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Integrations

Stride connects to your devices and apps so your training arrives on its own. On the web, open Settings > Integrations. In the iPhone or Android app, tap your avatar and choose Connected Devices, then Choose Connections; the same page opens inside the app.

You do not need a connection to use Stride. You can also upload files, record indoor rides and strength sessions in the app, or bring in Apple Watch workouts through Apple Health.

Connecting and disconnecting#

Services you use are listed under Connected, the rest under Available to Connect. Choose Connect and sign in to that service to give Stride access.

To disconnect, open the menu next to a connected service and choose Disconnect. Syncing stops, but everything that already came in stays in Stride.

If a service stops accepting Stride's access, for example after you change your password or remove Stride on their side, Stride disconnects it and emails you. It moves back to Available to Connect, and connecting it again fixes it.

What each service does#

  • Garmin: activities (5 years of history), sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, weight and cycle tracking. Receives planned rides, runs and swims.
  • Wahoo: activities (full history). Receives planned workouts, and rides you record in the Stride app.
  • Hammerhead: activities (full history). Receives planned rides.
  • COROS: activities (about 3 months), sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and recovery. Receives planned rides, runs and swims.
  • Polar: activities (about 3 months), sleep, HRV and resting heart rate. Receives nothing.
  • Magene: rides through OneLap (full history). Receives planned rides.
  • Zwift: rides and runs (1 year). Receives planned rides and runs.
  • ROUVY: rides (full history). Receives planned rides.
  • WHOOP: recovery, HRV, resting heart rate, sleep and workout summaries.
  • Oura: sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and readiness (90 days).
  • Apple Health (iPhone app): Apple Watch workouts, sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and cycle tracking (90 days). Puts planned sessions on Apple Watch, 14 days ahead.
  • Health Connect (Android app): sleep, HRV and resting heart rate (90 days).
  • Google Calendar: events you colour red, or invite cal@stride.is to, appear on your calendar as availability entries.

Garmin's resting heart rate is only taken from days you slept in your watch. Garmin reports the lowest heart rate it saw all day, so on a day you only wore it for a run that would be the minutes sitting down around the run, not your resting heart rate.

Polar is checked every half hour, because it does not tell Stride when something new arrives. COROS sends activities as soon as they finish, but its sleep, HRV and recovery are checked every half hour. Connecting Your Devices has the detail for each one.

Sending workouts to your devices#

Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, COROS, Zwift, ROUVY and Magene receive your planned workouts three days at a time: today, tomorrow and the day after, in your timezone. Later sessions are sent automatically as they come into that window, once a day at midnight UTC, and anything you add or change inside the window goes straight away. Only seeing the next few sessions on your device is normal.

ROUVY only takes new workouts: Stride can't change or remove one it has already sent. If you move, replace or delete a session that is already on your ROUVY calendar, including through Stride AI, the new version is sent and the earlier one stays on ROUVY. Ride the one that matches your Stride calendar.

Apple Watch is scheduled from the iPhone app instead, 14 days ahead, when you turn on Schedule planned workouts under Connected Devices > Apple Health, and each time you tap Sync now there. Strength workouts are not sent to any device. Sessions are sent while your trial or subscription is active, up to and including the day after it ends.

Workouts built on heart rate are sent as a range in beats per minute, worked out from your own max or threshold heart rate in Stride, so your device's heart rate zone settings do not change the target. Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, COROS and Apple Watch take them. Zwift and ROUVY only understand power and pace, so heart rate sessions are not sent there, and Magene receives the steps without their heart rate targets. Garmin does not take heart rate targets on swims.

Troubleshooting & FAQ covers what to check when a workout inside the window is missing.

Sleep and recovery#

When more than one device records your night, Stride shows one device's sleep, HRV and recovery for the day. Automatic prefers WHOOP, then Oura, then Garmin. To use another, change Sleep and recovery on this page. Inside the app, Apple Health or Health Connect is offered too. The option appears once two devices are connected, and the choice applies everywhere, including your calendar, charts and Stride AI.

Workout recordings#

If two devices record the same session, say a Garmin watch and Zwift, Stride keeps one activity and stores both recordings. Under Workout recordings, choose Manage to set a Preferred source for each sport, indoors and outdoors, or leave it on automatic to use the most complete recording. Review past workouts finds sessions recorded twice so you can combine them.

On an activity on the web, Recordings lists every copy. Use this recording switches between them, Download original gives you the file, and Separate workout splits one off if it really was a different session.