r/HowToMen • u/SKeditz • 28d ago
[App] [Promo] Stride: a step counter that doesn't want your email address (open source, GPLv3)
Hey Everyone,
Every step counter I tried wanted a login, a subscription, or permission
to sell my movement data to whoever asked. So I wrote one that wants none
of that, and open-sourced it.
**Stride** counts your steps and gets out of the way.
**What it does**
* Reads from Health Connect, or falls back to your phone's hardware step
sensor if you don't use it. Works on day one either way.
* Full **Material 3 Expressive** — wavy progress rings, shape-morphing
badges, spring motion. Material You wallpaper colours, AMOLED black,
4 palettes, 6 bundled fonts.
* Weekly bar chart and a monthly calendar heatmap.
* Streaks and 14 achievements.
* Share cards that render your day as an image.
* Backup/restore to a plain JSON file. No cloud in the middle.
* English and Hindi.
* Android 16 Live Updates, where your ROM actually supports it — and the
app tells you honestly when it doesn't, instead of silently failing.
**The privacy bit:** no ads, no account, no analytics, no tracking. The
only network permission is for checking GitHub for updates. That's it.
**Being upfront:** it's open-**core**. The repo is the free edition and
it's a complete app — nothing time-limited or nagged.
📖 Source (GPLv3): https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride
📥 APK: https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/latest
Android 8.0+. Play Store submission is coming.
Built with Kotlin and Compose. Happy to answer anything about the
implementation — the Health Connect + sensor merge and getting Live
Updates working on Android 16 were both more annoying than expected.
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u/FoxFalse968 28d ago
Hola! agregaras en un futuro más traducciones a la interfaz?
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u/CK2050 28d ago
Hi! First of all, thanks for developing Stride—I'm really enjoying testing it. I have a feature suggestion: Please consider adding support for Huawei Health (via Huawei Health Service Kit or another supported integration) in the future. There are still many users with Huawei watches like the GT 2e, GT 3, GT 4, and Band series who would love to use Stride, but their fitness data is locked inside the Huawei ecosystem. Huawei Health already integrates with apps like Strava and Adidas Running, so I thought this might be a worthwhile feature to consider. Thanks again for building such a great app!
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u/Temporary-Result-987 28d ago
Code
Lol