Stride vs Sporlyst Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stride
Maximize your athletic performance with science-backed training plans and smart analytics for cycling, running, and triathlons. Gain deeper insights with AI-driven recommendations and seamless integration with your favorite fitness devices and apps.
- Science-backed training plans
- Smart analytics
- AI performance insights
- Seamless device integration
- Triathlon, cycling, and running focus
- Advanced metrics
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Training is full of signals. A great ride. A flat run. A heavy squat session. A week where your legs felt gone before Tuesday. A power curve that's moving. An HRV trend that's trying to tell you something. Stride brings it all into one place, then helps you understand what to do next. Built for cyclists, runners, triathletes and coaches, Stride combines clear training analytics with Stride AI: an assistant that can plan your week, adjust your schedule, build structured workouts and explain what your training is telling you. With Stride, you can: • See your training load, fatigue, HRV, power, pace, FTP, Critical Power, W′ and more • Use Stride Insights to understand what went well, what to watch and what to do next • Build and adjust training plans with Stride AI • Generate structured workouts for rides, runs, swims and strength sessions • Track your power curve and power profile across key durations • Sync activities, sleep and HRV from Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Zwift, Rouvy, Apple Health, Whoop, Oura, Polar and more • Send structured workouts to Garmin, Wahoo, Coros and Zwift • Keep your training history, plans, workouts, recovery and analysis together Strength training Strength sits in the same plan as your riding and running, so the heavy days and the hard sessions are planned together. Stride AI builds sessions around your goals, your equipment and the rest of your week, or you can build your own. • Follow a session set by set, with weights and reps filled in from your plan and your last session • A rest timer that starts on its own when you tick off a set • More than 1,500 exercises, each with a demo video • Log without signal in the gym; your session uploads when you are back online • Personal records, estimated one-rep max and progress for every exercise • See how many sets each muscle group gets, week by week • Add your own exercises, and film a set for your coach to check your form For coaches • Build teams and put sessions straight onto your athletes' calendars • Ask Stride AI about any athlete you coach • Pay for your athletes' subscriptions Ask Stride AI to make the week easier. Tell it you're travelling. Build toward the event on your calendar. Create a workout that matches the race you're actually training for. Then come back after the hard session and let Stride Insights show you what happened: what worked, what changed, what to watch and what to do next. Stride is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Sporlyst Tracker
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Sporlyst Tracker turns your phone into the tracking unit for your race. Scan the QR code your organizer sends you, press start, and put the phone away, your position goes to race control and onto the event's live map until you cross the line. REQUIRES A CODE FROM YOUR RACE ORGANIZER This app is not a standalone activity recorder. It only works with a tracking code issued for a specific event, delivered as a QR code or link. If your organizer does not use Sporlyst, this app will not do anything for you. HOW IT WORKS 1. Scan the QR code from your organizer, or import a screenshot of it from your photo library. 2. Press start at the start line. 3. Ride, run, or paddle. Stop tracking when you finish. BUILT FOR A FULL RACE DAY • Runs in the background with the screen off, phone in a pocket or frame bag, app closed. • Battery-aware. Your battery level travels with each position report, so race control can tell a fading phone from a rider in trouble. Below 20% the app tells race control why, then stops itself so your phone survives to the finish. WHAT YOU SEE WHILE RACING • Elapsed time, distance covered, and current speed. • Your next cutoff, the distance remaining to it, and whether you are ahead of it. • A projected finish time based on how you are actually moving. • Your route, detected automatically, with a manual override if officials move you. SOS One button sends an emergency alert with your exact position and bib straight to the organizer's control room. If you have no signal it queues and goes the moment you do, and it tells you when it has been delivered. You can cancel it if you pressed it by mistake. FOR SUPPORT CREWS Assist vehicles get their own mode. Sign in with your callsign, go on duty, and the control room can see where you are when they need to route you to a rider. Support vehicle positions are visible to the organizer only, never on the public map. PRIVACY • Location is collected only while a tracking session you started is running. Stop tracking or sign out and collection ends immediately. • During the event your position, name, and bib appear on the event's public live map, so spectators and family can follow the race. Your result is published afterwards. • Only real satellite fixes are ever sent. The app never estimates, smooths, or invents a position you were not at. • No advertising, no analytics SDKs, no data sold to anyone. • Importing a QR screenshot is handled entirely on your device. The app has no access to your photo library and never uploads an image. IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTE Live positions and control-room alerts are estimates derived from intermittent GPS reports. Positions can be minutes old. Phones lose signal and run out of battery, and mobile coverage fails in exactly the remote terrain where help is hardest to reach. An alert can fire when nothing is wrong, or fail to fire when something is. This app is an aid to race organization, not a substitute for carrying proper safety equipment, a means of calling for help, and your own judgement. Sporlyst Tracker is provided for events run on the Sporlyst race platform. Questions about your entry, your tracking code, or your results go to your race organizer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sporlyst Tracker at none against Stride's 2. Sporlyst Tracker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). On price 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. Stride sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Sporlyst Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stride ships an update every 10 days, Sporlyst Tracker every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stride | Sporlyst Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ALEXANDER ROSS BARLOW | Sporlyst |
In-app purchases
Stride
- Monthly14 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Yearly14 Days trial$149.001 Year
Sporlyst Tracker
No in-app purchases
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