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Best open source apps for travel

For travellers, a self-hosted stack starts with AdventureLog for trip planning, Dawarich for location history and wanderer for maps and trails.

Self-hosted travel apps keep your trips, location history and photos private: trip planners, flight and location trackers, trail maps and a photo library.

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Top picks

  1. Rank 1:

    AdventureLog

    seanmorley15/AdventureLog

    Travel tracker and trip planner.

    Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026

    Maps & GPSSvelteDocker

    Stands out for its Svelte codebase. AdventureLog has 3,839 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 204 commits in the last year.

  2. Rank 2:

    TRIP

    itskovacs/trip

    Minimalist POI Map tracker and Trip planner.

    Active · last commit Oct 2, 2026

    Maps & GPSTypeScriptDocker

    Stands out for a permissive MIT license. TRIP has 1,955 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 445 commits in the last year.

  3. Rank 3:

    Surmai

    rohitkumbhar/surmai

    Collaborative personal and family travel organizer.

    Active · last commit Oct 24, 2026

    Travel OrganizationTypeScriptDocker

    Surmai has 287 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 103 commits in the last year.

At a glance

Open source apps for travel compared

Picked by hand for each job from apps whose own description or topics match it, in curated order inside each section, with GitHub data from October 2026; an app appears only once.

Top 10 picks compared, data as of Oct 28, 2026
AppStands out forLicenseGitHub starsCommits (12 mo)Last commitDocker image
AdventureLogits Svelte codebaseGPL-3.03,839204Oct 27, 2026Yes
TRIPa permissive MIT licenseMIT1,955445Oct 2, 2026Yes
Surmai–MIT287103Oct 24, 2026Yes
Dawarichthe most GitHub starsAGPL-3.010,7683,683Oct 27, 2026Yes
AirTrail–GPL-3.01,676270Oct 24, 2026Yes
OwnTracks Recorder–GPL-2.01,22043Oct 27, 2026Yes
wanderer–AGPL-3.04,030415Oct 27, 2026Yes
OpenTripPlanner–LGPL-3.02,7664,605Oct 28, 2026No
Immich–AGPL-3.0117,4542,902Oct 28, 2026Yes
PhotoPrism–AGPL-3.040,3723,596Oct 27, 2026Yes

1 of 4 · 3 picks

Trip planning

  1. 1

    AdventureLog

    Travel tracker and trip planner.

    Stands out for its Svelte codebase. AdventureLog has 3,839 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 204 commits in the last year.

  2. 2

    TRIP

    Minimalist POI Map tracker and Trip planner.

    Stands out for a permissive MIT license. TRIP has 1,955 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 445 commits in the last year.

  3. 3

    Surmai

    Collaborative personal and family travel organizer.

    Surmai has 287 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 103 commits in the last year.

2 of 4 · 3 picks

Location and flight history

  1. 1

    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).

    Stands out for the most GitHub stars. Dawarich has 10,768 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 3,683 commits in the last year.

  2. 2

    AirTrail

    Personal flight tracking system.

    AirTrail has 1,676 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 270 commits in the last year.

  3. 3

    OwnTracks Recorder

    Store and access data published by OwnTracks location tracking apps.

    OwnTracks Recorder has 1,220 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-2.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 43 commits in the last year.

3 of 4 · 2 picks

Maps and trails

  1. 1

    wanderer

    Trail database where you can upload your recorded tracks or create new ones and add various metadata to build an easily searchable catalogue.

    wanderer has 4,030 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 415 commits in the last year.

  2. 2

    OpenTripPlanner

    Multimodal trip planning software based on OpenStreetMap data and consuming published GTFS-formatted data to suggest routes using local public transit systems.

    OpenTripPlanner has 2,766 GitHub stars, uses the LGPL-3.0 license and had 4,605 commits in the last year.

4 of 4 · 2 picks

Photos

  1. 1

    Immich

    Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos).

    Immich has 117,454 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,902 commits in the last year; it replaces Google Photos and Adobe Photoshop.

  2. 2

    PhotoPrism

    Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow. Browse, organize, and share your personal photo collection, using the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures.

    AI-nativePhotoPrism has 40,372 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 3,596 commits in the last year; it replaces Google Photos and Adobe Photoshop.

FAQ

Questions and answers

Still curious? Email info@appsgit.com.

Is there a self-hosted Google Timeline alternative?

Dawarich visualises your location history and travel patterns on your own server, and OwnTracks Recorder stores data from the OwnTracks location apps.

Is AdventureLog free?

Yes. AdventureLog is open-source software released under the GPL-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 this stack with Docker?

9 of the 10 apps here publish Docker images, including AdventureLog, TRIP and Surmai, so most of the stack can run side by side with Docker Compose on one server. Size the server for the heaviest app and add off-site backups.

How is this list ranked?

Picked by hand for each job from apps whose own description or topics match it, in curated order inside each section, with GitHub data from October 2026; an app appears only once.

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