CoachCat vs RidePlan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CoachCat
This AI-powered cycling coach analyzes your ride data instantly to provide personalized feedback. It integrates with a custom training plan builder and a comprehensive training library for various cycling disciplines. Connect with popular fitness trackers for a holistic view of your performance and recovery.
- AI-powered ride data analysis
- Instant coaching feedback
- Custom training plan builder
- Extensive training library
- Integration with fitness trackers
- Sleep and HRV data analysis
- Daily training recommendations
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Tell CoachCat what you want to get out of your riding and how many hours you have. Get a training plan built around both, starting today. FasCat has coached endurance cyclists for 20+ years, from first-time gravel riders to national champions. We invented Sweet Spot training, the method that made structured base building work whether you have 6 hours a week or 16. CoachCat puts that coaching on your phone. // WHAT COACHCAT DOES • Builds your plan around you• Training for a race, chasing a fitness number, or just want to get stronger on the bike. Tell CoachCat the goal and the hours you actually have, and it builds the plan. Not sure what your goal is? Answer a few questions and CoachCat will tell you what to work on. Road, gravel, mountain bike, cyclocross, multisport and more. Unlimited access to FasCat's 5-star plan library, with Sweet Spot base, intervals, strength training and everything in between. • Adjusts the plan as your life changes• Miss a week. Travel. Get sick. Change your goal. CoachCat reworks the plan instead of leaving you to catch up on your own. This is where most training plans fall apart, and it is the reason people quit them. • Tells you what to do today• Open the app and your workout is there, with the reason behind it. No deciding, no guessing, no building your own week. Just ride what it says. • Coaches you after every ride• Upload a ride and ask anything. Why your power faded in hour 3. Whether that interval set did what it was supposed to. What to change on Saturday. You get a straight answer built on your data, not a generic article. • Knows when to push and when to back off• CoachCat pulls sleep and HRV from your wearable and scores your recovery every morning. Green means go. Red means rest. Your plan responds to that instead of ignoring it. • Handles the fueling• FuelTrix™ reads the duration and intensity of every workout on your calendar and gives you a carbohydrate target in grams per hour, then converts it to bottles and gels. Plus meal plans and recipes for the eating you do off the bike. • Shows you whether it is working• Fitness, fatigue and form over time. Your FTP. Your consistency. The numbers that tell you the training is doing something. // WHO IT IS FOR Riders with a race on the calendar. Riders who just want to be faster, fitter and stronger on the bike. Riders who want real structure without a 1-on-1 coaching budget. Riders who would rather be told what to do than build their own training week. Riders who have started a plan before and quit because life happened and nothing adjusted. // WORKS WITH YOUR GEAR Apple Health, Garmin, Wahoo, Strava, Zwift, Hammerhead, Whoop, Oura, Rouvy, Fitbit and more. // TRY IT FREE First week free. No credit card required. After that, $34.99 per month, or $210 for the year, which works out to $17.50 per month. // 6-WEEK IMPROVEMENT GUARANTEE Train with CoachCat for 6 weeks and hit 80% green days. If you have not improved, we refund you in full and set you up with a complimentary consultation with a FasCat coach. // SUBSCRIPTION CoachCat is available as a monthly subscription at $34.99 or an annual subscription at $210. Payment is charged to your Apple Account upon purchase co. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase. // APPLE HEALTH CoachCat reads sleep, heart rate variability and workout data from Apple Health to score your daily recovery and adjust your training. Your health data is never sold or shared with advertisers. Train smarter. Recover better. Ride faster. Terms of Use: https://fascatcoaching.com/pages/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://fascatcoaching.com/pages/privacy-policy/
RidePlan
This AI-powered cycling coach creates personalized, periodized training plans that adapt to your fitness, goals, and ride data. Get structured workouts, unlimited coaching chat, and performance analysis to optimize your cycling training.
- Personalized weekly training plans
- Unlimited AI coaching chat
- Ride scorecards and performance analysis
- Automatic sync with Garmin and Wahoo
- Training-load tracking (fitness, fatigue, form)
- Adaptive plan with periodization
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RidePlan is your AI cycling coach: a personalized, periodized training plan that adapts to your fitness, your goals, and every ride you complete. Tell RidePlan your fitness, weekly hours, and goal event, and it builds a structured week of workouts calibrated to you — power targets, intervals, and the purpose behind every session. Ride, sync, and RidePlan tracks your training load and reshapes the plan as your form changes. WHAT YOU GET • A personalized weekly training plan, built from your fitness, goals, and rides • Unlimited AI coaching chat — reshape your week, swap a session, or ask "why" anytime • Ride scorecards and a full performance breakdown after every ride — power, heart rate, cadence, speed and elevation, lap by lap • Automatic Wahoo sync — push workouts to your ELEMNT, pull completed rides back • Rides from Apple Health — Garmin Connect, Apple Watch, WHOOP, Zwift and more land on your calendar automatically • Training-load tracking (fitness, fatigue, and form) so you always know where you stand • A plan that adapts automatically — build blocks, recovery weeks, and taper scheduled with proven periodization Ride with Garmin? RidePlan picks up your Garmin rides through Apple Health — turn on Workouts under Apple Health in Garmin Connect and every ride lands on your calendar, matched to your plan. WHO IT'S FOR Whether you're training for your first century, chasing a podium, or just want real structure to your riding, RidePlan gives you a coach's plan without the coach's price tag. RIDEPLAN PLUS Unlock your full personalized plan, unlimited coaching chat, ride analysis, and device sync with a RidePlan Plus subscription: • Monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase • Your subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings Terms of Use (EULA): https://ai.rideplan.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://ai.rideplan.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RidePlan at 5.0 against CoachCat's 4.3. CoachCat's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CoachCat sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and RidePlan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RidePlan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CoachCat has 81 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CoachCat ships an update fortnightly, RidePlan every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CoachCat | RidePlan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (81 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fascat Coaching LLC | Dialed Development LLC |
Customer experience
CoachCat
RidePlan
In-app purchases
CoachCat
- CoachCat Basic Month$7.991 Month
- CoachCat Month$34.991 Month
- Optimize Monthly Subscription$34.991 Month
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- CoachCat Basic Year$47.991 Year
- CoachCat Year$209.991 Year
- Optimize Subscription$299.991 Year
RidePlan
- RidePlan Plus1 Month trial$34.991 Month
- RidePlan Plus$329.991 Year









