Self-Hosted Strava Replacement That Ingests Straight From Wearables, Now That Strava Killed Its Free API

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Strava just removed its free API tier (the paid 'Standard' tier caps you at 10 athletes), breaking the third-party tools and self-hosters who relied on it to pull their own activity data. Cyclists and runners want a self-hosted system of record that ingests directly from Garmin/Coros/wearable FIT files without Strava sitting in the middle, plus an optional social layer. The young self-hosted trackers that exist mostly used Strava as a backfill source, which is exactly the bridge that just got cut.

builder note

Don't try to out-feature Strava. Win on being the no-API-rugpull system of record that pulls straight from Garmin/Coros/FIT files, with social as an optional layer, not the point.

landscape (3 existing solutions)

Several young self-hosted trackers exist but none is a polished, full Strava replacement, and the API change just severed the import bridge many of them depended on to backfill data.

Endurain ~2k stars but on a deliberate feature freeze to harden foundations; Garmin Connect integration exists yet direct device sync and social features are thin and immature.

FitTrackee Minimalist and lightweight; relies on external bridge scripts (strava-to-fittrackee) to import activities, with no real social/training-feed layer.

CubeTrek Built around hiking/GPS track storage, not the social training-log workflow runners and cyclists actually want from Strava.

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other https://lemmy.world/post/47699066 "There's really no alternative for users to move to" 2026-06-03

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