| Tech startups change a lot, when you use something one and off over a long period of time, I find it difficult to navigate within their ecosystems. As for sports tracking, there are a few reasons I can see to use them: Social, Health, Visualization, & Data collection/management Maybe a little off topic for some, but here is my experience with sports tracking after using a couple of different solutions during the past 10 years: I like Endomondo, and joined fairly short after they launched the website. They have had a pro version, a plus version, and now a premium version.
Just when the app launched, I bought the paid version from the app store, which was a single payment and I liked to support a new, and in my case local, initiative. One thing which was really nice with particularly this app, was the audio feedback, while running, so no need to look at a screen to get the lap time, pace, heart rate, etc. I don't use the social features a lot, but it seems that Strava[0] now dominates in this space, I have tried their app, but I don't like their data vis, and find their privacy/sharing permissions to distracting to modify to suit my preference. I have since moved to using a running watch from Garmin and don't really rely on the tracking capability of a smartphone. Now I have copied my running activities to runalyze[1] a project which used to have all their code base on github in their earlier days. They do a fantastic job at visualizing data from both my watch and surprisingly also very well from 3rd party footpod powermeters[2], they do this much better than Garmin does on their own website[3] because they overlay right and left shoe on the same graph. They do on the other hand, not have 'social' features, but you can generate a public sharable URL. Luckily, Garmin is a pretty big company, and the will hopefully not close their service any time soon, but it bothers me a little that on my newer watch, 920XT, I need data connection to extract my activities from my watch directly directly to their platform in order to view it. On my old 910XT, it was possible to extract activities to my laptop, or even to my phone with a 3rd party app[4] and an ANT+ chip. There was even a nice app for viewing activities locally on the device [5] - a really nice solution if you don't have a data connection, and you are using an older watch with an android phone. Over all, I have been very happy with Garmin, just with the tiny exceptions of need for online sync, and the decision to remove support for their temperature sensor data field. -cheers [0] https://www.strava.com/ [1] https://runalyze.com/ [2] https://runscribe.com/ [3] https://connect.garmin.com/ [4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quantrity.... [5] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.flashdev.gc... |