How to export the GPX from your watch or app

Strava

1. Go to strava.com in a browser (on your phone, in desktop mode) and open your activity.
2. Click the “More” menu (the three dots).
3. Choose “Export GPX”: the .gpx file downloads.

Website only: the Strava app can’t export. “Export Original” usually gives a FIT file, which is not a GPX. Activities without GPS (treadmill, indoor) have no route.

Garmin Connect

1. Go to connect.garmin.com in a browser and open the activity.
2. Click the gear icon (or the three dots) at the top right.
3. Choose “Export to GPX”.

Website only: the Garmin Connect app doesn’t export single activities. “Export Original” gives a FIT file.

Komoot

1. Go to your profile and open your saved routes or completed activities.
2. Pick the route or activity.
3. Tap “Download GPX file”.

Works on the website and in the app. The region where the route starts must be unlocked on your account.

Apple Watch (Health and Fitness)

1. Easiest: if Strava is connected to the Health app, the workout appears in Strava and you can export it as GPX from strava.com (see above).
2. Without other apps: on your iPhone, open Health, tap your photo or initials and choose “Export All Health Data”.
3. Save the file, unzip it and look for the workout-routes folder: each GPS workout has its own .gpx.

Apple doesn’t export a single workout as GPX: the second method exports all your data at once. Apps such as HealthFit or RunGap export a specific workout.

COROS

1. In the COROS app, open the workout.
2. Tap the icon at the top right and choose “Export Data” (in the new version, the three dots and “Export”).
3. Choose .GPX and save it or email it to yourself.

The website (Training Hub) only exports FIT or TCX.

Suunto

1. In the Suunto app, open the workout.
2. Tap the three dots at the top right.
3. Choose to export as GPX and save it on your phone.

Workouts recorded without GPS can only be exported as FIT.

Polar Flow

1. Go to flow.polar.com and open “Diary”.
2. Click the training session.
3. In the “Export” drop-down (top right), choose “GPX”.

On the website. If it downloads a .zip, unzip it before uploading.

Wikiloc

1. On the website, open the trail page and click “Download” (top right).
2. Choose to download it as a file, in GPX format.
3. Pick the original trail (not the simplified one) so the poster keeps all the detail.

You need to be logged in. In the app, the option is under “Send to your GPS”, sending the trail as a file.

Polarsteps

1. On a computer, go to polarsteps.com and open your account settings.
2. Request your data (“Download my data”): you’ll get an email with the link.
3. Unzip it and upload your trip’s locations.json in the designer: we read it as it is.

Polarsteps doesn’t export GPX, but the designer understands its locations file. You can also draw the trip by stops, searching each place by name.

Other apps (Zepp, Amazfit…)

1. Connect your app to Strava, which works with almost every watch.
2. Once the workout shows up in Strava, export it as GPX from strava.com.
3. Or draw the route by stops in the designer, with no file.