Bike maintenance reminders from your Strava miles
Pedal Wrencher starts from the idea that bike parts wear out by distance, not by date. Connect Strava and it imports your bikes and shoes, you tell it roughly how worn each part already is, and it watches the miles you log. When a chain, cables, bar tape, brake pads or a pair of running shoes passes its interval, an email turns up. It’s free. Will McGinnis launched it in March 2015 and says he rebuilt it in 2026. Swap the part and mark it done on the site, or put a hashtag like #pwchain in the title of your next activity and it resets on its own.
A cycling exploration map of every road you’ve ridden
Cyclonauts is a free, one-person hobby project that reads your Strava ride history and draws it three ways: the roads and cycle paths you’ve covered, a completion percentage for each municipality, region and country, and how much of a real-world route you’ve done. The sample on its homepage is Berlin’s Mauerweg at 82 percent. New rides update all of it on their own. Road-level matching runs on OpenStreetMap in about 70 countries, most of Europe plus the US, Canada, Australia and Japan; anywhere else you get basic stats. The data sits on a server in the EU. It reads rides, e-bike rides included. Wandrer and Squadrats are also listed here for the same kind of exploring.
Virtual long-distance routes for everyday rides and runs
Route Rally takes a real long-distance route (Land’s End to John O’Groats, the Camino de Santiago, Route 66) and moves your marker along it with every ride, run or walk you sync from Strava. The iOS app also reads from Apple Health, and there’s a web version. The free plan is one active Casual rally and one Conquest, for life, with no card. Standard (£1.99 a month or £11.99 a year) lifts the limits and allows five people per rally; Pro (£3.99 or £23.99) allows twenty and your own GPX routes. Finish a route solo, which it calls a Conquest, for a pace medal and a stamp in a world-map passport. A Casual rally is the group version: friends on the same route, a live leaderboard, a ghost pacer and daily targets that adjust to how your week is going.
Weather, water stops and fuel along a route before you ride
Route Companion is an iPhone and iPad app, with Android in beta. Give it a route (a GPX, TCX or FIT file, a saved route from Strava or Ride with GPS, one shared from Komoot, or one drawn in the app) and it lays hourly weather along the line, timed to where you’ll be at your pace. Then it finds water, cafes, bike shops and more than 20 other stop types in the corridor, and works out roughly how many carbs, how much to drink and what to pack. Every Pro feature is open for your first three rides or seven days; after that Pro is $1.99 a month, $14.99 a year or $19.99 once. Strava runs both ways: open a saved route or any past activity as a route, and send a finished ride back when you choose.
Strava heatmap posters, as a free file or printed and shipped
Heatmapster and MapMyTrails both turn your Strava history into a heatmap poster, and both ask Strava for activity:read_all, read-only, which includes private activities. The difference is who does the printing.
Heatmapster gives you a file. Connect Strava and filter by date, distance, type or name. Then frame the crop on a live map, pick one of five colour themes and download a 12x18 inch PDF at 300 DPI for a print shop. A single activity works too, with the route filling the frame. It’s free, capped at three posters per Strava account. The maker says it hasn’t cleared Strava’s API review yet, so it’s limited to 10 connected athletes and sign-ups can show as full; the site takes an email for a waiting list when that happens.
MapMyTrails, from a small family business in Gothenburg, prints it and posts it to you. It counts how often you’ve been along each street or trail, so the ones you repeat come out brighter. Connect Strava or upload FIT, GPX, TCX or a Garmin export ZIP, filter by sport and date, and pick one of 10 map styles, six of which also come as a hexagon grid. Matte paper runs from 349 SEK (25x25 cm) to 899 SEK (70x100 cm), with frames, canvas and aluminium up to 2,099 SEK, plus shipping. More shops that ship a print are in Strava art print apps.
Every Strava activity on one map on your phone
RouteMap draws your Strava runs, rides, hikes and walks as route lines on one zoomable map on iPhone or Android. The free version shows your last 12 months; VIP opens the whole timeline, and the App Store lists it at A$4.99 a year in Australia, though the maker’s own pages describe the pricing in more than one way. Filter by activity type, country, date range and distance, or search a place to see whether you’ve been there. Tap a route for its distance, time, elevation and heart rate. It asks Strava for activity:read_all, read-only, and keeps activities on the phone, with a backup of the route lines on its server that it deletes when you disconnect. There are also stats by year, sport and country, and GPX in and out.
A cycling power calculator that ranks upgrades by cost
Marginal Watts was in the August roundup. It solves the Martin et al. (1998) power model for a ride, then re-runs it for every change you could make (tyre pressure, position, wheels, a skinsuit) and ranks them by cost per second saved, so a free change sits in the same list as a new set of wheels. What’s new is Strava. When it was listed, a beta cap limited how many athletes could connect. The maker says it has since cleared Strava’s API review, which lifts that cap. Pick a ride and your browser pulls it from Strava directly; the site gets the course as a list of segments (length, gradient, headwind, altitude) rather than your coordinates. If you opt in, it also writes its analysis into the description of new outdoor road and gravel rides, between its own marker lines. It’s still free with no account, and GPX upload works as before.
Gym apps that post to Strava
Strava announced a rebuild of its strength features in May, with a new workout log and a muscle map that lights up the groups you trained, and named 14 apps and devices whose workouts feed into it. On September 15 it added Lyfta, Gravl and HYBRD. Seven of those apps are new listings; Hevy and Fitbod, from the May list, were already here. Strava says the muscle map comes from the exercises performed, so the useful question for each app is what it actually sends. Most makers don’t say.
Motra and Liftoff document it best. Motra, formerly Train Fitness, runs on the Apple Watch and counts reps from the motion of your wrist, then syncs on its own; disconnecting stops future syncs without pulling the old ones off Strava. Liftoff rates every set from 1 to 1000 and ranks each lift from Wood to Olympian. Flip Post to Strava and the session arrives as a Weight Training activity, while the ranks stay in Liftoff.
Caliber, Gravl and iFIT Personal Trainer all document that workouts go to Strava, but not which details go with them. Caliber is a planner and log with 800+ exercises; it added automatic upload of completed strength workouts in iPhone version 5.10.0 (December 22, 2025), per its release notes. Gravl is an AI coach that plans around your equipment and estimated one-rep max, and your runs and rides reach it through Apple Health or Health Connect, not Strava. iFIT Personal Trainer is iFIT’s app for training away from its machines.
Lyfta, a gym log with more than 5,000 exercises, has the least on paper: its Google Play listing says you can share completed workouts on Strava, and a 2023 post on its blog shows where to switch it on but not what gets sent. HYBRD, an AI coach for people who lift and do cardio, runs in both directions. It pulls in your Strava history, and version 1.0.66 (August 25, 2026) added an option to send lifts, runs, walks or hikes back. There’s no Android version.
| App | Direction | Documented as reaching Strava | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motra | To Strava, automatic | Exercises, sets and reps, calories, muscle groups, duration, heart rate if recorded | Free tier |
| Liftoff | To Strava, per workout | Weight Training activity with exercises, duration and a summary card | Free tier; posting free |
| Caliber | To Strava, automatic on iPhone | Completed strength workouts; details not documented | Free tier; Plus $12/month or $72/year |
| Gravl | To Strava | Finished workouts; details not documented | $14.99/month or $79.99/year; free to start |
| iFIT Personal Trainer | To Strava | Workouts; details not documented | Free iFIT account; Tailor+ $19.99/month |
| Lyfta | To Strava | Completed workouts can be shared; details not documented | Free tier |
| HYBRD | Both ways | Lifts, runs, walks or hikes, by choice; pulls your Strava history in | From $14.99/month, first week free |
Also new in September
| App | What it does | Strava connection | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athlete Prints | One activity, a GPX or a race from its catalogue as a poster or organic cotton t-shirt | Reads from Strava; optional, a GPX works without it | Posters from A$79, tees A$99, free shipping worldwide |
| One Who Walks | A route poster from one or more activities or GPX files, with up to six of your photos | Reads from Strava; asks for activity:read_all | €12 download; prints from €39 |
| Scratlas | A private passport with a stamp for each country your activities have been in | Reads from Strava | No price listed |
| Headwind | Rates your rides and saved routes against the wind, now or on a day you pick | Reads from Strava | Free; a donation unlocks per-segment ratings |
| Segment Explorer | A map of Strava segments to filter by gradient, bearing, wind and more, with CSV download | Optional; connecting shows your PRs and lets you star segments | Free, with ads |
| INTVL | A territory game: close a loop on a run or ride and the ground inside is yours until someone takes it | Posts to Strava; activities come from the app or a watch or bike computer | Free; Pro price not published |
| ZoneTrainer | A Zone 2 audit of your running history in the browser, plus an Android app that speaks up when you leave your heart rate zone | No sign-in; reads the archive you export from Strava, and the app’s TCX files go up by hand | Free; Google Play lists in-app purchases |
| CycleLytic | Sorts every ride into five terrain tiers so speed, power and heart rate compare like for like | Reads rides from Strava; an optional wind and weather note on each new ride needs write access | Free; Pro $3.50 a month or $36 a year; Wind & Weather alone $9.99 a year |
| Negative Split | A Chrome extension that adds running analytics to strava.com: training stress, grade-adjusted pace, aerobic decoupling, interval detection, fitness and form, race predictions | No API; reads the strava.com pages you’re logged into and computes everything in your browser | Free |
That’s September. If you built something that connects to Strava, or you use something that should be on here, send it over.
Sources
- Strava: strength overhaul with expanded partner ecosystem (May 21, 2026)
- Strava: what’s new, muscles worked and trail difficulty (September 15, 2026)
- Motra help: Strava connection
- Liftoff: Strava
- Caliber on the App Store (release notes)
- Gravl help: connected apps
- iFIT and Strava FAQ
- Lyfta on Google Play and Lyfta: connect your Strava
- HYBRD on the App Store (release notes)
- Athlete Prints help
- One Who Walks
- RouteMap, its privacy policy and terms, and the App Store and Google Play listings
- Scratlas: before you connect and launch thread on r/Strava
- Headwind, Segment Explorer and INTVL
- ZoneTrainer audit and its Google Play listing
- CycleLytic, its pricing, Wind & Weather and privacy policy pages
- Negative Split and its Chrome Web Store listing
- Pedal Wrencher (and Bicycle Retailer on its 2015 launch), Cyclonauts, Route Rally, Route Companion, Heatmapster, MapMyTrails FAQ and Marginal Watts (and its support page)
