Every Every Street vs CityStrides
Both count which streets of your city you’ve covered, and both call a street done at 90 %. CityStrides is a website that gets your runs and walks from Strava, Garmin and other services, processes them on its servers and works in any city on OpenStreetMap. Every Street is a phone app that records and matches your walks on the phone, needs no account and no other service, and covers 27 cities with achievements of their own.
As of 30 September 2026. Facts about CityStrides come from its own website and community forum (see Sources).
Side by side
| Every Street | CityStrides | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A phone app for walking your city | A website that tracks the streets you’ve run or walked |
| A street is done at | 90 % of its length, walked along it | 90 % of its OSM nodes passed within 25 m (all nodes if fewer than 10) |
| Recording | Records walks itself, or starts by itself with Auto walk | None of its own: syncs from Strava, Garmin, Coros, Polar, Suunto, Runkeeper, MapMyFitness |
| Earlier activities | Imports Apple Health, Health Connect, Strava export, Google Timeline, GPX/TCX/FIT | Synced from linked services; manual GPX/FIT upload for supporters |
| Account | None | Needed: you sign up by connecting a tracking service |
| Your GPS track | Stays on your phone | Processed and stored on its servers, in the USA |
| Cities | 27, each with its own achievements and vocabulary | Any city on OpenStreetMap, worldwide |
| Districts | Progress and tiers per district | Progress per city |
| Social | Optional crews and leaderboards, totals only | Leaderboards, friends (who see all your data) |
| Price | Free, no ads | Free; supporters pay US$5 a month or US$50 a year for extras and no ads |
| Apps | iPhone and Android, coming soon | Website only |
Choose CityStrides if
- you already record everything in Strava or on a watch and want it counted without extra steps,
- your city isn’t one of Every Street’s 27,
- you run as much as you walk and want one place for both.
Choose Every Street if
- you want your location to stay on your phone, with no account and no Strava,
- you mostly walk, and want the phone to record your walks, even by itself,
- you like goals per district and achievements only your city has: Berlin’s Wall Trail, the Seine bridges in Paris, the avenues of Manhattan.
Moving over
Your history comes with you: import Strava’s export file, or connect Apple Health or Health Connect, and your old runs and walks light up your streets in Every Street. Nothing is uploaded.
Questions
Is Every Street a CityStrides alternative?
Yes, for walking your own city with your phone: both track which streets you’ve completed. Every Street records and matches your walks on the phone without an account or Strava; CityStrides syncs activities from services like Strava or Garmin and works in any city worldwide.
Does CityStrides have an app?
No. CityStrides is a website, which you can add to your phone’s home screen. It needs a tracking service such as Strava or Garmin to record your activities.
How do the two decide when a street is complete?
CityStrides checks the street’s OpenStreetMap nodes: a node counts when you pass within 25 m, and a street is complete at 90 % of its nodes (all of them for streets with fewer than 10). Every Street measures the street’s length: sample points every 10 m count within 20 m when you walk along the street, and a street is done at 90 % of its length.
Can I use both?
Yes. If you record in Strava, CityStrides can sync those activities, and Every Street can import Strava’s export file. Every Street’s own walks can be saved to Apple Health or Health Connect.
Sources
Walk your city with Every Street
Free for iPhone and Android, coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. Your GPS track never leaves your phone.
- Coming soonApp Store
- Coming soonGoogle Play