Originally Posted by
.mockingbird.
As a longtime Garmin user I'm quite familiar with how they work...
What struck me as odd about your comment was the claim that a premium upgrade is required "most of the other apps that you find for cycling will force you to go with their premium upgrade in order to use external sensors like HRM, speed and cadence." which is simply not true with the arguably largest app ecosytem in the GPS space.
Garmin Connect is not a cycling app, in the sense that you can't start/stop a ride and keep track of what you've done without it being connected to a bike computer. It, like the Wahoo Companion app, is a repository app that holds and displays stats on rides created by your bike computer after the ride has ended. The sensor data comes from the bike computer after being synched. My wife uses Garmin Connect for her VivoSport watch. To display any data of her rides or walks, it has to be synched with the watch first. The cycling APPS I'm referring to are apps such as Cyclemeter, Endomondo, RWGPS, MapMyRide, iRide, etc.