Every mile, mapped
Turn your Strava activities into a poster worth hanging.
Strava's personal heatmap lives on a screen. Heatmapster pulls your runs, rides, hikes and ski tours straight from Strava and turns them into a high-resolution heatmap you can actually print — sharp enough for a full wall poster.
Takes about 2 minutes. Free — 3 posters per account.
How it works
Connect Strava
Authorize Heatmapster to read your activities. We only ever request read access — we can't post or change anything on your account.
Pick your activities
We import your runs and rides in the background. Filter by date, distance, or type, and choose exactly which ones make the cut.
Frame your heatmap
Drag, zoom, and search the map to find the perfect crop. Choose a theme and add your name, distance, or year as a caption.
Print-ready in minutes
Download a 300 DPI PDF sized for real wall art — every street you've ever run or ridden, ready for the frame shop.
Built for print, not just a screenshot.
- 300 DPI output sized for real 12×18 in (30.5×45.7 cm) wall posters — fits standard 30×45 cm frames, no pixelation up close.
- Five themes — Light, Dark, Black & White, Purple, and Magenta — designed to look great framed.
- Optional caption with your name, total distance, activity count, and date range or year.
- Free — 3 posters per Strava account. No payment, no card details.
One race is enough
A single marathon makes a poster too.
You don't need years of training data. Select one activity and the map becomes a portrait of that route — every turn of the course, at the scale it deserves. Your first marathon, a 100 km bikepacking day, the ultra you swore you'd never repeat.
It's the same flow: pick the one activity instead of all of them, frame it, and add the race name as your caption. The route fills the frame instead of a whole city.
- Your first marathon, start to finish line
- A long-distance bikepacking route
- An ultra, a fell race, a fjord swim
- The parkrun loop you've run 200 times
For run clubs
Same city, same Saturday loop — a different map on every wall.
Everyone in the club connects their own Strava and makes their own poster — free, 3 posters each. Nobody has to collect anyone's data, and every member's map is theirs alone.
If your club runs have a name on Strava, the name filter does the rest: search for it on the import page and the poster shows only the runs you did together. Or pick a single activity for the route of race day.
- A heatmap of every club run this season
- The long-run loop as a single-route poster
- Race day — the course the whole club ran
- End of season: everyone frames their own year
A gift for runners and riders
Their whole year, framed.
A heatmap poster is one of the few gifts made entirely from someone's own effort: every early start, every long ride, every hike of the year on one wall. It works as a Christmas, birthday or end-of-season present, or as your own year in review.
The poster is drawn from the athlete's own Strava account, so the easiest way is to make it together — they connect Strava and frame the map, you print and frame the PDF. Garmin, Wahoo, Coros, Apple Watch and other devices work too, as long as their activities sync to Strava.
- A year in review: every activity from January to December
- The first marathon or ultra, as a single-route print
- A season of club runs or Saturday rides
- Everywhere you've hiked or skied, on one map
Common questions
Can I make a poster of a single race, like a marathon?
Yes. You don't need years of Strava history — select one activity and the poster becomes a portrait of that single route, filling the frame instead of a whole city. It works for a marathon, an ultra, a long bikepacking day, or any single run or ride, and you can add the race name as the caption.
How big can I print it, and what resolution is the file?
Every poster is a 12x18 inch PDF at 300 DPI, in portrait or landscape — 3600 x 5400 pixels. That is a true print resolution, not an upscaled screenshot, so it stays sharp at full wall-poster size at any print shop.
How much does it cost?
Nothing. Heatmapster is currently free — 3 posters per Strava account, with no payment step and no card details asked for at any point.
What does Heatmapster access on my Strava account?
Read access to your activities, and nothing else. Heatmapster cannot post, edit, delete or change anything on your Strava account. You can disconnect at any time from Strava's own settings, and ask us to erase your stored data.
Which activities can I include?
Runs, rides, hikes and walks, cross-country and backcountry skiing, and other outdoor GPS activities like paddling or skating, imported from Strava. You can filter them by date, distance, type and name, then select exactly which ones appear — all of them, one season, or a single race.
Does it work with Garmin, Wahoo, Coros or Apple Watch?
Yes, as long as the activities sync to Strava — which those devices and apps can do automatically. Heatmapster reads your activities from Strava; there is no direct GPX upload.
Is it a good gift?
It's a popular one, for Christmas, birthdays or the end of a season. The poster is drawn from the athlete's own Strava account, so the easiest way is to make it together: they connect and frame the map, you print and frame the PDF.
Can I choose which area of the map the poster shows?
Yes. You drag, zoom and search the map to set the crop before generating, and what you see in the preview is the extent that gets printed. You also choose the colour theme and which caption lines to show.
Ready to see your map?
Connect your Strava account to get started — we'll begin importing your activities immediately.