Encrateia is a mobile application that wants to help you analyse your activity tracking data. In particular Encrateia analyzes .fit-Files that are created by many fitness trackers by default.
Encrateia is quite a sophisticated piece of application with 20+ charts, and 10+ reports, so we thought, we’d share the rationale behind Encrateia and what it actually does:
A lot of runners and cyclists upload their activity data to Strava, to be able to share and analyse and because storage capacity on tracking devices is limited. Old tracking data is typically deleted from your device without asking you for consent.
We want to provide a possibility for you to get all your fitness data back and because you already own a smart phone or tablet we went the route to create this app.
Encrateia helps you download your original tracking data - the .fit-files from Strava, also for activities, that are no longer on your tracker.
To get your data, we fetch information about your actitvities via the Strava API. You have to authorize the Encrateia app to do so. As the .fit-files can only be downloaded from the web site (and not via the API) you have to provide your Strava credentials a second time.
Then you can use the [Download from Strava]-Button on the Athlete Screen to download the latest of your actitvties. They are stored on your device (and you could create a backup manually, if you like). Then that .fit-files are parsed and the data is stored in a local SQLite database on the device. This takes quite some time, parsing is quick, but storing is 20 to 30 seconds per activtity. However, that makes later analysis a lot quicker and it has only to be done once.
If you do not have a Strava account, you can still use Encrateia importing your .fit-files manually.
Create a users with the second option “Create a Standalone User”. Then put your .fit-files into the documents directory of the Encrateia app on your mobile device. You can download the .fit files from e.g. Garmin Connect via batch export. To help you identify that directory, we placed a file named put_your_fit_files_here.txt there.
Finally, use the Button “Import from Local Directory” on the athlete detail screen to actually upload the tracking data into Encrateia.
No activity data is leaving your device, neither to the developer of Encrateia, nor to any third party service. We believe, your activity data should be strictly yours. Have a look at our Privacy Statement. There is also a seperate one for the web page.
Encrateia is, while not for free, an open source application. Have a look at the page Source Code, if you want to check it out and/or compile Encrateia yourself.
If you have any questions regarding Encrateia, feel free to write us an email encrateia@informatom.com.