Strava: Run, Bike, Hike

App sucks. It's extremely cluttered and too complicated. The home screen / stream is not configurable and shows all kind stuff they are trying to push on you. Cheaper devices don't integrate directly. you need to connect to the device app first and then sync with this one Unless you want to pay $500 for a Garmin GPS. It's very feature rich. I'm only using it because everyone is using it. Otherwise I would happily live without it. The coospo app is just as good and their great devices cheaper

Horrible app. It seems to only work if you take out a paid subscription. Despite it supposedly being able to import information from other apps it would not do so from my Garmin app. However the final deal breaker was when it wouldn't let me log in with my Google account went through the whole process of resetting the account and then it wouldn't let me in without presenting me with captcha visuals. I'm not stupid but after trying about 10 times I could never get past it.

The platform worked great (free version too)—until I needed it most. In the middle of a competition, I got logged out and couldn't log back in. To make things worse, submitting a help ticket requires logging in, making it impossible to get support. I tried everything—password reset, different devices, different browsers—nothing worked. This completely disrupted my experience. There needs to be a way to contact support without requiring login access. Very frustrating.

Lots of features in the free edition. Be careful though, you need to enable GPS (always) and Bluetooth (if you have a heart rate device) before recording the activity. The free version gives lots of information and is easy to use. I might upgrade to paid at some point.

Updating review due to major GPS tracking accuracy problems. Something needs to be fixed, between the use of GPS data and basic algorithm heuristics to prevent obvious errors in tracking from messing up run times. Obviously, I can't run 40 mph, just as it is also impossible for me to blink a quarter mile into the woods and back again within 10 seconds. There is some basic lack of engineering and troubleshooting which is sadly defeating the purpose of the app.

Pretty great overall, both free and paid versions. They've recently added a bunch of upsell pop-ups to the free version which can be hard to dismiss when you're out of service and trying to start recording an activity. The pop-ups can also lead to Segment Grief when you think you started recording but all you did was try to dismiss a pop-up.

Not the most intuitive UI I've encountered for sure. But my biggest complaint is the total lack of proper wearable integration. My Fossil gen 6 watch (on wear OS 3.5) has seemingly no way to connect to this app. I've even manually installed the app on my watch and set it up there. But since then, it just crashes every time I launch directly on the watch. And the phone app shows no devices connected. Worthless. Time to find a better more integrated app. Also need better smart ring integration.

I've used Strava for years and for a time it was *the* GPS app to use but... it's time/pace are always off because it only tracks "moving time" (which is great if you want to trick yourself and others into believing that you are faster than you are) and now they've decided to discontinue allowing the use of Bluetooth heart rate monitoring via chest strap monitors like Polar and instead encourage you to use a 3rd party app and then import your workouts. So what's the point in using Strava?

Tried to swap over to this app, from the Nike run app, just to check it out.. made a profile, and that's about as far as I got. the amount of pop ups to subscribe to their paid version, was almost enough to crash the app.. I totally understand companies needing to make money, and that's not the issue, but lay off the marketing for people like me who want to use it for awhile before deciding on purchasing. I'll stick with what I already had lol

Love the functionality but utterly disappointed by how extremely restricted the free version is now compared to when I first started using the app 10+ years ago. There used to be a really great range of free features - really simple and practical things, including for example, viewing your full history on a given segment, or creating a route - which I now find to be premium features (after a few years off the app). I think it's a money-grubbing disgrace and I'm now considering alternatives.