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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. Each pick was chosen by hand for its job and is shown with GitHub data from October 2026.
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
- Rank 1:
AdventureLog
seanmorley15/AdventureLog
Travel tracker and trip planner.
Maps & GPSSvelteDockerAdventureLog has 3,791 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 179 commits in the last year.
- Rank 2:
TRIP
itskovacs/trip
Minimalist POI Map tracker and Trip planner.
Maps & GPSTypeScriptDockerTRIP has 1,946 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 435 commits in the last year.
- Rank 3:
Surmai
rohitkumbhar/surmai
Collaborative personal and family travel organizer.
Travel OrganizationTypeScriptDockerSurmai has 282 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 24 commits in the last year.
1 of 4 · 3 picks
Trip planning
- 1
AdventureLog
Travel tracker and trip planner.
Maps & GPSDockerAdventureLog has 3,791 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 179 commits in the last year.
- 2
TRIP
Minimalist POI Map tracker and Trip planner.
Maps & GPSDockerTRIP has 1,946 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 435 commits in the last year.
- 3
Surmai
Collaborative personal and family travel organizer.
Travel OrganizationDockerSurmai has 282 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 24 commits in the last year.
2 of 4 · 3 picks
Location and flight history
- 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).
Maps & GPSDockerDawarich has 10,597 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 3,004 commits in the last year; it replaces Strava.
- 2
AirTrail
Personal flight tracking system.
Maps & GPSDockerAirTrail has 1,617 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 269 commits in the last year.
- 3
OwnTracks Recorder
Store and access data published by OwnTracks location tracking apps.
Maps & GPSDockerOwnTracks Recorder has 1,211 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-2.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 41 commits in the last year.
3 of 4 · 2 picks
Maps and trails
- 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.
Maps & GPSDockerwanderer has 3,952 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 311 commits in the last year.
- 2
OpenTripPlanner
Multimodal trip planning software based on OpenStreetMap data and consuming published GTFS-formatted data to suggest routes using local public transit systems.
Maps & GPSOpenTripPlanner has 2,749 GitHub stars, uses the LGPL-3.0 license and had 4,352 commits in the last year.
4 of 4 · 2 picks
Photos
- 1
ImmichFeatured
Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos).
Photo GalleriesDockerImmich has 115,648 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,638 commits in the last year; it replaces Google Photos and Adobe Photoshop.
- 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.
Photo GalleriesDockerAI-nativePhotoPrism has 40,272 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,819 commits in the last year; it replaces Google Photos and Adobe Photoshop.
What are the best open source apps for planning and tracking travel?
For travellers, a self-hosted stack starts with AdventureLog for trip planning, Dawarich for location history and wanderer for maps and trails. Each pick was chosen by hand for its job and is shown with GitHub data from October 2026.
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.
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