Photos

A photo goes through the same door as a video. On the media screen tap photo instead of the video button, pick a shot from your ride, and the app matches it to the ride the same way: by the time the photo was taken. Then the photo editor opens instead of the video one.

Nearly everything is the same. Same stickers, same drag, pinch and double-tap, same style panel and eyedropper, same alignment strip if the numbers are from the wrong moment. Two things are different.

Photo stickers show one moment

A video sticker ticks along with the footage. A photo sticker shows a single sample, the second the shutter went. That makes alignment matter more, not less: on a video a two-second offset is invisible, on a photo it’s the difference between the speed at the top of the climb and the speed on the descent. If the number doesn’t match what you remember, swipe up and drag the window on the elevation strip until it does. The alignment page covers it.

Because of that, the totals stickers are the ones that really suit a photo: total distance, total climbing, ride time and average speed. They read the whole ride rather than a moment, so there’s nothing to align, and they say what a photo caption usually says anyway. They work on video too, where the number just stays constant.

Story or original

A toggle in the editor switches the canvas.

Story is 9:16 portrait, whatever shape the photo is. The photo sits inside the frame and you can pinch to zoom and drag to pan it; it won’t zoom out smaller than the frame and it won’t pan so far that an edge comes inside. Double-tap the photo to fill the frame, double-tap again to fit it. On export the empty bars above and below are filled with a blurred, scaled copy of the same photo, which is the look Instagram gives a landscape shot in a Story. The output is 1080 by 1920.

Original keeps the photo’s own shape and size. Stickers stay inside the photo’s bounds. What you export is the photo’s own pixels with the overlay on top.

Switching from story to original pulls any sticker you’d parked in a bar back onto the photo, so nothing ends up off-frame.

Export and share

Tap create and the overlay is composited in one go; there’s no video render, so it’s quick. Then it’s the usual share page: system share, Instagram (Feed for a photo), TikTok, or save to the Cycladat album. A photo from a Strava ride carries the “Powered by Strava” mark like a video does. Leaving the share page deletes the export, so save or share before you go.