Export your tours from komoot
komoot writes plain GPX, which is exactly what we read. The only decision worth getting right is which line you take out of it: the route you planned, or the track your phone actually recorded.
Where
komoot.com, on a computer
Arrives
Immediately, per tour
You get
One .gpx per tour
Watch for
Recorded tour, not planned route
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Work on the website, not in the app
Both can export, but the website is the one that has stayed put. In the phone app the control lives in the share sheet and has moved between releases, and on some accounts the app's export is the part komoot puts behind Premium. Sign in at komoot.com and open your own tours from your profile.
komoot.comProfileTours
This may have moved. Your tour list is behind the komoot sign-in, which we do not use, so these labels come from komoot's help pages rather than a screen we photographed. Look for whatever lists the tours on your own profile.
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Open the tour itself, then its ⋯ menu
Click the tour's name to open its own page — a row in the list is not enough, the same way it is not enough in Garmin Connect. The export sits in the overflow menu next to the title.
Tour⋯Export GPX
This may have moved. komoot has worded this two ways and we cannot see which one your account has: an “Export GPX” item straight in the menu, or a “Save to file” item that then asks which GPX you want. Either is the right thing — follow the letters GPX.
The overflow (⋯) menu beside the tour title
EditExport GPXSave to filesame thing, other accountsDuplicateDeleteDiagramDiagram — the overflow menu on a tour page, drawn from komoot's help pages. - 03
Take the recorded tour, not the planned route
This is the step that decides whether the poster is true. komoot keeps the line it drew for you before you set off and the line your phone recorded while you rode or walked it, and they are not the same shape — the plan takes the road it expected, the recording takes the detour, the wrong turn and the café. If you are offered both, take the recording.
GPX (Recorded tour)
This may have moved. Only tours you actually recorded have both. A tour you planned and never rode has the planned line only, which still imports — it is just a plan, and the poster will say so by drawing it.
Which GPX do you want?
GPX (Recorded tour)where you wentGPX (Planned route)where you meant to goDiagramDiagram — the choice some accounts are offered after Save to file. - 04
Repeat for the tours you want, then upload them together
There is no whole-account button, so this is one file per outing. That sounds worse than it is: a season is thirty or forty files, they land in your downloads folder in one sitting, and the importer takes the whole lot in one drop.
Import your travelsGPXDrag your export here, or click to choose files
A folder of GPX files, or a zip of them, is fine. Nothing needs sorting by month or by region first — we group everything by country on the other side.
What we do with the file
So you know what survives the trip from their servers to your wall.
- Each <trkseg> becomes one journey, so a ride you broke for lunch arrives as two clean segments instead of one line through the restaurant.
- Timestamps come through where komoot wrote them, which is what makes the dates and the pace on the poster real rather than inferred.
- The track's name and type feed our travel-mode guess, so a tour komoot has called a bike ride is tagged as one without you telling us.
- Elevation is kept. The terrain under the line is drawn from our own elevation data either way, so a file without it loses nothing on the paper.
When it goes wrong
Where this trips people up, and what to do about each.
Got the file? That is the hard part done.
Drop it in and we draw the ground you covered — the forest, the crop, the rock, the relief of the hills — with your line on top. Nothing you upload is public, and you can delete any of it at any time.