Questions

Yes: import a track, make the poster, share it, with no watermark and no account. The poster carries a small adret.studio line beside the map credit: under Page, then Details, “Signature adret.studio” takes it off, and that is free too. Free covers the full map, every colour, the title and the stats; a day has a ceiling on posters, set high enough that you will rarely meet it. Adret Pro adds the print files and what makes a series: saved styles, every typeface, the layouts, the sun, the elevation profile, long routes, and many more posters a day.

GPX, FIT or TCX, from anything. Garmin, Wahoo, Suunto, Coros, Polar, a Strava export, a Komoot export, a phone app: if it writes one of those three, Adret reads it, gzipped or not. There is no account to connect and no platform to ask permission from.

No. A simple file is enough: nothing to connect, nothing to set up. But if you prefer, you can connect Strava and import your activities directly.

Yes. What the map draws, the relief shaded or flat, every colour from the track down to the background, the title, the stats, a transparent background: all of it can be changed, free, and every change is kept as you make it. Adret Pro adds the rest: moving the sun, every typeface, every layout, the route’s elevation, your saved styles, and the print files.

It is used to draw your poster and nothing else. There is no feed, no leaderboard and no profile, and nobody sees your route until you share it. This website has no account and no third-party embeds, and counts its visits on our own server, without a cookie; what the app sends, its usage statistics included, and what the server keeps of it, is on the privacy page.

The terrain comes from open elevation data, and the roads, rivers, lakes, forests, paths, summits and refuges come from OpenStreetMap, an open map built by hundreds of thousands of contributors. Every poster carries the OpenStreetMap credit, because the licence requires it and because the work deserves it.

Because tiles come pre-styled, and a poster made from someone else’s tiles can only ever look like their map with a line on it. Drawing from raw data means choosing every weight, every colour and where the sun is, which is the entire point. It is more work, and it is the only part of this that is hard to copy.

The adret is the side of a mountain valley that faces the sun; the side left in shadow is the ubac. It is a word from the Alps, and it is what every poster does: the relief is lit by a sun, from the north-west until you move it, which Adret Pro lets you do. The logo draws the same thing: a lit face, a shadowed face, and your route as the line between them.

The app shows you. The first poster you open runs a short tour: twelve cards, each pointing at one thing on the sheet and saying what it does, with a counter so you can see how far it goes. Skip leaves it at any card.

• The four tabs along the bottom are what a poster is made of: Styles, Page, Map and Terrain. Above them, each tab has its own row of entries: tapping one opens its controls over the poster, and tapping it again puts them away.
• The poster itself is a way in: tap the title, the date or the stats and the panel that sets them opens.
• Nothing has to be saved. Every change is written as you make it, and Undo takes the last one back.

To see the tour again, open the ••• menu and choose “Show the tour”.

Yes.

• Tap the + button.
• Choose “Try it with a sample route”: the app draws its bundled sample, no file and no account.

Everything the editor does can be tried on it.

Three ways.

• The small disc on the panel’s top edge moves the panel under the poster, so the whole poster stays in view while you adjust it; tap it again to let the poster fill the sheet.
• Drag the panel down by its bar.
• Tap the poster itself, and the open panel folds away.

Two doors to the same panel.

• Tap the title on the poster itself, and the panel opens ready to type.
• Or go to Page, then Title.

The same panel shows or hides the title, sets its size, and switches the capitals.

Yes, and they are two different controls.

• The stats: under Page, then Details. There are six to choose from (distance, climb, moving time, total time, pace and average speed) and the poster carries up to four, plus the date under the title, each one on or off as you like; tapping the stats on the poster opens the same panel. The duration on the poster is the moving time: the stops are taken out, as Strava does, and the total time keeps them in for when you would rather show the whole day. Pace and average speed are both worked out over the moving time, one for a run and the other for a ride.
• The elevation profile, the route seen from the side under the map: under Terrain, and turning it on is part of Adret Pro.

A recording that never carried altitude offers neither, and one with no times in it offers no duration, pace or speed: no setting can add what the file does not have.

Yes, free.

• On one poster: under Map, then Trace, switch on “Hide the start”, “Hide the end”, or both. The line is taken off the map within 200 m of where you set off and where you arrived.
• On every new poster: in My account, switch on “Start and end hidden”, and each recording you import is drawn that way. You can still change it poster by poster.

The distance, the climb and the times still count the whole outing. The hidden part is removed from the poster itself, not covered over, so it is not in the exported file either. A route that passes close to its start again in the middle of the outing is hidden at its two ends only.

Yes, two ways, both free.

• The quick one: the built-in Transparent style, in the Styles tab.
• The precise one: the Background colour’s own Opacity slider, with the colour swatches under Page, pulled down to zero.

The export is a PNG, so the transparency survives into the file.

Yes, free.

• Under Page, tap Background, then Photo.
• Choose one from your library.

The map, the track, the title and the stats sit on top of it, and it goes into every export. The background becomes a veil in its own colour: its Opacity slider makes it lighter or denser, and a dark veil keeps white type readable even over a bright sky. The photo fills the sheet, cropped about its centre. If the terrain was shaded, “Shade the terrain” is switched off, since the shading would cover the photo. Tap Photo again to replace it or remove it. Before using the photo, Adret strips out where it was taken.

Yes, two ways.

• In Adret itself: under Page, tap Background, then Photo, and choose it. The poster you share is already laid over it.
• In Instagram, which also works over a video: give the poster a transparent background, export it, and add the PNG to your story as a sticker.

Either way, the map, the title and the stats keep their colours over the picture.

Make a poster you like, then:

• Open its ••• menu.
• Choose “Save as style…”. The style keeps every setting and none of the words, so it never carries an outing’s name.
• Find it in the Styles tab beside Adret’s own, ready to dress the next track.

Saving a style is part of Adret Pro; applying one made of free settings is free.

Two for a screen, both free and with no watermark, chosen under Page, then Format: a story at 1080×1920, or a 3:4 post at 1080×1440. The post can be portrait or landscape, and in landscape the map sits on the left with the title and stats in a column to its right; a story is portrait only. Either is a PNG, handed to your phone’s share sheet, so it can go straight to the photo library, a message or an app; PNG rather than JPEG because the background can be transparent. Adret Pro adds two for paper, at 300 dpi and in portrait or landscape: A3, which prints just as well at A4 or A2 and fits a 50×70 cm frame, and 30×40 cm, which also prints at 60×80.

Yes, with Adret Pro. Under Page, then Format, give the poster one of the two print formats, and its menu offers the file to print: a PNG at 300 dpi, drawn again at print size, so it takes a moment. Take it to any print shop or online printer you like: the next answer says what to ask for.

• A3 has the shape of every A size: it prints just as well at A4 or A2, and fits a 50×70 cm frame.
• 30×40 cm is 3:4, and prints at 60×80 cm as well.

Both come in portrait or landscape. Adret does not print or deliver posters itself, and the free story and post are sized for a screen rather than for paper.

Anywhere that prints photos or posters. Two kinds of place do it well:

• A photo lab or a copy shop near you: bring the file on your phone, or email it to them first, and leave with the print.
• An online printer: upload the file, choose the paper, and the print comes by post. Some will frame it too.

What to ask for, in either:

• The size of the file, with no resizing: A3 (29.7×42 cm) or 30×40 cm. The file carries its own dimensions, so it opens at the right size. For another size, keep the shape: A4 or A2 from the A3 file, 60×80 cm from the 30×40.
• No white border added: the poster already has its margins.
• A matte or satin paper, heavy enough to hang flat, around 200 g/m². Gloss catches the light, and the dark styles suffer most.

To hand the file over, save it or email it to yourself from the share sheet: many messaging apps shrink a picture on the way. It is a PNG, a picture like any photo, so any printer can open it. Adret has no partner printer and names none: go where you like.

The yearly plan starts with 7 days free; the monthly plan has none. Nothing is charged during the trial, and the Adret Pro screen says what follows it before you confirm. If Pro is not for you, cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, in your phone’s subscription settings, and you pay nothing. A trial is offered once: if the store says you have had one already, the plan shows its plain price instead.

In your phone’s subscription settings, since Apple or Google holds the subscription. In the app, tap the person icon above your library to open My account: its Manage subscription link goes straight there.

• Cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, and it does not renew.
• Adret Pro stays on until the end of the period already paid for.
• Deleting your Adret account does not cancel it, so cancel first.

When it ends, nothing you made is taken away: every poster keeps its look and your saved styles stay where they are. What stops is making new Pro choices.

Adret Pro follows your Adret account if you signed in, and the App Store or Google Play account that pays for it if you did not.

• If you signed in on the old phone: install Adret on the new one, tap the person icon above your library, then “Sign in to Adret”, and use the same Apple, Google or email sign-in as before.
• If you never signed in: install Adret on the new phone, with the same Apple ID or Google account, tap the person icon above your library, then “Restore purchases”. Adret Pro moves across, and the old phone goes back to free.

To keep Adret Pro on both phones, sign in on the old one first, from the same screen, then on the new one. If Adret Pro does not show up after signing in, “Restore purchases” fetches it. Your posters and saved styles are another matter: they live on the old phone, and Adret keeps no copy of them.