JOIN is a phone app from JOIN Sports in Amsterdam. It plans a rider's cycling week from their goal and the time they have, and reshapes it when they skip a session, ride something else or feel tired, using how hard each ride felt and a daily readiness check. Velograph also plans training and shows fitness, fatigue and form. It adds a free plan, bike fits that stay with the rider and workspaces for coaches, bike fitters and teams.
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You want an app that picks each day's session from your free time and how you feel, with little to set up, and sends it to your Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Zwift or ROUVY by itself. It suits busy amateur riders training for a gran fondo, a gravel race or another event.
You want your bikes, bike fits and rides in one place, with power analysis on a free plan, or you work with a coach, a bike fitter or a team. Rider Plus adds training plans and an AI coach you can ask, and a person decides what goes on the calendar.
You plan with JOIN and want your bike fits and ride analysis in Velograph. The two do not connect, but your bike computer can send each ride to JOIN and to intervals.icu, where Velograph reads it.
| What is compared | Velograph | JOIN |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Riders on their own, and the bike fitters, coaches, physios and teams who work with them, in one system. | Cyclists of every level, with plans for road, gravel, mountain biking, cyclocross and time trials. It can add up to three runs a week to a cyclist's plan, and it has no full triathlon plans. |
| Free plan | The Rider plan is free and never expires. It keeps your bikes, your bike fits and your rides, with power analysis and fitness, fatigue and form. | No free plan was found on its pages. One subscription has everything, after a 7-day trial. |
| Paid plan for a rider | Rider Plus costs €9 a month including VAT. It adds training plans, race tools and an AI coach with 200 AI credits a month. | JOIN costs €16.99 a month or €119.99 a year, as join.cc shows it. |
| For coaches and bike fitters | The Studio plan costs €50 a month for one practitioner and €30 for each extra one, excluding VAT. It has bookings, a client journal, bike fits, follow-ups and AI. | No plan for coaches was found. Its pricing page has one plan for riders, with no tiers. |
| For teams and clubs | The Team plan costs €69 a month for 10 riders and €7 for each extra rider, excluding VAT. Staff accounts are free. | There is no team or club plan. Clubs and federations work with JOIN through partnerships that give their members benefits on JOIN. |
| Trial | Studios and teams get 30 days with everything switched on. Riders start on the free plan. | New users get 7 days free, and JOIN's trial page says no credit card is needed. |
JOIN's prices are in euros as join.cc showed them, with nothing said about VAT. Velograph's prices are in euros. Rider Plus includes VAT, and Studio and Team are before VAT.
| What is compared | Velograph | JOIN |
|---|---|---|
| Where rides come from | Rides come in from intervals.icu, which collects them from Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Zwift and most other devices, and from Strava. You can also upload FIT files from any device. | Garmin Connect, Wahoo, Zwift, Strava, Hammerhead and ROUVY, and rides recorded in its own workout player on a smart trainer. |
| Your older rides | You can bring in your whole history from a Strava or Garmin account export, or from intervals.icu. | When you first connect Strava, at least 42 days of earlier activities come in. |
| Web and phone apps | Velograph works in the browser on a computer or a phone. Apps for iPhone and Android are in testing and not in the app stores yet. | Apps for iPhone and Android in the app stores. JOIN Plan, a website, shows the training calendar and data, and plans are changed in the app. |
| Workouts on your devices | Planned sessions can be sent to your intervals.icu calendar, which passes them on to your devices. Later moves and edits follow. | The day's workout goes to Garmin Connect, Wahoo, Zwift, Hammerhead and ROUVY by itself. Other devices get workouts through TrainingPeaks or a FIT file. |
| What is compared | Velograph | JOIN |
|---|---|---|
| Training calendar and plans | Rider Plus and Team add a training calendar with drag and drop, week programs, a season planned back from your main race, and race plans with pacing. | A plan to build, improve or peak for one goal event, filled from a library of more than 400 workouts around the time you have each day and changed every day. Other races are added as planned rides. |
| Fitness, fatigue and form | Fitness, fatigue and form come from the usual 42-day and 7-day averages, explained in plain sentences. | JOIN Plan shows fitness, fatigue and form, with form zones and a projection to the end of the plan. JOIN also has its own level from 0 to 50. |
| Power analysis | The power curve with records, critical power and W′, and the surges above critical power in each ride. | FTP is estimated from training, with a 20-minute test about every three months. JOIN Plan has a power curve, power records and a score for how each ride matched its session. |
| Durability | Velograph shows how much of your best power is left after hours of riding, with records for it. | JOIN Plan's power curve can show your power after a set amount of work, in kilojoules. |
| AI coach | Ask, the AI coach, answers from your own rides and proposes sessions. You or your coach decide what goes on the calendar. Any plan can use your own Claude or OpenAI key instead of AI credits. | Its planner builds the plan and changes it from each ride's data, how hard you said the ride felt, a daily readiness check and your available time. You can change the readiness it estimates and have the final say. No chat was found on its pages. |
| What is compared | Velograph | JOIN |
|---|---|---|
| Bike fits | Bike fitters record fits as drawings with every number. Each fit is kept in the rider's free Passport and stays with the rider. | Bike fit records were not found on its pages or in its help centre. |
| Where data is kept | In the EU, at DigitalOcean's data centre in Frankfurt. Velograph shows no advertising and uses no third-party trackers. | Its privacy policy says its suppliers keep personal data mainly within the European Economic Area. |
| Taking your data with you | You can download your rides as FIT or GPX files, one at a time or all together, and delete your account yourself. | Planned workouts can be downloaded as FIT files, and you can delete your account and all its data in the app. |
| Languages | English. The blog is also in Danish. | The App Store lists English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish. |
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Velograph's Rider plan is free and keeps your bikes, bike fits and rides with power analysis. No free plan was found on JOIN's pages. It has a 7-day trial, then costs €16.99 a month or €119.99 a year on join.cc.
JOIN adjusts the coming days by itself when you skip a workout, ride something else or change the time you have. In Velograph, Ask proposes new sessions and a person decides. With a human coach, the coach decides.
JOIN's pricing page has one plan for riders, with no tiers, and clubs and federations work with JOIN through partnerships. Velograph has a Studio plan for coaches and bike fitters, and a Team plan with a squad board and staff roles.
JOIN sends the day's workout to Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Zwift and ROUVY and reads finished rides back. Velograph reads rides from intervals.icu, Strava and FIT files, and sends planned sessions to your intervals.icu calendar, which passes them on to your devices.
Bike fit records were not found on JOIN's pages. In Velograph, every fit a studio records is kept in your free Passport, with its drawing and numbers, and stays with you when you change fitter or team.
JOIN's side of this page comes only from these pages, read on 29 October 2026. Prices and features change, so check them before you decide. Velograph's own prices are on the pricing page.
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The Rider plan is free. You can keep using JOIN as well.