RouteMap

What is RouteMap?

RouteMap is a phone app that puts every GPS-tracked activity from your Strava account on a single map. Zoom out and you see everywhere you've been; zoom in far enough and, as the RouteMap page puts it, you can tell which side of the street you took. Treadmill runs, indoor rides and manual entries have no track, so the support page says they count in your stats but don't appear as lines.

It's made by Mandooist, based in Australia. The App Store listing says you can explore a sample map from the welcome screen before signing up or connecting Strava. After that you need a RouteMap account (email, Google, Apple or Strava sign-in) with Strava connected.

Key Features

One map, filtered

Filter by activity type, country, date range or distance, which covers a year in review, one holiday or every ride over 100 km. A place search tells you whether you've been somewhere, and favourites pin the activities you want to find again. Tap any route for its distance, moving time, elevation and average heart rate, with a link to the activity on Strava.

Collections

Group routes into the trips and trails that belong together: every section of a long walk, every ride of a holiday, every race in a series. Each collection gets its own colour, totals for distance, climb and time, and an optional target. You can show one on its own map, replay it or export it as an image, and RouteMap suggests routes that start or finish where yours do. Free accounts keep one collection; VIP has no limit.

The Timeline

Tap the clock and your routes play out month by month, from your first activity to your latest. Drag to any month to see where you'd been by then, change the speed, and choose how far older routes fade. Collections replay too. Free plays your last 12 months; VIP plays every year.

Styles and colours

Four map styles (dark, light, satellite and topo), with place labels on or off. Each sport gets its own colour, and you can change any of them for free. With VIP you can colour the whole map by year, distance or climb instead, pick a palette or four colours of your own, and set line weight and opacity; the look carries into exports. Kilometres or miles.

Hiding routes

Every route card has an eye. A hidden route leaves the map but is kept, never deleted, still counts in your totals and comes back with one tap.

Stats

Total activities, distance and moving time, a year-by-year line, totals per sport, a country breakdown and a "favourite spot", the place your routes pass through most.

Export

Frame part of the map in portrait or landscape, pick which details to print, and save the image to your photo library or share it. Free exports carry a small watermark; VIP exports don't, and can drop every label for a map-only image.

GPX and Runkeeper

Any activity can be downloaded as GPX. You can bring GPX files from elsewhere onto the same map (one at a time on free, many at once with VIP), and VIP adds Runkeeper exports. When the same outing comes from two places, RouteMap shows it once. Imported GPX routes are never sent to Strava, per the privacy policy, and they stay when you disconnect Strava.

Privacy and data

The privacy policy (updated September 29, 2026) is specific:

• Strava access is read-only with activity:read_all, which includes activities set to "Only You". The app reads name, type, distance, dates and the route line, and never posts to or changes anything on Strava.
• Strava pings the server when you create, change or delete an activity, so the map updates without polling.
• Activities are stored on your phone, and a backup (name, type, date, distance, elevation, route line) sits on the maker's server so the map comes back on a new phone. The backend runs on Railway in the United States.
• When VIP imports your full history, activities wait in a server cache for up to 7 days until the app collects them.
• Disconnect Strava in Settings and the tokens, the backup, any cached activities and the name and profile photo that came from Strava are deleted straight away. If you delete an activity on Strava, only its number is kept, for up to 60 days, so an old copy on another phone can't bring it back.
• The account deletion page says deleting the account clears the live database immediately and backups within 30 days.
• Crash reports go to Sentry and are kept up to 90 days. Place search sends what you type to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim, and the map itself is Apple Maps on iPhone and Google Maps on Android.

Who It's For

• People who travel with their Strava and want every country and city they've moved through on one screen
• Anyone who wants a year in review as a picture, filtered to one year and exported as an image
• Runners and walkers who repeat the same neighbourhood and want to see which streets they actually cover
• Not for printed posters. RouteMap exports an image to your phone; Heatmapster and MapMyTrails make posters

Worth Knowing

Version 1.0 reached the App Store on September 15, 2026 (Google Play lists a September 8 release), and 1.0.2 followed a week later with fixes for people with thousands of activities; version 1.1.0 added collections, a timeline replay, colouring routes by sport, year, distance or climb, hiding routes, and GPX files and Runkeeper exports, with the same outing shown once; the App Store is at 1.2.0. The Google Play listing shows 50+ downloads, updated September 30, 2026. On the App Store it's iPhone only.

VIP is sold one way: an annual subscription, RouteMap VIP Annual, through the App Store or Google Play, listed at A$4.99 on the App Store in Australia. The RouteMap page, the terms and the Google Play description all say it renews each year until you cancel it in your store account and that the app shows the price for your country before you buy. There is no one-time purchase; the terms say the lifetime tier, VIP Life, is only granted by gift code.