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).
- Maps & GPS
- Ruby
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Actively maintained
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 10,597
- Forks
- 391
- Open issues
- 112
- Commits, last 12 months
- 3,004
- Last commit
- Oct 5, 2026
- Latest release
- 1.15.3Sep 30, 2026
- Created
- Mar 24, 2024
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About 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). Dawarich is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and written mainly in Ruby, so you can read the code, run it on your own hardware and keep full control of your data.
The project has 10,597 stars and 391 forks on GitHub, with 3,004 commits over the last year. It ships a Docker image, which makes it a good fit for a small VPS or a home server running Docker Compose.
Topics
- google-maps
- maps
- self-hosted
- homelab
- owntracks
- gpslogger
- timeline
- memory
- hacktoberfest
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What is Dawarich?
Dawarich is a free, open-source app you can host on your own server, listed in our Maps & GPS category. 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). The source code lives at github.com/Freika/dawarich, where it has 10,597 stars.
Is Dawarich free and open source?
Yes. Dawarich is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Dawarich with Docker?
Yes. Dawarich provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Dawarich?
Popular open-source alternatives to Dawarich include Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM), GraphHopper and Nominatim. Dawarich itself is a self-hosted alternative to Strava.
Is Dawarich actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Dawarich was on Oct 5, 2026 with 3,004 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 1.15.3, published Sep 30, 2026. Check the open issues on GitHub to gauge how quickly maintainers respond.