What is Sports Metrics?
Sports Metrics reads your Strava history and lays it out like a magazine feature instead of a dashboard. You connect Strava, and it builds your year and your whole career into chapters with serif headlines, plain-language verdicts ("you're ahead", "on pace", "playing catch-up"), and the numbers underneath. It covers nine sports, each with its own visual treatment: cycling fills a road, running circles a track, swimming fills lanes.
It's free, with no in-app purchases, and the developer declares that the app collects no data at all. It first shipped in January 2026 and has been updated steadily since.
Key Features
Five chapters instead of a grid
Your Year covers where you stand against your goals. The Forever Climb is the career view: lifetime distance and elevation milestones, badge by badge. Records collects your bests for distance, elevation, duration and speed. Battles compares you against friends on shared challenges, across sports and across years.
Eddington Number
It calculates your Eddington Number, the one-number summary of how consistently you go long, and shows the progression chart of how it grew plus the distribution of your rides at every threshold. Strava itself doesn't surface this.
Goals with a verdict
You set yearly and lifetime goals, and the app tells you in words if you're ahead or behind before it shows you the percentage. Each goal opens with its sport's own visualisation rather than a generic bar.
Shareable stories and video exports
Your year as five slides: a cover with your distance and month-by-month trajectory, your biggest month, total ascent in multiples of Everest, a head-to-head against last year, and a promo card. Exportable as a still image or an animated video. Individual goals share too, square or story format.
Works offline
Activities load and goals follow you between iPhone and iPad, and the app keeps working without a connection.
Who It's For
- People who like looking back at their training as much as logging it, and who want the year-end recap to go deeper and be available on demand
- iPhone and iPad owners on current software (see the requirements below, they're strict)
- Not people who want coaching. This is reflective, not prescriptive: there are no plans, no workouts and no live guidance here
Is Sports Metrics free?
Yes. It's listed as free on the App Store with no in-app purchases, and the App Privacy section states the developer collects no data from the app.
What devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad, and it needs iOS 26 or later, an unusually recent requirement that will rule out a lot of phones. The App Store listing marks it as designed for iPad and not verified for macOS. There's no Android version and no web version.
How does it use my Strava data?
You connect your Strava account and the app pulls in your activities to build the recaps, goals, records and comparisons. The App Store privacy section states the developer does not collect any data from the app.
Which sports does it cover?
Nine, each with its own visual treatment rather than one generic template (cycling, running and swimming among them). Goals and metrics adapt to the sport instead of showing the same four numbers for everything.
