TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling
Indoor Cycle & Fitness Trainer
How much does TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling cost?
Prices are current as of 10 Sept 2026.
TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling has no in-app products on record in the United States.
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| Rating / 5 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.1 |
| Reviews | 656 | 928K | 12K | 9.6K | 8.9K | 8.4K | 7K | 5K | 964 | 155 | 137 |
| Released | 2024 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2017 | 2016 | 2017 | 2020 | 2022 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Monthly price | — | $8.99 | $29.99 | — | — | $14.99 | — | — | $5.99 | — | — |
| Annual price | — | — | $179.99 | — | — | $59.99 | — | — | $49.99 | — | — |
| One-time price | — | — | — | — | $4.99 | — | — | $9.99 | $249.99 | — | — |
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TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling reviews
3.8 out of 5, based on 656 reviews.
What people like
- Great value if you already pay for TrainingPeaks.
- Realistic road feel and terrain simulation.
- Better anti-cheat tools than Zwift.
- Excellent integration with coach-created workouts.
What they complain about
- Terrible user experience on Apple TV.
- Frequent mandatory updates interrupt your ride.
- Connectivity issues with heart rate monitors.
- App crashes or freezes often.
Realistic Indoor Training
As opposed to the other cartoon world platform with racing loaded with cheats, TPV is a breath of fresh air. It has great built in anti-cheat tools for racing events, custom kits, custom courses, distances, can race against bots that match your ability, the list goes on and on. Every update it takes a massive leap forward, mainly with updates suggested by the users (again unlike that other platform). Give it a go if you want your training to be more realistic and match your goals for outdoors.
App works with patience but user unfriendly
It actually works once you get through all of the clutter, but the new Garmin Connect is now available message on start up that you HAVE to manually click ok on is very annoying. Biggest gripe though is having to tap 6 times to finish a workout. More annoying than you’d think given how laggy it is.
It’s alright since earlier months
Although the connection has improved through the last couple months, I have noticed in ERG mode it takes maybe 30 seconds for the cadence to reset, but other than that since other updates the graphics have definitely improved and it’s one of the more suitable cheaper replacements for Zwift.
Only Useable on Newest Hardware
This app only really works on the newest of hardware with lightning fast internet. If I run it only my M4 pro MBP right next to my router, this is a great app, any other hardware, anywhere else in my house it's useless. Why does app need 4 down/loading screens before game play in 2026? And the downloading content screen before you can even get to a menu can take half an hour or more if you don't have super fast internet.... and it won't download in the background if you leave the app. Navigating the menus on anything other than a computer with mouse is also dreadful. On my phone the buttons are too small, it's just a scaled down version on the desktop app, and on my apple tv, it can take minutes to figure out the incantation of swipes necessary to get the right button highlighted to do anything. I really wish this app was better, I don't like paying for TP premium and zwift, but I might have to go back to it, because I can't spend 45 minutes just getting set up for a ride, to only to then have a laggy, low framerate (< 1fps) experience.
NEED PAUSE
Come on you have to be able to pause your ride. It would be nice Laos to be able to drag back and forth on the ride. With Royve I can do the same hill 3 times by going back on the ride with simple finger drag. Also, the data screen is so small not customizable. Make it more user friendly. I don’t want to have to press 5 buttons to end my workout.
Great Zwift alternative
Good Zwift alternative for much lower price
Who hires these developers?
This is a serious question. I see errors in here that were figured out through repositories 10 years ago. The interface is abysmal! Not allowing for direct sync with known usernames and passwords in the Apple ecosystem enforcing a button click per character for logins, that aren’t remembered, is 10 year old level coding. When I say 10 years old, that’s the age of the developer these days that have figured that out
Good but room for improvement
Overall a very good app which does the job of allowing me to do the preprogrammed workouts from training peaks. Only real areas for improvement are: 1. The curved corners of an iPhone means some information isn’t visible so could do with shifting slightly. 2. Change zen mode so that instead of the normal view with a blank screen it enlarges everything so looks similar to TrainerDay/TrainerRoad. 3. Integrate with Apple health so workouts are added automatically.
Drop outs n daily updates
Came over after zwift increased pricing. In theory this should be so good, free with TP a lot of cyclist already have. The function is full of drop outs, won’t pair some days with trainer so use PM and still drop outs. Have run head unit to check if trainer or iPad causing issues and works flawless. Zwift still works great. Get your ish together TP, it’s 2026 no excuses for poor dev.
Visual Quality Poor, Glitches ALL the time. Needs attention.
Over 3 out of 5. Zwift works perfect and this just glitches all the time. Also the Apple Remote doesn’t do the job trying to changing things, again due to the glitches.
Great road feel & display stats
So far I am really liking this virtual ride platform. The visible stats are better than Zwift. I will give Zwift the win in graphics and social functions. However the mimicking of a road feel is much better in this app vs Zwift. A lot better workouts as well. May be saying goodbye to Zwift
Buggy
Love the TP training app, but this virtual app is practically unusable. Very buggy and frustrating to use, compared to Zwift, Rouvy, and Fulgaz. I’ll try back in another year and see if it’s improved.
Like Zwift but for grown ups
Does everything you need if you’re a Training Peaks user and you want a bit of distraction from the mind numbing dullness of a hard Winford workout. Interacts well with TP and most encouraging is the regularity of new releases. If you want to Zwift without selling a kidney,and if you don’t miss “racing” with 80w/kg liars, then this is going to be perfect. Does the job, none of the gaming daftness.
More expensive than swift
So I was using this last year when it was free and thought it was good. I like the wind, cornering etc but found the routes limited. After looking at subscription price at £19,99 I’m off back to Zwift. Shame really as I think you’d get more subscribers at £12,99 which is where I think this app is.
Not very intuitive
Has a lot of potential but interface needs to be cleaned up and simplified. Increasing/decreasing watts isn’t on main screen and sometimes requires multiple taps to pull up the menu. Too cluttered. Several times app didn’t respond when starting to pedal after stopping. Had to stop again and restart pedaling to get the app to start recording.
Team Workout Folder
I love the app, thanks for providing an outstanding virtual cycling experience. In the future, would it be possible for my team members to have access to a ‘team workout folder’ that I create for my team. Thanks.
App is stuck in sideways mode
I just wanted to get this app downloaded and set up for later use. It is stuck in the sideways mode on my phone and there’s no integration with my password manager. I’m supposed to type in a ridiculously long username and password in this tiny little field with a sideways keyboard. Ugh.
Updates
The update that was pushed 4 hours ago is mandatory. That’s a delay in starting my training. Please warn users of mandatory updates
Very good app but poor controls on AppleTv
Overall I like the app and have had a few rides so far to experience it. While in the ride, pretty good. Using AppleTv controls in the app are horrendous. It almost made we enable a Zwift subscription and set up that app.
Auto updates???
Don’t like updating through App Store every week. Auto updates???? Please????
Really good
Frankly, I feel like this app is more responsive than Zwift.
This app is unusual on apple tv
What the title says. The menu is so glitchy I can’t select anything to set up my account much less do a ride.
Great App - Currently has an issue with battery drain
I wanted to report this through the bug report feature, but it’s disabled for this app. The app itself functions perfectly when I use it, but it rapidly drains the battery of my iPad when minimized/idle afterwards. There is a workaround in that I can force-close it after I’m done working out, but if I forget, then it is guaranteed to deplete my battery. Otherwise, fantastic app! When my issue is resolved, I will upgrade my score to 5 stars.
Going back to Zwift
Had issues with multitasking on app ie using phone to text someone et , would disconnect and end my ride and would have to start over and go to where I left off. Also drains my phone battery. I have the latest iPhone. Not going to use this platform will stick with Zwift
Ok when it works
Updates almost every time I log on. Haven’t been able to get tp workouts to sync for weeks, wasting a lot of time troubleshooting
Vast improvement
I hired a coach to help me with rehab from a bad crash in race, to build fitness and improve my race craft. I had been using Zwift but I couldn’t figure out how to do my workouts feeling the terrain of the course and environmental conditions. I Switched over and applying my workouts to the course closely replicating the next race. It’s helped unlock some more race pace and confidence.
decent app but seeks rent
This should be a one time purchase, charging a high monthly fee is ridiculous
Thanks TP for this
Everything works great except Kickr Climb and it feels like a great value for TP subscribers with a coach. Please make KickR climb compatible and I’ll be in love.
Too many updates
App is constantly updating every 2 days or so. Every time you get on the bike ready to do a workout….. forget it. The App won’t work until it’s been updated. Very frustrating. Could the developers maybe give it a week or two between updates?
Garmin HR watch won’t sync
Good alternative to Zwift but still can’t get Garmin watch (935xt) to pair for HR readings. Even tried an old Ant fob.
Enjoying the App
I enjoy using the app for training but for some reason it no longer will let me screen mirror from my phone to my TV. When I first started using the app, it worked fine. Everything else on my phone will show up on the tv except for TPV.
Used to be free
They bought this and stole it from the community. I’m a game dev myself gonna work on another free replacement to this. And I will never sell it to some overpriced business so they can charge you for something they didn’t even make.
2 months in
Just purchased cycle one month plan - perfect for miserable winter weather. Like the way it automatically loads the session to follow - zero faff. Ability to download completed activity automatically to garmin (like Zwift) would be good. For me graphics and group rides not quite as good as Zwift.
Garmin Sync
Anyone else having trouble pairing Garmin Fenix 7 watch to virtual bike? I tried plugging in my phone with virtual TP to the indoor bike at planet fitness and was pedaling aimlessly while trying to configure for maybe 20-30 minutes before just starting my workout so I would be late for work. I love the idea, been in school, working full time and trying to get my training in, but last Friday was my first attempt to use it with only a week left in the free test run
Apple TV
Don’t bother with the Apple TV app. The update said it made it functional this is not true. You can’t even move the cursor to log in it’s either on OK OR New account, there is no way to get to existing account. I was really hoping this would work for me. Training peaks your making it really hard to leave zwift.
Training peaks
Favorite way to train ever
Broken experience on Apple TV
The app is so bad on Apple TV that it should probably be pulled from the App Store. Simply put, I can’t use this. Please do better. It’s a miracle to even get through the login. You can’t select anything and buttons don’t work. I can’t imagine this being adopted by anyone through this platform.
Good, not yet great—but steadily improving
Performs as well as Zwift (maybe a touch better in some ways) at a basic level. Obviously a long way to go yet in terms of variety and the quality of the scenery. It doesn’t yet integrate fully with my Garmin NEO Bike, but is clearly making progress: they recently added terrain response, but it does not yet support road feel. The fact it requires manually syncing with Garmin Connect is also a miss. Even so, it’s a no brainer given it’s part of TrainingPeaks Premium, which I happily pay for anyway!
Meh
TPV doesn’t sync with workouts on TP as claimed. It also isn’t as functionally intuitive as Zwift. It takes some hunting to find a function. TPV’s virtual world is rather bleak. It’s like riding through Mordor in Windows 95. Kept expecting text stating “You Have Died of Dysentery” to appear on the screen. Final complaint is that all the rides are similar: 10 min warmup on flats, and the rest of the ride will likely be climbing a 7-9% gradient. TPV is still very JV. I’ll be sticking with Zwift.
Peloton Integration?
Zwift is the obvious target for this app. Training Peaks Virtual developers, how about some integration with the Peloton stationary bike to beat Zwift at their own game? Peloton has an Android tablet which should be quick work for your awesome code-writers.
Works well
I’ve been a Zwift user for years but decided to try this because I already use TP and was generally frustrated with Zwift’s basic functionality at a premium price. For me, this app does everything Zwift does and I’m comfortable moving all my IM training over here.
Not ready for launch
I have been trying to log into the new virtual app without any success. It keeps trying to tell me to reset my password which I have done multiple times without success. Not an issue with using my email instead of my username as I am doing this correctly. I was eager to start using this app.
First time rider
It was great for my first virtual ride. Looking forward to more.
AppleTV version doesn’t connect with pm
The iPad version of the app connects all my devices pretty easily no issues other than occasional login failure. Downside is that the iPad to tv hdmi has terrible graphics that harkens to old super VGA Monitor days… AppleTV app version can’t connect up to my stages power meter… Really need an AppleTV Bluetooth bridge app through your phone to counter the two Bluetooth connections with AppleTV.
Works well when it works
This is a good alternative to Zwift when it actually works, but nearly every time I’ve tried to use it, especially on my ipad, one or more sensors - notably HRM - won’t pair, making it impossible to actually use. Hopefully this is a development bug that will be worked out
Excelente
Excelente opción ahora si voy a por el premium en TP con este plus
Crashing
App is crashing after login.
Improving
The app is update nearly every week and is getting better; things that I’d like to see-companion app for phone, and better erg mode
It does not connect to my devices
Two starts for now just because I was not able to connect to my Trainer and heart rate monitor. I tried multiple ways it is just not working
Was fine
I canceled my Zwift and then a day later tpvir stopped giving me data on screen. I can’t find any support. Went into my settings and the display hasn’t changed. Big bummer. May have to go back to Zwift.
TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling FAQ
- Is TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 175 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling?
- Polar Flow (4.5 from 928,017 reviews, premium from $8.99), MySwimPro: #1 Swim Workout App (4.4 from 12,253 reviews, premium from $19.00) and Favero Assioma (4.9 from 9,579 reviews).
TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling download
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TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling sells in 175 countries. It was released 2 years and 3 months ago, on 29 Jun 2024. It holds a 3.8 rating from 656 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does TrainingPeaks Virtual Cycling make?
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