4K
Export up to 3840×2160
720p, 1080p, 1440p and 4K, at 24, 30 or 60 fps. Your GPU does the encoding through WebCodecs, so a phone-sized clip finishes in about a minute.
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Google Maps Timeline Visualizer
Your year on a map, as a video you can post. Drop in your Timeline export and watch every trip draw itself — then download it in up to 4K.
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Drop file
Timeline.json
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Preview
on your device
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Download
up to 4K
Upload your file to see your journey now!
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Your trip
LAT21.0278°
LON105.8342°
TRAVELLED9.840 km
Any route colour you like
Export up to 4K
Your photo instead of a dot
Six map styles, including satellite
Your file never leaves your device
Everything free. No Pro tier, no watermark, no sign-up.
Other timeline visualizers put map styles, route colours and higher resolutions behind a paywall. Here every option below is free, because the video renders on your machine — it costs us nothing to serve.
Any route colour you like
Eight presets plus a full colour picker, and a thickness slider. Pick a colour that matches your feed instead of the one you were given.
Six map styles
Colour, light, dark, plain light, plain dark, and real satellite imagery. Card and label colours adjust to the map automatically.
Your face on the map
Upload a photo and it becomes a circular marker travelling your route, with a coloured ring and soft shadow. Nobody else offers this for free.
A camera that keeps up
It widens before a long flight instead of chasing it, so the marker never leaves frame — and zoom changes stay under 1.1% per frame, below what the eye reads as a jump.
Nothing is uploaded
Your Timeline file is parsed in the browser and never sent anywhere. One switch also hides everything within 800 m of where you stay the longest.
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Aspect ratios
4K
Max resolution
up to 60 fps
Frame rate
10–180 s
Duration
7
Date formats
Free
Price
How to export your Google Maps Timeline
Timeline moved onto the phone in 2024, so the file comes from the Google Maps app rather than Takeout. It takes about a minute.
Android
- 1Open your phone's Settings app — not Google Maps.
- 2Tap Location, then Location services.
- 3Tap Timeline. On some phones it sits directly under Location.
- 4Tap Export Timeline data, confirm with Continue, then Save.
- 5The file is Timeline.json, usually in Downloads. Drop it in above.
iPhone
- 1Open Google Maps and tap your profile picture, top right.
- 2Tap Your Timeline.
- 3Tap the ⋯ menu, then Location and privacy settings.
- 4Tap Export Timeline data.
- 5The file is named location-history.json — this page reads it too.
Getting an empty file usually means Timeline was switched off. Turn it on in the same settings screen, travel for a few days, then export again.
Questions
The things people ask most before dropping their file in. Anything missing, the export guide covers the rest.
Yes. Your file is read and the video is rendered entirely in your browser — it is never uploaded. The only network requests are the map tile images for the areas your route passes through.
Chrome, Edge, Safari 16.4 or newer, and Firefox 130 or newer can create the MP4. Firefox on Android cannot. Any browser can still show the live preview.
The tool loads every map tile it needs first, then encodes without waiting on the network. A 60-second 1080p video usually takes one to three minutes on a recent laptop; 4K takes longer. Keep the tab open.
Timeline was probably off. In Google Maps go to your profile picture → Your Timeline → ⋯ → Location and privacy settings and check that Timeline is on, then export again after a few days of travel.
It reads the Timeline.json exported from the Google Maps app, in both the current format and the older semanticSegments format. Takeout archives generally no longer contain Timeline data because Timeline moved on-device in 2024, so export from your phone instead.
No, and you do not need one — this runs entirely in your phone or computer browser. The original open-source project does have an Android app; this site is an independent web build and is not affiliated with it.
Yes. Export the file on your phone, send it to your computer by AirDrop, cloud drive or email, then open this page. Google removed the web version of Timeline, so this also works as a way to view your Google Timeline on a PC or Mac.
The features listed on this page are free and stay free. There is no Pro tier and no watermark on your video.