What is TrackTunes?
TrackTunes matches your Spotify listening history against your Strava activity timestamps and writes the resulting tracklist into the activity description. Strava has discontinued its own Spotify integration on the Record screen, so music now plays from the Spotify app. TrackTunes puts the songs on the activity itself, and once the songs are attached to your workouts, it starts scoring them against your pace.
It won the Up & Coming App Award at Strava's first Developer Summit, held at Strava's San Francisco office in October 2025, five months after TrackTunes launched. The site's counter is at 800,000+ tracks logged.
Two things worth knowing before you connect: it writes to your Strava activities (the music goes in the description, so followers see it), and it is Spotify-only. It runs on the web and as native apps for iPhone and Android, with the same account and the same pricing everywhere.
Key Features
Music written into every activity
Connect Strava and Spotify once, and the tracklist lands in the description of each new activity by itself. Nothing to press after a run.
Power Songs
The part that isn't just a tracklist. TrackTunes scores songs against your own pace, run after run, to find the ones you consistently run faster to, not the songs that happened to play during your fastest efforts, which is a different and much less useful list.
Cadence Mixes
It reads your run history to work out your natural stride cadence in steps per minute, then builds a BPM-matched playlist out of songs you've already run to. Four presets: Easy, Steady, Tempo, Intervals. It handles half-time and double-time, so a 79 BPM track still counts for a 158 SPM stride.
Songs on your route
Your map, with the track segments color-coded by what was playing where.
The Rhythm Section
BPM analysis across your whole running history, including the tempo you actually run fastest at and where your stride locks to the beat.
Who It's For
- Runners who train with headphones and want the soundtrack recorded alongside the splits
- Anyone who wants their Strava followers to see what they were listening to
- Cadence-focused runners who'd rather build a playlist around their stride rate than guess at BPM
What does it cost?
The free trial covers your first 15 activities with no card collected. After that, the paid plan is $20 a year ($19.99 in the App Store and Google Play) for unlimited activities, full history access, Cadence Mixes and the BPM insights.
Will my followers see my music?
Yes, that's the point. TrackTunes writes the tracklist into your Strava activity description, so anyone who can see the activity can see what you were listening to.
What if I use Apple Music?
It won't work, and the reason is structural rather than a roadmap item: Apple Music's API doesn't expose timestamps for when a song was played, so there's nothing to line up against your activity. Spotify is the only supported source.
Does TrackTunes work with podcasts?
No. Spotify's API doesn't offer podcast episode listening history, so there's nothing for the app to read.
Is there an iPhone or Android app?
Yes. TrackTunes is on the App Store (iPhone only) and Google Play, and the same account works on the web, in any mobile browser or added to your home screen. The apps carry the activity history, Power Songs, top tracks, community charts, playlists and share cards.
Can you add music to a Strava post?
Strava's help pages don't describe a way to attach songs to an activity. Strava had Spotify controls on its Record screen and has discontinued them; you can still play music from the Spotify app while you record. TrackTunes reads your Spotify history and writes the tracklist into the activity description after each one, and you can switch that off or edit the music out of any single activity.
