Strava records your past.
TriMates organizes your future.

No, TriMates and Strava are complementary. Strava is a log of past activities: you record what you've just done. TriMates is an organization tool: you plan what you're going to do. They don't cover the same needs.

No, it's completely optional. TriMates works very well without Strava. The Strava connection just adds a few practical options: getting your real level from your performances, importing an existing route, etc.

Only what you explicitly authorize at connection: your basic profile and your activities if you give permission. TriMates never reads your private activities and never publishes anything to Strava without your consent. You can disconnect at any time from your profile.

Not for now. A TriMates session is a planned event (future). Once the session happens, your watch or app (Garmin, Suunto, Strava…) records the actual activity. You can then publish it to Strava as usual.

Two concrete benefits: (1) your level per sport is calibrated on your real Strava performances (more accurate than rough self-declaration), (2) you can import a Strava activity into your TriMates GPX library and reuse it as a session route. OAuth connection, disconnectable any time.

It's become the de facto standard for tracking sports activities in France and internationally. The vast majority of runners and cyclists use it. TriMates has no ambition to replace Strava — on the contrary, we assume you already use it and integrate on top of it.

No, the scope is very different. Strava Events are visible and usable only by members of the club that created them — it's a club-internal tool. TriMates is an open tool: the community map shows sessions around you regardless of the organizer's club, you can follow TriMates and be notified when they create sessions even without belonging to their group, and you receive Smart Notifications that automatically match your sport, level, area and availability. Strava Events covers "organize a session for my club"; TriMates covers "meet athletes around me who match my profile, without first having to join a specific club." TriMates also offers a "While I'm traveling" mode to discover local sessions during a trip, plus an official events calendar (triathlons, swimruns…) that doesn't exist on Strava. The two tools don't compete head-on.