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The "my data" vs "strava data" is probably the reason why they've left this bug in Apple Health syncing unresolved for years, despite there being good facilities for de-duping workouts in HealthKit.

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/206393444-Dupli...

By de-prioritizing the use of Apple Health as a central store for all your personal fitness data, it makes Strava the one place for all your workouts and allows them to dictate how its used.

Now, I record all my Workout data in Apple Workouts with an Apple Watch, then sync them to other platforms using this fantastic little app to export the data in any way I want.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthfit/id1202650514

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+1 for healthfit. So glad I discovered it! I do exactly the same as you. I bar any other fitness apps from writing data directly to Apple Health (but allow them to read), with the exception of my Withings scales that are allowed to only write weight data.

Apple Health has really come into its own as of late, and I'm pleased for it to be my central health-oriented repo. It's so so pretty in iOS 13 too.

I have tried both RunGap and HealthFit. RunGap seems better with more integrations. Including a way to sync to iCloud.

Just looked both of them up, looks like HealthFit also has automatic iCloud uploads.

Also Healthfit is $3 one-time while RunGap is a yearly subscription of $8 per year.

That was my impression as well. Strava willfully ignored their buggy integration with HealthKit, blaming Apple etc. I received countless duplicate workouts in my HealthKit. I emailed them dozens of times...

Ended up cancelling my Pro subscription with Strava and just started using the Apple Watch workout app. It's awesome.

Wow, I never understood why this was so buggy. I regularly have to delete duplicates when using Strava. That is so annoying. I’m done with Strava.

Thanks for this! I usually just use the workout app but sometimes use runkeeper for some additional stats (mainly when biking/running with my gf). I was considering looking at Strava since all my bike friends use it...but you've told me what I need to know.

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