A Strava Alternative for Group Rides: What Velunite Adds

It's not a contest: different tools, different jobs

Strava was built to record and compare activities: segments, leaderboards, training stats. Komoot excels at route planning and navigation. Velunite is built for something else: organizing and riding group rides, with routes, meeting point, chat and shared location in one place.

So the right question is not which one replaces which, but which problem you want to solve. If your problem is coordinating friends, a club or a team, you need tools designed for that.

Where Velunite helps most

Group rides: create the event in a minute with meeting point, a route with elevation profile and a declared pace. Participants confirm with a tap and find everything in a chat dedicated to the ride, with no need for several parallel WhatsApp groups.

Group live tracking: during the ride the group sees everyone's position, useful to leave nobody behind and to regroup after climbs.

Routes and community: draw a route on the map, download the GPX track, read the difficulty and find climbs and itineraries shared by other cyclists, with a focus on Italy.

You don't have to abandon what you already use

You can import your GPX tracks and connect the services you already use (Strava, Garmin, Wahoo, Komoot) without starting over. Your history stays where it is: Velunite adds to your setup instead of asking you to move.

Many cyclists use Strava for performance analysis, Komoot for planning and Velunite to organize the ride with friends. It is a combination that works.

Cost and paid features

Velunite is free: no subscriptions and no locked features, supported by industry sponsors. Other platforms offer a free plan and a paid one with advanced analysis: always check their websites for the current list of included features.

How to get started in 3 steps

1) Sign up for free on Velunite. 2) Import the tracks you care about. 3) Create your first group ride and invite friends: if you don't know where to start, read our guide on organizing a group ride without chaos.