Create a private Maps Timeline animation

What the visualizer reads from your export

The visualizer looks for valid coordinates, timestamps, visits, and movement segments in a current device export. It orders points across the selected date range, removes invalid coordinates, reduces redundant detail, and uses great-circle paths for long jumps. Unknown fields are ignored rather than treated as errors.

A route is evidence of recorded movement, not proof of a transport mode. When the file does not identify whether a segment was a flight, train, drive, or walk, the tool keeps that value unknown. It does not invent activity labels merely to make the animation look more complete.

Visualize a Timeline file in three steps

If you do not have a file yet, follow the Google Maps Timeline export guide. You can also use the fictional sample journey first; it contains no personal location history.

1. Choose a file. Open Timeline to Video and select the exported Timeline.json or location-history.json file from your device.
2. Set the range and endpoint privacy zone. Limit the dates before the map is prepared, then remove points around the route's first and last recorded stops when either could reveal a sensitive place.
3. Inspect the route. Check unexpected jumps, date boundaries, and the final overview before opening the story editor or starting an MP4 export.

Local Timeline processing, with an honest map boundary

Your Timeline file, custom title, selected soundtrack, and rendered video are processed in the browser and are not uploaded to a Timeline to Video application server. The resulting MP4 remains a local browser Blob until you download it or invoke your device share sheet.

The experience is not completely offline. After you confirm the map notice, the browser requests raster map tiles from a third-party map provider. That provider can receive your IP address, request metadata, and the tile coordinates needed for the visible region. The original Timeline JSON is not sent as the tile request body, but the requested map area can still reveal geographic context. Read the full privacy explanation before loading a sensitive route.

Choose the viewer or the video workflow

Use the Timeline JSON viewer when your main goal is to validate a file and inspect its date coverage. Use Google Timeline to Video when you want titles, music, camera movement, a summary card, and a share-ready aspect ratio.

Timeline to Video is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google. Google Maps and Google Timeline are trademarks of Google LLC.