Value your health by keeping track on your training. It records as you go running or walking, and gives you a bike computer with a bigger screen for cycling. You can even mark interesting locations along your way with pictures. The app keeps recorded statistics in great detail for analysis.
It also has voice announcements, and supports Bluetooth LE sensors for heart rate (Polar, Wahoo Kicker/Ticker, moofit, Mi Band 3, Amazfit Neo, Garmin HRM, and more), speed and distance (running and cycling), cadence (cycling), and a power meter (cycling). It measures altitude gain/loss via the phone’s barometer sensor. You can export data without any restrictions, as tracks either as KMZ (incl. photos), KML, or GPX.
It requires no Internet access, or extra permissions, and there are no adverts nor in-app analytics. You share only the data you want others to have. It can be installed from the Google Play Store, but also from the F-Droid store, with all Google services excluded.
It is not aiming to be a direct competitor to Strava because there is no public website, and also no iOS app. Strava’s website does help create more of a social and peer pressure type motivation for many, across both Android and iOS users. But OpenTrack is focussing more on preserving privacy by not using such a service, although one can import the recording into other apps and share from there. Regarding iOS, well the app is fully open source, so maybe someone could consider compiling it for iOS if the dependencies are not an issue.
See https://opentracksapp.com/
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The thing that I struggle with is, once I have this data… what do I do with it? I’d like to pull it to a laptop for analysis and so forth, but I’ve never found a decent open source package for that kind of thing (the closest I found is pytrainer and it is, to put it mildly, a little rough around the edges).
Any recommendations that I’m not aware of?
I just pull my open tracks data into a spreadsheet and sum, average it in there. But my analysis needs are very basic.
Nextcloud maps is my go-to. Or Fittrackee.
My goal is to try and cover the map with various tracks I hike.
Interesting. I like renovating forgotten projects. What can you say are the issues with it?
There is https://www.goldencheetah.org/
It’s mostly for cycling, not too user friendly, not well documented, but very powerful once you figure out how to use it.
https://runalyze.com
There are some such as D3.js, and some Python libraries such as Plotly, Bokeh, Matplotlib, etc but I’ve not used them. Another source may be free analytics apps. But it may also be worth seeing if you can’t import your data to something like Samsung Health as the upload does also strip out most normal metadata that an actual app is reading the whole time. Otherwise this app may be an alternative too with some built-in analytics at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tadris.fitness/.