How to Add Strava Data to Your Videos (Live, Not a Screenshot)

There are two very different things people mean by "Strava data on a video":

1. A summary on top of a clip — distance, elevation and time for the whole ride, sitting in a corner. That's a sticker.
2. Live data synced to the footage — your speed climbing as you sprint, your heart rate spiking on the steepest ramp, the numbers changing second by second with what you see. That's an overlay.

Strava does the first one for you, for free. The second one needs another tool. This guide covers both, and is honest about which one you actually want.

Option 1: Strava's own Sticker Stats (free, a summary)

Since 2025, the share button on any Strava activity can create a transparent "sticker" with your distance, elevation gain and moving time, a line drawing of your route and the Strava logo. You can paste it on a photo or send it straight to an Instagram Story and place it on top of a video clip.

Two things to know:

• It's a summary, not live data. The numbers are the totals for the whole activity. They don't move with your footage.
• The activity can't be private. Its visibility has to be Everyone or Followers for sharing to work.

If what you want is "here's my ride, here's a clip from it", the sticker is the fastest option and it costs nothing. If you want the numbers to mean something on screen — that speed at that corner — read on.

Option 2: live Strava data on your footage

For a real overlay you need two things: your video and your activity's data stream (position, time, speed, heart rate, power…), and a tool that lines them up second by second.

Getting the data out of Strava

• Connect Strava to the tool (the easiest route). Several overlay tools let you sign in with Strava and pick the activity, so nothing is exported by hand.
• Export a file. On the Strava website (not the app), open the activity and choose Export GPX from the activity menu. For the complete original recording, Export Original gives you the file your device uploaded — usually FIT.

One caveat about power: Strava's GPX exports include power measured by a power meter, but never Strava's estimated power. If you ride without a power meter, there's no power to overlay, whatever tool you use.

Syncing it to the video

The tool has to know which second of the video matches which second of the activity. Good tools use the time recorded in both files and let you nudge the alignment by eye — scrub to a moment you can recognise (setting off, a junction, the top of a climb) and match it to the same point on the map. Get that right once and everything else follows. If your numbers look wrong, it's almost always this step — or a gap in the GPS recording; here's how to sync GPS data to video properly.

The tools that do it

If you own an Insta360 camera: its Stats Dashboard now accepts Strava data directly. Free, native, and the best option if you already have the camera.

Phone apps built around Strava. A handful of iOS apps exist specifically to overlay Strava activities on video — Streiv, StatShot and Cycladat among them. Worth a look if you edit everything on your phone and want a dedicated tool.

Free in the browser: Stamptivity. Connect Strava or upload a GPX or FIT file, add your footage, place the gauges yourself, and export with no watermark in 16:9 or 9:16. Processing happens in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

Desktop: Telemetry Overlay. $199 one-time, Windows/Mac/Linux, hundreds of gauge styles, reads GPX and most camera telemetry. For people who edit on a computer and want full control.

Cloud, phone-first: SportsSync — what we build. Sign in with Strava and pick the activity (no export), upload your video, line them up once, and choose the moment: SportsSync renders a short of up to 30 seconds (10 on the free plan) with your live speed, power, heart rate, cadence and gradient on top, in 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9. Because the data comes straight from Strava's activity streams, power from a power meter comes along with it. You can also watch the whole video with the data synced and share it with your coach or riding group. Free: 3 activities with 3 clips each, kept for 30 days; Pro is €9/month or €89/year. Clips publish straight to Instagram (that needs an Instagram professional account).

Which one to use

• You just want to show the ride happened: Strava's Sticker Stats. Free, ten seconds.
• You own an Insta360: its Stats Dashboard.
• You edit on a computer and want every gauge exactly where you put it: Stamptivity (free) or Telemetry Overlay (paid).
• You're on your phone after the ride, your data's already on Strava, and you want the clip on Instagram tonight: that's the case SportsSync is built for.

Recording vertical? Many overlay tools still assume landscape — here's what breaks with vertical overlays and how to avoid it.