A private Google Timeline alternative for your work days

Google moved Timeline onto your phone

Google moved Timeline off the web and onto the phone. Your history now lives on the device, and the web view that many people used to check a day or a week is gone.

For a lot of tradies and support workers, that web view was how they rebuilt a day for an invoice. Open the map, find the stops, work out how long each one took.

What people lost

The desktop view made it easy to look back over a whole week on a big screen. It also gave you somewhere to check a day while you sat down to invoice, rather than squinting at a phone.

Timeline was also never built for billing. It shows places, not jobs. It does not split your time into hours on site and hours on the road, and it does not know what you were being paid to do.

Tarry: an on-device timeline with no account

Tarry keeps a timeline of your work day on your phone. There is no account, no sign-in and no network sync, so your location is not sent anywhere. The code is source available, so you can check that for yourself.

Source available on GitHub

How it differs: built for work

• Time on each site is separate from travel time and kilometres for each leg.
• You add a job name, notes, tags and a billable flag after the fact.
• You set the schedule, so Tarry only records during your working hours.
• You export totals when you are ready to invoice.

Honest limits

• Tarry is on Android now. iPhone is coming.
• It records only during the hours you schedule, so it will not fill in time outside them.
• Tarry does not import your old Google Timeline history.
• Android can stop apps. When it does, Tarry marks the gap on your timeline instead of hiding it.

Try it

7-day free trial, then 19.99 AUD once. No subscription for the core app.