Your Tesla dashcam footage, finally browsable.
Plug in your Tesla's USB drive. Trace indexes thousands of Sentry Mode and dashcam events in seconds — search by date, location, or trigger, scrub all four cameras at once, and export the moment that matters.
Built for the way you actually review footage.
Most viewers were built for a single clip. Trace was built for a cluttered Tesla USB drive full of them — fast indexing, smart filters, and the kind of multi-camera playback that makes finding the right moment feel obvious.
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4-camera sync playback
Front, back, left and right streams scrub together to the millisecond. Tab to a single camera or fullscreen any quadrant.
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Search across thousands of clips
Filter by trigger reason, clip type, or city. Search results update live as you type — even on multi-thousand-event drives.
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Map view of every event
See where your car saw something. Zoom into a parking lot, a street, or a road trip — click any pin to play the clip in place.
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One-click stitched export
Export as a stitched 2×2 MP4 or four individual files. Trim with a draggable range and bake in a date/time overlay.
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Smart event grouping
Multiple clips from the same incident collapse into a single timeline. Skip the noise; jump straight to the action.
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Location-tagged events
Every event shows the city Tesla recorded at the time. Find every clip from your last road trip without scrolling for hours.
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Native dark & light themes
Follows your system appearance, with carefully tuned palettes that hold up whether you're reviewing in a parking garage or at noon.
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Fast indexing
A 64 GB drive with 1,400+ events indexes in under a minute. Subsequent scans are incremental — only new clips are touched.
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100% local, 100% private
No cloud uploads. No accounts. Your footage never leaves your Mac.
Every event, on a map.
Your footage isn't a list — it's a place. Pan across a city to see where your car was triggered, zoom into a parking lot to see what happened there last Tuesday, or trace a road trip pin by pin. Click any marker to play the clip in place.
A few corners of the app.
Trace is built around three workflows: browse what's on your drive, find what you remember, and export what you need.
From plugged-in to playing back, in three steps.
- STEP 01
Plug in your drive
Connect your Tesla's USB drive or SD card. Trace recognizes Tesla's folder layout automatically.
- STEP 02
Let it index
The app scans clip metadata and builds a searchable index. Future scans only touch new clips.
- STEP 03
Browse, search, export
Open any event, scrub all four cameras together, and export the moment that matters with a date-stamped overlay.
Your footage stays on your machine.
Trace is fully offline. There's no account to create, no cloud to sync to, and your footage never leaves your Mac. The app reads from your drive and writes to the folder you choose — that's it.
- No cloud uploads
Footage never leaves your Mac.
- No accounts
No sign-up, no password, no email.
Free during beta.
Help us shape 1.0. No strings, no card required.
- All current and future beta features
- Unlimited indexed events & drives
- Full export, trim, and overlay tools
After 1.0: a one-time purchase. No subscriptions.
Questions, answered.
Which Tesla models does it support?
Any Tesla with Sentry Mode and dashcam recording — Model S, 3, X, Y, and Cybertruck. Trace reads Tesla's standard folder layout with separate front/back/left/right MP4 files per event.
Does it modify my footage?
No. Trace reads from your drive but never writes to it. Indexing data is stored separately in the app's own folder on your Mac.
What does "beta" mean here?
The app is feature-complete and stable in daily use, but a few edge cases (very large drives, unusual filename patterns) are still being polished. You may hit the occasional bug.
Will it stay free after 1.0?
1.0 will be a one-time purchase (no subscription). Pricing will be announced closer to release.
What macOS versions are supported?
macOS 14 Sonoma and newer, on Apple Silicon or Intel. The app is a universal binary; it'll run natively on whichever you have.
Is there a Windows or Linux version?
Not yet. Mac is the only platform during beta so we can focus on getting one experience right. Windows support is on the roadmap for after 1.0.
Find the clip you need in seconds.
Download Trace, plug in your drive, and start browsing. It takes about thirty seconds to set up — and it's free while we're in beta.