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Zwift
The busiest virtual world, and the safest first pick if you want company. Zwift has a race, group ride or structured workout at almost any hour, with a racing matchmaking score, a team league and pace-bot group rides running around the clock. The base membership is $19.99 a month or $199.99 a year, with a 14-day free trial on monthly plans only.
Zwift Plus, at $29.99 a month or $299.99 a year, adds Zwift Coach, a plan that reworks itself when you miss a session or ride outside, plus 21 filmed routes. Those video routes have no races or meetups yet, so Plus mainly suits riders who want the adaptive plan.
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MyWhoosh
Free, and not in a stripped-down way. MyWhoosh gives you virtual worlds, group rides, races, structured workouts and training plans with no subscription, paid for by UAE backing, and it hosts the UCI Cycling Esports World Championships under a deal running from 2024 to 2026. It runs on iOS, Android, macOS and PC.
The catches matter if you train seriously: the plans don't adapt to you, and free accounts keep only 10 custom workouts. For a rider who mainly wants a structured session or a race on a weeknight without another monthly bill, it is the obvious place to start.
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Rouvy
Rouvy puts avatars on filmed real roads, so a climb on screen is a climb that exists, and its library runs to thousands of routes, including official IRONMAN, Challenge Family and Life Time Grand Prix courses. Workouts and training plans are included, and it now runs TrainerRoad workouts on its real routes.
A single rider pays $19.99 a month or $179.99 a year after a 7-day trial. Duo covers two riders for $249.99 a year and Group up to five for $499.99, the cheapest per head here for a household of cyclists. Zwift bought Rouvy in April 2026 but keeps separate subscriptions, and Zwift Cog, Click and Ride now work in Rouvy with virtual shifting.
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TrainerRoad
If the goal is getting faster for a specific event, TrainerRoad is the most coaching-led choice here. It builds a plan around your target event, then adapts the workouts based on how your training goes, and its AI FTP Detection estimates your fitness from the rides you have already done.
There is no virtual world, racing or social riding, but its workouts can run inside Zwift or on Rouvy's filmed routes when you want scenery. It costs $21.99 a month or $209.99 a year, with no free trial but a 30-day money-back guarantee. It runs happily on a phone or tablet; there is no Apple TV app.
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Wahoo SYSTM
The pick for riders who want the whole week planned, not just the bike sessions. SYSTM grew out of The Sufferfest and keeps its video workouts, while Plan Builder makes a plan from your profile, your event and the time you have, with strength, yoga, mobility and mental training built into it. Its four-part power profile shows sprint and short-effort ability that a single FTP number misses.
There is no racing or group riding, because Wahoo closed its RGT virtual world in 2023. It controls any standard smart trainer, Wahoo or not, and comes with Wahoo's Pro subscription at $17.99 a month or $179.99 a year.
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TrainingPeaks Virtual
Look here first if you already pay for TrainingPeaks Premium: Virtual is included, and the workouts on your TrainingPeaks calendar appear in it. It began as indieVelo, an app built around fair racing, and keeps some of the most realistic wind and drafting effects around, with bots to fill a thin race field and a mode for riding an uploaded course. Group rides and customizable races are there too.
Premium costs $19.95 a month or $134.99 a year, new athletes ride free for 14 days, and non-subscribers get one free day a month. Garmin bought TrainingPeaks in July 2026, and rides sync to Garmin Connect.
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Xert
For riders who enjoy the numbers more than the scenery. Xert models your fitness from your power data and picks workouts to match, and its EBC app runs them on a smart trainer. That makes it a cheaper alternative to TrainerRoad for data-driven training, at $14.99 a month or $99.95 a year after a 30-day free trial.
Xert has no virtual world of its own, though it can send its workouts to Zwift, Rouvy and MyWhoosh when you want scenery or company. It suits riders willing to learn its own fitness terms rather than those who want an app to simply tell them what to ride tonight.
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FulGaz
Filmed riding with almost nothing in the way: FulGaz plays real-world routes in up to 4K with very little on screen, from a library of more than 2,000 rides in over 60 countries, and controls the trainer to match the terrain. It has its own training plans, or you can bring your own training platform.
It costs $14.99 a month or $125.99 a year after a 14-day trial that needs no credit card. Zwift now owns it through the Rouvy deal and new routes arrive less often, so Rouvy is the better bet if fresh content and other riders matter.
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Kinomap
The biggest filmed-route library on this list, with more than 70,000 videos and dozens more uploaded every day, most of them by users. It is the budget choice for video riding at $11.99 a month or $89.99 a year, and it also works with treadmills, ellipticals and rowers, which suits riders who train on more than one machine.
The trade-off is plain: you ride the video itself rather than an avatar world, so it suits scenery-led sessions more than group riding.
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Biketerra
The app for riding your own course. Upload a GPX, FIT or TCX file, or draw a route on a map, and Biketerra turns it into a 3D road, which is handy for previewing an event route. Virtual shifting works on any smart trainer, and it runs in Chrome or Edge with nothing to install, or as a native app.
A free account has no distance or time limit and can join every event, though outside events it is limited to the featured routes. The cheapest paid plan on this list, at $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year, adds all routes, unlimited uploads and event hosting.
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