Hejje / Strava alternative
The route, the pace, the splits and the climb, without a feed to perform for, a leaderboard to lose on, or a company that can read where you run. Plus the gym and the kitchen in the same app.
Free · iOS 17 or later · Android 8.0 or later
Most comparison pages save the drawbacks for the bottom, past the point anyone reads. Here they are first, because if one of them matters to you then nothing further down will change your mind.
There is no Strava import yet
An importer exists in the codebase and is switched off in the app people can install, so today there is no way to bring years of history across from inside Hejje. On Android, activities can move in and out through Health Connect where another app publishes them there. On iPhone, Hejje reads your step count from Apple Health and does not import workouts. If your history is the thing you cannot leave behind, wait for this rather than taking our word that it is coming.
There are no segments and no leaderboards, and there will not be. Ranking everyone up the same hill requires a server that can read and compare everybody's routes, which is the exact thing the encryption rules out. This is a design consequence, not a gap in a roadmap.
There are also no clubs, no challenges, no route planner and no public heatmap. Hejje does not connect to a bike computer or a running watch; it records with the phone in your pocket.
Walks, runs, hikes and rides recorded from the phone, with the route on a map, pace kilometre by kilometre, elevation gained and heart rate across the session. Recording survives a locked screen and a killed app, so a long effort is not lost to whatever the phone decides to do with background tasks.
Then the two things a running app usually sends you elsewhere for. Strength training from a catalogue of 750 exercises, with sets, reps, estimated 1RM and a muscle balance breakdown across the week. And nutrition from more than 13,000 built-in foods, with calorie and protein targets, water against a daily goal, and weight against a trend line that sees through the daily noise.
All of it works offline, and all of it is encrypted on the phone before it syncs.
| Hejje | A feed-first tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| Who can read your routes | Only you. They sync encrypted and the server has no key. | The operator, in a form it can query. |
| Sign-up | A first name. No email, password or phone number. | Email and password, or a sign-in from another company. |
| Default visibility | Nothing is published. Sharing is per session. | A feed your followers see by default. |
| Works with no signal | Entirely, including sign-up and the exercise and food search. | Usually partly, with the catalogues living remotely. |
| Gym training | Built in. 750 exercises, sets, reps, 1RM, muscle balance. | Typically a separate app. |
| Nutrition and weight | Built in. 13,000+ foods, targets, water, weight trend. | Typically a separate app. |
| Segments and leaderboards | None, and not planned. The encryption rules them out. | A core feature. |
| Importing your history | Not yet. Health Connect on Android where another app publishes there. | Established import and export routes. |
| Watch and bike computer support | None. Recording is from the phone. | Broad device support. |
| Price | Free, no subscription, no ads. | Free tier with a paid subscription. |
A tracker that holds your routes in readable form is one policy change, one acquisition or one breach away from those routes being something else. That is not an accusation about any particular company; it is what it means for data to be readable by its custodian.
Hejje is arranged so the question does not arise. Your activities are sealed on the device with a key only you hold, and our server stores ciphertext. A short list is deliberately readable so accounts and following can work, and there is a third category, the shape of the data, that encryption does not hide. All three are set out on the private fitness tracker page and in the blog post what our server can actually see.
Free on iPhone and Android. No email needed to begin, and nothing leaves your phone until you say so.
iOS 17 or later · Android 8.0 or later
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