How to export a GPX from your app

Three ways of writing down the same thing: a list of points, each with a position, an altitude and a time. GPX is the plain-text one every GPS device and app can write; FIT is the compact one most head units record in before anything converts it; TCX is Garmin’s older format, which some apps still export. Adret reads all three, and one outing is usually 50 KB to a few hundred.

From the website, not the phone app: the app has no export.

• Open the activity on strava.com.
• From the three-dot menu beside it, choose “Export GPX”.
• If the activity was uploaded from a file rather than recorded in Strava, you will see “Export Original” instead: the file your device wrote, a .gpx or a .fit, and both work here.

Either may arrive gzipped, as a .gpx.gz or a .fit.gz; import it as it is. The end of this page gets the file from the computer onto your phone.

From Garmin Connect in a browser: the phone app cannot export at all.

• Open the activity on connect.garmin.com.
• From the menu at the top right of it, the cog or the three dots depending on the version, choose “Export to GPX”.

The end of this page gets the file from the computer onto your phone.

From komoot.com or from the app.

• Open the Tour.
• Use its download option, the arrow or the “…” menu.
• Choose GPX.

Komoot has asked for the starting region to be unlocked before it will export, so if it refuses, that is what it is asking for.

Two different files live on Visorando and only one of them is your outing.

• A published walk has a download on its page, “Télécharger la trace GPS”, which hands you the route as its author drew it, and it wants you signed in; a free account is enough.
• What you recorded yourself is elsewhere: open the outing in your own walks in the app, use its share or export control, and choose GPX.

That second one is what a poster is drawn from.

From the phone app.

• Open the workout.
• Tap the “…” or share control.
• Choose Export, then GPX.

It also works from suunto.com: open the activity and use the options at the top right.

From a browser rather than the phone app.

• Sign in at t.coros.com.
• Open the activity.
• From the three-dot menu at the top right, choose to export it as GPX.

COROS’ bulk export, the one that emails you an archive, offers FIT and TCX; both work here, so that is a fine way to get a season at once.

From Polar Flow in a browser.

• Open flow.polar.com.
• Go to the Diary and open the session.
• Use the Export menu at the top right and choose GPX.

GPX carries the route and not the heart rate, which is all a poster is drawn from anyway.

An ELEMNT records .fit, which Adret reads, so there is nothing to convert.

• Plug the head unit into a computer.
• The rides are in its storage as .fit files, newest last.

If it is easier, your rides also upload to Strava automatically, and “Export GPX” there gives you the same outing the other way round.

WorkOutDoors writes GPX itself, which makes it one of the easiest.

• Open the workout in the iPhone app.
• Use its export control, then choose GPX.

It can also send every workout to Strava on its own, if that is already where yours go.

On an iPhone you do not have to: the Adret app reads Health directly.

• Tap +, then choose Apple Health.
• Allow it when iOS asks.
• Pick the workout: there is no file and no export in the middle of it.

Health itself still has no per-workout export, so if you want the GPX for something else, the way out is the whole archive: open Health, tap your picture at the top right and choose “Export All Health Data”. It writes a zip (give it a few minutes, and expect it to be large) whose workout-routes folder holds one GPX per outdoor workout, named by date. HealthFit and RunGap export one workout at a time if you would rather not, and WorkOutDoors, just above, writes GPX itself.

Almost anything that records a route can write a GPX, a FIT or a TCX, and it is usually called Export, Share or Download on the activity itself. Any of the three works here. If you cannot find it, write to us and we will work it out, and add it here.

Any way you would send yourself a photo:

• AirDrop, from a Mac to an iPhone.
• An email to yourself, with the file attached.
• A cloud drive: iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox.

Then, on the phone, tap the file and choose Adret in the share sheet, or open Adret, tap + and choose “Import a GPX, FIT or TCX”. If the app is not on your phone yet, the QR code beside the download buttons, at the foot of this page, opens this site there.