Peak-bagging lists, filled in from your Strava hikes
List Hiker is for people working through hiking lists: the NH 48 4,000-Footers, the Adirondack 46, the Catskill 3500, the Colorado 14ers and 12 more, most of them in the Northeast. Connect Strava and it loads your whole history, matches each GPS track to the peaks and trail segments on every list, and picks up new hikes as they arrive. One hike counts toward every list it qualifies for. It also checks each list’s rules, such as season boundaries for winter rounds and segments that have to be hiked in full, and on many lists it fills out the completion application for the sponsoring organization. The Strava access is read-only, and the site says it never posts to or changes anything on Strava. Free, on the web and iPhone, made by List Hiker LLC in New Hampshire.
Indoor training without the FTP test
ENDURE is an indoor cycling app for smart trainers that works out your FTP and VO2max from the power and heart-rate data in the rides you already do, so there’s no ramp test. There’s no virtual world: pair a Bluetooth trainer, pick a structured workout or import a .ZWO, .MRC or .ERG file, and ride in ERG or SIM mode. Each morning it suggests a session from your recent training and a short check-in. Strava works both ways: ENDURE rides upload automatically, and it can import your ride history, so outdoor rides feed the same trends. It also logs lactate readings and reads the CORE body temperature sensor. iPhone, Android and Windows, with a browser version for planning and analysis; made in Austria. 14-day free trial, then $11.99 a month or $89 a year.
Ride one way, take the train the other
Tisseur de Voies is a free map of bike loops in France where a train does one of the legs: ride from one station to another along a signposted cycle route and let a TER, RER or Intercités bring you back, or the other way round. Thousands of loops are worked out in advance from open data, each with its distance, climbing and a GPX download. Connecting Strava is optional: it lays your ridden explorer tiles over the map and picks loops through ground you haven’t covered, or ones that grow your Max Square or Max Cluster. Loops you’ve ridden go into a passport. In French, no account needed, made by one rider.
A tile hunter’s toolkit
ROVR cuts the map into squares on three grid sizes and claims every one your GPS track touches, counting every point of the track rather than a simplified outline. It tracks your cluster and your max square, then shows the unridden tiles near you, easiest first. It can also draw a route through the ones you pick, and the maker says route drawing now works on six continents. Strava is one way in, alongside Ride with GPS and uploaded files, but ROVR’s ten Strava places are taken while Strava reviews the app, so new riders join a waiting list or start with the other two. Connected rides can get a short line in their description saying what they bagged. Free, on the web, with free Garmin Edge and watch apps and a Chrome extension; a small beta run by one person.
Tile hunting as a game, on your phone
Wandrio turns the same idea into a phone game. The map is split into tiles, with minitiles and microtiles inside them, and you collect a tile by being in it: press Record in the app for a walk, run, ride or paddle, or connect Strava, Garmin or (on iPhone, per its update notes) Suunto and your past activities fill the map in one go. Points come from new tiles, your biggest cluster and your megatile, and each tile has a Finder, a Legend and a Mayor to compete for. Seasons start everyone from an empty map, and friends can compare maps. Free on iPhone and Android; owning a tile outright is an $8.99 purchase. Made by a small team in Finland.
Also new in October
| App | What it does | Strava connection | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Adventure Maps | A poster of every route from one year, or a race course, with your totals and photos | Reads from Strava; GPX, TCX or FIT uploads work too | Download €7.95; prints from €24.95 |
| Life Forecast | Estimates the date you’d reach a goal weight from your weigh-ins, with food logged by photo, voice or text | Optional, in beta, in the browser app | Free |
| BikeVet | Estimates wear on each bike part from your rides, the weather and the terrain | Reads rides and links your Strava bikes; can add maintenance alerts to the activity description if you switch it on | Free for one bike; Premium $3.99 a month |
| MyBikes | One maintenance plan across all your bikes, timed by distance, date or ride load | Reads bikes and rides; never writes | Free; optional $20 a year |
| Unlock Earth | Unlocks each municipality (county in the US) you cover enough distance in, across more than 150 countries | Reads activities; Strava is required | Free |
| ActivityFix | Rules that set the title, gear, type and more on each new activity, by where you went, distance, day or device | Reads new activities and edits them on Strava | Free |
| JEFIT | Gym planner and log with 1,400+ exercises and suggested weights from your past sessions | Workouts go to Strava with sets, reps and weight; JEFIT says activities come back too | Free; Elite $12.99 a month |
| Befit | Gym or home workout plan built from your goal and equipment, with set-by-set logging | Workouts post to Strava with sets, reps and volume | Free; Premium from $19.99 a month in the US |
| REMAKER | Strength sensors that read velocity, power and force rep by rep, with an app | Sessions go to Strava’s workout log | Sensors from £135; app licence £16 a month |
| Vizvelo | Stats, race predictions, share cards and a squares map with a route planner, in the browser | Reads from Strava only; activities stay on your device, but its server keeps which map squares each one crossed | No price shown |
| Athmetrics | A race finder that scores how ready your training is, plus a dashboard that tracks hiking lists like the NH 48 | Reads your activities and writes totals, streaks and list progress into Strava descriptions | Free; Premium price not published |
| Trackrecord | An iPhone app that logs the songs you play on a run, with the mile and your pace for each, and ranks the ones you run fastest to | Reads your activities and writes the song breakdown into the Strava description; it also names the activity after the songs | Free |
| SHUTT | An iPhone app that puts a Strava activity on your own photo or video, in more than 30 looks sized for Stories, posts and squares | Reads your activities; the site says it never changes anything on Strava | Free with a small SHUTT mark; Premium from $1.99 a month |
| VirtualRide | Indoor cycling in the browser on Google Street View roads, paced by your Bluetooth smart trainer, from famous climbs or any two places | Uploads finished rides to Strava as Virtual Rides; it doesn’t read your activities | $9 a month on the web after a 7-day free trial |
| WorkoutPort | An iPhone and iPad app that sends Apple Health workouts to Strava by your own rules (type, distance, duration, source app and more), in the background or by hand | Uploads workouts to Strava; reads recent activities only to skip duplicates and check maps | Free, Strava sync included; Pro from $2.99 a month |
| pimp.bike | Mountain bike maintenance: log service in plain words and it tracks wear per component, with brand-specific service intervals | Optional; imports your Strava bikes and reads each ride’s distance and moving time; never writes | Free while in development, no bike limit |
| Skoma | A printed hardcover photo book of a training block and its race (weeks of training, the race route, splits and your photos), plus race posters and paintings | Imports your runs and their photos from Strava, then revokes its access; the site documents nothing sent back | Free to design; books from $49.99 in the US, shipping included |
| AnyMap | Indoor cycling for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android through a 3D world built from real map data: famous climbs, cities, or a route you draw or open from a GPX file, with races every 15 minutes and structured workouts | Uploads finished rides to Strava, automatically or one at a time; it doesn’t read your activities | Free to download; Premium $19.99 a month or $199.99 a year in the app stores, less on its website |
| Beautiful GPX | A free web tool, in French, English and Spanish, that turns a Strava activity or a GPX or FIT file into a styled route image: transparent for Stories, over a map or your own photo, or in HD for print | Optional; reads your activities in the browser, read only; GPX and FIT files work without connecting | Free, no ads; donations welcome |
| Strava Collage | A free Chrome extension that puts several activities into one image or animation: route collages, city heatmaps on a real map, recap cards, and videos of the routes drawing themselves | Reads your activities from the strava.com session you’re logged into, not through the Strava API; read only | Free |
| Mappa Studio | Route prints from a Strava activity or a GPX file: one route, up to 50 on one map, or a mosaic grid of a year, as a digital file or a fine-art print, framed or unframed | Optional; reads your activities, private ones included, to pick routes; GPX files work without connecting; never writes | Digital from £10; prints from £18 unframed and £55 framed ($39 and $99 in US dollars) |
| steps.org | A weekly goal in activity minutes with money on it: your monthly price goes up $5 for each week you miss and down $2.50 for each week you hit | Reads each activity’s moving time; Strava is its only source today; never posts | Starts at $0; at most $25 a month at standard stakes, $75 at the highest |
That was October. If you built something that connects to Strava, or you use something that should be on here, send it over.
Sources
- List Hiker: Strava
- List Hiker privacy policy
- ENDURE
- Tisseur de Voies: Strava
- ROVR
- Wandrio
- Wandrio on the App Store
- My Adventure Maps
- Life Forecast
- BikeVet support
- MyBikes privacy policy
- Unlock Earth on the App Store
- ActivityFix FAQ
- JEFIT FAQ
- Befit: Strava integration
- REMAKER: Strava integration
- Vizvelo privacy policy
- Athmetrics: Strava tools
- Trackrecord FAQ
- SHUTT
- VirtualRide
- WorkoutPort privacy policy
- pimp.bike
- Skoma privacy policy
- AnyMap support
- Beautiful GPX privacy policy
- Strava Collage on the Chrome Web Store
- Mappa Studio: Strava prints
- steps.org: how it works
- Strava help: strength training