Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    10k

    Dawarich: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Visualize your location history, track your movements, and analyze your travel patterns with complete privacy and control (alternative to Google Timeline a.k.a. Google Location History).

    TL;DR • Dawarich • as of August 2026

    Dawarich is an open-source maps and global positioning system (gps) project, with 10k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 2312 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    10k
    GitHub stars
    100/100
    Health score
    2312
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-15
    Days since last commit 2
    Commits, last 3 months 795
    Commits, last 12 months 2312
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-15
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-3.0
    Category Maps and Global Positioning System (GPS)

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    AGPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Dawarich means for your idea

    Dawarich is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Dawarich: common questions

    Is Dawarich still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Dawarich recorded 2312 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 795 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-08-15. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Dawarich commercially?

    Dawarich is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Maps and Global Positioning System (GPS) category?

    18 open-source implementations, 13 of them actively maintained, led by Dawarich at 10k stars. Saturation score 42/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

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