Everything about getting your activities out of Strava: export one activity or all of them, GPX, FIT and TCX, the app versus the website, routes and segments, your map as an image, the personal heatmap and Year in Sport — and what to do with the file once you have it.
How-to · 06.09.2026
The Strava app has no export button. Here is the two-minute workaround on a phone, what the file contains, and the one case where you do not need a file at all.
How to export a GPX from the Strava app on iPhone and Android
Data
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Strava personal heatmap explained: what a year of routes actually shows
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Privacy
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What Strava's privacy zones do not cover
They hide the map. They do not hide the file, the distance, or the pattern — and one of those is enough to find...
How-to
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Strava bulk export: every activity at once
The archive request that gives you years of files in one download. Slow, enormous, and the way to make a heatmap without connecting an...
Privacy
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Sharing a route without sharing where you live
Sending a GPX to a friend, a print shop or a club is normal. Here is what is in it, and the twenty seconds...
Privacy
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Your front door is in that file
Every route you have recorded starts and ends in the same place. What that means when a print goes on a wall, or a...
How-to
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How to export a GPX file from Strava
Two clicks on a desktop, a workaround on the phone, and one case where the file comes out empty. Everything you need to get...
