Overview

GeoPulse is a self-hosted location timeline platform — a private replacement for Google Timeline. It ingests location history from your phone, from Google Takeout exports, or from OwnTracks-style sources, and reconstructs it as a browsable timeline of visits, trips and places. Everything stays on your own server, so years of “where was I” data stop being somebody else’s dataset.

Key Features

• Timeline: A continuous, scrollable record of where you were, with visits and travel segments
• Automatic trip detection: Groups raw location points into trips and stays instead of leaving a wall of coordinates
• Location import: Pull in existing history from Google Timeline exports and phone trackers
• Places and favourites: Name the locations you return to and find them again
• Friends and sharing: Share your live location with people you choose, on a server you run
• Multi-user: Separate accounts, so a household can share one instance
• Statistics: Distance travelled, countries and cities visited over time
• Docker deployment: PostgreSQL-backed container stack, documented for self-hosting

Licence note

Not open source. GeoPulse is released under the Business Source License 1.1 — the source is public and you may run it for personal, non-production use, but commercial and hosted-service use is restricted. The licence converts to AGPL-3.0 on 1 January 2075. It is listed here because it is genuinely useful and self-hostable; if you need a fully open licence today, see the alternatives below.

Alternatives

• Dawarich — AGPL-3.0 self-hosted Google Timeline replacement with an active open source community (not yet listed in this directory)
• OpenStreetMap — the open map data behind projects like this

Use Cases

• People leaving Google Timeline who want their location history on their own hardware
• Self-hosters running a family server with shared, private location sharing
• Anyone who wants trip and visit history without a cloud account