Strava alternatives
Users often seek Strava alternatives due to persistent app bugs, unresponsive customer support, and aggressive subscription prompts. Alternatives like Nike Run Club and adidas Running offer free guided runs and community features, while AllTrails focuses on hiking and Relive on 3D video creation.
Why users look for alternatives to Strava
- Users frequently encounter app bugs, including freezing, incorrect tracking, and issues with syncing data from other devices or within clubs.R7R9R12R16
- Many users report extremely poor or non-existent customer support, often only encountering AI bots that fail to resolve issues, even for paying subscribers.R1R4R10R13
- The app is criticized for aggressive and constant subscription prompts, making the free version feel limited and pushing users towards a paid plan with perceived made-up data.R6R15R18R29
- Some users find the app's interface unintuitive, clunky, or visually broken after updates, making it difficult to find information or navigate.R3R22R27R33
- Paid subscribers express frustration over removed features, restricted API access, and a focus on social aspects over detailed analysis tools.R28R30R45
- There are requests for features like integrated music playlists, 3D buildings, live tracking for friends, multi-sport tracking, and better swim tracking options.R2R5R17R23
The alternatives
AllTrails is designed for tracking outdoor activities like hiking and walking, offering detailed trail information and navigation. It focuses on helping users discover and follow routes in nature.
Better for: It suits users who primarily engage in hiking and outdoor exploration, especially those who found Strava's tracking for these activities inaccurate or insufficient R16.
Head-to-head: Strava vs AllTrailsNike Run Club offers guided runs, training plans, and a community focus, aiming to make running enjoyable and accessible for all levels. It emphasizes motivation and progression from beginner to more experienced runners.
Better for: It's ideal for new runners or those who want guided audio runs and a low-pressure, free experience to build their running habit R52R58R61. Users looking for a strong community aspect without a subscription will also find it suitable R61.
Head-to-head: Strava vs Nike Run Clubadidas Running (formerly Runtastic) tracks various fitness activities, providing statistics and social features. It aims to motivate users through challenges and community interaction.
Better for: There are too few reviews to judge this alternative effectively.
Head-to-head: Strava vs adidas RunningRelive creates 3D video stories of outdoor activities, incorporating photos and highlights from the route. It focuses on visualizing and sharing adventures in an engaging format.
Better for: There are too few reviews to judge this alternative effectively.
Head-to-head: Strava vs ReliveRunna provides personalized coaching plans for runners, adapting to individual goals and progress. It aims to offer structured training for various distances and objectives.
Better for: There are too few reviews to judge this alternative effectively.
Head-to-head: Strava vs RunnaYou should stick with Strava if you value its core functionality for tracking runs and rides, find its community and social features motivating, and use the free version which many users find sufficient for basic tracking R11R50. It's also suitable if you appreciate its ease of use for logging activities and tracking shoe mileage R11.
Evidence note: AllTrails, adidas Running, Relive, and Runna have too few reviews to provide a comprehensive assessment based solely on user feedback.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R7] Strava Frozen App: The app freezes on Startup every launch, and is now almost unusable
- [R9] Strava Keeps stacking time: Basically Strava has a glitch where records times for no reason even when the app isn’t on. It’s a serious bug that needs fixing
- [R12] Strava Club stats: Hey, I’m the owner of Ride to Pluto a 3000+ member club and the whole point of it is to ride enough miles to get to Pluto and that depends on the stats. It resets every week like normal but recently it has been resetting multiple times a week and it won’t regain the mileage. Can yall fix this?
- [R16] Strava Overrated: This is THE most overrated app ever. I manually tracked a mile and Strava says 1 mile is about 0.8 miles. DON’T USE FOR HIKING!! I tracked two hikes on here, the first it didn’t add to hiking stats. The second the elevation gain was more than halved. You cannot change elevation either, so you’re stuck with whatever number they make up. Only get if you want a mile time faster than your r
- [R1] Strava Atrocious customer support!: Their AI bot “Miles” has no ability to solve anything and closes chats with you. There is no way to talk to customer support. Even when the bot says someone will be in touch you just get an email saying they can’t help you. I am a paying subscriber and you are ducking answering any questions or actually helping me with the fact that you are letting another user in a di
- [R4] Strava App bug: Extremely frustrated. I just purchased the yearly subscription, and the app stopped working almost immediately. I reached out to support hoping for a quick fix, but all I got was a generic bot reply, no human has responded, and the issue is still unresolved. If you’re going to charge for a full year upfront, the least I’d expect is functional support when things break. Would not recommen
- [R10] Strava Used to be good.: Recently this app has gone downhill. You cannot get a real person to speak to if you’re having issues with the app. Recently the app does not load. It is just a black screen and an error message that says please try again. The only way to contact user support is a chat bot that doesn’t understand you and can’t help you and when it realizes there is no answer to give you it gives
- [R13] Strava No Support!!: I keep trying to upgrade to an annual subscription, and every time I do (AND PAY THE ANNUAL FEE!!) it tells me I need to upgrade still. I have emailed, chatted with support and still haven’t gotten a human response in 6 days. Please do better.
- [R6] Strava Stop with the subscription requests: Holy moly. The app is good but for heavens sake, every prompt I make pulls up a subscription prompt! I don’t need to subscribe… you’re doing too much.
- [R15] Strava The push for payment is annoying: Every time I load a run, I scroll down and see an ad about the subscription showing a completely made up PR. It’s literally making up data that I’m faster than I actually am in an attempt to get me to sign up for premium. It’s so gross, if you’re going to push your subscription on non subscribers constantly, don’t lie about it too. App works great otherwise and
- [R18] Strava Good app, but too much upselling: I’ve used Strava for years, mainly as a training log, but with a little Social boost of seeing what others are doing, and giving/getting a thumbs up. It games the system a little, slightly helping me get out more. But lately it is constantly trying to upsell me. There are some nice extra features with a paid subscription, but these days it seems like it asks me
- [R29] Strava Great tracking: I enjoy Strava but I’ve also been a member long enough where I’ve lost the ability to do things unless I subscribe and that’s a bummer and way too expensive in my opinion.
- [R3] Strava App that just feels behind and unintuitive: Navigating this app is frustrating. Compared to what’s out there, it just seems unintuitive and like you have to go through additional steps that don’t make sense to find basic information you are looking for.
- [R22] Strava Latest update broke the UI: The app has become really frustrating to use after the latest update. Several screens look unfinished or completely broken. The profile page has white text on white background, making the name, location, and stats almost impossible to read. Dark mode is inconsistent, with white and black sections mixed together, and some charts are difficult to read. Please fix: te
- [R27] Strava Too many clicks: Love Strava. But to many clicks to enter information to log an activity. I want straight to ‘advanced’ edit to detail an activity.
- [R33] Strava Difficulty reading text: Text too small and too faint on white background. Difficulty reading. Also not straightforward to find all info on specific ride.
- [R28] Strava Getting worse & worse: Used to love Strava and even paid for several years as a Premium subscriber to support their development and consistent improvements. But then Strava started removing more and more features, recently restricting API features and eliminating some entirely. Now, even Apps such as TREK Central are no longer able to sync accurate ride data. I officially cancelled my subscription
- [R30] Strava Good, bad and some idiocy: Great if you pay but aggressively spammy if you don’t. Plus they stopped my favourite feature which was sharing my data with other apps like Garmin for my treadmill runs. :( Really shot themselves in the foot with that one, was the main reason why I use it. Wonder what balls up the CEO will perform next.
- [R45] Strava Cancelling after many years paid: Long time premium subscriber. But strava has fallen behind. Their analysis tools are weak because they're so focused on social stuff. That was fine when you could take your data elsewhere for analysis, but their new API policy bans (clause 5.3) using your own strava data in other apps that have AI. This is super lame and the sort of behavior that I'd expect from s
- [R2] Strava Music Playlists would make better!: I love this app. But ADDING MUSIC PLAYLISTS TO OUR WALJS WOULD MAKE THIS 6/5 STARS! Anyone agree? Please help me make make some noise about this and hopefully the developers will add this feature!
- [R5] Strava Tehehehe: Ts app was good but when will there be 3d buildings 🥺? I have used this app on my Samsung Phone and watch with Samsung health but I was wondering if I can connect with Apple health with this app. Gotta look cool with my thingies 😎
- [R17] Strava Love it: Great app, easy to use. Multi-sport tracking function should be added for triathlons, decathlons, etc.
- [R23] Strava Recommendations: I think it would be awesome if Strava had a feature where I could see my friends live tracking their workouts or real time tracking. It be cool if I could see their heart beat, speed, pace, and maybe a chance to see them live through their camera. That would be some major upgrades for this app.
- [R52] Nike Run Club Changed my running completely: Used to hate running. Totally chore for me. Nike Run Club turned it into something I truly enjoy. Thank you so much!
- [R58] Nike Run Club Best Low Pressure Running App: If you want low pressure, guided runs, and you really want to go from couch to runner... Get this App! Simplistic. It made me enjoy running.
- [R61] Nike Run Club Something for Everyone - &Free: Nothing to pay, there is nothing - it’s about Community. I think I’ve run almost every guided run, except the Pregnancy Runs. So many great dialog to build your runs. All you have to do is decide to start. Start with a 1min or 5min run; do those until you’re ready to move to the next; it’s about starting easy, easy, and the rest will grown. Listen to Head S
- [R11] Strava Love using this app: It’s simple to use and they have a free version. I love tracking my walks and workouts. It’s helped a lot in my motivation and seeing how often I am active. It was a pain tracking my workouts in my phone calendar and gym app. Now it’s all in one place.
- [R50] Strava Download Now: I have used this app for several years for my daily cycle…I use the free version which is more than enough for whatI need. I have had a free trial of the full price version but the additional features were not really relevant tome but I’m sure others find them useful. It is the best app of its type and I recommend it.
- [R21] Strava No Support for Spin Sessions that I can see: OK so you can automatically upload a spin workout from Life Fitness ICG app but for some reason Strava will default the session with your road bike 🤷♂️. You can't specify the workout as a spin session and you can't add a spin bike to your bike list.🤷♂️
Synthesized from 64 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store