Your journey, on a globe
Every journey your phone recorded, drawn in order across a real globe — the kilometres climbing, each new country named as you cross it.
Your file is read here, on this device. Nothing about it is uploaded, and nothing is kept.
See it before you decide
There is a made-up year on this page — thirty journeys, six countries, two gaps for the film to guess across. Press Watch a sample and it plays the same way yours would, with nothing handed over.
What you get to watch
One traveller, in order
Every trip drawn as one body moving, in the order it happened. Long journeys leave the ground and arc across the globe; short ones follow the roads your phone actually recorded, and the land rises into relief as the camera comes down.
The count, as it happens
Kilometres, journeys and countries climb while you watch. A country you have not been to before is named on screen and stays coloured in behind you.
An ending worth keeping
It finishes on a card: how far you went, the furthest point from where it began, your biggest year, and how much of it was spent in the air.
It ends where this site began
This is a live camera site. When the film is over it looks through the places you have actually been for the ones with a camera running right now, and offers them. The street you walked down in March, this evening, live.
Getting your history out of Google
It has to be the phone. Google moved Timeline onto the device in 2024, so there is no longer a copy to download from a computer.
On an Android phone
- Open Google Maps and tap your profile picture, top right.
- Choose Your Timeline.
- Tap the three dots at the top right, then Location and privacy settings.
- Scroll down to Export Timeline data and tap it. Save the .json somewhere you can find again — Downloads is fine.
On an iPhone
- Open Google Maps and tap your profile picture, top right.
- Choose Your Timeline.
- Tap the three dots at the top right, then Location and privacy settings.
- Tap Export Timeline data, then Save to Files in the share sheet. Come back here and choose that file.
Google moves this around between app versions. If the wording differs, look for Timeline first and then for the export inside its settings.
If there is no Timeline at all, it was never switched on for that account and there is nothing to export yet. Turning it on starts recording from today, not from the past.
An older Takeout download
A Location History download from Google Takeout still works, if you took one before 2024. Unzip it and choose the JSON inside — either Records.json or one of the Semantic Location History files.
So it reads five things: the JSON an Android exports, the JSON an iPhone exports, a Takeout Records.json, a Takeout Semantic Location History file, and the CSV some accounts in Europe receive. Anything else, it says so rather than drawing nothing.
Made to be posted
Record the film while it plays, then send it in one press — your phone's own share sheet reaches X, Threads and Instagram. Choose widescreen, square, or the tall shape stories want, at 720p or 1080p.
Where the record has holes
Nobody's history is complete. Where it jumps, the film draws the gap in a colour of its own, so a guess never reads as a fact — and trips that were missed entirely you can add by hand, counted apart from what the phone logged.
Your history stays on your device
The file is opened by this page, in your browser, and nothing taken from it is sent anywhere. There is no account and nothing is stored: close the tab and it is gone. The few places you spend most of your time are left out of the picture by default, so your home is not in a film you post.
Your file is read here, on this device. Nothing about it is uploaded, and nothing is kept.