Exporting — Komoot

Export a GPX from Komoot: planned route or recorded tour

Komoot is primarily a route-planning tool, but it also records your real outings. You can export as .gpx either the route you traced, or the track actually captured. Not the same thing.

By Web developer & trail runner

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I.Planned tour vs recorded tour: the distinction

Komoot has a quirk worth understanding before you export: it's primarily a route planning tool, not just an activity log. On Komoot, you can have two versions of the same outing: the planned route (the one you traced in advance in the editor) and the recorded tour (the track actually captured during your outing). These are not the same files, and they don't carry the same numbers.

To analyse what you actually did — real distance, measured elevation gain, heart rate — the recorded tour is what you want to export. To share an itinerary with a friend who has to follow it, the planned route is the right pick.

II.On desktop, in four clicks

  1. Open komoot.com in a browser and sign in.
  2. Go to your tour page: Profile → Tours, then click the outing you want.
  3. On the tour page, look for the « … » icon (or a « More » menu depending on the version) near the title.
  4. Select « Save to file » and pick the GPX (Recorded tour) format for the real track, or GPX (Planned route) for the original itinerary.

The file downloads as is, with the data recorded by your phone or your watch — whichever you used. Komoot keeps everything the recorder delivered: positions, elevation, heart rate if the device captured it.

III.On mobile, it's direct

Komoot is one of the few platforms that offers GPX export directly inside its mobile app. Open the tour in the app, tap the share icon (or the « … » menu), and choose « Export as GPX ». The file can be sent by email, shared via cloud apps, or saved locally. Note: some full-export functions are reserved for Komoot Premium subscribers.

IV.And then?

You have your .gpx. To understand what the twelve measures inside it really say — elevation gain, pace, climbing speed, net gradient, heart rate —, see our guide to GPX metrics. To read them while isolating any precise portion, drop the file into GPXchunk.

Komoot thinks in entire routes — start, finish, points of interest. If you want to isolate a specific section of the route after the export — the climb you were nervous about, the technical bit —, analysing a GPX segment without creating a Strava segment covers exactly that use case.

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