Half of these are free with no paid tier at all. The other half have a free tier that does the job, and each entry says what the paid tier costs, so you know where the wall is. Two work differently from the rest: Sauce is a browser extension that adds to Strava's own pages, and GoldenCheetah is a desktop program that connects Strava as one of a dozen cloud accounts.
The directory lists 87 live apps with no paid tier at all, on the free apps page, and 113 more with a free tier. Every listing is checked against the maker's own site; these ten cover the most ground for nothing, across training, analysis, maps, automation and art.
1. intervals.icu: Training analytics
Fitness, fatigue and form (CTL, ATL, TSB), automatic interval detection, the power curve, a calendar and a workout builder, and it reads straight from Strava. Started as David Tinker’s side project; there’s a small team behind it now. Supporter, $4 a month billed quarterly, adds weather, the annual plan builder, a full Strava history import and custom zones.
Why it's on this list: It’s hard to explain why this is free. The charts TrainingPeaks sells for $134.99 a year cost nothing here, with no trial clock and no card. One catch: a free account’s Strava connection can go dormant if you don’t open the site for a few weeks. Opening it wakes it up.
2. Sauce for Strava: Adds numbers to Strava’s own pages
A free, open-source browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge that rewrites Strava’s activity pages: normalized power, intensity factor, TSS, grade-adjusted pace, peak tables for power, heart rate, cadence and VAM, live segment files from any activity, and TCX, GPX and FIT export. No API, no OAuth; it works on the Strava site itself.
Why it's on this list: Everything above is free under an MIT licence. A $2-a-month Patreon adds fitness trends and Sauce for Zwift. If you wish Strava showed more on the page you’re already looking at, this is the one.
3. StatsHunters: Heatmaps and tiles, no paid tier at all
A heatmap of everywhere you’ve been, explorer tiles on the same grid as VeloViewer and Squadrats, max square and max cluster, a couple of thousand badges, and Garmin exports of the tiles you’re missing. Your whole Strava history, not a slice of it.
Why it's on this list: There is nothing to buy. It’s Stan Ansems’s personal project, funded by donations, and donating gets you nothing extra. The cleanest “free” on this list.
4. Runalyze: Physiology for runners
Effective VO2max worked backwards from your race pace (not Garmin’s number), race-time predictions with a marathon-shape check that looks at your weekly mileage before it trusts the marathon one, and training load on the Banister model. It began as open source; that code was abandoned in 2019 and the hosted site carried on.
Why it's on this list: The free tier has ads. Supporter at €2.50 a month removes them, and Premium at €5.50 a month (or €60 a year) adds quality sessions, best segments, all-time curves and posters. The analysis itself is free.
5. Strautomator: Automation
Rules that run on every new activity: if it’s a ride under 10 km, call it Commute and set the city bike. It can rename, tag, edit descriptions, set gear, add weather, and write an AI title or poem.
Why it's on this list: Free gets you three automations, which covers the commute rule and not much else. Unlimited is $9.99 a year, or $39.99 once. It’s open source and had a changelog entry on August 31, 2026, so it’s alive.
6. trackmy.shoes: Shoe mileage
Every pair in your running rotation with its mileage, best efforts, heatmaps and a year in review, pulled from Strava. It only reads unless you turn on writing back, which lets it put the right shoes on runs you forgot to tag.
Why it's on this list: There is no paid tier; the site says “100% free, forever.” New runs come in when you press Sync, which re-reads your 200 most recent activities, at most once every 12 hours.
7. GoldenCheetah: For the power nerds
A desktop program for Windows, macOS and Linux, twenty years old and open source under GPL v2, with critical power and W’bal modelling, Performance Management charts on any metric, CdA estimation and R or Python scripting over your own files. Strava attaches as a two-way cloud account: sync pulls your history down, upload pushes rides back.
Why it's on this list: Every feature, no paid tier, no account, and your data lives in a folder on your own disk. It is dense and the interface won’t remind you of a 2026 web app, which is the price of it being free forever.
8. Wandrer: Exploration
Counts the unique road and path you’ve covered, any sport, as a percentage of a real place, and re-riding your usual loop scores nothing. Strava named it App of the Year for Games and Optimizations in 2025.
Why it's on this list: The free tier is a preview: 50 past activities, 10 map downloads, and a base map frozen on the day you joined. Extra Lost is $40 a year, up from $30 in May 2026, and it’s where the whole history and the routing tools live. Free is enough to know whether the game has you.
9. CityStrides: For runners
Every named street in your city, and which ones you’ve run. Pass within 25 metres of a node and it’s ticked; 90 percent of a street’s nodes and the street goes green. Runs, walks and hikes count. Rides are rejected.
Why it's on this list: The free tier has no cap: unlimited activities, unlimited cities, the LifeMap, the leaderboards. Supporter, $5 a month or $50 a year, buys Node Hunter, Route Builder, priority processing and Hard Mode, and you can prepay $5 to $100 with no subscription.
10. Mythic Maps: Art, on the activity itself
Draws the route of an activity as an illustrated map in dozens of styles and uploads the image to the activity on Strava, plus a short video you can share. Its front page now leads with a different trick: giving indoor Zwift rides a map when they upload with none.
Why it's on this list: Each map spends a diamond, and diamonds come from joining, registering your email, joining its Strava club, publishing maps, finishing its route challenges and referrals. Its site shows no way to buy them.
Honorable Mentions
A few more with a real free tier, and where it stops:
- Elevate for Strava: the other analytics extension, Chromium only and free, but it hasn't had an extension release since November 2024 and its desktop app's Strava connector has been failing since July 2026. It was on this list; it isn't now.
- myWindsock: weather on your Strava activities and one segment Windsock free; the wind-impact metrics start at $12.99 a year
- Klimat: writes the weather into your activity descriptions, free for 30 activities, then $15 a year
- Smashrun: running charts and badges with your Strava history on the free tier; Pro is $59 a year for its route map. Quiet since 2025, which is why it dropped off the ten.
The whole set is under free in the directory, and the search page filters by pricing if you want the free-tier ones too.
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