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Two-athlete household app: can partners opt in to share activities with each other?

  • September 3, 2026
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My app is a private space for exactly two partners. Each partner connects their own Strava account by OAuth, and following API Policy §2.3 each athlete currently sees only their own activities — the other partner sees nothing imported from Strava.

Both people in a space keep asking for the same thing: to see each other's workouts and run a small weekly challenge together. Before building anything, I'd like to know where the line is:

  1. If both athletes explicitly opt in inside the app (mutual, revocable, visible to nobody beyond the two of them, deleted within our 7-day retention window), may one athlete's activities be shown to their partner?
  2. If raw activities are off-limits, is a derived weekly total (a single points number per athlete, no titles, dates or distances) acceptable for the two-person challenge, given §5.4's aggregation language?

I've emailed developers@strava.com with the same question; posting here for the record and in case others have heard back on the household/couple model. Happy to build to whatever the answer is — the app ships strict owner-only today.

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Jan_Mantau
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  • September 3, 2026

If it’s only two athletes no one at Strava will ever know what your app does.


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  • September 3, 2026

Thank you for your answer but this is for more than 10 athletes cap, it’s for couples


Jan_Mantau
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  • Hub Powerhouse
  • September 3, 2026

If it’s for more than the initially stated “exactly two” and you submit for the review I would say it won’t get accepted, regardles if raw or derived data are shown to the other. 


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  • September 3, 2026

Thank you