RestOrTrain Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience63.9% of reviews
Neutral6.6% of reviews
Negative experience29.5% of reviews

~ Based on 61 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is RestOrTrain Safe?

RestOrTrain appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for RestOrTrain is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 606 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 606 App Store ratings for RestOrTrain.

Is RestOrTrain Legit?

RestOrTrain appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for RestOrTrain is 70/100.

Based on 70 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Un coach dispo 24/24, et programme 100% personnalisé

Pour le moment c’est juste excellent !

C’est comme si on avait un coach qui parlait, ça reste de l’IA, ce sera certainement, pas aussi, poussé, ou inventif qu’un vrai coach, mais en tout cas pour un cycliste amateur, ça permet de préparer un objectif c’est très intéressant et permet de faire varier les séances, et l’avantage de cette discussion, c’est que si on n’aime pas une séance ou trop faible ou on s’ennuie, on peut lui dire, on a une interaction et cela peut en découler il modification du programme ou d’une future séance

On peut avoir une analyse de chaque séance faite, et ce qui est top, c’est que toutes les séances programmées sont automatiquement envoyées et mises à jour sur le calendrier Garmin, pas besoin comme avec d’autres applis d’entraînement, de sélectionner la séance et faire un envoi Manuel sur le Garmin, il suffit de sélectionner ce qui est au calendrier

Le programme est détaillé, pour le moment, c’est une base pour l’hiver, puis des évolutions vers l’objectif de cyclosportive qui a été défini.

Les entraînements peuvent être personnalisés du coup par exemple pour moi qui habite en bord de mer, il y a tout le temps des petites bosse avec les falaises et beaucoup de vent, donc quand on est sur des entraînements classiques trop faible, c’est pas adapté et dur à tenir ou alors il faut rouler très lentement, mais on perd l’intérêt de l’entraînement et on s’ennuie, ici, on peut lui dire des choses à garde en mémoire, et donc il les reprend et les gardes en mémoire pour ses futures analyses

J’ai utilisé des applications comme JOIN, ou Frive cycling, mais c’est du semi personnalisé, ça nous sort des plans d’entraînement, type ajuster à nos valeurs de FTP et FC, donc ajuster, mais pas vraiment personnalisé, j’ai eu des moments à 80 à 122 W à tenir pendant 80 % des séances c’est long, on s’ennuie et on ne peut rien dire, et en plus après on n’a pas vraiment d’analyse de la séance faite, pour le même prix, c’est moins intéressant, surtout si on veut pouvoir échanger avec un « coach »

C’est comme si on discutait avec son coach qui serait dispos 24/24, pour adapter son programme, suivant sa motivation, on peut adapter aussi suivant la météo, c’est une appli récente, donc il y a peut-être encore peu de retour, mais ça a l’air vraiment très très prometteur, surtout qu’on reste sur un prix tout à fait correct qui se situe dans la même fourchette que les autres app d’entraînement, mais sans coach IA

J’ai pris un mois à 15 € afin de tester, avant de me lancer sur le forfait annuel plus intéressant

L’appli est européenne, mais le français est très bien intégré que ce soit dans l’appli ou avec le coach IA, je n’ai vu aucun bug ou mauvaise traduction
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Response from developer

Un immense merci pour ce retour aussi détaillé et pour votre confiance ! Nous sommes très heureux que le coach vous accompagne aussi bien au quotidien. Votre soutien compte énormément pour nous et nous motive à continuer d’améliorer l’app. Merci du fond du cœur ! 🙏

Waste of time

Gave me nothing but generic templates and didn’t vary workouts at all. Just programmed Z2 rides all the time and about one interval workout. Just another garbage AI program

Not a planner

Tried the paid version for a bit. Loved that it pulled all my Garmin data and used it to analyze and plan. That said - leans too heavily on the rest side versus train. Had to push back on some hallucinations but the real reason I won’t continue is the lack of planning. Will only give two weeks at a time and won’t automatically load next two weeks. If an event is in 8 weeks - that is super frustrating. In time - this app will be great.
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Blows away coach cat and trainer road AI.

I’ve used all 3. Only restortrain looks at your complete history, training load and goals to give you an accurate estimate of your individual stimulus and recovery tolerance. If I have a rough week at work or just sleeping, restortrain adjusts my schedule to keep me on track. The others don’t seem to notice.
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Basic AI

Nice to chat to- but it’s very expensive for what it does. Basic AI - not scientific in approach. Template workouts often completely different to what it’s instructed to do.
Gone back to wahoo

Great tool

Loving using this. I don’t have the time to engage with a real coach due to familial commitments so this is a great alternative for me, and no doubt many others too

Doesn’t sync with Strava

This app advertises that is syncs with Strava which apparently it used to but currently does not. Strava has blocked RestOrTrain.

Não consegui experimentar

Quando foi para gerar os treinos da semana… aí pediu para assinar…. Ou seja, não existe teste gratuito, não recomendo este app!

Too expensive

Idea is great, but to be fair it’s the samething as an IA plateform like chatgpt, except it’s linked already. Was enjoying it at first but they pull the « you need to upgrade to continue » at 22$/month. Well really not worth it lol.

Nice app, need to be challenge though

I really like this app. That said, you often need to ask questions and provide additional context to get results that are closer to reality. The app sometimes makes assumptions that aren’t completely accurate.

It would also be great to have an automatically generated morning report, ideally as a pop-up notification, instead of having to open the app and ask for it.

That being said, if you have a good foundation in training and are looking for an app that can help you plan your workouts, challenge your decisions, and provide meaningful feedback when you ask the right questions, the results can be quite impressive. Overall, a very promising and useful training tool.
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Mauvaise traduction

Je trouve dommage que la traduction de l’application de soit pas totale, en l’occurrence je l’utilise en français et plus de la moitié de l’application est toujours en anglais! Sinon super application très facile à prendre en main

Very effective

Highly recommended for serious self-coached cyclists.

Response from developer

Thank you!

Climbing ride assessment

I like how it breaks down the workout. It let you know those things you might ignore while trying to improve. Best advises for an AI trainer

Strava AI equivalent

Been using it 6 months now. I really wanted to like it. It makes a decent training plan. With a ton of prompts it can make a good training plan. Problem is those prompts require a coaches level of training knowledge so if you have that, this app is pointless.

Also, it's ride reviews are hot garbage. It just looks at my average power and says what kind of ride I had. A threshold workout with recoveries get labels as tempo. Vo2max with recoveries get labeled as endurance. I tell it to ignore average power then it looks at normalized power or average heart rate. It can't seem to look at the actual work done and calculate fatigue properly.

Strava fitness/form and AI is has better accuracy and is free if you already have the subscription. I don't understand how anyone can like this app.
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Response from developer

Hi. Thanks for an honest feedback. We're doing everything we can so that the athletes don't have to prompt RestOrTrain - our ultimate goal is for state of the art coaching be done for you, and we believe we're getting closer to that every day. For ride mis-labels - very surprised to hear that. This is something we have worked a lot on. If you'd like to share more details at antoni@restortrain.com I'd be more than happy to go over the details and try to find where the problem lies - we're confident it's not a problem for most of our athletes.

New rider

Enjoying the structure of the workouts - running 9 month program to improve FTP - 3 months in and making strong gains!

Terrible app

Worst app for training. No idea of what is doing. Same as all AI

Reseña

Solo llevo utilizando la aplicación dos días y hasta ahora me parece genial. Quiero probarla al menos 30 días para dar una reseña más concreta, hablando incluso hasta de posibles resultados.

Good app but it’s 22$ a month

Really good build, but way too expensive (180$/y or 22$/mo) for something you can setup in Claude in 5 min.

Response from developer

Hi! Thanks for the feedback. We're doing our best to keep the subscription costs as low as we can, but at the same time we want to make sure we use state-of-the-art AI underneath, hence the costs. Claude is a paid product too, and RestOrTrain can do so much more! From organizing a neat calendar for you, to being deeply oriented to think proactively about you as an athlete, to pushing your workouts to any of your devices or Zwift.

Free version is very short

I ran out of free messages in 5 minutes, it told me to upgrade to pro or wait 30 days for my messages to reset. I didn’t even get my training plan scheduled. Deleted the app right away

Response from developer

Hi, sorry about this. This is definitely not the experience we aimed at. We'd love for everyone to have a fair chance at verifying if RestOrTrain is a good fit for them and we'll do our best to improve the quotas to ensure this doesn't happen anymore.

Good start could be better

I no am really enjoying the app. It would be better if it’s memory was better

Response from developer

Happy to share we just improved memory of the app A LOT. This should not be an issue now. Thanks for the review!