Elevate is one of the most generous free tools in the Strava ecosystem — an open-source browser extension and desktop app that layers fitness trend, year progressions and extended stats onto Strava's own web interface. The trade-off is where those numbers live: they render inside your browser, on your machine. ActivityStat writes them into the activity itself.
| Feature | Elevate | ActivityStat |
|---|---|---|
| Writes stats into your Strava activity description | — | Yes — automatically, on every activity |
| Stats visible in the Strava mobile app | — | Yes |
| Requires installing software | Browser extension or desktop app | No — connect once with OAuth |
| Fitness / fatigue / form trend | Yes | Yes (trend analysis) |
| AI-written activity descriptions | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Visible to other athletes on your activity | — | Yes |
Compiled from Elevate’s publicly documented features and last reviewed on August 10, 2026. Products change — check Elevate for their current details. If we have something wrong here, tell us and we’ll fix it.
Yes — Elevate is free and open source, which is genuinely hard to compete with on price. The difference isn't cost, it's where your numbers end up: Elevate renders them in your browser on the Strava website, while ActivityStat writes them into the activity description so they travel with the activity itself.
Yes, and plenty of people reasonably would. They don't conflict — Elevate augments how Strava's website looks in your browser, ActivityStat adds content to the activity in Strava. Running both is a perfectly sensible setup.
No. ActivityStat connects to Strava through Strava's official OAuth and runs server-side, so there's no extension to install and nothing to set up again on a new phone or laptop.
Connect your free Strava account and ActivityStat writes your pace, power, cadence and trends straight into each activity description. Free to start.