What’s the catch? Nothing we could corroborate against this app.
Analyzed automatically from 6 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
App Store
This analysis describes version 483.0.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 483.0.0, updated 2026-09-30.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 481.10 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version VARY, updated 2026-10-05.
What the analysis found
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 10
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Aggressive ad load
Zero privacy — After getting new phone and setting it up I started receiving notifications from Strava app. Turns out they reset all your settings to received all the notifications of anything “new” they added in the app. How about we…
Fell off in a big way — It, like everything else from the 2010s just kind of sucks now. Now particularly offended that they paywalled some of the best features, but am at over the top obnoxiousness of the constant ads and placeholders for…
ads — way too many ads for strava + or whatever
Trial converts to a charge
Don’t click on the trial — When you click on the free 30 days means exactly trial of the full featured app, and you have an apple phone, not only will you not receive a free trial period of 30 days but it will instantly charge your bank…
Be aware of the “free trial” ! — I was hanging out with my friend one day when she told me about this app, it looked like a useful tool to navigate my city for walking/biking so I decided to download it. Upon downloading, there was a pop…
Free Trial — When I downloaded the app they offered me a free trial and of course i accepted i wanted to see what other features the app had to offer however when i cancelled the free trial it still charged me for the annual subscription…
Tracking and data collection concerns
HUGE privacy issues... Annoying animations. every time I save an activity it has to make a celebration show I have to watch everytime I save. privacy issues are 3rd party privacy trackers grab [[[ Screen Density, App Install Date, First…
Hard to cancel
Hard to cancel — It’s a good app good but I don’t want it right now . The app and website gives you the run around to access your account for subscription details
Unnecessarily cumbersome process to cancel. — Cancellation requires you to navigate to a non-iOS friendly website in which they hide the cancellation option as a tiny hyperlink on the bottom of the page. It’s a conscious design choice to…
Email Opt Out PLEASE — Please for the love of god stop sending me emails once a month telling me “You’re not the Local Legend anymore”. Bro I did one random trail one time and this must be my 12th email telling me someone did it faster. I…
Paywall blocks the basics
Latest Update Broke iOS Widgets - one of the main reasons I use the app. — If they’re putting this all behind a paywall, I’m taking my data and deleting my account. You won’t earn a paying sub this way.
More options — It’s good and all but you need to pay for 99% of everything else
I used to love it now meh — I used to love this app more. I don’t ride often enough to justify paying for a membership. It used to be really cool. You could see how you ranked among other riders until I took the update. I’m upset that…
Price keeps rising
App has forgotten its roots — Used to be a fun app and on-line community, but in the pursuit of max $, most features are cut off. We paid for a while, but no love for long-term members there either as Strava kept raising the cost, well…
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Constant Ad Pop Up — This is a one-star app simply because I can’t navigate to a new screen without getting an advertisement for their premium subscription. Constant harassment is one way to get me to NOT subscribe to your paid service…
Incredibly aggressive subscription prompts — The developers of this once-great app have prioritized profits and greed above all else! Most functions are now paywalled, and with almost EVERY TAP or SCREEN you move into, you’ll be greeted…
This app is a needy wet blanket boyfriend — Can't even do anything on this app without being pestered by desperate pop ups to upgrade. You aren't tempting me...you're turning me away. I'll never have a reason to upgrade so I'm happy to…
Users describe the free version as usable
Download Now — I have used this app for several years for my daily cycle…I use the free version which is more than enough for whatI need. I have had a free trial of the full price version but the additional features were not really…
What this app sells
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.