Every place you've been. Yours to keep.
Where you went, how long you stayed and how you got there — recorded automatically, and never handed to Google.
A day, reconstructed
Arrivals, how long you stayed, and how you got between them. Nobody typed any of this in.
| Arrived | Place | Stay | Got there by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of day | |||
| Driving · 1.1 km | |||
| Walking · 300 m | |||
| Cycling · 2.4 km | |||
| Driving · 3.6 km |
Example day. Illustrative data, not a real account.
What ends up in your timeline
Everything below is in the shipping app today, on the web and on Android.
Named places, not coordinates
Visits arrive with a real name and street address from OpenStreetMap. Label a place Home or Work once and it keeps that label every time you return.
How you travelled, correctable
Each journey is classified walking, cycling or driving from distance and speed. The detection is good, not infallible, so every segment can be switched by hand.
Notes on any visit
Write what actually happened at a stop. The note stays in your history, which turns a location log into a record of client and site visits.
Honest gaps
If recording stopped (a flat battery, an aggressive power manager), the timeline says so, with the exact window. Missing time is shown, never quietly smoothed over.
Insights that answer real questions
Time tracked, distance covered, your top places, and how long the commute takes at each departure hour, including which hour is genuinely fastest.
A widget that proves it's still running
An Android homescreen widget and Quick Settings tile show the last fix and the sync queue, so you find out that tracking stopped at a glance, not a day later.
You install it once. The timeline writes itself.
There is no check-in, no button, no daily upkeep. The phone records, the server works out what those points mean, and the day is waiting for you when you open it.
The phone records quietly
A background service samples your position every 30 seconds while you are moving and every 60 while you are still. It buffers offline and syncs about every five minutes, so a dead zone costs you nothing.
Stays become visits
Stand still for roughly three minutes and TraceMap opens a visit, then closes it when you genuinely leave. It resolves the name and address from OpenStreetMap, and it filters out the scattered readings you get between tall buildings.
The gaps between become journeys
From the raw points between two visits it works out distance and speed, and classifies the trip as walking, cycling or driving. When it guesses wrong, one tap changes it.
No Google Maps. No Google Timeline.
Most location timelines are a trade: you get the history, an advertising company gets the data. Here your history goes to one database on the server behind this site and nowhere else. Place names come from OpenStreetMap and maps are drawn with Leaflet, so your movements are never handed to a mapping provider.
One honest exception: on Android the GPS fix itself comes from Google Play Services, the standard location provider on that platform. It hands the app a coordinate, and that is the end of Google's involvement.
And when you want it out, take it out: a full JSON backup of everything, or a GPX track that opens in any mapping tool. Nothing here is built to trap your history where it is.
Free and Pro
Location accuracy and journey detection are identical on both plans. There is deliberately no accuracy tier. Pro lifts the limits and unlocks analysis and export.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| History kept | 30 days | Unlimited |
| Saved places | 20 | Unlimited |
| Signed-in devices | 1 | Set by your licence |
| Place labels | Home & Work | Plus your own |
| Insights | Not included | Included |
| Export & backup | Not included | JSON & GPX |
| Weekly email report | Not included | Included |
| GPS accuracy | Full | Full |
Pricing has not been published yet. Every account starts on Free.
Start recording tonight, read it back tomorrow.
Create an account, install the Android app, and let it run. Tomorrow morning there will be a day to read back.
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