps
- Tracking settings sync across devices, with a distance-unit preference
- Android records the first point when tracking starts; Google and Apple sign-in no longer double-submits
- v1.14.0Video StudioAugust 2026
- Turn a map route or trip into an animated MP4 with themes, format and length controls
- Switch between the poster and video studios from the map Share menu
- Polish and Catalan join the available interface languages
- v1.13.0Vector tile betaAugust 2026
- Opt-in tiled map rendering loads the visible points instead of downloading an entire location history
- Dense areas appear as aggregated markers and cached tiles refresh as history changes
- v1.12.0A clearer timelineAugust 2026
- Visit detection now distinguishes real stays from movement and untracked gaps, with confidence shown on the timeline
- Transportation modes can be edited in place on the timeline
- German, Spanish and French interface translations; Map v1 retired
- v1.11.0Richer importsAugust 2026
- Google Takeout and Polarsteps imports can extract visits, places, tracks and transportation modes alongside GPS points
- Printed posters can now be ordered from Poster Studio without a feature flag
- v1.10.0Poster StudioJuly 2026
- Poster Studio: design a printable poster of your travels in a full-screen studio opened from Map v2, with live preview, theme and layout presets, text controls, and PNG/PDF export
- Custom map colors: pick from theme presets or edit individual color tokens, in a reorganized, collapsible Settings tab
- Map v2 reopens at your last viewport instead of the zoomed-out globe when the selected dates have no data
- The default self-hosted stack idles about 20% lighter
- v1.9.1Trip photosJune 2026
- Trip photos from Immich now appear on Map v2 trip and replay views, popping in as the replay reaches each photo's timestamp
- The same photos show on public shared-trip links, with privacy-zone masking still applied
- v1.9.0AirTrail & redesigned tripsJune 2026
- AirTrail integration pulls your flight history from a self-hosted instance and draws it as arcs on Map v2, with daily re-sync
- Trip pages redesigned around Map v2: sticky map, day-colored per-day accordion, and a timeline replay scrubber
- Per-day trip notes, editable straight from the accordion
- Public sharing for tracks and live location, plus a redesigned public trip page with per-section toggles
- v1.8.1Fog of War & faster mapsJune 2026
- Visit Max Gap slider to tune the stay-point visit detector's maximum gap between points
- Fog of War can now reveal explored areas per hexagon instead of per point
- Faster point loading on large histories using the spatial index
- v1.8.0Smarter visitsJune 2026
- Opt-in "stay-point" visit detection with a 0–100 confidence score per suggestion
- Sign in with Apple on the web (Dawarich Cloud)
- Search the real place name for any visit from the Map v2 Timeline
- "What's New" changelog notices in the navbar
- v1.7.0The Timeline releaseApril 2026
- Map v2 Timeline matures into a full Google Timeline replacement
- Monthly digest emails with distance, active days, top countries and cities
- User-configurable GPS noise filtering with re-evaluate / recalculate controls
- Self-hosted S3 storage (MinIO, Ceph, Cloudflare R2)
- v1.6.0Account securityMarch 2026
- Two-factor authentication (TOTP apps + backup codes)
- Immich users can enrich their photos with geodata
- v1.5.0Cleaner dataMarch 2026
- Automatic GPS noise filtering for unrealistic speeds, altitudes and jumps
- Toggle individual map layers on and off
- One-click demo data to instantly see what the map looks like
- "Days per Country" breakdown
- v1.4.0Family on the mapMarch 2026
- Family page with live member markers on the map
- Confirm-all / decline-all for visit suggestions
- Refreshed look and feel; faster point counting on large accounts
- v1.3.4Location sharingMarch 2026
- Share your live location with family members, with per-member control
- Redesigned onboarding: "I have data" vs "Start tracking"
- v1.3.2PlansMarch 2026
- Lite plan introduced for Dawarich Cloud alongside Pro
- Self-hosted instances stay fully featured, with no restrictions
- v1.3.0Storage & Timeline interactionFebruary 2026
- Per-user timezone setting applied across the whole app
- New Timeline feed in Map v2 with hover-to-highlight and click-to-zoom
- Encrypted v2 export/import format that streams large datasets
- v1.0.0The 1.0 milestoneJanuary 2026
- Dawarich reaches 1.0 and moves to a more stable release cadence
- v0.37.0Year in reviewDecember 2025
- Year-end digest emails summarizing your tracking year
- Render the map as a globe
- v0.36.2The Map v2 releaseDecember 2025
- New MapLibre GL JS map (Map v2) alongside the classic Leaflet map
- Smoother interactions and better performance; new features land on v2
- v0.36.0Single sign-on & placesNovember 2025
- OIDC single sign-on for self-hosted instances (plus Google / GitHub on Cloud)
- KML file import
- Create places with tags, notes, privacy zones, and a Home location
- v0.34.0The Family releaseOctober 2025
- Create family groups and invite members
- Full-screen map page
- v0.31.0The Search releaseSeptember 2025
- Search for a place and see every year and visit you were there
- Jump straight to a past visit on the map
- v0.30.0Stored tracksJuly 2025
- Tracks are calculated and stored in the database instead of in the browser
- Faster map loading and nightly place-name backfill
- v0.29.0Move your dataJuly 2025
- Export your entire account — points, places, visits, trips and more — as a zip
- Import it into another Dawarich instance
- v0.25.4Flexible storageApril 2025
- Import / export files stored as attachments, S3-compatible
- Import Google Records.json directly from the UI
- Optional Sentry error tracking
- v0.24.1Custom mapsFebruary 2025
- Set a custom map tile URL
- Nominatim added as a reverse-geocoding provider
- v0.22.2Fancy RoutesJanuary 2025
- Color routes by the speed of each segment
- Hover a route to read its segment speed
- v0.19.0PhotoPrism photosDecember 2024
- Show PhotoPrism photos on the map and import their geodata
- v0.18.0The Trips releaseNovember 2024
- Create, edit and delete trips, auto-populated from your tracked points
- See trip photos from a connected Immich instance
- v0.17.0The Immich Photos releaseNovember 2024
- Show photos from your Immich instance on the map
- v0.16.0The Websockets releaseNovember 2024
- New points appear on the map in real time
- Live Mode that follows incoming points, plus in-app notifications
- Scratch map highlighting the countries you have visited
- v0.15.0The Watcher releaseOctober 2024
- Drop GPX / GeoJSON files into a watched folder for automatic import
- Raw vs simplified point rendering for big histories
- v0.14.0More basemapsSeptember 2024
- 17 new map tile layers to choose from
- v0.13.0Open formatsSeptember 2024
- Export and import GPX and GeoJSON
- v0.12.0The visit suggestion releaseAugust 2024
- Automatic visit suggestions you can confirm or decline
- Places page powered by reverse geocoding
- v0.9.5Areas & visitsJuly 2024
- Draw areas on the map and detect visits to them
- Confirm or decline visits to build your timeline
- v0.8.0Fog of WarJune 2024
- Fog of War map layer and a dedicated Settings page
- v0.7.0The GPX MVP releaseJune 2024
- Import GPX files from your devices
- v0.4.0Your own dataMay 2024
- Per-user API keys, so you only ever see your own points
- Heatmap layer showing point density
- v0.1.5The first releaseApril 2024
- The first tracked Dawarich release — where it all began