Been - Your Private Location Log
Privacy-focused Google Timeline alternative for iPhone
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Been automatically keeps a private history of the places you visit and turns it into a personal timeline and map. Everything stays on your iPhone: No account, no cloud, no ads, and no tracking. Just enable location access and Been quietly builds your personal history over time. Completely free (for now).
PH · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized navigation and tracking apps · 203 launches, 35 in the last 7 days ▲ +84% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Analytics
- Privacy
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More like this: all 203 launches in specialized navigation and tracking apps →
Could you build this?
Yes Apple's CoreLocation framework provides background location visits and significant change monitoring, which can be stored locally in SQLite and rendered on MapKit.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 767 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #246 of 768 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 241 days after the earliest competitor.
- Whereabouts · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Places I've Visited · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Expiry Keeper · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- PostHistory for X · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- All Travel Memories: Journal · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- TrailSift · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- OwnDay - Daily Life Insights · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TripTrack · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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