Timelinize

Use it when

• You have Google Takeout, Facebook, iCloud, or similar exports sitting in archives and want photos, messages, and location history merged into one browsable local timeline
• You want to own your personal history offline - viewing texts, pictures, and GPS tracks for any given day on a map - instead of leaving the only copy inside cloud services

What it solves

Not the fit when

• Actively developed and unstable: schema changes can require deleting and re-importing timelines on upgrade, so always keep original source data
• Does not pull data directly from live cloud accounts; you must request/export archives yourself (which can take days)
• Not a backup service or photo editor
• Do not expose the HTTP API beyond a trusted boundary without separately verified authentication and transport controls; imported archives contain unredacted personal messages, locations, contacts, photos, and account history, so protect the timeline files.
• cloud photo backup and sync
• live scraping of online accounts without a data export
• team document collaboration
• media transcoding or editing

Install

Download the latest release for your platform from https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize/releases/latest and run it (installation instructions at https://timelinize.com/docs/install)

Invoke

Launch the app and import exported archives (e.g. Google Takeout, Facebook, iCloud .zip/.tar, kept in original format) via the built-in file picker; data is indexed into a local SQLite database and browsed via timeline, map, gallery, and conversation views. Run `timelinize help` for the symmetric CLI/HTTP API command list.

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