RightRep EN · PT Open the app
COMPARE

RightRep vs Strava.
An honest look.

Strava is the endurance world's social network: record an activity and it becomes a log your friends see — kudos, comments, segments, clubs, challenges — over a community Strava counts at 195M+ registered athletes. RightRep is a live form coach whose camera measures the set, with GPS recording and a community of its own beside it. They meet on runs and on social, and diverge on the one thing that matters: what the app learns about your body while you train. Every Strava claim on this page is cited to Strava's own materials or named sources, and the places where Strava clearly wins are listed as plainly as the rest.

The two products

What each one is, in its own words — before the side-by-side.

🌍

Strava

A social network for endurance activity, founded 2009: record from the phone or sync from a device — 50+ sport types — and the activity becomes a public (or private) log entry, with kudos, comments, segments, clubs and challenges layered on top. Strava counts its community at 195M+ registered athletes; they gave out 14 billion kudos in 2025 across one million clubs. Recording and sharing are free forever, with segment leaderboards capped at the top 10 on the free tier; the subscription — training load, routes, AI summaries — is $11.99/month or $79.99/year, and Brazilians are billed R$22.90/month · R$149.90/year.

📱

RightRep

A live form coach first: prop your phone, and the camera watches the set — 33 body landmarks per frame measured on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint, spoken cues mid-rep, a 0–100 score for every completed repetition, and an automatic rest timer that starts when the counted set ends — plus GPS run/walk/hike/ride recording, an in-app community feed with clubs and challenges, and AI training plans and coach chat. Live form checks are free forever; Pro is $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial.

Side by side

The same eight questions, asked of each product.

QuestionStravaRightRep
What is the product built around?The social log — record, share, kudos, segments, clubsThe filmed set — camera form checks with a 0–100 score per rep
What happens in a strength set?You log sets and reps — the May 2026 strength overhaul is still logging, with no analysis of movementThe camera measures it — 33 body landmarks per frame on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint
What do you get per rep?The numbers you entered; Strava's analysis lives at the activity levelA 0–100 score and the exact rule that failed, for every completed repetition
Training plans?Run and cycle plans on subscription; adaptive race plans live in the separate Runna app, bundled at $149.99/yearAI plan wizard → a multi-week plan with day-by-day ticking, plus coach chat
Routes and maps?Route creation, community routes drawn from the Global Heatmap, personal heatmaps, offline mapsSave, list and replay your recorded routes — no creation or recommendations
Social?195M+ athletes, 14 billion kudos in 2025, one million clubs, segments and challengesIn-app feed with filmed clips, kudos and comments, clubs, challenges and live run broadcasts
Devices & languages?Hundreds of integrations (Garmin, COROS, Polar, Suunto, WHOOP, Oura…); 24 languages including pt-BRiOS, Android and a web PWA in six locales; Apple Watch and Wear OS companions; Health Connect and Apple Health; .gpx/.tcx export and Strava upload
Price & free tier?Recording free forever with leaderboards capped at the top 10; $11.99/month or $79.99/year, R$22.90/month in Brazil; no adsLive form checks and GPS runs free forever; Pro $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial

Strava column per Strava's own pricing pages, support center and press releases (sources below). RightRep column per shipped behavior — the features page documents each row.

Where RightRep wins

The honest case for our side — grounded in what the app does today.

📏

Nobody watches your sets in Strava

Strava's strength features are logging — sets, reps, muscle maps — and its Athlete Intelligence summarizes activities, not movement. RightRep measures the actual set: 33 body landmarks per frame, joint angles against the exercise's ruleset, one spoken correction at a time, a 0–100 score per completed rep. Movement quality is an axis Strava doesn't measure.

🔢

A record you don't have to type

Strava's strength log is what you entered after the fact; RightRep's phase state machine counts the repetition as it completes, scores it, and starts the rest timer from real completions — with per-rep scores trending week over week in your recap. The record of the set is the set.

🍎

Nutrition, pets and the care circle

Strava is deliberately endurance-only in scope. RightRep ships the surrounding life: calorie AI, macros and TDEE, hydration logging, a weekly nutrition review, pet profiles, and a care circle that lets family follow your training — surfaces Strava structurally won't enter.

💳

A free core that never paywalls your history

Strava's most-complained edge since 2020 is that your own leaderboards and training-load analytics sit behind the subscription. RightRep's live form checks and GPS runs are free forever, and Pro quotas gate marginal-cost AI actions — never your own history. On monthly pricing we're $9.99 to their $11.99.

Where Strava wins

The other side of the comparison — because a page that only praises one column is an ad.

The social graph itself

195M+ registered athletes, 14 billion kudos in 2025, one million clubs — a Strava profile is a runner's public training identity, 17 years of network effect deep. Switching apps means leaving your public self behind. RightRep's community is younger and smaller, and we say so rather than pretend otherwise.

Segments and the trophy economy

Crowns (KOM/QOM), trophies, and Local Legend on a rolling 90-day window, over fourteen years of leaderboard density — the #3 most-attempted running segment on Earth in 2025 was "Tiro 1km" in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo. RightRep ships challenges with trophies; they're real, and they're a much younger game.

Routes, heatmaps and maps

Subscriber route creation, community routes drawn from the Global Heatmap, personal and weekly heatmaps, offline maps — Strava says a route was created every 19 seconds in 2025. RightRep saves, lists and replays the routes you recorded; it creates and recommends none of this.

Annual price, local billing, bundles — and no ads

Strava's annual is $79.99 to our $99.99 — 20% cheaper — and Brazilians pay R$22.90/month · R$149.90/year in their own currency while RightRep bills USD only. They add a family plan ($139.99/year for four), a Strava + Runna bundle ($149.99/year), a 30-day subscription preview against our 7-day trial — and they run no ads at all; RightRep is ad-supported after the trial (never on camera or session screens).

Ubiquity and languages

Hundreds of device and app integrations — Garmin, COROS, Polar, Suunto, WHOOP, Oura, Zwift — 24 languages including pt-BR, Apple Watch App of the Year 2025 and the top-grossing Health & Fitness listing on Google Play. RightRep ships six locales and a deliberately small sync set; on breadth, Strava is the incumbent among incumbents.

The honest summary: a public log of your training life, social at planetary scale — segments, clubs, kudos? That's Strava, and our own Strava upload exists because we'd rather feed it than fight it. Getting your squat actually corrected, filmed set after filmed set? That's the job RightRep does that Strava doesn't try to do.

How RightRep's form check works

What actually happens between "start session" and the summary screen.

🦴

Measured, not guessed

An on-device pose model tracks 33 body landmarks per frame. Joint angles are compared against the exercise's Position Profile — acceptable ranges, phase durations, left/right symmetry tolerances. Occluded joints are never scored: hidden is hidden, not guessed.

🎯

Rules you can read

Profiles are pure data — 46 bundled Position Profiles today, and Machine Scan drafts a new one from a photo of an unfamiliar machine that the same scorer then uses. Every cue and every score traces back to a rule in that profile, not to a model's mood.

⏱️

Counted sets, timed rest

The same phase state machine that scores reps decides when a set is complete — and starts the rest timer from that moment, with a per-exercise default and a spoken cue when rest is over. The metronome of the workout, driven by what actually happened.

Comparison questions

The questions people actually ask before choosing.

Which one for runners?

Both, honestly. If you want the public log — segments, clubs, kudos — Strava is that, at a scale nobody matches. RightRep records GPS runs with kilometer split cues, heart rate and live broadcasts, and if you lift for your running, the camera is the half Strava doesn't have. Plenty of runners record on RightRep and upload to Strava — our Strava upload and .gpx/.tcx export exist for exactly that.

Which one is for the gym?

Different jobs. Strava's strength feature logs the sets you type; RightRep measures the filmed set — per-rep scores, spoken cues, a rest timer that starts when the set actually ends. If the gym job is the log, Strava works; if it's being corrected, that's RightRep.

Does Strava check your form?

No. Strava's strength training is logging — sets, reps, muscle maps — and its AI layer, Athlete Intelligence, summarizes trends in the activities you recorded; it never sees the movement itself. Measurement of movement is RightRep's whole product.

What does each cost?

Strava: recording and sharing free forever, with segment leaderboards capped at the top 10; the subscription is $11.99/month or $79.99/year (R$22.90/month · R$149.90/year in Brazil), with a 30-day subscription preview. RightRep: live form checks, exercise library, history and GPS runs free forever; Pro — higher AI quotas, cloud sync, no ads — is $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial.

Both have social — which one?

Strava's graph is 17 years deep: 195M+ athletes, 14 billion kudos a year, a million clubs. RightRep's feed is built around the filmed set — clips, kudos, comments, clubs, challenges and live run broadcasts — smaller today, and video-first by design.

Who sees my video or my activities?

RightRep's live analysis runs on the device — live-check video is not uploaded, and sharing a clip or posting to the feed is an explicit action you take. Strava is built as a shared log — activities are public by default, with per-activity controls and privacy zones.

Sources

Every Strava claim on this page traces to Strava's own materials or named sources — checked September 2026.

📊

Third-party numbers

The 2020 leaderboard paywall: Bicycling; the 2023 price rise: DC Rainmaker; ~50M monthly actives (Sensor Tower estimate via FT): Yahoo Finance/FT; revenue estimates: Sacra; "Tiro 1km" as a top-attempted segment: Runner's World AU; no-ads positioning ("the subscription that's the product, not your data"): TechCrunch CEO interview. Analysis base: the STRAVA_ANALYSIS research doc on our docs site.

Prices and features change; this page is reviewed quarterly and on known Strava pricing changes. RightRep claims describe shipped behavior documented on the features page.

Related

⚖️

The approaches comparison

Trainer vs video review vs self-check vs live AI — the method-level comparison this product-level page sits next to.

Compare the approaches

🏃

RightRep vs Runna

The running sibling of this page — adaptive race plans and the watch workout push, cited the same way, including where Runna wins. Runna has been part of the Strava family since 2025.

See the Runna comparison

💬

Disagree with the comparison?

If something here reads wrong — either column — tell us. This page is meant to be argued with, and gets updated.

Send a correction