Have you checked your Strava pricing?

Cheers. I've set a calendar reminder to check 30 days before renewal and cancel if necessary.

due to renew on 28/1/23 - £3.99

I’ve set a calendar reminder to check 30 days before renewal and cancel if necessary.

oh new prices doesn't update until February 2nd 2023

what's strava ?

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thought that was the take from the DCRainmaker vid? monthlys, pricing will update on 2/2/23 for next payment, for annuals 30 days before?

get so much more info from garmin connect and its free

Even more complicated than I was aware of, just looking at the UK, where they were recently offering new customers a discount to make it ~£41 for the first year! 😆

Less than 30 days before my renewal date, so looks like I will stay at £47.99 for the year, if I uncancel.

Just don't know, loads of stuff I'm not bothered about and I was much happier on the old "analysis pack" that was less than £20.

But my fitness is in absolute tatters after Covid almost 4 months ago, no way can I see myself challenging segment PBs this year and I'm not sure paying ~£4 a month to see crap for me power stats is a good deal this coming year, when inflation is biting in many directions.

😆 at number of screens you have to press "cancel sub" button to finally confirm you have cancelled, worse than I thought Amazon Prime was!

Mine says to renew on 19th July at £47.99 which is £3.99 a month.

I have premium for the route planner and beacon buddy which I'd not like to lose really

Mine is due at the end of January and has gone up to £54.99 a year. I’ve cancelled mine this year - going to cut back generally on subscriptions to save some cash.

Mine says to renew on 19th July at £47.99 which is £3.99 a month.

Yeah - but it'll not say £47.99 when renewal comes around, hence a good idea to check just before it does.

OK 👍

Mine is due at the end of January and has gone up to £54.99 a year.

I reckon if I'm only paying an extra 50p a month I'll stick with it.

My Strava premium allegedly expired last January but is still working. It appears as I used a voucher code to pay for it the first time it's on a recurring charge of £0.

Can someone distill DCRs video into a simple flow chart for me???

(Monthly) Strava premium member due for renewal on Jan 24 and still showing old rate (which I've been paying since Sept 2014).

Only two premium features I'm interested in are
(1) personal heatmaps
(2) classification of segment times (particularly "Today" as that's a good indication whether a trail is open ie not snowed in or closed due to downed trees)

I had a cheaper price from a while back (and it even honoured it when switching from monthly to annual)

But my renewal in the app is showing as the higher price, and no email to tell me it's gone up. I'll probably let it go to free now as I'm not really using any of the premium features, and I presume those using the route planner is only for road riding as I find it completely useless for off-road (doesn't know the difference between footpaths and bridleways, and kept trying to direct me down footpaths that have been lost and are essentially in people's back gardens so the popularity routing wasn't working either!)

I used to subscribe to Strava until my credit card expired, then didn't bother sticking the new number in. I do sort of miss the heat map and the complete segment information, but not enough to pay for it. Garmin Connect has more than enough to make up for the rest of it.

Is there any way to access the desktop version of Strava from an Android mobile? To manage your subscription it says to go to Strava.com, but in doing so on a mobile, even with desktop site toggled, you don't actually get the desktop version and therefore can't manage your account. Infuriating

bit of clarification here maybe

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/13/23553453/strava-subscription-increase-fitness

Elon's not been buying shares has he?
It'll be blue ticks next...

I'm another that's happy with Garmin Connect. I still have a free Strava account but don't even bother uploading to it now.

Mine says renews in Nov for 39.99???

I cancelled mine a year ago. Now showing my member price as Annual £55 or monthly £8.99 a month.

I think I might wait till spring to sign up that "last chance" 60 day trial that was on offer before Christmas is still being dangled there's still going to be one come April/May I reckon, and I might still go monthly to have it for the peak of summer then cancel before September. they'll get maybe £25 out of me and I don't get stuck with an annual sub I forget to cancel and don't really use much during the depths of winter.

I reckon that's what plenty of people probably do isn't it, drop back on the free account for their less active periods.

I already bung a tenner to veloviewer each year as I find that a useful tool (reminds me I need to log in and update VV)...

Yeah. I still use VeloViewer, though I wish they'd change the layout a bit as I don't need to have so much of the page taken up with blank fields that are only generated if you have a Strava Premium account. They'd be better having such data on a separate tab. I also wish they'd expand their input sources a bit - like using Garmin Connect instead of Strava. That way I could dump Strava altogether.

The other one I've been looking at occasionally is intervals.icu. It's "nagware" at the moment, with a request for $4 per month that is easily dismissed. If it was half that I'd likely subscribe but as a non-racer, much of the information doesn't really offer me much so it also is above my cost:benefit threshold. I might find if there's a payment option to through some dosh their way though.

Anybody else pay in Swiss Francs ?
I do, for some unknown reason, 10CHF per month

@dougd

I think last time I was away from home and trying to get on the desktop site, desktop mode toggled and at the point it keeps trying to switch to the app, click and hold the link instead and open in incognito mode or open in new tab (I can't remember which)

DC Rainmaker’s voice makes my head hurt but this was useful, if crazy!! I like the Live Segments thing but probably not worth subscribing just for that. If only Garmin Connect wasn’t such an utter POS the choice would be easier.

Checked, still free. Never felt the need for a sub

I hope the free side of it doesn't disappear, it could do given the way things are going. Used to subscribe but don't miss the added features. Its a good training aid to be free as you have to up your fitness until you appear in the top-ten of any local segments you're interested in, if you want to see the position... Any history of segment times otherwise is easily achieved by keeping a log in notepad on the desktop. Its not the sort of thing I'd pay to use these days, but then I'm tight as a gnats rs.

@dougd I'm on android and I get a message pop up to ask if I want to open in the app or chrome. Chose chrome. That assumes you use chrome, but I'd assume it asks for whatever browser you use.

Mine renews in July and its saying £39.99, expect that'll update at somepoint.
will probably cancel and stick with garmin connect for a bit.

I use to pay a few years ago but other than logging the ride I never used any of the other features so canceled back then when they increased the price.

I never minded paying a couple of quid to support the site but I refuse to pay over the odds for something I didn't really use. I have thought several times if they would ever cancel the free side and make it a pay-only site.

I used to use Garmin Connect years ago but found it clunky to use, might have to have another look at it.

I reckon they'll lose my money when I come up again; don't really use much of the premium stuff so it's not worth much to me.  This'll either crash them or push them to full-subs model (or rather, I bet that's where they're heading - 2 levels of sub rather than free & sub)

I've had a Garmin account for years but only really started using it in the last year since getting my Garmin watch. Used it last week to plan some gravel rides and it was fairly quick and painless. Lot more data with it compared to the free version of Strava. I'm no longer interested in Strava segments, I think the trails would be better of if it had never existed, so all I really got from Strava was keeping track of how much I've been getting out.

Next it will be no free subs. Then less features and another price increase. Death.

Renews in Nov for £47.99. TBH I have no idea how much it is now, I've been a subscriber for a long time, it just comes out my account like so many other things I waste money on! This is not to say I can afford it, I need to get a grip on it!

I started paying for the beacon feature primarily, but I might sack it off when it's time to renew, I'm not getting vfm.

What disadvantage is there to testing the free version? Just a few ad's?

Less features i.e. can't see leaderboards, I think the heatmap options are very limited.

I thought beacon was available on the free one as well...never used it myself, so not really sure.

funny video, Ray seemed a bit upset.  As above I like Garmin Connect but the social part of Strava is nice as almost everyone is on it.  That's available for free though so I can't see why I would upgrade

It used to be that all of the app type suscriptions wanted 5$/month but that does seem to have gone up to 12$ now if you look at Netflix/Disney and all the rest.  That's fine if  you only have a couple but at a certain point it just gets a bit painful if you have more than that.

Mine renewed in October for £44.99 & says renewal price for Oct 23 is £44.99

And, as has been repeatedly pointed out, it'll not be £44.99 come October.

Mine been 44.99 for last 5 years, and says it'll renew on 7th Feb for 44.99

Mine been 44.99 for last 5 years, and says it’ll renew on 7th Feb for 44.99

If I understood correctly, the new prices won't be updated online until after the 2nd Feb.  That's what the video was about, they are not being up front with the new costs

Just checked mine and I am paying £39.99 and it renews at that price on the 5th Feb

Just checked mine and I am paying £39.99 and it renews at that price on the 5th Feb

If I understood correctly, the new prices won’t be updated online until after the 2nd Feb. That’s what the video was about, they are not being up front with the new costs

Mine says

Your monthly membership will automatically renew on 2 February 2023 for £6.99

Be interesting to see if that changes as that is also price change day...

Although having just typed that, I've not had an email warning of a price change once month before, so I assume it won't change (yet).

I do sort of miss the heat map

Heat map is available on desktop on a free account if that helps? I use it for route planning side by side with ridewithgps.

Are live segments a premium only thing?

What are the Garmin segments like? I’ve had premium for a while, and love the live segments (for comparing to my own rides, not too bothered about other folks’ times). Is there a garmin live segment version available on fenix/edge??

Extremely tempted to downgrade next time

Cancelled mine - Garmin connect will just do fine and like many, cutting back.

I've checked and realised that I used one of the mad PSA's about two years ago with a gift card I think in Argentine Pesos, and despite it expiring about a year ago I've still got Strava premium. let's see how long this lasts!

Are live segments a premium only thing?

What are the Garmin segments like?

One of the few premium features I liked/used but when they removed the feature for downhill segments they made it rather less useful to me. I’m left with the tally of mileage per bike and it’s cross platform universally used by everyone appeal.

Garmin segments are fine and work just the same but in practice only Strava have the wealth of user created segments that are commonly known.

Meh, think a price hike is going to see me drop Strava. All my data is in Garmin Connect anyway as all my devices are Garmin.

I need to work out how to transfer segments from Strava to Garmin...I found the warnings to let me know a segment was approaching was useful, but since it has been removed I've missed it a wee bit.
I think Garmin can do it but it doesn't have the wealth of segments as Strava does. I probably need to start creating them from rides I've done and then I can hopefully get the Garmin warnings that favourite segments are approaching.

leffeboy
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Mine been 44.99 for last 5 years, and says it’ll renew on 7th Feb for 44.99

If I understood correctly, the new prices won’t be updated online until after the 2nd Feb. That’s what the video was about, they are not being up front with the new costs

I thought the annual subs got the price updated 30 days before they are due. My card details haven't been updated anyway, so whatever payment they want, they'll have to remind me

Meh, think a price hike is going to see me drop Strava.

It is becoming increasingly hard to justify. Whilst I do think supporting sites is generally a good idea it does need some return on that investment.
Several months until renewal time but will be thinking hard then about whether its worth it.

I almost subscribed before new year as it had 25% off, realised I didn't need to drop £40 on something and didn't bother. To be honest given Garmin logs everything if Strava ditched us free users I wouldn't be too bothered.

The only thing I don't have in Garmin at the moment is the tracking of my bikes total mileage. Garmin will do it but I'll have to see if there's a way of adding the current totals off Strava when setting it up.

^ same. I can’t see a way of using a simple export/import and I’m not keen on updating years of activities with the bikes so I’m looking at a historical dummy manual activity to bring the mileage up to the value recorded in Strava.

Oddly enough, I track my running shoes in Connect and bikes in Strava...

Haha, so I just got an email survey from Strava:

"How likely are you to recommend a Strava subscription to a friend?"

Anyone else?

Just watched the video. The whole thing seems very bizarre. If it is going up massively then I’m out

My Strava has updated and although it tells me I'm renewing in June, the price has disappeared.

I stopped using Strava earlier this year, i used it once in 2023... My rides on Zwift still log to it, but all are private and i think I need to leave it in place for racing as it needs to see a profile associated. But i'm so far past caring about Strava these days.

For me it's currently a £1 a week and sounds like it'll increase to less than £2 a week.

I get enough 'value' from it as unlike many above I actually ride (a lot) - I'm connected to a few hundred others so get to see where they've ridden and what's new (MTB & gravel) etc. It's also got all my stats for +10 years which I like.

Oh, for anyone jumping, download your data first - easy enough to see in Excel.

On a side note, rather stupid of them to have kept the same price all these years, they could easily have upped it by a Pound or two each year and now would be faced with far lower increases.

So its about £1 a week - and you lot are moaning about it !

FYI

All members can see the heat map

Only premium members can plot routes on the heat map. It’s still clunky and has problems with the underlying knowledge of where paths go. But you at least know your clicking some where cyclists go.

That’s essentially what I pay for

just in the same manner that anyone posts anything involving a monorail... requires automatic Simpsons quotes....

it will be the same now on for Giant...

"What's it called?

"Warranty...

Warranty..

Warranty!"

I saw an article where Strava clarified it's going to be £8.99 in the Uk I think. That said I can't find the article now!

Just looked at mine and it says it'll renew in July for $79.99 - my location is set as UK, does anyone know how I update so it'll give me the price in GBP?

Not sure if I'll renew or not!

September renewal for me, annoyingly I already pay more then some people who've posted on this page!

Since this is a Strava captive audience, I dont like the new 3d map for bike rides, when I go to change it to the old default setting, I have to do this twice, as the first time it wont update, does anyone else have this issue?

I'm just using the free subs for social ride sharing...Garmin connect does all the "training" stuff for free (ie included in price of garmin device.)

I used to look at segment times but found strava never understood EMTBs (first hiding the elec bike choice below wheelchairs like they thought this was funny) so now segments tend to get dominated by incomparable times.

Might have subscribed if they a) worked out that a specific BIKE was electric not individual rides, and b) used some background processing to identify those bikes and put their segments in the electric category (retrospectively as well, of course) So basically a big draw of subscribing - competing against all comers - was killed off for me.

(And also had a means to start-date a segment - a number of regular downward trails get extended or deliberately slowed down through modifications over time so you can never reach an old PB even if you're faster)
OF course even if these features now appear it looks like with more price rises I'm out anyway

I thought they said we would get ~30 days notice of any price increase from this farce?

My annual sub, due for renewal in less than three weeks, has changed from £48.99 to £54.99 sometime in the last few days.

Prices are goig up because they add features I have no interest in, such as the newly announced FATMAP integration. https://www.strava.com/clubs/231407/posts/23195651

I dont like the new 3d map for bike rides, when I go to change it to the old default setting, I have to do this twice, as the first time it wont update, does anyone else have this issue?

You can now (finally!) select the default map in your profile - Profile/Settings/Default Maps/uncheck 'use 3D map for trail sports'. (And yes it always took several attempts before - I ended up using both ActivityFix and Strautomate to beat it to submission).

Had the email this morning that my renewal is going up by just under 14p a week - meh.

renewal in May...£53.99. They can stick it. Already cancelled.

Well I cancelled mine, as above numerous subscriptions to other services been a subscriver since 2013. Garmin Connect and Training Peaks do what I want it to. I find Garmins Route tools prefereable or I'll just use Memory Map oh and this "so now segments tend to get dominated by incomparable times."

I've never had a Garmin GPS unit but I'm considering one.

Does Garmin Connect (a free to use site for their units??) give decent ride analysis for things like power up a segment length of your choosing?

Prices are goig up because they add features I have no interest in, such as the newly announced FATMAP integration. https://www.strava.com/clubs/231407/posts/23195651/blockquote >

FATMAP is a really good tool for scoping out trails in Europe. I used it much more than trailforks last year in Switzerland.

 

I think I've missed a settings as I've added some segments on Garmin and marked them as favourites, but no warnings yet...so I've not got it sorted yet.
If you've ridden the area before, you can easily create segments on Garmin and then make them public or private. I think I've a setting needed switched to use Garmin segments instead of Strava.

im paid up until July and its now showing the new price (£55 from £40).
its still not huge amount but its a big hike for nothing extra.

I think i'll cancel and see what happens