What is Skoma?
Skoma makes a printed book out of a race build. You connect Strava, choose the training window and the race, and it generates the whole book in seconds: the training block first, then race day, with your photos throughout. Then it opens in an editor where you can move or change anything before you order the hardcover.
The site is aimed at runners and multi-day walkers, and says it isn't a gym log or a general fitness app. It also makes race posters, one course drawn on the city street map, and paintings of a single photo from a race or a run.
The About page describes a small team of runners, triathletes and designers, and names Pedro Sampaio as the person who builds Skoma and writes its guides.
Key Features
What goes in the book
Before you touch the editor, the book already has a heatmap of the whole training block, month-by-month distance, time and elevation, a calendar for each month and a pace trend across the season. Race day gets its own stats, the route as a map with an elevation profile, and your splits from start to finish. There are photo galleries, a page for friends and family to sign and a closing thank-you page. When you create the book you set the race type; the marathon page lists 10K, half marathon, marathon, ultra, trail race, Ironman 70.3 and Ironman. As documented, the Strava import covers your runs; the site doesn't say whether a triathlon's swim and bike are laid out too.
The editor
Drag and resize anything on a page, add your own photos, drop in stat and map widgets, swap layouts and backgrounds, or apply a theme that restyles the whole book. Changes save as you go. Books come in landscape, portrait or square, printed at A4, A5 or square depending on the shape you pick.
Camino and other long walks
A separate journey book gives each day of a multi-day walk its own page: the route line, distance, time and elevation, with your photos matched to each day by the date they were taken. Rest days get quiet pages, and the last page marks the arrival. It's built around the Camino de Santiago, but the site says any multi-day route works.
Posters and paintings
The poster draws one race on the city's street map with your photo, finish time and name, in three layouts, on 200gsm fine-art paper. It takes a Strava run, a GPX or FIT file, or a sample course. The painting needs no Strava at all: upload a photo, pick one of six styles (oil impasto, watercolour, charcoal, woodblock, stencil, marker illustration) and see a watermarked preview before you buy. The terms say paintings are generated by AI.
What it costs
Designing and editing are free, and there's no subscription; you pay when you order a print. These are the US prices (the site prices by shipping region: UK, EU, US and the rest of the world), with worldwide shipping included:
- Photo book: $49.99 with 50 pages, $0.99 for each page after that
- Race poster: A3 $38.99, A2 $39.99, 50 x 70 cm $45.99, frame extra
- Painting: from $27.99 at A5 up to $45.99 at 50 x 70 cm
Books and posters arrive in about 7 to 14 business days. Gift cards cover one A3 poster or one 50-page book, and can be emailed to the recipient on a date you choose; a card is bought for the recipient's region and works only there.
Who It's For
- Marathoners and ultrarunners who want the training block on paper, not only the finish photo
- Camino walkers and anyone back from a long multi-day walk
- People buying a finisher's gift. The runner connects their Strava once (or hands over their watch files), and the rest is yours to design
- Runners without Strava (see below)
Worth Knowing
The terms say books and posters are made to order and can't be cancelled, returned or refunded once placed, except where the law requires it, so the free preview is the time to check every page.
Shared books are private, read-only links that can expire after 7, 30 or 90 days or never, and you can revoke them; the shared maps trim the exact start and finish of each route so a link doesn't give away where you live.
The privacy policy says book captions and summaries are written with an AI text provider it doesn't name, which may receive a summary of your activity data. Skoma also publishes free pace, fuelling and Camino planning calculators and training plans, none of which need an account.
What does it access on Strava?
The privacy policy says it receives your Strava profile (name, city, country, avatar) and the activities you authorize, with distance, duration, elevation, heart rate, pace, routes and attached photos. It says Skoma revokes its Strava access once the import is complete, so it keeps no long-lived Strava credentials; what's already in your books stays until you delete them. The site documents nothing posted back to Strava. For access, export or deletion of your data, the address is privacy@skoma.ai, and deleted books and posters are removed within 30 days.
Do I need Strava?
Not for every product. The marathon, ultra and Camino pages say books also work from GPX, FIT or CSV files or with activities entered by hand, posters take a GPX or FIT file or a sample course, and paintings need only a photo. There's no direct Garmin or Coros connection; files come in as exports.
Will a long ultra or a full Camino fit in the 50 pages?
The site says a typical marathon block fits near the 50 included pages, but ultra blocks run past them more often, at $0.99 for each extra page. For journey books, a 33-stage Camino Francés fits near 50 pages and longer journeys switch to denser layouts automatically.
