01How it works
Three steps, about ten minutes of your time, and one wait on support — a day to a few weeks. No coding, no spreadsheets — and you can stop at any single file.
Ask for your data
Every player has the right to a full copy of their account data. You request it once, in-game, and it arrives as a download link — within a day under Niantic, and up to a few weeks since Scopely took over the game.
Drop in your files
Drop in the ZIP you downloaded and type its password — it's opened right in your browser, the Player_Journey.zip inside it too. Or drag in the unzipped 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, and download a card to share.
Getting the export — the quickest path
A free, official right under privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA — not a hack or a third-party tool. Four screens in the game, then one email. Scopely runs Pokémon GO now, but the screens, the automated replies and the files are the same ones Niantic built.
Tap Continue to confirm.
Player_Journey.zip inside it too, and the
password never leaves your device. That works on an iPhone or iPad as well, where the Files app cannot
open a password-protected ZIP. Rather unzip it yourself? On a Mac, double-click the ZIP and type the
password when Finder asks; on Windows, 7-Zip opens it. Then drop
the whole folder — its .tsv, .csv, .txt and .json files
are exactly what this site reads. Since the Scopely handover the
folder carries a long random ID instead of “Pokemon GO Data”, which is normal. Then hit Visualize my journey.
02Privacy, 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.
03What's in your export — file by file
Pokémon GO keeps all of this on you, and hands it over as a stack of plainly-named files — the same stack under Scopely as under Niantic. 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.
Niantic → Scopely Explore: what changed in the export
Scopely took over Pokémon GO in 2025 and in July 2026 renamed the team that runs it Scopely Explore; the privacy policy in effect since August 20, 2026 is in the name of Scopely Explore, Inc. (formerly Niantic, Inc.). We diffed a June 2026 export (Niantic) against an August 2026 one (Scopely Explore) — every file, every column header, every timestamp format — so you don't have to wonder whether yours will work here.
| What | Under Niantic · Jun 2026 | Under Scopely Explore · Aug 2026 | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Niantic, Inc. | Scopely Explore, Inc. (formerly Niantic, Inc.), under a privacy policy in effect since August 20, 2026 | Renamed |
| Files | 22 files, plus a 21-file Player_Journey.zip | The same 22, the same 21 | Unchanged |
| Column headers | Every raw column, as catalogued above | Identical — some still say “Niantic”, e.g. Date of first Niantic friendship start | Unchanged |
| Timestamps | UTC, in three formats | The same three formats | Unchanged |
| How far back files go | 15 months and 3 years of events, ~2 months of GPS, ~3 weeks of fitness, ~4 months of social | The same windows, just moved forward | Unchanged |
| Positions in the journey files | Precise in the 15-month “1” files; blurred to a few km in the 3-year “2” files | The same split — checked against the GPS trail in both | Unchanged |
| In-game request | Help → Chat with us → My account → Request my data | The same screens, the same automated replies | Unchanged |
| Folder name | Pokemon GO Data | A long random ID, e.g. 3f9a1c2e-… | Cosmetic |
| Turnaround | About a day | About four weeks, for our one request so far — the privacy policy's stated target is 30 days | Slower |
| Campfire | Not in the export | Still not — but the Campfire app now has its own export, and this site reads it | New chapter |
So a Scopely-era export drops in exactly like a Niantic one. Add your Campfire CSV alongside it for one more chapter — meetups, club chat and your Campfire circle, counts and dates only.
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 →
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.
Add a single file, or the whole export.
It all stays on your device. Curious first? Play the example story and see exactly what you'd get.