Dawarich

Dawarich is a self-hosted alternative to Google Timeline, built for people who want to own their location history rather than store it on Google's servers. It accepts data from a wide range of sources — Google Maps Timeline exports, OwnTracks, Strava, Immich, GPX files, and more — and stores everything in a PostGIS-backed database optimized for geospatial queries. With over 4,000 GitHub stars and continuous active development, Dawarich has become one of the most popular self-hosted location tracking projects, offering a feature set that rivals the commercial service it replaces while keeping every data point on your own infrastructure.

Common Use Cases

Privacy-conscious individuals use Dawarich to reclaim their location history from Google, importing years of Google Maps Timeline data into a private instance that only they control, with no ongoing data sharing or targeted advertising. Frequent travellers use the built-in statistics to track which countries and cities they have visited and calculate exact days-in-country figures for tax residency or visa purposes — data that would otherwise require manually reviewing months of records. Families use the location sharing feature to keep track of household members with individual privacy settings, replacing commercial family tracking apps with a self-hosted solution that does not sell location data to third parties. Photographers connect Dawarich to Immich or Photoprism to overlay geotagged photos on trip maps, turning location history into a visual travel diary. Developers and security researchers use the self-hosted model to audit exactly what location data is stored, with full database access and no black-box cloud API involved.

Key Features

• Import location data from Google Maps Timeline, OwnTracks, Strava, Immich, GPX, GeoJSON, and other formats
• Interactive map with heatmaps, route lines, fog-of-war overlays, and customizable layers
• Travel statistics including countries visited, cities explored, total distance, and days-in-country tracking
• Trip creation tools with photo integration and notes for annotating journeys
• Geotagged photo overlay via Immich and Photoprism integrations
• Family location sharing with per-member privacy controls
• Live location tracking via OwnTracks, Overland, GPSLogger, PhoneTrack, and Home Assistant
• Export to GeoJSON and GPX formats for use in other mapping applications
• Watched folder for automatic file import from a mounted directory
• PostGIS-backed geospatial storage with Sidekiq background processing for large imports

Why deploy Dawarich on Hostinger VPS

Location history is among the most sensitive personal data you can generate — it reveals where you live, work, worship, seek medical care, and spend time with family. Running Dawarich on a Hostinger VPS ensures that data never leaves your control and is never used for advertising or profiling. A VPS provides the persistent storage and CPU resources needed to process years of Google Timeline exports and run the PostGIS geospatial queries that power heatmaps and statistics. The PostGIS database, Redis cache, and Sidekiq worker are all included in this template and configured to work together out of the box. Hostinger's one-click deployment sets up the full stack in minutes, and the automatic credential rotation means every instance starts with a unique admin account rather than the default demo credentials.