Creating A Fitness Social Network App Like Strava

There are going to be 86 million users fitness apps in the USA alone by 2022. Largely as a result of the widespread availability of devices such as smartwatches, fitness apps have become a huge hit.

There are multiple types of fitness apps such as nutrition tracking apps, workout apps, and activity tracker apps. There are many fitness apps that are actually a combination of these categories but by and large fitness apps generally fall into these categories.

Fitness apps generally allow users to pair their smartwatches with the app for GPS tracking, heartbeat and body vitals monitoring, and other physiological parameters tracking. Users can keep challenging themselves and achieve better stats. As users can measure their fitness progress, they can strive for better. What gets measured gets managed.

Many fitness-related businesses themselves offer fitness apps, such as Workout apps offered by Gyms to their members, fitness tracking apps offered by healthcare-related companies, and dedicated fitness apps offered by innovative entrepreneurs.

Today we are trying to understand the fitness app, Strava. Strava positions itself as the social network for athletes. You can join fitness-related local clubs, explore and undertake the goals set up by each of these clubs, and share & measure with your friends for each other’s respective fitness goals.

What is Fitness Apps Development?

Before deciding on the type of fitness app you want to create, you should understand what fitness apps are. Fitness apps focus on providing fitness-related services and enhancing fitness-related activities such as exercise, jogging, running, etc. With the advent of smartwatches, a user can track and measure his body vitals such as heart rate, calories, and other parameters to know the impact of the fitness activity across shorter and longer time periods. There are multiple types of fitness apps on the market with various functions.

Major Features of Fitness Apps Like Strava:

Social Login

An app like Strava should have easy login and the ability to transfer contacts and connections from other social networks.

Cross-Posting:

To attract new users, users can share their fitness goals and journey on other social platforms.

Social Feed

A social feed of other connected users on the app so that users can collectively track each other’s fitness goals and access multimedia posted by other users.

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Nishant Shah - Lead Marketing Analyst IT Path Solutions is one of the leading web and mobile app development companies.