Choose TrainerRoad if
You train often on a smart trainer and want the AI to choose and adjust each structured workout, with outside workouts sent to your bike computer or watch. Its triathlon plans also cover swimming and running.
TrainerRoad is a structured training app for cyclists and triathletes. Its AI chooses each day's workout, finds your FTP from your rides and adjusts the plan around fatigue, indoors and outside. Velograph has a free plan with power analysis and fitness, fatigue and form, keeps a rider's bike fits beside their rides, and has plans for bike fitters, coaches and teams.
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You train often on a smart trainer and want the AI to choose and adjust each structured workout, with outside workouts sent to your bike computer or watch. Its triathlon plans also cover swimming and running.
You want your bikes, bike fits and rides in one place, with power analysis on a free plan, or you work with a bike fitter, a coach or a team. Rider Plus adds an AI coach that answers from your rides, and a person decides what goes on the calendar.
You train with TrainerRoad and want your bike fits and ride analysis in Velograph. Every TrainerRoad ride can be downloaded as a FIT file and uploaded to Velograph, and TrainerRoad can send finished rides to Strava, which Velograph also reads.
| What is compared | Velograph | TrainerRoad |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Riders on their own, and the bike fitters, coaches, physios and teams who work with them, in one system. | Cyclists who train to structured workouts, indoors and outside, with plans for road, gravel, mountain biking and triathlon. Runs, swims and other sports synced from Strava or Garmin also count towards fatigue. |
| 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. The apps are free to download, but they need a membership. |
| 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. | A membership costs $21.99 a month or $209.99 a year, in US dollars before sales tax, with every feature included. |
| 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 coach plan was found. TrainerRoad says it has no multi-rider or studio licence and each rider needs their own account. A coach who plans in TrainingPeaks, Final Surge or TriDot can have custom bike workouts flow into the athlete's TrainerRoad account. |
| 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 plan. Cycling teams and college teams can ask for pro deal pricing on yearly memberships, and no amounts are given. |
| Trial | Studios and teams get 30 days with everything switched on. Riders start on the free plan. | Its help centre says there is no free trial. First-time members can get a full refund within 30 days. |
TrainerRoad's prices are in US dollars before sales tax, as its pricing page shows them, and its help centre says every payment is taken in US dollars. Velograph's prices are in euros. Rider Plus includes VAT, and Studio and Team are before VAT.
| What is compared | Velograph | TrainerRoad |
|---|---|---|
| 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, Strava, Zwift, Wahoo, Hammerhead and Apple Health, and uploaded FIT, TCX, GPX and PWX files. Its Strava connection works both ways. |
| Your older rides | You can bring in your whole history from a Strava or Garmin account export, or from intervals.icu. | Your whole Strava history and the last 5 years from Garmin Connect can be imported. Zwift, Wahoo and Hammerhead bring rides from the day you connect. |
| 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. | Web, desktop apps for Windows and macOS, apps for iPhone, iPad and Android in the app stores, and Apple Watch for outside workouts. |
| 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. | Outside workouts go to Garmin, Wahoo ELEMNT, Hammerhead and Apple Watch, and the day's workout to Zwift. Indoors, its own apps control smart trainers. |
| What is compared | Velograph | TrainerRoad |
|---|---|---|
| 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 calendar with A, B and C events, Plan Builder for a plan built back from your events, and adjustments for time off, illness and travel. Group and solo rides outside can be put into the plan. |
| Fitness, fatigue and form | Fitness, fatigue and form come from the usual 42-day and 7-day averages, explained in plain sentences. | Its blog says it does not show form as a number. It shows weekly training stress with a 6-week average, Athlete Levels from 1 to 10 for each kind of training, and Fatigue Detection. |
| Power analysis | The power curve with records, critical power and W′, and the surges above critical power in each ride. | FTP comes from AI FTP Detection or a ramp test. A power records chart shows your highest power for every duration and compares up to three periods. |
| 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. | TrainerRoad AI simulates hundreds of possible workouts to choose each day's session, shows the next four weeks with predicted difficulty, offers a new FTP every 28 days and marks days to avoid intensity or rest. The rider can accept or decline its changes, and it has no chat. |
| What is compared | Velograph | TrainerRoad |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Team staff | A squad board shows each rider's readiness, plan against ride, form and coming races. Coaches, managers, bike fitters and mechanics each have their own role. | No staff roles or coach accounts were found. Group Workouts, in early access in the desktop app, let up to 11 riders follow one workout together with voice and video. |
| 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. | A ride can be downloaded as a FIT file from the website or the desktop app, and finished rides sync to Strava, Garmin Connect and TrainingPeaks. You can delete your account yourself. |
| Languages | English. The blog is also in Danish. | Its blog lists fourteen app languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch. |
Some rows are left out because the pages listed under Sources did not settle them for TrainerRoad.
Yes. TrainerRoad AI chooses each day's workout, looks four weeks ahead, offers a new FTP every 28 days and marks days for rest, and it has no chat. Velograph's AI coach, Ask, comes with Rider Plus. It answers from your own rides and proposes sessions, and a person decides. With a human coach, the coach decides.
Velograph's Rider plan is free and keeps your bikes, bike fits and rides with power analysis. No free plan was found on TrainerRoad's pages, and its help centre says there is no free trial. First-time members can get a full refund within 30 days.
TrainerRoad says it has no multi-rider or studio licence, and each rider needs their own account. Cycling teams can ask for pro deal pricing on yearly memberships. Velograph has a Studio plan for bike fitters, coaches and clinics, and a Team plan with a squad board and staff roles.
Velograph shows fitness, fatigue and form on the free plan, explained in plain sentences. TrainerRoad's blog says it does not show form as a number and builds tapers into the plan. It shows weekly training stress with a 6-week average.
Bike fit records were not found on TrainerRoad'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.
TrainerRoad'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 TrainerRoad as well.