Quick picks
There are two kinds of Strava title generator. One shows you options and lets you choose. The other renames every activity on its own, in the background, from the moment you connect it.
- Want it fully automatic, with the most control? Strautomator. AI names built into a rules engine that also handles gear, weather, and commute tagging. Free for light use, $9.99 a year for the rest.
- Want the description rewritten too, in your own voice? Stravify. Pick Funny, Motivational, or a gentle roast, or write your own instructions, and new activities get a fresh title and description as they land.
- Want jokes and no AI at all? Bandók. A hand-curated list of quotes, lyrics, and puns, dropped onto any activity you left on a default name.
- Want to pick from a few options first? Roast My Strava. Three titles to choose from when you ask, and in early access it can also rename new default-named activities automatically.
Strava has a number on why this is worth bothering with. When it launched Quick Edit in September 2024, the company said its own data shows titled activities are almost 4x more likely to receive kudos than ones left on the default.
Side by side
| App | Automatic? | How titles are made | Styles | Credit it adds | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strautomator | Yes, as a rule | AI with activity data, efforts, and weather; 7 model providers | AI names and AI poems, tone set by your rule | Free plan: a backlink in the description; PRO removes it | Free (3 automations, AI on 10% of activities); PRO $9.99/yr or $39.99 lifetime |
| Stravify | Yes, new activities; replaces title and description | AI from the activity details you allow | Funny, Motivational, a gentle roast, or your own instructions | None mentioned on its site | Not stated on its site |
| Bandók | Yes, default names only | Curated list of quotes, lyrics, puns, and jokes | One house style | None mentioned on its site | Free, donations welcome |
| Roast My Strava | On demand (you pick and tap Set), or automatic for default names in early access | AI reads distance, pace, elevation, time, place, description, and photo | Funny, Roast, Clever, Hype, Plain, or Me (your own style); automatic titles add Training | One line in the description whenever it sets a title; its page doesn’t say it can be turned off | Free (8 sets of titles a day); automatic titles free during early access |
Strautomator: AI names inside a rules engine
Strautomator is a rules engine for Strava. You write rules (if the ride starts at home and ends at the office, mark it a commute; if it’s a virtual ride, set the trainer bike) and one of the available actions is “generate an activity name with AI.” The model gets the activity metadata, your efforts, and the weather at the time, and returns a name. There is a second AI action that writes a poem about the activity, if that’s your kind of thing.
It keeps a public changelog, with the most recent entries from August 2026, and you can route requests to seven providers: Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Mistral, OpenAI, Grok, and Z.ai. The catch is the free tier. You get three automations total, and AI naming runs on at most 10% of your activities using the smaller models. Free accounts also get a Strautomator backlink added to the description of about one in five activities it updates (or, if you choose it in preferences, a #strautomator hashtag instead), Strautomator’s maker told us. Only PRO turns it off. PRO lifts all of that for $9.99 a year or $39.99 once, and the same subscription covers its gear, weather, and commute automations.
Stravify: automatic titles and descriptions, in your own voice
Stravify writes a title and a description together. Pick a voice (Funny, Motivational, a gentle roast, or your own custom instructions), and you can rewrite an activity by hand, with a preview to edit before it publishes, or turn on automatic rewrites for new activities. Its terms say the automatic version replaces both the title and the description, so an existing description is overwritten.
You choose which activity types it rewrites and which details the AI gets to use, so location or heart rate can stay out of it. The activity details you allow go to OpenAI to write the text. It asks Strava to read all your activities, private ones included, and to write to them. Disconnecting stops the automation but doesn’t undo rewrites it has already made. Its site says it supports every activity type on Strava, and it doesn’t currently mention a price.
Bandók: no AI, just a very long list of jokes
Bandók predates the AI wave. Connect it, and any activity you leave on a Strava default (Morning Ride, Lunch Ride, Morning Run) gets a line from a hand-curated list: movie and TV quotes, song lyrics, puns, and, in the maker's words, “nuggets of wisdom all mixed with my own personal brand of humor.” Think “Bad decisions make good stories.” Don't like the one you got? Add a sad face to the end of the name and Bandók has another go.
Because it’s a list and not a model, the names have nothing to do with the run. That is either the charm or the problem. Canadian Running gave “Bandok-ers” their own category in a 2020 piece on Strava title types, and quoted titles that made no sense, which is fair. But it’s free, it never touches a title you wrote, and it works for runs, walks, and rides. Anyone can submit names, and the editors vet them before they go into the rotation.
Roast My Strava: three to pick from, or automatic
Roast My Strava is best known for roasting whole profiles, and it writes titles two ways. On demand, it writes three titles from the workout (distance, moving time, elevation, start time, place, your description and the main photo) in a tone you pick, and Set on Strava puts one on the activity. The limit is eight sets a day. In early access, automatic titles rename new activities still on a default name about five seconds after upload, skipping anything you named yourself (private activities are titled too, and stay private), and leaving an activity alone once you rename it. Turning it off stops it; titles already written stay unless you undo them.
Either way it adds a one-line credit to the description (“Titled by www.roastmystrava.com” for automatic titles), plus a two-sentence roast if you also switch on automatic roasts (early access). Its page doesn’t say the credit line can be turned off. It asks Strava to read all your activities, private ones included, and to write to them. It’s free, and automatic titles are free during early access.
What’s left out, and why
There are more of these than you would think, and most didn’t make the cut. Smart Strava Titles is gone: its site now carries a goodbye note saying it shut down rather than pay for the Strava subscription that running an API app requires. OpenPace's Namer, which added an emoji and the distance to each title, was archived on GitHub in January 2023. Ohrbit charges €10 a year for titles written in the voice of an author you pick, and its site still shows a 2023 copyright. ActivityFix and ActivityCraft are rule engines closer to Strautomator, where titles are one field among many rather than the point. If you want template titles with your stats in them (“🏃 10.2 km | 52:10 | 5:07/km”), any of the three rule engines can do it. titles.run is newer, and not compared here: another automatic one, writing AI titles from the route, landmarks, and effort, with 20 titles a month on its free plan and 100 on PRO. The PRO price isn’t shown on its site.
What about Strava captions and descriptions?
Worth clearing up, because people search for all three and they aren’t the same thing. The title is the one-liner at the top of the activity, and it’s what every app on this page writes. The description is the longer box underneath, where people put the workout detail, the excuse, or the link. A caption usually means neither: it’s the text you write on Instagram when you post a screenshot of the run.
Three of the four write into the description too. Strautomator does it through automations like its weather summary and its AI poem action, and on the free plan it adds its backlink there. Stravify’s automatic rewrites replace the description along with the title. Roast My Strava adds a one-line credit to the description whenever it sets a title, plus a two-sentence roast if you switch on its automatic roasts (early access), and its separate activity roast can be added there when you choose to. Bandók does titles only.
How to change a Strava title by hand
If you just want to fix one, the pencil icon on any activity opens the edit screen on web and mobile. On the phone, Strava's Quick Edit sheet appears the first time you open the app after a device upload, with the title field right at the top. It only shows for activities uploaded from a watch or bike computer, not ones recorded in the Strava app or entered manually.
Strava title ideas if you would rather write your own
None of these apps is required. The best titles in most feeds are still written by people, and most of them follow one of a handful of patterns. Steal whichever fits.
- The honest one. Say what actually happened. “Meant to do 10, did 6, zero regrets.” “Legs said no by mile 2, kept going anyway.”
- The excuse. Pre-empt the pace comments. “Headwind both ways, somehow.” “Ran with the dog, dog set the pace.”
- The one-word review. “Humid.” “Fine.” “Why.”
- The route note. Name the thing you saw. “The heron was back.” “Detour for the good bakery.”
- The series. Number them and never explain. “Tuesday hills, week 14.” “Loop of shame #7.”
- The workout, plainly. Coaches and training-log types swear by it. “6 x 800 @ 5k, 400 jog.” Boring to outsiders, gold when you search for it next year.
- The understatement. The bigger the effort, the smaller the title. A marathon PR called “long run.” A 100-mile ride called “out and back.”
Whatever you do, do it before you post. Quick Edit exists because almost nobody goes back later.
Common questions
Does Strava generate activity titles itself?
No. Strava picks a default name from the time of day and sport (Morning Run, Lunch Ride, Evening Walk) and leaves the rest to you. Quick Edit, which rolled out to everyone in September 2024, makes it faster to type your own title right after an upload, but it does not write one for you. All four apps in this post are third-party tools that connect through the Strava API.
Which Strava title generator works automatically?
All four can. Strautomator, Stravify, and Bandók rename activities on their own after you connect them once. Roast My Strava has automatic titles in early access, switched on from its settings page, alongside its on-demand generator, where nothing changes until you tap Set on Strava.
Will these apps overwrite titles I wrote myself?
Bandók only renames activities that still carry a Strava default name, and leaves anything you titled yourself alone. Stravify's automatic rewrites apply to new activities and replace both the title and the description; its site does not say whether it skips titles you wrote. Strautomator runs whatever rules you set, so you decide the conditions. Roast My Strava's automatic titles only rename new activities still on a default name (private ones included, and they stay private) and leave an activity alone for good once you rename it; its manual generator changes nothing without a tap. Both modes have an Undo.
Are Strava title generators free?
Bandók is free, with donations welcome. Roast My Strava is free with daily limits, and its automatic titles are free during early access. Stravify's site does not currently mention a price. Strautomator has a free tier that includes three automations and AI naming on up to 10% of your activities. PRO removes those limits for $9.99 a year or $39.99 for a lifetime license.
Do they work for cycling, swimming, and other sports, or only running?
Roast My Strava and Strautomator work with anything Strava records. Stravify says it supports every activity type on Strava and lets you choose which ones it rewrites automatically. Bandók covers runs, walks, and rides.
What is the difference between a Strava title, a description, and a caption?
The title is the one-line name at the top of an activity, which is what these apps write. The description is the longer text box below it. A caption normally means something else entirely: the text you write on Instagram when you share a screenshot of the activity. Three of the four can also write into the description, as covered in the section on descriptions below.
Do custom titles really get more kudos?
According to Strava, yes. In its September 2024 Quick Edit announcement the company said its data shows titled activities are almost four times more likely to receive kudos than ones left on the default name.
Sources
- Strava press release: Quick Edit debuts on Strava (September 25, 2024)
- Strava Help Center: Activity Quick Edit
- Strautomator: AI activity names, pricing, account settings (backlinks), FAQ and changelog
- Stravify, its terms and privacy policy
- Bandók and its name submission page
- Roast My Strava: Strava Title Generator and Automatic Strava Titles
- titles.run
- Canadian Running: The 7 kinds of Strava title-maker (August 2020)
- Smart Strava Titles shutdown notice and OpenPace Namer (archived)
Related reading
Strautomator also appears in the best free Strava apps. For more tools that run on their own after each upload, browse the automation section of the directory.
