We track 4 open-source Life360 alternatives, of which 2 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. Dawarich leads on health at 96/100 with 1146 commits in the last 90 days; across all 4 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0.
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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).
★ 10k · ⟳ today · 1.14.5 · AGPL-3.0
Track and share your location in real time. Control and lock stolen or lost phones.
★ 11 · ⟳ yesterday · v1.2.7 · AGPL-3.0
A server to communicate with the FMD (Find My Device) Android app, to locate and control your devices.
★ 217 · ⟳ 11 days ago · v0.16.0 · GPL-3.0
Java application to track GPS positions. Supports loads of tracking devices and protocols, has an Android and iOS App. Has a web interface to view your trips.
Apache-2.0
Dawarich scores highest at 96/100, with 1146 commits in the last 90 days, 10k GitHub stars and its latest release (1.14.5) published yesterday. It is also the most active by raw commit count.
1 of 4 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Traccar (Apache-2.0). 3 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.
3 of 4 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Dawarich, Onloc, FMD Server. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.