What is RunInk?
RunInk makes map posters out of your Strava history, and it does it two ways. Single-activity mode takes one run, ride or hike and draws it on its own, route line with pace, distance markers and the stats underneath, the format you'd want for a first marathon or a route that meant something. Composite mode is the more interesting one: it takes every run you've logged inside a city and layers them into one piece, so what you end up with isn't a route at all but the shape of where you actually go. Your territory, drawn by repetition.
There are thirteen themes (Noir, Midnight Blue, Japanese Ink, Blueprint, Coral, Sage, Neon, Copper, Arctic, Terracotta, Street Map, Positron and Dark Matter) and you switch between them freely while designing, so the decision is visual rather than a form you fill in. Designing costs nothing and needs no card. The digital file is free too: a print-ready export, emailed once per address, with a small RunInk credit in one corner. Prints are the paid product.
Prints start at $32 for a 30x40cm matte, a framed 50x70cm is $139 ($209 for the 24x36-inch size sold in the US and Canada), and the price includes shipping to the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and most of Europe. Gelato prints and sends them; UK orders are printed in the UK and priced in pounds. It's a young service: the privacy policy dates to March 2026 and the terms to July. As of September 2026 its code still carries a leftover "print ordering opens soon" notice, but nothing triggers it and the order button goes straight to checkout.
Key Features
Composite city maps
Pick a city and it pulls every run you've recorded there into a single heat-map-style artwork. This is the feature that separates it from the general run-poster category, where one route on one page is the whole idea.
Thirteen themes, switched live
Noir through Dark Matter, each a complete palette rather than a colour swap, and you can cycle through all of them against your own route before committing to one.
Free design, free download
The whole editor is open without payment or a card, and the print-ready file is free with a small credit in the corner. You only pay if you want the poster on paper.
Three sizes, plus one framed
30x40cm at $32, 40x60cm at $42 and 50x70cm at $49, or the 50x70cm in a black aluminium frame at $139. In the US and Canada the framed size is 24x36 inches and costs $209. Printing and shipping are in those numbers.
Gift codes
Buy a poster for someone else and they get a code, connect their own Strava, design their own poster and redeem it. The gifter never has to guess which run mattered.
It doesn't keep your health data
Their privacy policy is unusually specific: heart rate and calorie fields that the fitness APIs return are not used, displayed or stored, and activity data is cached in memory to render the poster rather than written to a database. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising.
Who It's For
- Runners with one race that mattered who want it on a wall rather than in a feed
- City runners with years of history, who get more out of composite mode than out of any single route
- Gift buyers who want to give a runner something personal without picking the run themselves
- The privacy-minded, given the service reads your activities without retaining the health metrics attached to them
