01How it works
Three steps, about ten minutes of your time, and one ~7-day wait on Niantic. No coding, no spreadsheets — and you can stop at any single file.
Ask Niantic for your data
Every player has the right to a full copy of their account data. You request it once and it arrives as a download link, usually within a week.
Drop in your files
Unzip the export and drag in the whole folder — or just the one file you're curious about, like FriendList.tsv. Add one, some, or all of them.
Meet your metrics — then play your story
Each file you add lights up a new chapter — your activity rhythm, your map, your friendships, your spending. Then hit ▶ Play my story for a full-screen, tappable recap of your whole trainer life, and download a card to share.
02Get your export from Niantic
This is a free, official right you have under privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA — not a hack or a third-party tool. Here's the quickest path.
- Open Pokémon GO and tap the Poké Ball. That opens the main menu. Tap the Settings gear in the top-right.
- Tap Help (top-right), then “Chat with us.” Start a New Conversation with the support assistant.
- Choose “My account,” then “Request my data.” It will ask whether your account is a kids login (answer yes/no).
- Confirm the request. An automated message asks you to confirm — tap Continue to submit your data request.
- Wait up to 7 days for their reply. Niantic responds with a download link (valid for 7 days) and a password to open the file.
- Unzip it — this is the step that trips people up.
The download is a password-protected ZIP, and the password is in Niantic's message.
On a computer: double-click it and type the password — Windows and macOS both handle this.
On an iPhone or iPad: the Files app cannot open a password-protected ZIP, so email or
AirDrop the file to a computer, or install a ZIP app that supports passwords. Inside you'll find
.tsv,.csv,.txtand.jsonfiles — exactly what this site reads. Then hit Visualize my journey.
03Privacy, by design
Your export is intimate — it can describe where you live, who you know, and what you spend. By design, this was built so you never have to upload or share any of it.
It all runs locally
Parsing and charts happen entirely in your browser with JavaScript. There is no backend to send your files to — close the tab and it's gone.
We ignore the scary bits
Your export also holds your email, IP addresses and advertising IDs. Nothing here ever shows them, charts them, or writes them to a file — the visualizations only touch the parts that tell a story.
Your map is the exception
Your locations are mapped — that's the whole point of the globe. It's drawn on your device and published nowhere, but it does show where you play, so give any screenshot a look before you share it.
04Zoom out: the Trainer Model
Everything above is your story, one export at a time. The Trainer Model is the other lens — a real friends-list cohort plotted as a population, showing what the level cap does to trainer numbers: the level-50 wall of the 2025 game, and the fresh record under today's cap of 80. Plus a benchmark to see where you stand against them.
05What's in your export — file by file
Niantic keeps all of this on you, and hands it over as a stack of plainly-named files. Here's what each one actually contains, how revealing it is, and the story this site can build from it. Add only the ones you're comfortable with.
That's your export, file by file. When you're ready, the app turns whichever of them you choose into your own chapters — visualize my journey →
06Ready when you are
Add as little as a single file or your whole export — it all stays on your device. Curious first? Play the example story and see exactly what you'd get.