November 8, 2026 · Meter

Looking for a Strava alternative that keeps your training private?

Most training apps start with the same request: create an account. Then your rides live on their servers, in a feed, in front of followers. Meter starts somewhere else. Your history stays yours, and there is no monthly fee for reading it.

Private by design, not by setting

Plenty of apps call themselves private and mean a toggle on a settings page, with your data still sitting on a company server. Meter is built the other way round. There is no Meter account to create and no audience waiting. Meter reads the training history you already have, from Garmin and Apple Health, and shows it back to you: your log, your maps, your records. Nothing about your training needs to be posted anywhere for the app to work.

What you get

• Your last 90 days, free, everything included. Activity list, ride and run detail, route maps and stats. Open it and your recent training is simply there.
• Your full history with Pro. Years of rides do not stop mattering after 90 days. Pro opens the whole archive: the long rides from three summers ago, the winter you barely trained, the season it all came together.
• Personal Records across everything. Your longest ride, your most climbing in a day, your best efforts, found across your complete history rather than just the part one platform happened to watch.
• You vs Your Ghost. Meter compares your last 90 days with the 90 before them: distance, time, elevation, consistency. The only comparison on screen is you against past you, which is the question training actually asks.
• Export that is actually yours. When you want your data in a spreadsheet or a backup, Meter hands it over as CSV or JSON. Leaving is easy when you never handed the data over in the first place.

What you give up, honestly

A private training log cannot do what a social network does. Meter has no feed, no followers, no kudos, no segments and no leaderboards. If segments are your sport or your club lives in an app feed, keep the social app and enjoy it. Meter is for the riders and runners whose motivation comes from their own trajectory, and who would rather not ask who can see their rides.

The price, without spin

There is no monthly fee at all. The free app covers your last 90 days with everything included. Pro is one payment per year: $14.99 a year at the founder rate for the first 1,000 Pro members, locked while your membership stays active, and $19.99 a year as the regular price. By comparison, Strava's subscription is $79.99 a year in the US. Pay for a social network if you want a social network. If you want your own history, kept private and read clearly, you should not have to buy the network to get it.