ConnectStats vs strive.ai Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ConnectStats
Analyze your fitness activities from Garmin Connect and Strava with detailed reports, graphs, and statistics. Visualize your performance with gradient maps and track historical trends. Supports multiple accounts and various activity types.
- Detailed activity reports with lap breakdowns
- Gradient color mapping for performance metrics
- Calendar view of activities
- Activity search functionality
- Monthly/Weekly summary statistics
- Historical reports and graphs
- Scatter plots and trend lines
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WARNING: The current version due to an API change will currently not see any existing history of your activities for Garmin, but only download activities done after your first install. We are working on a fix, meanwhile you can use strava in addition to Garmin to see some history DESCRIPTION Connect Stats is an activity viewer for Garmin Connect or Strava. It provides in-depth review of your activities, search, analysis, plot and see basic statistics on all your data collected in garmin connect or strava from your iphone or ipad. You can read some of the motivation behind the app in the blog NOTES - Data from activity trackers like vivofit or vivosmart are not supported by this app. - In case of initial connection trouble or issue, please check the support web site, the help or send me a bug report. If you write a negative review I can't reply to you and help you. - This app is updated incrementally regularly, so the latest reviews constantly drop. Feel free to look at all reviews or leave a new one if you like the app. - This app is now open source. See the support web page for details. FEATURES - Detailled report on your activities, with laps break down, map gradient, graphs and statistics - Use gradient color to visually see on the map your heart rate, speed, power or cadence - Calendar view of your activities - Activity search - Monthly/Weekly summary statistics of your activities - Monthly/Weekly/Detailled Historical report and graphs on any collected data - Display scatter plots, trend lines for both historical and track data. - Best Rolling Plots, histograms. - Support multiple garmin connect account simultaneously with multiple profiles. - Support most activity types, including support for lap swimming, ski, run bike, ... - Display the location name for your activities. - Derived metrics (stride length, Power kJ,...), - Calculated and auto laps for arbitrary distances or time. Let's you see you split time or distance, fastest km, etc - Display time in zone for power and heart rate. Zones are downloaded from garmin connect. - Best Rolling plots and lap for HR, pace and power (Critical Power Plot) - This app can import information from your HealthKit Data like the weight to add it to the analysis of your fitness FIRST USE - when you start the program you will be have to choose and enable download for the service of your choice. * Garmin: you can choose the connectstats service, which will pop up a login message or to download from the website in which case you will have to enter your user name and password. * Strava: upon first refresh, the strava login page will popup. - you can then download activities by pulling down on the activity list. - Note that the initial download process can be slow if you have a lot of activities. Also for Garmin activities from Garmin there will be an initial synchronisation that can take some time before the activities are ready. - If you have issue connecting check the trouble shooting section on the web page. - There is also a help section in the setting tab. HOW TO USE IT - You can refresh by pulling down the activity list - You can navigate the different tabs and touching most data will let you drill down on that number. - You can touch a graph or the gear button to rotate through the different graphs options or bring in the graph full screen. - You can reload an activity to update changes in garmin connect by pulling down on the detail tab - You can see full history of any field by selecting the field name in the stats page Check the web site and the blog for a lot more details on how to use it and what the different screen and graph mean.
strive.ai Mobile
Enhance your athletic performance with advanced data analysis. This app provides detailed insights into your training, helping you understand the factors influencing your progress and predict future achievements. It offers specialized metrics for cyclists and runners, integrating with your existing fitness data.
- Segment achievements ranked by watts per kilogram
- Athlete performance comparison
- Segment PR probability prediction
- Peak threshold tracking (heart rate, power)
- Running best efforts tracking
- Performance trend reporting
- Data anomaly notifications
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strive.ai brings advanced analytics to the Strava app ecosystem. The analytics aim to enhance the Strava's user experience through data science and help athletes understand what factors are influencing their performance. Features are described below: Strava Experience 1. Segment Achievements stack ranked by watts per kilogram for cyclist and runners who train with power meters. 2. Find other athletes who have similar watts per kilogram. 3. Ability to predict probability of Segment PR based on weather forecast and past athlete performance. 4. Predict which bike was used on Ride activities. Performance Analytics 1. Tracking of peak thresholds over [1, 5, 20 and 60] minute periods for heart rate, bike power and run power. 2. Tracking of running best efforts over 400m, 800m, 1600m, 5000m and 10000m. 3. Identify what "Factors" are influencing your peak thresholds / best efforts up or down. Standard version includes factors obtained from Strava API (e.g. cadence, temperature, altitude, activity type) while premium WILL include "Factors" gathered from sources outside of Strava (e.g. Weather, Apple Health, Garmin Connect). 4. Calculation of Training Peaks Marks (TSS, IF and NP) for cyclists with power. 5. Trend reporting of key metrics (e.g. peak thresholds, IF, TSS, NP). 6. Notification of data anomalies from bike and running power meters. 7. Ability to flag thresholds as anomalies to remove them from your performance history. Terms of Use: https://beta.strive.ai/help/mobile/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ConnectStats at none against strive.ai Mobile's 2. ConnectStats also leads on ratings volume (391 vs 14). strive.ai Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. strive.ai Mobile sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ConnectStats asks for nothing beyond the download.
strive.ai Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ConnectStats has 391 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of ConnectStats's written reviews are positive against 100% of strive.ai Mobile's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ConnectStats | strive.ai Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (391 ratings) | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 391 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brice Rosenzweig | strive.ai |
Customer experience
ConnectStats
strive.ai Mobile
Bugs and requests
ConnectStats
Reported bugs
3 issues- Syncing issues with recent Garmin updates
- Crashes when trying to open the app
- Inability to delete or edit erroneous data points
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to overlay and compare activities
- Integration with more fitness platforms
- Customizable dashboards and data views
- Improved mobile optimization and UI
strive.ai Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ConnectStats
No in-app purchases
strive.ai Mobile
- Monatliches Abo1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Jahresabonnement1 Month trial$49.991 Year
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