Google Timeline Visualizer — turn your Maps Timeline into an animated travel video

How it works

Timeline Visualizer is a free web version of the Google Timeline visualizer (also spelled visualiser): a Google Timeline viewer that turns your Google Maps location history into a travel video you can post to X, Reels, TikTok or Shorts. No app install, no APK — the timeline visualizer works online, in the browser, on iPhone, Android and PC.

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   Export your Timeline

   One file from your phone, a minute of tapping.
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   Pick a period and style

   A trip, a month, or the whole year.
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   Share the video

   MP4 rendered on your device, ready to post.

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What you get

A short MP4 of your real journey: a light map, a hot-pink route that reveals itself behind a moving marker with a fading trail, a title card showing the live date and distance, and a final zoom-out of the whole trip. Flights sweep along great-circle arcs; long hops are compressed so a 12-hour flight does not eat half the video.

Pick any period — whole months or exact dates. The length is chosen automatically from how much travel the period contains (override it anytime, 10–300 s). Choose 9:16 for Reels, TikTok and Shorts (or 1:1 / 16:9), 720p or 1080p, four camera styles and three background tracks. Need to keep your home off the map? One switch hides your home and other frequent places — free.

Everything happens on your device: the Timeline.json (or location-history.json from iPhone) is parsed in your browser and the video is encoded with WebCodecs — nothing is uploaded. The only network requests are the map tiles for the areas your route passes through, and you confirm that before the map loads.

What this version does differently

Timeline Visualizer started from the open-source google-timeline-visualizer project (MIT) and grew into its own web app. The original — with its Android app and the author's own web version — keeps evolving too; here is what this site adds on top:

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   Music, built in

   Three licensed tracks are muxed straight into the MP4 in your browser; Pro adds your own MP3 / M4A / WAV. The original exports silent videos.
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   The length picks itself

   Duration is computed from your data — a weekend trip gets ~15 seconds, a whole year about a minute — instead of you guessing a number first.
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   Privacy zone, free

   One switch hides your home and other frequent places: nearby points are pushed to the edge of a slightly shifted circle, so the exact spot never appears.
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   Pro extras

   Recap stats card, auto transport marker, kept trail, @handle watermark, five map styles, place names in your language, route colors, custom markers and one-tap export of all three formats — one-time purchase with a 7-day one-tap refund, free tool untouched.
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   Languages for where these videos are made

   Full interface, guides and blog in English, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Traditional Chinese.
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   Built for sharing

   9:16 by default, the system share sheet, and overview / recap images to post alongside the video.
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   Works without a Timeline

   Timeline off or the export empty? Pick the trip's photos and the route is built from their location and time — read on your device, never uploaded. The original needs a Timeline export. iPhone and computers (Android hides photo locations from websites).

Not affiliated with Google or the original author. The rendering idea and the Android app belong to the open-source project; everything above is this site's own work.

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Pro extras

Optional, one-time $2.99: five map styles, place names in your language, route colors, an auto transport marker, a recap card, emoji or photo markers, your own music, a kept trail, your @handle on the video, and one-tap export of all three formats. The same key unlocks the Pro extras of every tool on this site — the visited-maps included. The free tools stay free. About Pro →

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