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Import, style, narrate, and export without leaving the browser.
Tutorial
Learn TrailReplay from the real workflow
This guide focuses on the current TrailReplay experience: importing tracks, shaping a journey, adding media, previewing the export crop, and recording a polished replay.
Best with
Rich GPX files
Tracks with timestamps and elevation make the replay immediately stronger.
Quick start
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Open TrailReplay and upload one of the sample races or your own GPX, KML or FIT file.
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Review the journey order in the sidebar and add transport segments if needed.
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Customize map style, camera, stats, icons, and media timing.
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Play through the route to validate pacing and picture timing.
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Open Export, preview the crop, and record the final video.
Import a route
How to import a route
Use the same bookmark on a Strava activity or a Wikiloc trail. Choose Automatic to save it, or Manual for platform-specific export steps.
One bookmark for Strava and Wikiloc
Save Send to TrailReplay once. It recognizes the open site and loads the route in a new TrailReplay tab.
Drag the orange button to save it, or copy its code for a bookmark you create yourself.
Watch: import from Strava or Wikiloc
A walkthrough of saving one bookmark and using it on both sites. English captions. Playback starts muted when fully visible; use the controls for sound.
If you use the bookmarks bar
Drag the orange Send to TrailReplay button above onto the bar. You can hide the bar again after saving it.
Show or hide the bar in Chrome: ⌘ + Shift + B on Mac, or Ctrl + Shift + B on Windows/Linux.
If you keep the bookmarks bar hidden
Click Copy bookmark code above. In Chrome, open Bookmarks and lists → Bookmark Manager, choose ⋮ → Add new bookmark, name it Send to TrailReplay, and paste the code into its URL field.
On the Strava or Wikiloc route page, use Chrome’s Bookmarks and lists → Show all bookmarks to find and select your saved bookmark.
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Save one bookmark
Choose either setup option above. Replace any older Strava or Wikiloc importer bookmarks.
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Open your route
Open a Strava activity or Wikiloc trail in your desktop browser. Sign in to Strava; Wikiloc does not require sign-in. Let the route map finish loading.
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Choose Send to TrailReplay
Select your saved bookmark from the bookmarks bar or browser bookmarks menu. It opens TrailReplay in a new tab with the route loaded.
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Start editing
Review the imported route, add your story and camera moves, then export your video.
The bookmark reads the route in your browser and passes the GPX between tabs. TrailReplay does not upload it to our servers.
Use a desktop browser and allow the new TrailReplay tab. Strava needs a signed-in session with access to the activity. Wikiloc needs a loaded map, with no sign-in required.
Bookmark saved? Open a Strava activity or Wikiloc trail and click it.
Why these two files?
They stress the exact parts of TrailReplay that matter most in a first serious preview.
Trail ultra
Camins d'Her CDH by UTMB Val d'Aran 2025
Great for testing elevation, cinematic camera, and stats framing on a demanding mountain course.
Bikepacking / MTB
Pedals de Foc Non Stop 2023
Perfect for long-distance pacing, map styling, and export previews with dense route storytelling.
Best first pass
Use Camins d'Her for
terrain contrast, steeper camera moves, and checking whether the stats/export crop feel balanced on a mountain course.
Use Pedals de Foc for
long pacing, route overview, and validating how a denser endurance GPX reads in replay and export mode.
Choose the right camera
Each mode tells the route differently. Start simple, then switch to Cinematic when you want directed shots.
Overview
Keep the full route in view.
Follow
Stay centered on the moving marker.
Follow Behind
Chase the route from a lower, angled view.
Cinematic
Place camera shots along the timeline and glide between them.
Direct a replay with Cinematic camera
Scrub to a moment, aim the shot, save a keyframe, and repeat. TrailReplay blends the camera moves during playback.
Open video directlyUse the elevation profile in two ways
The full-route profile is visible by default. Dynamic sections are an optional focus mode for giving the strongest climbs and descents more screen space.
See the whole route
DefaultThe standard profile keeps the complete elevation story on screen. A moving marker and completed fill show exactly where the replay is along the route.
Focus on key terrain
OptionalDynamic sections detect sustained climbs and descents, mark them on the profile, then smoothly zoom into each section as playback reaches it.
Turn on and refine Dynamic sections
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Enable the focus mode
Open Style, turn on Elevation profile, then enable Dynamic sections.
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Let it focus automatically
Press play. The profile moves from the full route into each detected climb or descent, and the same motion is kept in the export.
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Fine-tune while paused
Drag a section’s end handles to resize it. Use + and click the profile to add one, or × to remove one.
Watch actual exports
These examples were recorded with the TrailReplay export flow.
Path export with stats
A full route replay with live stats, elevation, and export-ready framing.
Download path export demoComparison mode demo
Two GPX files replayed together to compare pace, route choices, and timing.
Download comparison mode demoAran by UTMB route with landmarks
A square route replay showing named places and route annotations across the Aran by UTMB course.
Download Aran by UTMB demoWhat TrailReplay covers today
The six sidebar panels are the clearest map of the product. Work from left to right, or jump straight to the part of the replay you want to change.
Routes
Import GPX, KML, FIT, saved .replay projects, or a recipe with its route files. Rename and reorder tracks, or add comparison tracks to replay athletes together.
Timeline
Set the total replay length, use recorded or uniform route timing, reorder activities, change individual durations, and add transport between route segments.
Style
Set route colors and labels, heart-rate and custom color zones, live stats, the elevation profile, and the moving marker’s icon, size, color, and glow.
Map & Camera
Choose a basemap, historical imagery, place labels, ski, slope or aspect overlays, 3D terrain, map filters, landmarks, and any of the four camera modes.
Media
Add photos, silent video moments, and route annotations. Use embedded GPS or timestamps when available, or place and retime each item manually.
Generate
Save an editable .replay project, export still images or 16:9, 4:5, 1:1 and 9:16 videos, compose the layout, choose quality and frame rate, then download or share.
Recommended first run
1. Import
Use one of the sample GPX files if you only want to learn the interface first.
2. Style
Open Style, Media, and Settings to shape the replay before you record anything.
3. Export
Preview the crop frame in Export so the stats and media stay inside the recorded area.