Originally Posted by
jgwilliams
CliffordK has covered all the main points. Just to add my 2p worth, although I have a Garmin and therefore don't use these apps on a phone, I do automagically download the data to both Strava and RideWithGPS. I use Strava because all my friends do. Although I don't compete with anyone else I do quite enjoy seeing myself get new personal records which is one of the features of Strava. And I like RideWithGPS because it's very easy to see summaries by week, month, year, etc. I've really enjoyed, for example, seeing that I've ridden much further so far this year than I did in the first quarter of last year. I daresay Strava has that information but RideWithGPS makes it easy to find.
Strava has some very good data analysis too, once you find it.
This page shows you your annual miles, and little graphs for each month.
https://www.strava.com/athlete/calendar
You can go back and forth to different years. Click on a month to see that month's data. Odd, they're not a little better with tracking YTD data.
The individual ride analysis page is pretty good.
I can pick out "interesting rides" pretty quickly using the Training Log page.
https://www.strava.com/athlete/training/log
Oh, and the challenges can be fun. I haven't signed up for many of the rewards, in part because research indicated there wasn't much I wanted to buy with the reward amounts, and a bit wary of giving out my E-Mail.
https://www.strava.com/challenges
Nonetheless, fun goals.