The best cycling apps (2026)

If you are looking for the best cycling app for training, our answer is NUA: it is the only one that works as a personal sports agent. It does not just give you a plan. It operates for you 24/7, messages you before you ask, learns about you the more you use it and handles training, nutrition, weather-aware routes and reminders in a single conversation. NUA is the only app that does all of this at once (training, routes, weather, indoor, nutrition and reminders) with the same context about you; the other apps each cover one part. For each of those parts there are very good specialist apps, and here we tell you which ones and what each is for.

To be clear: NUA is ours. That is why, for the others, we only say what is well known and stable: what they are for. Exact prices are on their websites.

Summary table: the best cycling apps by category

What is the best training app for cyclists?

NUA: the only personal sports agent

NUA is not a plan app with a chat bolted on. It is your personal sports agent, and that shows in four things:

• Transversal: it is the only one that does not stop at training. It handles your plan, your nutrition from a photo of your plate, your weather-aware routes, your reminders, strength and recovery, across cycling, running and triathlon.
• Proactive: it messages you first. If you slept badly, your HRV has dropped or it will rain tomorrow, it tells you and suggests the change.
• It evolves: it remembers your schedule, how you feel and your goals, and the more you use it, the better it understands you.
• It operates for you 24/7: it keeps working even when you are not using it. It adjusts the session and sends it to your Garmin, Wahoo, COROS, Polar, Hammerhead, Intervals.icu or Zwift, and also reads your WHOOP.

And because it handles everything else, the plan comes out better: it accounts for your load, sleep, HRV and how you feel, and crosses that with what you eat, the weather ahead and your schedule.

It works in its Android app (iOS coming soon) and on WhatsApp and Telegram. More than 25,000 athletes have already trained with NUA.

TrainerRoad

Structured power-based training plans, with a huge workout library. It shines indoors and with a power meter. We compare it in NUA vs TrainerRoad.

JOIN

Cycling plans that adapt to your schedule and reshuffle when your week changes. Simple and direct. More in NUA vs JOIN.

intervals.icu

A web platform to analyse your training: load, fitness, fatigue and power curves, in great detail. It is free and popular with cyclists who love data. NUA connects with Intervals.icu.

TrainingPeaks

A planning and analysis platform widely used by human coaches to send sessions and track their athletes' load. More in NUA vs TrainingPeaks.

Looking specifically for an AI coach? We compare them in depth in the best AI cycling coach apps. And if you are wondering whether ChatGPT will do, we explain it in ChatGPT as a cycling coach.

Which app do cyclists use to log their rides?

Garmin Connect

Garmin's app to sync and view the data from your Garmin watch or bike computer. It includes Garmin Coach plans. More in NUA vs Garmin Coach.

Strava

The social network for sport: you log your rides, compete on segments, join clubs and see what your friends are doing. It is for logging and sharing, not for someone to tell you what to train. More in NUA vs Strava.

NUA

NUA receives your activities from your devices (Garmin, Wahoo, COROS, Polar, Hammerhead, Intervals.icu, Zwift or WHOOP) and analyses them for you: it tells you how the ride went against what was planned and adjusts what comes next.

What is the best app for bike routes?

Komoot

For planning routes and navigating them, with surface information and recommendations from its community. Very popular for road, gravel and mountain biking.

NUA

Ask in one sentence and NUA prepares a route for the session you have to do and the weather ahead. Because it knows your training and your fatigue, the route fits tomorrow's session and today's tiredness. We explain how in cycling routes that fit the weather.

Ride with GPS

For drawing routes, saving them and following them with turn-by-turn navigation. Widely used by road and long-distance cyclists.

Which indoor cycling app is best?

Zwift

The best-known indoor platform: virtual worlds, group rides, races and structured workouts.

Rouvy

Indoor riding on real routes filmed on video, so you can ride real climbs and roads from home.

MyWhoosh

A free indoor platform, with virtual worlds, workouts and races.

NUA

When it rains or you are short of time, NUA moves the session indoors and sends it to your trainer and Zwift, adjusted to what your week needs. No scrolling through hundreds of workouts: it knows what you need today.

To get the most out of any of them, see our guide to indoor cycling.

Is there a nutrition app for cyclists?

NUA

You take a photo of your plate and NUA estimates calories and macros. Its energy expenditure engine sets your macros from the sessions you have done, the ones you have scheduled and your goal, so what you eat follows yesterday's training and the one coming. We explain it in nutrition for cyclists from a photo of your plate.

General nutrition apps

They count calories and have large food databases, but they do not know what you trained yesterday or what is coming tomorrow.

Which app tells you the weather before a ride?

Epic Ride Weather

Built for cyclists: it shows the forecast along your route, for the time you will pass each point. General weather apps tell you whether it will rain, but not what to do with your ride.

NUA

NUA checks the forecast where you are and, if it changes, messages you before you head out to move the session, change the route or switch to the trainer. It does not just tell you whether it will rain: it adapts the ride to what you need to train.

What people say about NUA outside our website

This is what media, podcasts and creators other than us have said about NUA. All of this coverage is in Spanish.

Radio

• Radio Marca Baleares, «El Sprint»: a cycling show that ran a segment on training with AI and interviewed NUA, which it introduced as "a cycling training proposal based on artificial intelligence". Listen on YouTube.

Cycling podcasts

• Bikineros: El Podcast: the episode «BKN 12x28 Entrenados por la IA!!» includes the segment «NUA. Tu entrenador artificial» ("NUA. Your artificial coach"). Watch on YouTube.
• DXII Show, EP19: an interview on artificial intelligence in cycling as a coach, with NUA at the centre. Watch on YouTube.

Sports podcasts

• Dos cafés para deportistas (Javi Aoiz): episode 126, with Marc Clotet, triathlete and NUA co-founder, on "artificial intelligence in cycling and much more". Watch on YouTube.
• Club 343: an interview with Marc Clotet on how NUA wants "any amateur athlete to have access to an elite coach". Watch on YouTube.

Creators

• Valentí Sanjuan, «5 mejores apps de ciclismo» ("5 best cycling apps"): he included NUA among his five apps, alongside Epic Ride Weather, Bike Fast Fit Elite, MyWhoosh and Bike IQ, and said it «te hace un plan de entrenamiento, de nutrición y de planificación de rutas» ("it builds you a training, nutrition and route plan"). More than 3 million views on TikTok; also on YouTube Shorts.
• Valentí Sanjuan, «Top 4 app ciclistas»: a few weeks later he included NUA again in his shortlist of apps for cyclists. Watch on TikTok.

Articles

• VIA Empresa: «Nua: la IA catalana que entrena a ciclistas como un profesional» ("Nua: the Catalan AI that trains cyclists like a pro"), a feature that describes it as "multichannel and conversational". Read the article.
• El Nacional, ON ECONOMIA: an interview with Marc Clotet, who explains NUA's goal: "to be the number 1 coach in endurance sports". Read the interview.
• La Bolsa del Corredor: «NUA Coach: tu entrenador virtual que funciona con inteligencia artificial» ("NUA Coach: your virtual coach powered by artificial intelligence"), which highlights that it "learns and adapts to individual needs". Read the article.

How to choose your cycling app

1. Do you want to improve? You need a training app. If you want someone to take care of everything around training, not just the plan, NUA.
2. Do you want to log and share? Strava or Garmin Connect. They complement a training app; they do not replace it.
3. Do you ride new places? Komoot or Ride with GPS to draw and navigate routes.
4. Do you train at home? Zwift, Rouvy or MyWhoosh, depending on whether you prefer virtual worlds, real video or a free option.

Most cyclists end up using two or three apps. The right mix is the one you are still using on Sunday.

Further reading

• The best AI cycling coach apps
• What a personal AI agent for athletes is
• A cycling coach that messages you first
• Nutrition for cyclists from a photo of your plate
• Cycling routes that fit the weather and your session
• Training apps compared with NUA