I need to track cardio with terrain data, but I’d rather not trust Strava with my privacy. I know there are some alternatives, but which one is the most reliable and feature-rich? I don’t have smart accessories, just and android phone. Preferably, I’d like an app that let’s me track added weights for calorie purposes (like rucking).
Garmin is the best by far. If you read their privacy policy, it’s one of the better corporate policies I’ve read
Garmin is like the Apple of the fitness world. Very much not open source, but broadly privacy-respecting.
And like Apple, the reason they do this is because they don’t make their money from data harvesting, they make it by selling high quality hardware at a premium. And depending on your perspective, either unlike Apple or to a much greater extent than Apple, Garmin pushes their hardware by artificially restricting their software. You can expect to get maybe one year of feature updates on your thousand dollar bike computer or running watch, and a few security updates after that. Some of those limitation might be because of genuine hardware limitations (e.g. my Forerunner 935 not getting Garmin Pay because it lacks an NFC chip), but many are purely because they want you to have as much incentive to upgrade as possible.
I like / use fitotrack (on the rare days i go out for runs). It has altitude / height of my runs, as well as custom exercise setups, and local exercise data backups. I’m quite happy with it as a tool for tracking cardio.
It’s not ready yet, but Wanderer looks like it may end up being a good Strava alternative
I’ve never heard of it before. Is it this? I don’t see any mention of it being FOSS or even where to download their app.
This is it: https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer So far it’s just a way to host your own trail maps, but hopefully it will expand to have more functionality like tracking your walks/runs.
It does not mention FOSS anywhere, so it is highly unlikely it is. But I have to say, their privacy policy is not bad (not great either). Much better than most nowadays.
I don’t know if it meets all your criteria but check out golden cheetah
https://www.goldencheetah.org/
Give it some time to learn. It is far more powerful than strava and anything you could pay for (yes, even training peaks).
I don’t think it’s very feature-rich, but I do use Open Tracks. For tracking my running it works just fine.
