CityStrides is the most popular tool for the "Run Every Street" challenge - but it's a web app, requires a Strava account, and stores your activity data on a server. MoveMap is a native iPhone app that reads Apple Health directly and renders your lifetime map on-device. They overlap, but they're built for different jobs.
Pick CityStrides if your motivation is street-by-street completion percentages, city rankings, and a "streets remaining" map that helps you plan your next run. The community and the leaderboard are the product.
Pick MoveMap if you want a native iPhone app that opens in a second, reads every GPS workout you've ever recorded from Apple Health, and renders your lifetime map on-device with no account and no cloud upload.
Use both if you're a serious Every-Street completionist. CityStrides for the granular street tracking on the web, MoveMap on your phone for the fast lifetime view, the heatmap, and the Year in Review postcard.
| Feature | MoveMap | CityStrides |
|---|---|---|
| Native iPhone app | ✓ Built for iOS, opens instantly | – Web app only (mobile browser works) |
| Requires an account | – No account, no email, no password | ✓ Account + connected Strava/RunKeeper required |
| Data source | ✓ Apple Health (any tracker writing to Health) | ✓ Strava or RunKeeper sync |
| Where your data lives | ✓ On your iPhone, on-device | – CityStrides servers (required for web access) |
| Lifetime map of every GPS workout | ✓ Every year of GPS history overlaid on one map | ✓ Lifetime "LifeMap" of completed runs |
| Street-by-street completion % | – Visual overlay only, no completion score | ✓ Core feature, OpenStreetMap node tracking |
| City and country leaderboards | – No community layer | ✓ Active community, city rankings |
| Streets-remaining view (plan your next run) | – Not the core use case | ✓ Defining feature |
| Personal heatmap | ✓ Free for last 12 months, Pro for full history | ✓ Supporter tier |
| Year in Review postcard export | ✓ 1080x1920 PNG for Stories | – Not a feature |
| Country coverage stats | ✓ Coverage dashboard with countries visited | – City-focused, not country |
| Multi-activity (run, cycle, hike, walk) | ✓ All Apple Health GPS workouts | – Primarily running |
| Works without Strava | ✓ Apple Watch alone is enough | – Strava (or RunKeeper) account required |
| One-time lifetime purchase option | ✓ $19.99 once, no renewal | – Subscription only |
CityStrides and MoveMap solve overlapping problems with completely different architectures - and the architecture is the thing that decides which one fits your workflow.
CityStrides is a web app. You sign up at citystrides.com, connect a Strava (or RunKeeper) account, and the service pulls your activities into its database. It cross-references each run against street nodes from OpenStreetMap and builds your "LifeMap" of completed streets. Because it's a web app, you can open it from any device with a browser - phone, laptop, tablet. The trade-off is that your activity data lives on CityStrides' servers, and you can't use it without first connecting a third-party tracking service.
MoveMap is a native iOS app. When you open it, it reads your GPS workouts directly from Apple Health on your iPhone. There is no account to create, no service to connect, and nothing leaves the device. Anything that writes to Apple Health - Apple Watch, Strava, Garmin Connect, Nike Run Club, AllTrails, Suunto, Coros, even Apple's own Workout app - shows up automatically. The trade-off is that MoveMap only sees what's on the phone you're holding, so you can't pull up your map from a laptop browser.
Both choices are defensible. Web apps are cross-platform; native apps are faster and more private. If you spend most of your day in a browser, CityStrides feels at home. If you mainly check your routes on your phone, MoveMap's on-device model is harder to beat.
| Plan | MoveMap | CityStrides |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Last 12 months of map, one Year in Review per month | Basic LifeMap, limited cities tracked |
| Monthly | $1.99/mo (7-day free trial) | Not offered (annual Supporter only) |
| Annual | $9.99/yr | ~$30/yr Supporter tier |
| Lifetime / one-time | $19.99 one-time, no renewal | Not available |
CityStrides is donation-driven and the Supporter pricing reflects that - it's not trying to compete with paid apps on price. MoveMap is built around a flat, one-time Lifetime option, so the five-year cost of MoveMap Lifetime is less than six months of CityStrides Supporter. Different philosophies, both reasonable.
No. CityStrides is a web app you access through a browser. There is no native iPhone or iPad app - the mobile website works on phones, but it's still a web tab, not a native experience. MoveMap is the closest native iOS alternative for visualizing every GPS route you've recorded, with the caveat that it uses a different model (heatmap and overlay vs. street completion percentages).
Not in the same way. CityStrides walks every street in OpenStreetMap and tracks which nodes you've covered, then reports a precise completion percentage per city. MoveMap takes a different approach: it overlays every route you've recorded onto a map and shows you a heatmap, plus a Coverage dashboard for cities and countries. You can visually see which streets you've covered, but there's no granular per-street percentage score. If a precise completion number is the reason you use CityStrides, MoveMap won't replace that piece.
No. CityStrides requires a Strava or RunKeeper account to sync activities. MoveMap reads from Apple Health directly, so anything that writes to Health works - the built-in Apple Watch Workout app, Strava, Garmin Connect, Nike Run Club, AllTrails, Coros, Suunto, and most other GPS trackers. No third-party account or sign-up is required.
Both have a free tier. CityStrides Supporter is around $30/year. MoveMap is $1.99/month, $9.99/year, or a one-time $19.99 Lifetime purchase - the Lifetime option is unique to MoveMap. Over a five-year window, MoveMap Lifetime costs less than eight months of CityStrides Supporter. Whether that matters depends on whether the Supporter-tier features are worth it for your use case.
Yes, and many people do. CityStrides on the web for the precise street-by-street completion view and the community leaderboards; MoveMap on your iPhone for a fast on-device map, heatmap, country coverage, and Year in Review export. Both read from your existing activity data (CityStrides via Strava, MoveMap via Apple Health), so you don't have to record runs twice.
No. MoveMap has no server, no account, and no analytics SDK. All routes are read from Apple Health locally and rendered on-device. CityStrides, because it's a web app, has to store your activity data on its servers - that's not a criticism of CityStrides, it's an architectural consequence of being a web product.
Yes - MoveMap reads every GPS workout type Apple Health stores: runs, walks, hikes, cycles, wheelchair workouts, and more. You can filter the map by activity type. CityStrides was built around the Run Every Street challenge and is primarily oriented to runners, though it does support some other activities through Strava sync.
MoveMap reads from Apple Health - including the runs Strava already wrote there. No account, no upload, free to download.
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