Hey everyone, I’m Daniel.
On June 5, 2025, I pushed v1.0.0 of Reitti. My goal was personal: I wanted to track my movements so that I could look back a year later and easily bring back memories of where I had been and what I had done. I wanted that “Time Machine” feeling, but I didn’t want to hand my entire life’s history over to another entity to get it.
Today, exactly 213 days and 46 releases later, I’m releasing v3.1.0.
The journey from a personal hobby to a community project has been wild:
- 1,191 Stars on GitHub.
- 404 Commits to main with 311 PRs merged.
- 250 Issues closed.
- 9 Languages supported.
What is Reitti?
“Reitti” is Finnish for “route” or “path.” It’s a personal location tracking and analysis application. It is fully local and private and no data ever leaves your server. You own the database, and you own the memories.
The Year in Review: Major Milestones
To reach that goal of “bringing back memories,” we had to build some serious infrastructure this year:
- The Memories Feature: This was the soul of the project this year. We moved beyond just “rows of data” to create beautiful travel logs that combine raw GPS data with images, text notes, and visit summaries.
- Deterministic Visit Detection: I’ve rewritten the processing pipeline multiple times. Handling raw GPS data is a struggle, debugging is a nightmare when one single “bounced” coordinate out of 10,000 can break a visit logic. We moved to a unified, deterministic engine to ensure your logs are accurate and noise-free.
- Advanced Sharing & Federation: We implemented “Magic Links” for external sharing, added sharing your data to other users and added support for cross-instance sharing, allowing you to see live locations on a single map of all your friends and family members.
New in v3.1.0:
- Polygon Boundaries for Places: Move beyond simple circular radiuses; define exact shapes for your significant places.
- OwnTracks Friend Data Support: Seamlessly integrate and view data from your friends directly in your OwnTracks App.
- Docker Secrets Support: Hardening security for your self-hosted setup.
- Dutch Language Support: Now supporting our 9th language!
Full v3.1.0 Release Notes: https://github.com/dedicatedcode/reitti/releases/tag/v3.1.0
A Heartfelt Thank You
This project isn’t just me anymore. I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who contributed this year. To the 15 contributors on GitHub who touched the code, and to the countless others who:
- Helped translate Reitti into 9 languages.
- Filled detailed issues and bug reports.
- Suggested features that shaped the direction of the app.
- Supported the project indirectly by sharing it with others.
You are the reason this project stayed healthy for 46 releases and I am looking forward what we can achieve in 2026
What’s Next?
I’m currently focusing on usability, mostly polishing the date selection and adding more configuration options. Long-term, I want to expand the Memories feature, possibly exploring local AI to help turn raw coordinate logs into natural-language travel diaries to make looking back even easier.
I appreciate your feedback and support! Here are a few ways to connect:
- Report Issues: Encountered a bug? Open an issue on GitHub Issues.
- Discuss on Lemmy: Message me on Lemmy.
- Connect on Reddit: Find me here.
- Support My Work: If you find this useful, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi.
GitHub: https://github.com/dedicatedcode/reitti
Documentation: https://www.dedicatedcode.com/projects/reitti/
I’ll be in the comments to answer your questions.
😆 yeah, that would not be that much for a year. Be assured, I get out alot besides the job and working on reitti.
The project is translated using weblate. I started with english (like every developer) and german (which is my main language). One of the LLM then started with finish and french. I do not speak either of these so could not estimate how good this was. French is already re-translated completely by two fellow users using weblate. All other languages where also added there.
It is a good tool but has some quirks when merging is involved. But I could not find anything better. Sometimes I also use it to enhance german, and it is working fine.
I will see what I can do for the Finnish translation. Already found it on weblate.
I saw that someone is working on it. You are awesome. Thank you 🙏
Awesome! In my younger days traveling, I picked up a few languages enough to get by, but that was decades ago and if you don’t use them you loose them. At one time I spoke patois fairly fluently which you would most likely hear in Jamaica or the Dominican Republic.
Time to level that up and add patois (never heard of it) to reitti 😀 But it is alot of work in keeping the translations aligned to new features and I am overly thankful for anyone who does this.
As I was younger, I could get away with Bulgarian but as you said. If you do not use it, you loose it.