Leaving Strava? Take your entire history with you

Years of runs, rides, and races live in your Strava account — and the single biggest thing keeping frustrated users from switching is the fear of leaving that history behind. The good news: you don't have to. Strava lets you export everything you've ever recorded, and Navara imports all of it — GPS routes included — in minutes.

Step 1: Request your Strava archive

1. On the Strava website, open Settings → My Account → Download or Delete Your Account.
2. Under “Download Request”, click Request Your Archive — you don't have to delete anything.
3. Strava emails you a ZIP, usually within a few hours. It contains every activity you've recorded, with GPS files.

Step 2: Import it into Navara

Go to navara.fit/import and upload the ZIP — no unzipping needed. The importer parses your activities and GPX routes, keeps heart rate and elevation where Strava exported them, and automatically deduplicates against anything already in Apple Health, so workouts recorded on your Apple Watch don't appear twice.

Step 3: There is no step 3

Open the app. Your personal records, streaks, badges, and segments recompute over your full history, and from here on Navara picks up new workouts automatically from Apple Health — whatever app or watch records them.

Why people are switching

Navara is local-first: your training data lives on your device, and cloud sync is optional and off by default. There are no ads and no data selling — the only analytics are anonymous usage events, disclosed plainly in the privacy policy. Training plans adapt to what you actually run instead of sitting behind a subscription. And the AI coaching goes somewhere genuinely new: you can connect Navara to Claude and talk to your training plan in plain English.

You don't even have to quit Strava to try it — since Navara reads from Apple Health, the two coexist fine. Import your history, run with both for a few weeks, and see which one you open.

See the full comparison: Navara vs Strava.