Collaboration & Productivity
Dawarich
Dawarich: self-hosted Google Timeline alternative — map journeys, analyse visits and export GPS history privately from your VPS.
About Dawarich
Dawarich is an open-source web application that replaces Google Timeline. It stores your GPS history, plots your trips on an interactive map and keeps count of the countries and cities you have visited — all of it hosted on your own server, without sharing your location data.
What gets installed
Ready when the VPS starts
- Compatible OS
- Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12
- Application
- Dawarich
- Tech stack
- DockerRuby on RailsPostgreSQL (PostGIS)Redis
- Minimum RAM
- 2 GB recommended
- Minimum CPU
- 1 vCPU
- Default port
- 3000
- Access
- root over SSH
Key features
- Import from Google Takeout, OwnTracks, GPX, GeoJSON and other common formats
- Interactive map of journeys with timeline and country/city statistics
- Automatic visit detection with configurable minimum stay duration
- Real-time sync from smartphone via OwnTracks or Overland apps
- Export as GPX, GeoJSON or CSV — your location data belongs to you
- AGPL-3.0 licence — open source, 100 % private self-hosted
When to use this solution?
Replace Google Timeline
Import your Google Takeout archive (Records.json) and keep your complete location history under your control, with no data sent to third parties.
Private travel journal
Automatically map your journeys and see exactly where you were on any date. Explore country and city stats across years of travel.
Privacy and data sovereignty
Keep your location data on your own server. Dawarich runs entirely offline — no telemetry, no cloud dependency, full GDPR compliance.
Guide
Deploy Dawarich on your VPS
Create the VPS
Choose a plan with at least 2 GB RAM and 20 GB SSD. The Dawarich template deploys Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL with PostGIS and Redis via Docker Compose, published behind the access address you choose at install time.
Access Dawarich
Open your VPS address in a browser. Create your admin account on first login — Dawarich shows a registration form on first visit.
Import your history
Download your Google Takeout archive (Records.json) and import it via Settings → Import. The import runs as a background job — large archives take a few minutes.
Connect your phone
Install OwnTracks or Overland on your smartphone and point it to your Dawarich server URL for automatic real-time location sync.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Dawarich
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