How it works

1

Install and sign in

Get ActivArt on iOS or Android and sign in with Google or Apple. No form to fill, no payment details at any point. The sign-in is what ties your free allowance and your saved style to you instead of to one phone.

2

Pick a workout

Connect Apple Health, Health Connect, Strava or Intervals.icu and your activities arrive on their own, with the photos you took during each one already matched to it. You can also create an activity by hand or import a FIT file.

3

Create your first image free

Choose a look, decide whether your stats appear in the scene, and generate. The finished image saves to your gallery and the share sheet opens with a caption ready.

No card, no trial countdown

The free plan asks for no payment details and does not expire into a paywall after a week. It is the plan you stay on until you decide otherwise.

Start from your photo or from nothing

Transform a photo you took on the workout, or generate the scene with no photo at all when you forgot to shoot. Both paths draw on the same free allowance.

Stats rendered into the picture

Distance, pace, time and elevation can be drawn into the scene itself, in sand, in neon, on a banner. Free accounts get a limited number of these, and they refill along with everything else.

Choose a look once

Framing, athlete appearance, gear, scenery, weather, light, mood, art style and palette are saved as your choices, so there is no prompt to write on the free plan or on any other.

The allowance comes back

Free use runs on a rolling window. When you reach the limit nothing is lost, the app shows when your next creations unlock, and you can ask for a notification the moment they do.

Your photos are not training data

A photo you transform is stored privately only while the job runs, then deleted. Photo-free creations send no image at all. Nothing you make trains a model.

One account, two kinds of free allowance

AI images and AI video are created for you and share the server-side part of your free plan. Route and elevation videos are rendered on your own device and draw on a separate free allowance, so using one does not eat the other.

What you can make without paying anything

The free plan is the whole app at a smaller volume. Every art style, every stats placement, every activity source and both creation paths are available on it. What Premium changes is how much you can make in a given window, whether the ActivArt mark stays on the result, and a handful of extras like custom logos and the 3D map view.

Most people start by transforming a photo. You open a run, a ride, a hike or a gym session, pick one of the photos ActivArt matched to it, and choose a style. The generated image keeps the moment recognisable while changing the medium, so a phone snapshot from a wet Tuesday becomes something worth posting. Your pace or your distance can sit inside the scene rather than on a sticker above it.

The second path needs no photo. Plenty of workouts happen without anyone taking a picture, and the indoor ones almost never get photographed. ActivArt can build the scene from the activity type and your saved visual choices, then put the real numbers from that session into it. It is the same free allowance either way, so you can use it on whichever kind of session you actually did.

What free includes, and what Premium adds

Allowances are deliberately described here rather than numbered. The real limits are set on the server and change without an app update, so any figure printed on a web page would eventually be a lie. The Membership screen in the app always shows your current usage and the exact time your next creations unlock.

The free plan and Premium, side by side
FreePremium
AI images from your photosLimited allowance that refills automaticallyLarger allowance
AI images with no photoLimited allowance that refills automaticallyLarger allowance
AI videoLimited allowance that refills automaticallyLarger allowance
Route and elevation videosLimited, rendered on your deviceUnlimited, plus the 3D map video
Stats rendered into the imageLimitedUnlimited
Logo overlaysLimitedUnlimited
Art styles and stats placementsAll of themAll of them
Activity sourcesAll of themAll of them
ActivArt mark on the resultAlways onOptional
Payment detailsNever requestedHandled by the App Store or Google Play

What the catch is

Free creations carry the ActivArt mark, and the share sheet arrives with a caption already written. Both come off with Premium. Everything else about the image, the resolution included, is identical on either plan.

The allowance is a rolling window rather than a monthly reset, so it refills gradually instead of all at once on the first of the month. Hitting the limit is not a dead end and it does not cost you anything you already made. The app tells you when the next creation is available and can notify you then.

Generation happens on our servers, so an AI image needs a working connection. Route and elevation videos render on the phone itself and work offline once the activity has synced. Those videos also use their own separate free allowance, which is why heavy video weeks do not leave you without images.

The last one is the sign-in, which is the only thing we ask for and the thing people ask about most. It is covered below.

Why a free app asks you to sign in

Generating an image costs us real money every time, so a free allowance only works if it belongs to an account. Without a sign-in there is no way to tell one person from a hundred fresh installs, and the honest response to that would be a much stingier free plan or no free plan at all. The sign-in is what pays for the generous one.

It is a single tap with Google or Apple. There is no email confirmation loop, no password to invent and no payment method attached. It also means your saved style, your history and your allowance follow you to a new phone rather than disappearing with the old one.

You can install ActivArt and look around before any of this happens. The app only asks when you go to create something for the first time.

Who this is for

ActivArt suits people who train and want the result to look like something. Runners posting a long run, cyclists with a climb worth showing, hikers at the top of something steep, gym regulars who want more than a mirror selfie. The images are anchored to a real session, which is exactly what makes them worth posting.

It is not a general-purpose image generator and there is no free-text prompt box. If your plan is to type a paragraph and get a dragon, you will find the app frustrating, and we would rather say so here than take up a slot on your home screen.

Common questions

Is the AI image generator actually free?
Yes. Every account starts on the free plan, and the free plan includes an allowance of AI images that refills on its own. There is no trial period that ends, and no card is held against it.
Do I need a credit card or any payment method?
No. Nothing on the free plan asks for payment details. If you later choose Premium or the Custom Logos unlock, the payment is handled by the App Store or Google Play and we never see your card.
Why do I have to sign in before the first image?
Because the free allowance belongs to an account rather than to a device. One tap with Google or Apple is enough, there is no form and no payment details, and it keeps your style and history when you change phone.
How many free AI images do I get?
Enough to use the app properly rather than to sample it. The exact number is set on the server and can change, so the Membership screen inside the app is the accurate place to read your current allowance and the time it refills.
Do free images have a watermark?
Yes, free creations carry the ActivArt mark, and the share caption is filled in for you. Premium can remove both. Nothing else about the image changes between the plans.
Can I post the images anywhere I like?
Yes, on Instagram, TikTok, Strava, a race recap or anywhere else, on the free plan included. Finished files carry signed machine-readable provenance marking them as AI-generated, which carries no account details, no stats and no location.

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