How it works
Belume takes one Strava activity and renders it as a transparent Story card — your style, your colour, every sport. It takes about a minute.
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Connect
Sign in with Strava. Belume asks to read your activities so it has something to draw. The access token stays in a cookie in your own browser — more in the privacy policy.
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Style
Pick one of nine card styles and any colour off the wheel. The graphic slot is yours too: route map, pace, elevation, heart rate, a dino, or nothing at all. Distances read in km or miles.
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Share
The card renders in your browser as a transparent PNG. Copy it, open Instagram and start a new Story, pick your own photo as the background, then press and hold on the photo and tap Paste — the card lands on top and your picture shows through. Pasting is what keeps it a layer over your photo rather than the photo itself.
Questions
What is a transparent Story card?
A PNG with no background behind it, shaped for a Story. You paste it onto your own photo or video in an Instagram or Threads Story — press and hold on your photo, then tap Paste — and your picture still shows through behind the card.
Can I keep the card in my camera roll?
Yes. Save as PNG on an iPhone opens Safari’s download prompt: Download puts the file in Files, while View opens it — then press and hold the image and choose Save to Photos. Either way the transparency survives, so a card kept in Photos is still a card you can lay over a photo later.
Which sports work?
Any activity in your Strava feed. Runs and rides can show a route map, pace, elevation or heart rate. Activities recorded without GPS — gym sessions, treadmill runs, yoga — fall back to the stats that were actually recorded.
Does Belume post to Strava or Instagram for me?
No. Belume renders the image and hands it to you. You post it yourself.
Is there a watermark?
Every card carries a small Belume mark. Nothing else is added.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Belume is free to use.
Does Belume keep my Strava data?
There is no database. Your Strava token sits in an HTTP-only cookie in your own browser, and the card is drawn in your browser, so the image never reaches our servers.
