9 am
You stop for coffee. Wayback notices.
It listens for when you arrive and leave, not every step, so it uses about 3% of your battery a day. Recording health shows you how it’s doing.
Location history, kept private
Every place you've been. Kept for good.
Wayback quietly keeps your days on your iPhone, as a gentle timeline of the places you stopped and how you got there. Bring your Google Timeline with you.
Coming soon to theApp Store
Free to start · iPhone, iOS 17 or later
The days blur.
You were somewhere lovely last spring. Where was it, and who were you with?
Wayback turns those half-memories into a timeline: Harbour Café on March 14 at 8:45 AM, two hours at Gran’s, three nights at Casa Azul in Lisbon, the dentist on June 3.
How Wayback keeps your day
noon
Walked, cycled, took the train.
Every journey between your places, in its own color, with how long it took and how far you went.
2 pm
Wrong café? Tell it once.
Tap the name and pick the right place, or call it what you call it: Home, Mom’s, the climbing gym. Next time, Wayback remembers.
4 pm
Replay any day on the map.
Drag through the hours and watch the day walk by, stop by stop.
7 pm
Your day is ready.
A short note in the evening, at a time you choose: where today took you, in one line.
Wayback Plus · the preview is free
Years of history, welcomed in.
Bring your Google Timeline export from your phone, or your Takeout files. Wayback shows what it found before anything is saved, and keeps it all on your iPhone.
places recovered
2014 – 2026 · an example import; yours shows your own years.
For example, 41,203 places recovered from 2014 to 2026.
Wayback Plus
Your year, in places.
Search every visit, see the photos you took there, and collect a label for every new country. Week and year stats come with a card to share.
My 2026 in places
- Places
- 214
- New places
- 63
- Cities
- 18
- Countries
- 5
Most loved: Harbour Café
Recorded privately with Wayback
Good questions.
Does Wayback send my location anywhere?
No. Everything Wayback records stays on your iPhone, and there is no account and no Wayback server. To name the places you visit, it asks Apple Maps about points of interest nearby, the way any app using Apple Maps does.
Can I bring my Google Timeline?
Yes. Export your Timeline data from Google Maps on your phone, or use Records.json and the monthly Semantic Location History files from Google Takeout. Wayback shows what it found before anything is saved. Importing is part of Wayback Plus; the preview is free.
What is free, and what is Wayback Plus?
Recording, the Day timeline for the last 30 days, place fixes, the evening summary, Recording health and export are free. Wayback Plus adds your full history, Google Timeline import, photos and calendar events at each visit, search, and stats.
Will it drain my battery?
Wayback listens for when you arrive and leave rather than tracking every step, which keeps it to about 3% of your battery a day. Recording health shows an estimate for today.
What if I lose my iPhone, or get a new one?
Your history is part of your iPhone backup, in iCloud or on your computer. You can also export everything as a Wayback file and import it on the new iPhone.
Can I delete everything?
Yes. Settings › Delete all data removes every place, visit and journey from your iPhone in one deliberate step.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. Wayback is for iPhone, on iOS 17 or later.
Stays on your iPhone.
No account. No Wayback server. Nothing to sign up for.
Kept here
- Every place, visit, journey, note and fix stays in Wayback’s storage on your iPhone.
- It travels with your iPhone backup, encrypted when your backup is.
- Photos and calendar events are read where they are, never copied or uploaded.
What leaves, and why
- Place names: Apple Maps is asked about points of interest near a visit.
- Purchases: Apple and RevenueCat confirm Wayback Plus with a random ID.
- Anonymous usage and crash reports, stored in the EU. Never your places, times, photos or events.
Always yours
- Export everything as GPX, JSON or CSV, for any dates, subscribed or not.
- Delete all of it from Settings in one deliberate step.
- No ads, no tracking across apps, nothing sold to anyone.
Free to keep your days. Plus to keep them all.
Free
For as long as you like.
- Automatic recording, light on battery
- Your Day timeline for the last 30 days
- Two-tap place fixes that learn
- The evening summary
- Export everything, always
Wayback Plus
$3.99 a month, $29.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $79.99 once.
- Your whole history, kept for good
- Bring years in from Google Timeline
- Photos and calendar events at every visit
- Search every place, note and event
- Week and year stats, and your year card
Prices in US dollars; the App Store shows yours. Monthly and yearly renew until you cancel in your Apple Account settings. Family Sharing works with the yearly and lifetime plans. Export is never locked. Terms
Come back every evening.
Your days, gently kept. On your iPhone.
Coming soon to theApp Store