What is Dash?
Dash is an iPhone app that turns your Strava activities into Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, so you can see your week, your goals and your training load without opening Strava. It can also read from Garmin Connect or Apple Health instead, and you can switch sources whenever you like. It doesn't record workouts itself.
It has been in the App Store since March 2021 and is updated often; version 4.0 in October 2026 added a new Home screen that gathers your key metrics, period comparisons and recent activities in one place.
In 2019 Rui Peres was running a few ultras a year and spending a lot of time on Strava, and his first idea was a running plan that changed with your Strava activities. When Apple released iOS widgets in 2020 he started building the app, and the idea became tracking your stats in widgets. The comparison widget grew out of his habit of comparing his progress week by week. Goals were added because users asked for them: Strava had no goals API, so he made the target a widget setting.
The widgets
Widgets come in small, medium, large and extra large sizes for the Home Screen, and there are Lock Screen widgets too. The main ones:
- Goals and totals: distance, time and elevation for the week, month or year, against a target you set
- Calendar and heatmap: which days you trained, with more than one activity a day shown
- Training load: fitness, fatigue and form on one chart, from heart rate (TRIMP) or power
- Ride power: your best power over different durations, compared across time ranges
- Interval comparison: this week, month or year against earlier ones, with percentage changes
- Activity detail: an activity's charts, or its heart rate zones
- Achievements: medals for your top distance, power, elevation and climb results, ranked best efforts, and distance milestones
- Heat acclimatisation: a 0 to 100 score built from recent activities with temperature data
- Steps, for Apple Health users
Inside the app there are charts for heart rate drift and cadence too. It covers running, cycling, swimming, walking and hiking, skiing, racquet sports and multisport activities.
Widgets can be restyled with themes such as Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Gruvbox and Catppuccin.
Who it's for
- Strava users who want their numbers at a glance on the phone, not buried in the app
- People chasing a weekly or yearly distance goal
- Cyclists with a power meter who want power and training load on the Home Screen
- Garmin and Apple Health users who'd rather not go through Strava
Worth knowing
Dash is free to download, with Dash Pro sold as an in-app purchase: $2.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $49.99 once for lifetime access (in the UK, £2.99 a month and £19.99 a year).
It needs iOS 26 or later. It also runs on iPad, on Macs with Apple silicon and on Apple Vision Pro; there's no Apple Watch app. The app is in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Your workout data is stored on your phone, not on Dash's servers.
Do I need a Strava account?
No. Dash works with Garmin Connect or Apple Health alone, and you can switch between sources in the app.
Can I use Siri or Shortcuts with it?
Yes. Dash supports Siri and the Shortcuts app.
